800,000 students who are american in every way possible except for a little piece of paper. >> maria cardona right thing to do. it wasn't the right thing to do in 2009-2010, maria. let's not talk about the election year. an election year. >> and rebz didn't want to do it then. they don't want to do it now. they're in trouble in november, period [ everyone talking at once ] >> you can continue that conversation. lenny mcallister, maria cardona, thank you both very much. >> thank you very much. >>> the new faa rules designed to keep air traffic controllers on the job have been broken nearly 4,000 times, but that's not nearly as shocking as why controllers may be breaking the rules. i am from baltimore south carolina... bloomington, california... austin, texas... we are all here to represent the country we love this is for everyone back home it's go time. across america, we're all committed to team usa. you know you could just use bengay zero degrees. medicated pain relief you store in the freezer. brrr...see ya boys. [ male announcer ] new bengay zero degrees. freeze and move on. we make meeti

host: let me go back to maria cardona's point. this is a poll that was conducted, alfonso aguilar, in a number of key states. arizona, colorado, florida, nevada and virginia. took place earlier this month after the president's decision. 775 latino voters and asked the question how enthusiastic are you of the president? about half, 49% saying they are more enthusiastic. when asked the same question about mitt romney, only 10% said that. clearly there is a problem by the republicans in this community. guest: yes. certainly. i said i criticized governor romney during the primary for some of the statements he made. i said he enters the general election handicapped a lot. but here's where the democratic strategists make a mistake. again, treating the latino community as a monoli thnch hic group. i don't think that's 40% or 45% is accurate. look at those battleground states where the latino vote is decisive and let's see how the candidate does it. if we look at romney in florida, all the polls show him at least at 37% to even more than

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state of the race, the new yorkers washington correspondent, ryan lizza, democratic strategist, maria cardonaeech writer and cnn contributor, david frum. hi, guys. >> how are you doing? >> this has been a pretty bad week for president obama, not only the bad fundraising numbers and the bad jobs numbers at the end of last week, the loss of the with is which is recall, bill clinton went off message. what else can i think of? is this just media hysteria. we like to create these story line ors does this actually matter, ryan? >> the worst thing that happened this week are the jobs numbers. all the rest is an excuse to glom on to what the real bad news is for the president. if the recovery does not accelerate in the next few months, he is in danger of losing re-election. that's the most important thing. on the plus side, he killed the number two in al qaeda, which is sort of like -- you are td only one talking about it. >> the wisconsin recall, that's bad for democrats. the fundraising numbers, i think you have to see a few months worth of fundraising numbers. this is the first month where romney

i talked with will cane and maria cardona and asked maria if the president could have made his immigration decision three years ago and if the move was really about gaining political support from hispanics. >> he would have loved to do this three years ago or at any time before now, don, but what happened? absolutely sezero support from y republican in congress to help them do this. let's remember, he cannot change the laws or pass laws by themselves. democrats can not do it by themselves. he needs republicans. remember in 2010 he famously tried to pat the dream act. he called republican senators asking them for their support on this. you know how many voted for it then? three. he needs help on this. >> i understand what you're saying but you cannot say this is about politics. of course it's about politics. he wants to be the president again. >> look, don, if the president yawns during an election year, people lp say that he's trying to get the votes of sleepy voters. i'm saying that everything he does this year will be looked at through the prism of politics. >> go ahead, will. >> we know

playing today is maria cardona, and will cain. with the white house saying the plan to stop deporting young illegal immigrants was in no to help the election. >> this is not a political move. >> you could have done it last year, the year before that, the year before that. >> we have been trying to get the dream act done, get immigration done. this builds on a series. this gives our law enforcement personnel an area to focus, and our deportation numbers -- >> you can't say it was not done with some political consideration. >> it was not. >> he said it flat out, it was not, so if it wasn't done for political consideration, why not the year before? why not the year before that? maria, defend this one. >> look, the reason he couldn't get it done last year or the year before it there were absolutely zero republicans in congress to help him with the permanent solution that would have been comprehensive reform or in this case the dream act. they called several republican senators to help him do it. guess how many voting for it? only thre

