. >> they don't know kevin madden. >> we saw this incident with doug young this week, 79-year-old congressmanslur to describe undocumented workers, when he was working on a farm, a childhood farm or whatever. and boy did republicans jump all over that, in a way i've not seen them sort of. i mean, he was -- everybody abandoned that ship. but it points out the difficulty, doesn't it, that the republicans are going to have, trying to change that imagery. because it's one guy in the republican party, but when it feeds into something, it's twice as damaging. >> it doesn't feed into anything, if you jump on it the way that boehner and other leaders within the party, across the party have. and i think the media always tries to make one statement into an event or something that's much more telling about the party. in this case, that's not true. because if you look at the contrast, those that are within the party, that are trying to work on immigration reform, those that are trying to work on rebuilding the brand and becoming a party of ideas, again, a party of reform, so that way we have -- we're in

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now, for today's strategy session, cnn contributor and democratic strategist donna brazile and kevin maddenident of public affairs for communications firm jda frontline a former top romney campaign adviser. guys, thanks very much. the president gave an interview to univision and spoke about immigration reform. listen to his upbeat assessment. >> they're paying attention to border security. they are creating a pathway for people to earn their citizenship. and my expectation is that we'll actually see a bill on the floor of the senate next month. >> you tweeted out, together with jeb bush earlier, a republican party report which said among republican voters in iowa and south carolina republican voters supported providing a pathway to citizenship that ooh lou imgroonts get citizenship if it's an earned process where they get in the back of the line and pay fines. so you think republicans by and large are onboard right now on this earned pathway to citizenship. >> i think there is optimism on both sides. that report, i think it had a lot of good news for republicans, particularly those interest