joining us, jonathan capehart and sam stein. jonathan, let me begin with you. which to your mind is flow meksing, the fact they're suing the president over a delayed amendment they wanted or that they're suing him over something that's popular even with their own voting block? it is a question with no answer perhaps. >> it is true. the point i made this morning, i think it was there in the opening. >> we played it in the open. >> they're suing the president over a law that they tried more than 50 times to repeal and failed. and you're bringing up the fact they're suing him over doing something they wanted him to do in the first place. nothing john boehner does in his speakership makes any sense to me at all. >> do you think it is sort of crave enpolitical calculus, maybe they have the best chance of advancing this lawsuit and we'll pretend the rest of the republican caucus has amnesia, that they don't remember we wanted broad delay on the mandates. >> the caucus, the rest of the country has amnesia. for the life of me to be quite serious, i don't understand the

jonathan capehart is an opinion writer and msnbc contributor. robert costa is a reporter with the washington post. president obama may be writing a major policy offensive on an issue guaranteed to incite the republican party base. here it is. the associated press reports white house officials are making plans to act through executive action before november's midterm elections to grant work permits to potentially millions of immigrants who are in this country illegally allowing them to stay in the united states without threat of deportation according to advocates and lawmakers in touch with the administration. he's throwing down the gauntlet. all right, you don't like affordable care, how about this? i will issue work permits. saying i decide who stays in this country. >> it's a bold move on the president. >> is it legal? constitutional? >> we have to see what he's going to do. a leaked story isn't about what the president may or may not do. it's not reality until he steps before the american people and says this is what i'm doing and why. immigr

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i'm jonathan capehart sitting in for steve kornacki today.f stories we want to talk about this morning. let's get start wed the violence in gaza overnight. the death toll in israel's air strikes on gaza targeting hamas is now more than 120 people. gaza's health ministry says more than 900 others have been wounded. dozens of the dead are civilians although it's hard to say how many for sure. israel is also said to be considering a ground invasion. among the targets that have been hit are two

joining me now, is jess mcintosh and jonathan capehart. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> the vote on the lawsuit is under way. isn't it all about throwing a bone to the right wingers who want it impeach him? >> that's the absolute only upside. so i have to say, yes. all i can think is that house republicans like their caucus exactly the way it is. they don't want it to get any bigger. they don't want to let anybody else in. because all this will do is turn off voters in november. 2014 is supposed to be their year. they have the map. we're talking about mid terms and is it a republican wave? and it seems like the house republicans are just doing everything they can think of to make sure that no voter want to elect another republican. >> you know, jonathan, conservative talk and republican lawmakers have been talking about impeachment for years. but now, some climb the president is behind this talk. listen to this. >> the president of the united states is cynically suggesting a constitutional crisis in order to fatten the bank

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jonathan capehart, i see humor. patience at this point in the midst of kind of a ridiculous set of actions by speaker boehner. >> i see humor. i see frustration. >> what else is he supposed to do? >> exactly. >> he is getting sued now. >> i mean, the president has been trying to work with republicans since he got into office. >> you could make that argument. >> we seem to forget that the president had a lot of problems with his base in the first term because he bent over backwards to work with republicans. democrats who were demoralized because the president would always go to the negotiating table and giving away things rather than negotiate to try to, in a good faith effort work with republicans. i think in the second term, the president has basically decided when seeing the american jobs act go nowhere and immigration reform go nowhere. immigration reform they told him stay away, you'll poison the well and let us work on this and let us do this. he stays away and nothing happens. the president has tried everythin

i'm jonathan capehart in for steve kornacki. there are a lot of stories to get to this morning.want to get started with the humanitarian crisis stim unfolding along the u.s. border with mexico. we've seen what it looks like when huge numbers of people flee their homes and show up somewhere else. this is a refugee camp in iraq housing people trying to escape the recent violence to the so

karen finney and jonathan capehart, thanks for joining us tonight. >> thanks, rev. >> thanks. >> we're going to continue up next with more breaking news on the lawsuit and how republicans who have obamacare like it. that and a lot more. a big show tonight. i'm live in memphis, tennessee. we'll be right back. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. yeah, citi mobile. pay the dog sitter? and deposit that check? citi mobile. pack your bathing suit? wearing it. niiice bank from almost anywhere with the citi mobile app. >>> you hear some of them. sue them! impeach him! really? [ applause ] >> i've got a better idea. do something! [ cheers and applause ] >> that's president obama as we look at this breaking news that speaker john boehner has. come out now and outlined how he will ask the congress to allow him to initiate a lawsuit against the president. more on that and a lot more after this. portant legal matters in

joining me now is congresswoman donna edwards democrat from maryland and jonathan capehart from the washington post. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> congresswoman on issue after issue, it seems like your republican colleagues are more concerned about politics than people. if they were actually concerned, actually concerned about health care, what would they be doing? >> well, you know, they're concerned about politics and processes. the reason they are suing the president, the fact is if they really cared about the american people and that was their concern, they would be concerned about how we can strengthen our health care system. how we can ensure that 9.5 million insured americans now enjoying health care can continue to enjoy that. how we can ensure that the state decline, implement the affordable care act and bring on a medicaid population that would provide additional health care to their citizens can do that. and so, i just think that the republican party demonstrates over and over again that their concern about politics and process but they're really not concerned abou

