states, "crossfire" with paul begala and s.e. cupp starts right now. >>> wolf, president obama spent another day in texas, but instead of visiting any of the children who have come across the border, the man who decries political fever held political event in a theater. >> of course the republicans are practices theater of the absurd on their own. the debate starts right now. >>> tonight on "crossfire", the crisis tess border means washington gridlock. >> he's been president for 5 1/2 years. when is he going to take responsibility for something. >> they're matt at me for trying to do things to make the system works better. it doesn't make sense. >>> on the left, paul begala. >> on the right se cupp in the crossfire representative karen bass, a california democrat, and representative bill flores, a texas republican. help the children or score political points? >>> plus the outrage of the day. tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire", i am paul begala on the left. >> i'm s.e. cupp on the right. tonight two members of cong

on the left, paul begala, on the right newt gingrich. in the cross fire, a democratic strategist and tim phillips a republican strategist. summer's political heat. plus, the outrage of the day. tonight on "cross fikrocross fi" >> welcome to "cross fire." i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> and i'm paul begala on the left. tonight, a pair of terrific political strategists to discuss a battle of republican heavyweights. in the right corner, senator rand paul, an eye doctor who some call an isolationist. in the far right corner, governor rick perry who is called for reinvading iraq. it worked so well the last time. senator paul has a medical degree from duke, governor perry was on scholastic probation at texas a&m where he studied animal sciences. governor paul says perry is dead wrong. perry says in turn that senator paul seems curiously blind. seems to me they're both right. >> it's interesting because in some ways each of them has i think an important point to make. but it also striekz strikes me, we need a national debate about what's ha

again "outfront," our legal analyst, sunny hostin, ben anthony and craig ferguson, and a new voice, paul begalart with you. what do you think about what karl rove had to say. that when your back's against the wall and you don't want to have a fight, you say, if you pick a fight with me, you're a racist? >> as we say in texas, karl's an expert on reprehensible behavior, so i'll let him speak for himself. the person who knows this best is not mr. rove, but our president. here's what he has said about this. he did an interview with the new yorker back in jan, and a terrific interview, one of the best interviews president obama has given. but here's what he said on this topic. he says, there's no doubt that just really dislike me because they just don't like the idea of a black president. but the flip side, there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because i'm a black president. and i think that's right. it's a double-edged sword. in the main, most of the people who oppose him oppose him on issues and principle and they'r

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for our viewers in the united states, "crossfire" with paul begala and s.e.ent another day in texas, but instead of visiting any of the children who have come across the border, the man who decries political fever held political event in a theater. >> of course the republicans are practices theater of the absurd on their own. the debate starts right now. >>> tonight on "crossfire", the crisis tess border means washington gridlock. >> he's been president for 5 1/2 years. when is he going to take responsibility for something. >> they're matt at me for trying to do things to make the system works better. it doesn't make sense. >>> on the left, paul begala. >> on the right se cupp in the crossfire representative karen bass, a california democrat, and representative bill flores, a texas

paul begala, have a terrific weekend. read those law books. >> a little light reading for them. >>> now to the middle east, the situation there taking an ugly turn this morning. israel coming under fire now from lebanon. this is the first time in the conflict that israel has seen incoming rockets from the north. israeli military responded with an artillery strike. meantime, israel and hamas militants still trading fire along the israel-gaza border. hamas rockets reaching further into israel, and the casualties mounting. cnn's diana magnay is near the border and we understand president obama spoke on the phone with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and said he's willing to help negotiate a cease-fire. >> reporter: he did, and this is clearly to try to facilitate some kind of exit strategy for benjamin netanyahu before he decides, if he decides, to send in ground troops. we'll see whether that attempt to broker some kind of deal comes to anything. for now we've seen various rockets already this morning come from gaza and go

standard, bill crystal and senior writer for politico, maggie hagerman and democratic strategist paul begalas start with you. if you use the same disputed metric, the 77 cents on the dollar the white house is not practicing what it preaches, right? >> okay. next. but here's the thing, right, it's a smaller gap. it's a 10% gap at the white house and 23% fashlly and still not good enough. i thought it was impressive that the new guy, josh earnest, the new guy. >> right. >> he wasn't defensive he . he said we have work to do. what i like is at the higher levels there are. the communications director, jennifer palmieri, a woman. when there are national security issues he turns to susan rice, a woman. i think he has a solid record on this. fair is fair, if you will use that kind of gross statistic, people will use it on you. >> bill? >> idiotic, false statistic and now let's bite the white house a little bit and that's a mugz, but it's depressing the thought that this president and this weiss could be engaged in such a war on women. i know maggy is upset about it first. >> obama, biden, kerry, ha

. >> paul begala, do you agree? >> i do.eaven forbid that i agree with both ana navarro and david gergen in the same night. i'll hate myself in the morning. we're having a vigorous agreement. >> lightning's going to strike tonight. >> here's where the president is wrong. he said it's just political theater to go. that is not right. i had the responsibility to go with the president -- i served president clinton to many places -- for instance a tornado struck alabama. it was a tragic day. he wasn't going to rebuild the homes there. you go because you show that you care. you see thins on the ground in a way that bureaucracy often doesn't tell you when you talk to the people directly affected. the president has an educational role. he did a good job in the statement. if he went to the border, he could persuade americans this is not a border security problem. we have more boots and guns on the ground on that border than any time since woodrow wilson was chasing pancho via. he could show that to us. he could take us there and our

such credibility on the immigration issue, henry cuellar, not just republicans being partisan, paul begala, tougher on the president last night than i was when commenting on this. let's not make this a republican/democrat issue. >> i love you ana, but i am generally sick of republicans using every chance they can to ding the president on style and avoid the conversation about sab stance. pass legislation, solve the problem. >> along those lines, house speaker john boehner, leading republican in the country right now is commenting in the house in his weekly chat with reporters. see if he talks about the president. >> to invest and create jobs here in america. of note we'll send a bipartisan job training bill to the president for his signature. i'm particularly proud because i've worked on this ire shoo with chairman of the educational work force committee and i want to thank virginia fox and john klein for getting this done. this is an important step, one of actually many steps, that have been taken to reduce the bureaucracy of a number of job training and retraining programs and providing