anna navarro and maria cardona here to talk about fast and furious, the gun walking operation that ledth of hundreds of mexicans and u.s. border agent broian terry in 2010. a house mittee voted along party lines. they said he is lying and withholding details of what and what allowed them to get the details illegally. republicans are on a political witch hunt. they invoked executive privilege on not turning over certain documents. marie a this is the first time that president obama has ever vo evoked this executive privilege. he said we will be the most transparent ever. >> let's be clear on what the white house turned over thus far. they bent over backwards in the committee. almost 8,000 pages and documents and a lot of them were normally covered by executive privilege. any document that had anything to do with the botched in question have nothing to do with the operation. they are now in the surreal territory of investigating the investigation. that's not going to lead to the truth. we need the truth. you are saying this is a witch hundred dollar. do buy that? all the documents have b

cnn contributor and democratic strat jit, maria cardona.o both of you. over the last week there are signs congressional republicans are warming toward parts of bomb care. the house gop has said they will keep what they call the good stuff. closing the so call medicare doughnut hole, et cetera. also prominent republicans are hinting at tax increase coupled with spending cut might not be such a bad idea. jeb bush among them. question, what the heck is going on? will? >> at least with respect to the obamacare stuff, nothing. that's based largely on politico report that house republicans want it keep the preexisting clause put forth in the affordable care act. that being said while that might be a political popular thing to put out there, it is not a feasible thing. you can't have that clause while getting rid of the individual mandate. it is a prescription for killing insurance companies. so house republicans i would doubt very, very seriously are behind that. regarding tax raises with spending cuts, that seems to be inevitable if there are re

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joining me is maria cardona, and conservative commentator amy holmes. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm well. thank you. >>> they can leave it alone, throw out part of it or strike the whole thing down. maria, how devastating would the last option be? >> first of all, the white house is pretty confident, i'm sure you've heard them say this, they believeling still and will be held up. if it is struck down, i think it depends on the number. if it's 5-4, a lot of americans will look at it as a political move by the supreme court. then obviously a political move by the republicans who have, from the very beginning said, including romney himself ironically, who is really the mother of obamacare through romney-care in massachusetts. let's remember that millions of americans are already enjoying the benefits of this. a lot of millions of children with preexisting conditions can now get covered. there are no lifetime caps. seniors can save millions on their prescription drugs, so all of that, if it does get struck down will land

two topics sure to get smart responses from cnn contributors will cane and maria cardona. i have to tell you, maria, we're having a technical problem with will. do we have will now? will cane is there. we were going to try -- >> i'm here. >> yeah. >> he can hear now. okay. we're going to have this conversation without you. >> no, no, no. i'm here. you need me for this. you need me for this. >> just messing with you. i am going to start with maria first though. you know the story, the president's shifting immigration rules so certain young people who came here with their parents can avoid deportation. the criticism is that he could have done this three years ago. he could have done this at any time. this is all about political gain and support among hispanics, and i say to that, okay, the big surprise is what? >> well, he would have loved to do this three years ago or at any time before now, don, but what happened? absolutely zero support from any republican in congress to help him do this. let's remember, he cannot change the laws or pass laws by himself. democrats can't do

ana navarro, maria cardona, they were there in the audience.z and lawrence ash burn standing by. looking at the social media phenomenon amazing how a 68-year-old grandmother who was so brutally tormented on that school bus, it's really a shocking story, i must say, but this whole problem of elder abuse in our country. we're going in depth on that as well because we rarely report about it, but it's something that hits so close to home for all of us. you've got elderly parents or grandparents, you're going to want to watch. lisa sylvester has been working on this story. a lot more coming up as well. dramatic developments happening right now in syria. we're taking a closer look on that front as well. >> we'll be watching, wolf, when it comes to the grandmother, you say social media. more than $500,000 they have raised. >> thank you, wolf. see you in just a bit. >> thank you. >>> the battle of the bailout. the debt duel. words describing the political fight du jourhere in t u.s., right? no. try greece versus germany. perhaps the biggest soccer matc