joining me, jonathan capehart of the washington post and from mother jones, david corn.y was summed up as indecisive, not tough enough, needs to do something. does it get more specific? >> no. you forgot he's weak. that's the critique of the president from the very beginning to blame him for anything and everything, even if he has nothing to do with it. the president had nothing to do with russians separatists firing off a missile on the plane. no matter what you will find senator lindsey graham, senator john mccain in front of the cameras, blaming the president, calling him weak and indecisive inviting aggression. there was a time and you remember this when politics stopped at the water's edge. that disappeared apparently john january 20, 2009. >> there is a history to this that's the democratic party going way back here of of george mcgovern. the blame america first party. the idea of the democrats of jimmy carter as president. the idea of democrats as the weak party. any democratic party being weak on foreign policy. republicans had a lot of electoral success. is ther

joining me now for his travel tips in the next 24 is jonathan capehart.if we're traveling overseas and have not had time to power up and then if you hit that security barrier, if your laptop or whatever is not powerable, you could lose it. >> you could lose it. i think this is something that secretary johnson and the folks at homeland security and tsa are going to have to work out some of those kinks. i think what we're going to see is a whole lot of people in some airports overseas crowding around power outlets or sharing, you know, recharging cords to get their electronics at least over a few nuggets so that they can get through security. this is something really that isn't new. when i read this report, i thought this sounds vaguely familiar. and i remember early, early on when, you know, they asked us to take our laptops and put them in separate bins that they would ask you to open it and turn it on to see that it boots up. so the fact that -- and then that stopped for a long time. the fact that that's starting again at certain airports overseas is int

jonathan capehart, always good to have you with us. thank you both tonight. >>> coming up, more from the explosive investigation of a botched sting operation from the miami-dade police. >> four officers surround the unarmed man and when they say he moved for his waistband, unleashed 52 rounds. >> shots fired. >> four were killed. 52 shots fired, and no charges. but today, we're learning they still could be charged. >>> and what in the world is going on at another florida police department? a new report reveals a third person officer was allegedly involved with the ku klux klan. a former fbi operative who infiltrated the klan remembers seeing the officer at a rally. and wait until you hear what he is saying could happen next. >>> and should this mom have been arrested for leaving her 9-year-old in a park? you be the judge. ahead. really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you

i'm jonathan capehart in for steve kornacki. there are a lot of stories to get to this morning. we want to get started with the humanitarian crisis stim unfolding along the u.s. border with mexico. we've seen what it looks like when huge numbers of people flee their homes and show up somewhere else. this is a refugee camp in iraq housing people trying to escape the recent violence to the south. this is a refugee camp for syrians who made their weigh to the border with lebanon. these are people collecting their rations at a refugee camp in south sudan. what should we call the huge number of people showing up at the u.s. border with mexico? are they refugees who need protection from violence back home or are they undocumented immigrants who should be sent back home? this morning we'll dig deeper into the question. no matter what you call the arrivals tu.s. government has to deal with the logistics of coping with so many unexpected people. there are risks of making the trip in the first place a. 15-year-old boy was buried in his hometown in guatemala found dead in texas. he apparen

i'm jonathan capehart sitting in for steve kornacki today. there is a lot of news that happened overnight. a lot of stories we want to talk about this morning. let's get start wed the violence in gaza overnight. the death toll in israel's air strikes on gaza targeting hamas is now more than 120 people. gaza's health ministry says more than 900 others have been wounded. dozens of the dead are civilians although it's hard to say how many for sure. israel is also said to be considering a ground invasion. among the targets that have been hit are two mosques which israel says were concealing weapons. the violence is now in its fifth straight day. the latest confrontation is said to have come out of the kidnapping and murder last month of three israeli teenagers in the west bank. the u.s. meanwhile is offering to broker a true settlement. we want to get delays from tel aviv for that and we're joined by nbc's martin fletcher. what is the latest? >> reporter: hi, jonathan. well, there's been a continuing fighting today about 15 rocket attacks from ga

. >> jonathan capehart my style adviser told me i had to trim it. >> don't do that. yuck.should be in the handbook when one travels to the british virgin islands? >> we were just talking about. it is in a lot of the islands legal to drink while driving. you can have a hand on the wheel and hand on the cup holder. they do have drunk driving laws. i was in a taxi cab down there and i was hit by an unlicensed drunk driver actually. so, you know, it's just a much looser drunk driving down there. >> one thing you might want to know when you travel. it's really, really wonderful to have you back. >> really good to be back here. >> i love your return monologue on your show. it made me cry and we are happy to see you. >>> to the news now. in an interview with pope francis about sexual abuse in the church, business comments are getting major headlines this morning. the pontiff is quoted as suggesting that perhaps 2% of the church's clergy or 1 in 50 are pedophiles. the pope reportedly told an editor of an italian newspaper the abuse of children is like a lepro leprosy. the pope sai