. >>> with me now is washington bureau chief for buzzfeed, john stanton. john, thanks for joining me. you heard the congressman critical of the white house position, also saying it's -- it's time for the president to visit the border. i'm shocked at how quickly this has turned from an issue that's bad tore republicans and democrats, to one that seems to be heading in the direction of being really worse for the administration than anyone else. given the fact that the solution to this lies with the republican party and specifically the house republican caucus? >> yeah. i mean i think that, you know, the policy end, getting things through congress quickly will be at least some sort of a band-aid on this thing, start stemming the tide of migrants coming through. the problem the administration has, they did see some of this coming. they passed this law in 2008 because they saw congress and the bush administration saw this as an issue. >> wasn't that law more for trafficking and not sort of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence? >> trafficking of children. they h

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. >> let's go to john stanton, washington bureau chief at buzzfeed. good day to you. >> good to see you. >> let's start with this idea that justice alito has completely shifted the republican caucus. maybe we should call him senate minority leader alito. a few weeks ago and for the past several years, everyone in congress agreed that law referred to human religious rights. now suddenly the republicans are walking away from the law they helped write. now they think it applies to corporations too. >> well, you know, republicans for a while have been sort of pushing this notion of what they're calling religious liberty and that the law was impinging on that. it's been building more and more. i think the hobby lobby decision certainly has crystallized that for them and provided them with a bit of a boost on this. senator mckoconnell started talking about this a few years ago. john boehner has been a big proponent of this. so it has been bubbling up. but it certainly has become a much more focused thing for all of them right now. >> let's dig into that. wh

joining me now is washington bureau chief for buzz feed, john stanton and senior editor at the new republicbrian boitler. a headline reads surrender, boehner rules out impeachment. i wonder, who is supposed to surrender? democrats or republicans? boehner has said this is a democratic scam but certainly there's a lot of republican gusto for the i-word as some call it. >> there is. he certainly doesn't want to do it. i don't think they are going to for him having an tuz impeachment trial on the floor is a spectacle like the government shutdown and that won't work out well. >> you could have said that before the shutdown and it happened anyway. >> that is true. that said, he doesn't necessarily want to tamp down the talk anymore than democrats do. for his base, his deeper into the weeds conspiracy type base, this is good stuff. he wants them to hear this and be all jazzed up and we're going to go get the president and this is the kind of thing -- especially this point in a second-term president, when this starts to happen. you see with bush, democrats did the same thing and nancy pelosi made i

. >> to walk us through congress' to-do list, let's bring in john stanton.et's start with the lawsuit. that seems to be the one thing house republicans care the most about. you know, this is why the american people are so fed up, so frustrated with washington, d.c. with so much to get done, this is what they're focused on. this is their top priority, to sue the president. let's say this goes through and they sue the president. where does that get us? what problems does that actually solve? >> well, given the fact it looks like they're going to have some problems with standing, so their lawsuit may not get very to begin with. republicans are very, very angry at the white house over its use of executive orders. it's become this things that's ginned up their base. it's like the old days in the '90s where they fought over judicial nominations and beat up bill clinton. this is the new version of that. the republicans of all stripes, they all sort of feel this way about the president. >> but why were they not then fighting this under george w. bush, who you could

this gigantic man here, 6' 6 john carlos stanton, yeah. i think he ate his spinach. 430 feet.he's in the semifinals. back to jones. now he's in the next round against mr. cespedes of the a's, jones ratatat tat and a bottle of pop. the home run derby is still going on. we'll tell you who wins in a bit. >>> 1st half of the season featured some great baseball around here, baltimore and washington a combined 19 games above .500. we've got it good around here. not every city is so lucky. we bring you the forgettable moments of the 1st half. this is the colorado rockies pitching, first blunder fastball, second blunder pitcher misses the toss back from the catcher. bases are loaded, so runs are blowing in like a consider rainfall owe, but it gets worse. -- derecho, but it gets worse. there's a reason why they're struggling so much. >>> how about our nats? a lot of things broke right for them in the 1st half. catcher baseball in 3d, how about a 95 mile-per-hour fastball in your face. he was okay. the mask never made it to the next game. good stuff there. those are the funny videos. >>

john carlos stanton a big test for him today as well as the marlins.s to an end in south florida.

john carlos stanton had everybody talking with this shot last night.far the longest dinger of the night. almost out of the stadium. 430 feet. that's roy hobs kind of stuff. even the players can't believe it. but the winner still champion, again, the ace slugger. he knows how to pace himself. he exploded when he had to. powered past. 9-1, the first repeat champion in 15 years at the home run derby. >> talk about a moon >> we turn to an abc~7 watchdog report. there's a special election being held in d.c. even though it's expected to bring a very small number of voters out, it is costing the city hundreds of thousands of dollars. d.c. bureau chief sam ford is live to explain. >> it's costing the city $300,000. and tuesday this special election day here in ward 8, not a lot of people know about it, but it has to be held within 144 days of a official vacating office and they're doing it here today. we're in front of union temple baptist church, precinct 114. i understand as of almost 6:00 so far 56 people have voted. it's the same across the ward. >> at pol

for john kerry, this is more than crisis talk or arithmetic. it is about ensuring stanton here. after more than a decade of military and financial support. mccarron allen, "bbc news," kabul. >> for more on secretary kerry's trip and the controversy surrounding the elections, i spoke to the director of the south asia center of the atlantic council. john kerry is holding a second day of talks with the rival candidates for the presidency of iraq. what are the chances that the secretary of state can broker a deal. >> i think he is creating a workable environment for them. it will be up to them for work impasse. one is the political basis. what are the deals they work out among themselves that are acceptable to the two candidates. >> how much leverage do the americans even have, given they are looking towards with drawing combat troops. >> well, they have some leverage because they have the money. the government cannot survive ithout foreign assistance. without u.s. assistance, other sorts of funding will walk away from afghanistan. and history will repeat itself. >> abdullah is clai