republicans in 2011? >> i think in terms of the expectations gain, right now we are either leading or tied in eight seats currently held by democrats and all of the seats currently held by republicans, are candidates are leading in. if the election were held today, that would be very good. it is not 10, but eight. i am pleased with the direction we're going in. i think it will be a two-cycle process. if we are elected with a number of reinforcements in 2010, in 2012, there are only nine republican seats up. 23 democrats. we have a structural opportunity there. i am praying for a tsunami. i hope the wave hits. i want to be realistic about expectations. my biggest concern, to be quite honest with you, is going to be the met -- to be the money disadvantage that republicans will be operating under because organized labor and others have shown their willingness to spend huge sums of money, even in arkansas primary -- it is just the tip of the iceberg. >> let's get back to messaging. twice you've referenced che

republicans were demoralized. i had a hard time getting people to see me much less to agree to run for office. over time things got better. i got encouraged candidates to get into some of these race. then as circumstances changed a lot more people got in these races and we had competitive primaries. i think the tea party movement is a positive development. republicans have always considered our party to be a bottom-up party, not a top-down party. and i respect the selection of republican primary voters wherever they are to choose the candidate. and then, we will support that candidate and hopefully win that seat in november. but it has been an unusual election year. i don't think i'm the only one to make that obs vasion. this has been a dynamic year, a lot of changes, a lot of unique circumstances. and that's just part of it. >> talk about it being the tea party being a pozz give pact. but at the same time there has been instances where, for example, alaska tea party folks are painting mur cows ski a rhino. >> ink

joan, texas, republican line. good morning. caller: i am voting republican. host: you think that the republicans have a chance to regain control of the house of representatives? caller: i do believe that. i believe that the things going on in the house of representatives and how they are representing themselves right now, i believe that the republicans have a chance. i spoke to many people from the other party. they are switching their votes. host: down there in fort worth, what is the biggest concern of the people that you talk to? what is the issue that is going to help the republicans regained control of the house? caller: i was told that i could not bring up immigration by your person. that is one of the big things here. i have people that rent from us that our mexican -- are mexican. they are against the illegals. it is a debt -- it is a big thing down here. they cannot find jobs. people without cards are working. we know one mexican that cannot find a job, he is on unemployment right now, which he cannot get. we are subsidizing him for his rent, which w

if you are a college republican, a young republican, or to any republican, stand up. now is not the time for you to be shy. because someone you to know you are already empowered to lead because they do not have to ask for anybody permission to do what you do to help this party broke and reach new voters, to reach your generation. -- to help this party grow. if you're not looking in the future of the party. this is the right here and the right now. these young men and women are our voice. [applause] and we need to make sure they are empowered to go out and deliver any message about a new party and a new day. [applause] so empower them further. encourage them, supports them. now i am not going to dog out anybody here, but we need to have more of them in this room the next time you all gather. ok? so let's think about the future right now. let's think about the opportunities you can do right now for them. now for all of you who are standing, do not stop. you want to do it, do it. if you want to run the campaign, you want to run for office, you want to raise money, you wa

for republicans.aller: the presidency has more or the last 20 years into something it was never intended to. if you look at the words of the founding fathers and the documents, washington did not even want to be president, but when to make sure he was as benign as possible. his role is to be a statesman, documents, and represent the u.s. -- not to spearhead a single thing. the president should never say "this is what i want." we should never care what our president wants. he is not a king. to the people who called in about afghanistan, you have to realize that president obama could have stopped the war, but did not. it is his war, and he is a warmonger. so, you people on the left to try to blame this on bogyman bush, it is not going to work. the last thing, this president could have been, because he is biracial, could have been the biggest healing thing to ever hit the u.s. -- could have been the best president by simply being a moderate, and saying i am for healing this country, not a divider. we cou

where do you think republicans are? we of not seen republicans rushed to democrats to craft some sort of compromise in this congress or even the congress before. what good do these letters do if there is no work on capitol hill for this decade-long failure? >> it is longer than a decade. but basically, the positions are well mapped out. we have only one redline which is not to do another round of amnesty. it did not work in 1986 and it simply incentivized most of the friends and relatives and people from the same communities that had been granted amnesty the first time to come here in large numbers, mostly from mexico. this was on top of half a million, mostly family reunification immigrants we accepted. many of whom were family reunification from people granted amnesty. if that is a clear position of the republicans, after that everything is in play. a full guest worker program that would allow whatever number of people to gainfully be employed without displacing american jobs. certainly, a transition for people alread