>> first of all, i can't believe anybody hates paul begala's guts, that's the hardest thing for me toigest. >> paul it all over the place. >> you know. >> is paul a southernio path? go, kevin. >> you know, i don't think -- i can't remember if governor romney ever went on the show, i don't think he did. i would put -- look, it's a disstill version of the news. it's not real news, but there is a way where you can engage in light hearted conversation and you can show people a different side of you. that's a lot of what some people are looking for in candidates. i wouldn't supplement it with other interviews where you can talk more about your ideas and the issues you care about. look, i sort of agree with chris, the answers that hillary clinton were just, you know, full of platitudes, but, again, this was a book full of platitudes. if this book was like the "seinfeld" of books it was a book about nothing really. >> i love "seinfeld." >> i'm loving this segment today. i don't even know where to begin with you two. >> they praised it. the "new york times" -- >> the "new york times" praised

us to discuss that and much more political commentators kevin madden, republican strategist and paul begalat. guys, i was going to start with the question. i think it's less of an important question if he goes to the border and more is he going to hold any immigration or border-related event while in texas? but then this letter coming out just this morning from valerie jarrett, let me read just the important part of it up top. she says the president would welcome a meeting with you, governor rick perry, while he is in texas. in addition, he's asked me to invite you to join him for a meeting to discuss the situation on the border with faith leaders and local elected leaders in dallas on wednesday. john and i were talking. paul, did rick perry just hand the president a big out politically on this? >> well, i suspect what you're going to see is rick perry bounce right back and say, good, let's meet, let's meet on the border, sir. i think it's -- you know, look, rick perry is the governor. he's been a demagogue and frankly a dope about this issue, totally unhelpful suggesting darkly that there'

let's discuss this more with cnn political commentator paul begala, senior adviser for the democratic super pac priorities usa action and also matt lewis, a senior contributor at "the daily caller. "good morning guys. >> good morning, kate. >> first of all, let's talk about this meeting at white house that the president held with the congressional hispanic caucus. he said coming out, the president said he'd take every action he can within the confines of the law to move ahead to try to fix issues with the immigration crisis, but, paul, when you really look at it, he's been trying to do that already. was this anything more than a courtesy call? >> well, i hope so because, again, the president hasn't been to the border. people like me have criticize him for that. many of the hispanic congressional caucus members have. hopefully he got more firsthand knowledge of what's going on there, but also i hope it was the beginning of trying to get congress to go back to the regular order, find some compromise, pass the funding that we have to have, both to enhance the security at the border and t

joining us to discuss is cnn political commentator paul begala, democratic strategist and the seniorividualser for priorities usa action and also joining us cnn and espanol contributor dan esstreppo, a former top adviser for president obama on latin american affairs. good morning, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> paul, when we were talking yesterday, paul said he does think that because it's become quite a question on this trip and become kind of a political question, should the president go to the border, paul said yesterday he should. he said 90% of life is just showing up, even if it's just a photo-op. would you advise the president that he should go to the border? does it seem tone deaf if he doesn't? >> i'm not sure if it's tone deaf if he doesn't. a president showing up can be awfully disruptive and, sure, you get a photo, but right now i think what we need at the border is folks who can help take care of the kids. we need the resources that the administration has asked for, and i think the administration, they are going to take a lot of heat today for having the president not go

now to talk about this, our own cnn political commentators kevin madden, a republican strategist, paul begalaand senior adviser for priorities action usa. hey, paul, it's interesting. the president says that this is all about politics, really anti-obama politics is what he's saying, yet, you know, he removed himself from the immigration debate for a year to let congress work on it, and they still couldn't come up with a solution, so is that really fair? >> well, they couldn't because the republicans are caught in this trap. republican primary voters, not republicans generally, but activists in their party, they really hate the president, they hate, hate, hate the president, and that tea party fringe has pinned down the rest of the republicans, you see it. look, all he's trying to do is pass george w. bush's immigration plan. republicans won't support it even though it was proposed by their president. everything he touches becomes marxism, are we kidding? >> everyone is playing politics. paul, let me ask you of this. one point is that the president he says that he doesn't need to go to the bor

paul begala in this piece trashing her. saying shes going to come back to washington and be a reprisal of what we saw in the 1990s. and it's one of the closer races. she's an interesting person, a workaholic, and been a thorn in the clintons' side. >> is this northern virginia, jim? >> yeah. frank wolf's district not far from d.c. relatively a swing district. it's one that mitt romney won. it's one republicans should win, but it's close enough if you have terry mcauliffe and others pouring money into it, given her name it makes it one of the few competitive house races. >> jim vandehei, thank you very much. >>> coming up, round two of the tony dungy explanation tour. the former coach's message to michael sam next in "morning joe" sports. he doesn't stop. ♪ you make a great team. it's been that way since the day you met. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and