maria cardona, appreciate it, ari fleischer and glor allred thanks for calling in. >>> let us know what you think. tweet about it now. a new chapter in the child sex abuse trial of jerry sandusky, the prosecution rested its case. we thought it would happen friday, it happened today. making the job a lot more difficult. surprising and shocking video next on "360." >>> crime and punishment tonight. prosecutors in the jerry sandusky trial rested their case today. that does not mean they're done bringing evidence against the former penn state football coach. nbc revealing today a member of the prosecution team recently reached out to the network asking its lairs to reauthenticate the full interview from bob costas. that interview includes potentially damaging clips like this one that never made it to air. watch. >> it's entirely possible you could have helped young boy a in some way that was not objectionable while horribly taking advantage of young boy b, c, d and e. isn't that possible? >> well, you might think that, i don't know. and in terms of my relationship with so many, many young p

also maria cardona. so, ari, i certainly understand the criticism from romney. what president obama did is about politics. can you make the same argument? isn't that about politics? >> yes. both positions have a lot of politics in them. i think they both have a good dose of substance in them too. as anybody's followed the immigration debate going back to the years of ronald reagan knows, this issue is full of both extraordinarily complicated substance and politics. it's also full of deep-seated emotion on both sides. i come at it from a point of view of a bush republican who actually tried to do something in a comprehensive way in congress when president obama tried to get immigration reform enacted. a lot of well meaning people love this country and want to come to this country. i'm the son of an immigrant. by the same token, we're a nation that pays a lot of homage to the rule of law. that's why this is such a complicated issue. >> maria, most republicans, including mitt romney, have reacted and are still reacting very carefully to the president's announcement

joining me, cmn political analyst ron brownstein, maria cardona and terrear wa wohl.50 race. this is as close as it gets and two-thirds of the countries are like watching, what's going on over there. >> i think it's a pretty good times for these states. as someone who cut their teething in local television, as you know, these local tv folks love to hear exactly from the candidate. it's more likely this far out than it is closer to the election. i think it is important that those undecided voters get an opportunity to hear straight from the horse's mouth. i think it goes a long way, absolutely. >> are there swing states diverse enough? you've got new hampshire, iowa, smaller rural states. you've got colorado out in the west, nevada out in the west. florida and ohio, of course. across the midwest. are the states diverse enough at least all of the issues get talked about? >> i think that's certainly true. the number one issue for everybody is the economy. i think that's an issue no matter where you are. i will say the folks who don't live in battleground states will prob

joining us tonight to talk truth, ron brownstein and political contributor alex cassianos and maria cardonand titles. this is a great law firm. answer me this. if this is so important, if it is a dry run as the chairman of the party says, why the president take a pass? >> because the focus is on that dry run. the focus is on what resources need to be on the ground and the focus frankly is the middle class and working class families of wisconsin. the obama for america campaign and the doc have been putting a ton of resources in there, $1.5 million. a lot of other surrogates have gone there. >> so does president clinton and governor o'malley have more appeal to the voters that matter than the current president of the united states? is there fear of backlash or fear of embarrassment? >> there could be that. there is no question there could be that. you can't under estimate the on peel of president clinton and martin o'malley as well. i think that there is -- >> martin o'malley? voters all over america, middle class voters saying why hasn't martin o'malley been here? >> the focus is the voters

joining us is the democratic strategist maria cardona along with republican strategist alice stewart.nd and colleague paul begala was on cnn last night and was asked whether or not the president should have gone to wisconsin to help his fellow democrats and to help his union organizers and listen to paul begala. >> he owed it to tom barrett. barrett was mayor of milwaukee and came out and endorsed then senator obama against then senator clinton and he owes it to himself and everybody else he will have to deal with. this was a mistake. i don't think it would have made the difference. let me be clear about that. >> a lot of people think it was a mistake because these are folks, the organized union leaders who helped bring them to the white house and then he abandoned them. he sent out a tweet. >> i do agree with paul in his second point whether that would have made the difference. >> he should have done it. it was the right thing to do. >> if he would have come, would it have helped the fact that scott walker was outspending barrett by more than 10 to 1? would it have upon hadded that i

