mr. rubio's support among latino voters like? could he be counted on to bring latino voters on board despite mitt romney's stance on things like the dream act and e-verify and we should have a papers please law for the whole country? >> it's a good question. it absolutely remains unanswered at this point at a national level. in florida he did well in a three-way senate race. and in florida as you know, there's a large percentage of cuban americans. in the united states at large, cuban americans represent a small percentage of the overall number of latinos. the overall number of latinos are mexicans and central americans primarily. so the question becomes then how is marco rubio going to do with those folks? and clearly he has been attempting in recent weeks, months, to communicate a message to all people, latinos also, that the republican party should be changing its rhetoric on immigration. at the same time, he has had some problems with criticism because he hasn't supported the dream act and because he has supported e-verify wh

two years ago, mr. rubiocluding the loss of his mother when he was just six years old. but seven months later, he said his father lost his mother when he was just shy of his ninth birthday. i'm not picking fights over tiny details, but it does reveal the enormous challenge that confronts this young politician who wants to make progress in a party that says multichurlism is dead. he's had to embellish his personal history. one wonders what else he'll have to do to make him acceptable in the republican party that we haveç seen in a very, very lon time. thanks so much for watching. dylan ratigan is up next. >>> welcome to the lyndon johnson oval office here at the lbj library in austin, texas. lbj, among other things, was responsible for bringing nasa and mission control to houston.

mr. rubio: the other senator from florida, thank you. thank you, senator nelson, for that introduction, the first thing we how to decide his name, is his jordan, jor-dan, or hardan. he has a reputation. i have a bias, because i also graduated from the university of miami school of law where i have my law degree and my student loan so i'm grateful to them for that. he was only 37 years old when he was appointed to the bench and it says a lot that over the years he's garnered a reputation for both being fair but also for his intellect. he's highly regarded for his intellect. if you run in the legal circles particularly in south florida, you will find that judge jordan is somebody who people have tremendous amount of respect for, not just his fairness but his intellect, his ability to understand complex legal issues. his background is one that would lead to you that. he was the chief of the appellate gigs in the office of the u.s. attorney for the southern district which is an extremely busy, one of the busiest districts in the country for

mr. nelson and i, senator rubio, senator ayotte and others were anticipating that we were going to begin to see exactly the kinds of things that this discussion this week has brought about. this is about the first amendment. it's about religious beliefs. it's not about any one issue. in fact, this amendment specifically does not mention a specific issue. it refers to the issue of conscience. and in the amendment itself, the reference is made to the letter that, in 1809, thomas jefferson sent to the new london methodist where he says of all the principles in the constitution, the one that we perhaps should hold most dear, if i can paraphrase a little bit, is the right of conscience and that no government should be able to come in and oppose itself -- impose itself between the people and their faith-based principles. in health care, we've never had this before. why didn't we need this amendment or why didn't we need the bill that was filed in august five years ago or one year ago or two years ago or three years ago? because only with the passage of the affordable health care act did we hav

rubio gave the speech. he mentioned bold, pro-growth tax reform and that's becoming a conservative litmus test. will we hear it tomorrow from mrromney? >> i think we'll hear them -- >> you will hear a lot of bio. >> in tuesday night's speech he talked about george romney. he feels like he has a narrative problem as well and not just details on his economic land, you will hear family stories and stuff about his mormon faith. he needs to convince conservatives not only that he's one of them, but that he has a heart. >> i think the biothing is terrific. i'm not here to judge and i'm not in that game, i just think people want to know why mr. romney is the man, specifically and prescriptivprescriptively, e man to make the economy better and to make the budget bankruptcy go away and to solve the entitlement problems for a balanced budget and i think he has to be prescriptive on that. i am sure he's listening. >> biois about me -- >> but he'll talk more about conservatives and what they care about and why that's important. >> i sincerely hopes he clears up this minimum wage thing. >> thank you, gentlemen. robert costa, we appreciate

rubio said this recently. he worries some of the rhetoric used by republican politicians on this issue has been harsh, intolerable, inexcusable. mr don't know who he's referring to, so i'm not going to comment in general on a statement. is there somebody somewhere who's done that? sure. was it also intolerable for president obama to go to el paso and make a totally demagogic speech in which he fundamentally -- no. the great failure here -- i voted in 1986 for the bill which was supposed to solve all this, which ronald reagan solved -- signed. in re gan's diary, he says, i signed this bill because we have to get control of the boarder and we have to have an employer-sanctioned program with a guest-worker program. now, all of us who voted for that bill got shortchanged on everything we were supposed to get. president bush couldn't get it through. president obama can't get it through. i believe you cannot pass a single large comprehensive bill, a 2,700-page kind of bill you described. you have to go one step at a time. the first step is to control the border. i don't believe anybody who's here illegally -- i talked last night, for e

mr. blunt: thank you for your leadership on this, senator ayotte. and from the beginning of this discussion back in august when senator ayotte and senator rubio and senator nelson from nebraska and i have filed this bill, we've been joined in this amendment by three dozen or more other sponsors. one of whom actually i mentioned a piece of legislation that he was involved in, the first time he was in the senate, and it protected the religious rights of people who were temporarily in the country, with exactly this same language, who might have some religious belief or moral conviction that meant that they didn't want to get the vaccines that we would require a visitor to have, and senator coats who in 1996 put this in a law that virtually every member of the senate on both parties serving today voted for, as they have time after time after time when this issue was -- this language was understood to be an important defense of the first amendment in a health care piece of legislation. and senator coats, i'm glad you joined today, and whenever i've looked into research this, saw that you had used this very language 15 years ago in a piece of legislation, and