joining us the cnn contributors, the democratic strategist, maria cardona and bobby jindal who some considere short list for a vice presidential slot for mitt romney really went after the president on his decision not to campaign in wisconsin for the democrats. listen to this. >> there are many reasons maybe he didn't want to come to wisconsin. maybe he wouldn't be an asset? maybe he saw his own poll numbers because he would be a drag of the campaign? maybe a majority of those voters supported those reforms? hi he did not go to wisconsin afraid of hurting himself by backing a loser? >> maybe he's auditioning for the vice presidential -- >> i think it was a huge tryout for the vice presidential slot and frankly at cpac, too, so he had to give red meat to the audience. >> a conservative political action. >> i think that's all it was. a big tryout, red meat for conservatives and frankly what he was saying is wisconsin, yes, was difficult, but it wasn't a national election. romney wasn't there either. if he's going to say that about obama, he has to say it about romney, too. >> it is the floater

playing with us today, cnn contributor and former democratic strategist maria cardona and kaitlyn dawsone gop party chair. welcome to both of you. >> thanks, carol. good morning. >> hi, cayton. >> glad to be here. thank you. >> i didn't want to leave you out. first question -- president obama enjoyed a local tv anchor extravaganza. >> good news is, that we're starting to see progress. >> well, the good news is, in rural america, we're starting to see terrific progress on a number of fronts. >> the president welcoming local reporters to the white house from across the country. effective? some say, not so much. "the washington post" national political correspondent asks, is it time for the democrats to panic? and she quotes one longtime operative who said, there is no new thinking in obama's circle. now, both of you are political strategists. so what kind of new thinking does obama need? maria? >> well, i don't think necessarily there needs to be new thinking as much as a continued emphasis on two things. the first is while the president should tout what he has done and the good news in th

playing with us today, cnn contributor and democratic strategist maria cardona and our cnn contributoray to the left. thank you both. >> good morning. >> good morning. first question. the obama administration flexings its mu ls again. a drone takes on a powerful al qaeda leader. experts call the hit a cataclysmic blow. great, say republicans, but those leaks about the drone program. senator john mccain is pressing for a special counsel to investigate leaks to journalists that appear to be an effort to paint a portrait of president obama as a strong leader on national security. fellow republican saxby chambliss explains. >> but each time classified information shows up in the media, the intelligence community's ability to do these dangerous assignments becomes that much more difficult. not only do these leaks tell our enemies how we do our jobs and therefore how they can block or impede our efforts, but with each leak, our friends and allies are left to wonder how much they can really trust us with their own secrets. >> so, the question for you, is the obama administration leaking sensi

joining us cnn contributor democratic strategist maria cardona. and editor at "the daily beast."the news, strict party lines, saying eric holder should be held in contempt for refusing to provide documents about fast and furious, the botched sting operation. 17 democrats say no, no way. the president invoking executive privilege. why have we been through this fight so many times in recent years? >> your last question in the last segment i think really nailed itd. this is a process of negotiation. congress wants more. the president has a right to have confidential advice. he has the right to have confidential bad advice, which is what seems to have gotten in this case. it's always wiser for the executive branch to cooperate and not to use every last right that it has. >> you know, when there was a republican president who exerted executive privilege, a lot of democrats including a senator from illinois named barack obama, he was pretty critical of a republican president exerting executive privilege. >> sure, but i think we have to keep in mind and you mentioned this, this is the f

democratic strategist maria cardona, ana navarro, the spokes chair. i take it it's raining.rday romney addressed this group of latino lawmakers, elected officials, today the president did the same thing. i want to play a little clip of what romney said today. >> now, tomorrow, president obama will speak here. he may admit that he hasn't kept every promise. and he'll probably say even though you aren't better off today than you were four years ago, things could be worse. he'll imply you don't really have an alternative. i believe he's taking your vote for granted. >> that was romney yesterday. the president responded today. but let me ask maria first, do you think romney scored some points with the latino community yesterday? >> very few points, wolf. his speech was found wanting because in fact he didn't really address two things that this crowd was really looking to him to address. the first one was, he still couldn't answer what he would do with the policy president obama announced last week that would help the 800,000 dreamers, which are the undocumented students here thr