in fact, while house republicans voted against, more than half of the republicans have taken credit for them in their districts. brazil has signed into law a higher at the cut employer taxes for every unemployed worker hired back. democrats have also passed legislation helping to support $28 billion in new lending for small businesses. we hope to do another 30 elem leverage into 300. senate republicans do not see it that way. we have protected americans from abusive credit card lending practices, making the biggest practices and lending his street without adding to the deficit it will have an important jobs impact. it will put american enemies on a more even playing field. president obama has just signed the floor and legislation to prevent the referee's back on the field and told wall street accountable for the reckless conduct a that a crash our economy. wall street reform will create a bureau and make sure that borrowers and lenders live up to the common-sense standard of responsibility and honesty. it and tarp and interest because of any financial crisis will be borne by the financi

>> the reason i say that, karl rove, the mastermind of republican politics told me the republicans definitely do need to put guard an agenda, which means to me they don't. chris: can you beat that? if rove says it it's wrong. >> i take that as sarcasm. chris: can they get away with nothing? >> i think they can. with the president's approval rating now down in the low 40's, with the white voters down in the mid 30's, with hispanics down 15 points over the course of the last six months, the economy as bad as it is, the b.p. spill. with all that, i think republicans can get away with running on nothing. they should just surf that wave. >> just ask how well democrats did in 2006 running without an agenda and as the change party and party of no. they did very well. >> john named a number of factors that have gone poorly for the democrats but by and large it's the economy, the economy. voters blame the party in power for the economy and that's the democrats. cruyff imget back to where you vote yes or no. it's hard to get people to say, no, i don't like the way things ar doing -- going but i love th

the republican party. in this next election we will be democrats. i'm sorry that this happened, but we no longer believe in what the republicans have to say, really. host: jill? guest: i should said don't think most republicans are against immigrants or latinas, but your caller is the perfect example of the political danger for the party. there are few people who use very anti-immigrant rhetoric. some of these laws confirmed that or be firstoror reinforce t impression. many states tip on the edge. all the southwestern border states -- many that democrats did well in during the last presidential election. so, if this is how the man feels, it is emblematic of how many people feel -- bad news for republicans. the last president george w. bush understood and reached out tremendously. he was the instigator of comprehensive immigration reform that would have provided a path to citizenship for something like 12 million here illegally. many people think it is impractical to just tell them to leave. the problem, as

host: you are a republican who has voted for republicans, you are hearing from republicans in papers this morning saying that they do not want someone who is an activist, a zealot. caller: i do not agree with them. i am taking a long, hard look. i have been a republican my entire life. raised in west virginia, i am really an oddball. i am getting tired of this political back and for, and i think it is time for more people to stand up and be americans, rather than saying that i am a republican or a democrat. good for her, i hope that this goes through. host: new orleans, catherine. caller: i did not hear the initial question. if she has anything to do with getting rid of fraud or whenever, i am for her. i am a consultants in medicine and have traveled all over the country. i have never walked into one hospital that was not committing fraud intentionally. host: elizabeth warren would not be looking out for fraud, if she got this post it would be for consumer protection agency, which would be overseeing the rules that impact consumers on credit cards. host: i know that you are young --

i hope those republicans are sent home. and i hope we get some people up here who take their oath of office seriously. >> reporter: with a small but growing number of conservative victories over the past few months, including one who will take bob bennett's senate seat in utah, congress may be closer to a showdown over these competing visions. >> lehrer: and here with a p.s. to that report is the newest member of our newshour team... political editor david political editor david chalian. who joined us from abc news... he'll be in charge of our political coverage here on the broadcast as well as on-line... welcome, david... welcome to the family, david. >> thank you very much for having me, glad to be here. >> lehrer: just following up here on judy's report, first of all, michael steele, the chairman of the republican party's problems, into this, or does it fit? >> well, it fits in this way. michael steele's, other than raising money, michael steele's mission one is to for the last year now to harness this energy in the tea

republican line. good morning. . . guest: it raises an interesting point about how can the debts can be spot -- candidates can respond. in the two dozen to campaign finance law that has gone by the wayside -- 2008 campaign finance law that has gone by the wayside has allowed candidates running against funded candidates to raise extra money so they can compete. there are a number of states in which state candidates can get public funds to allow them to compete more effectively. we are seeing a number of challenges to those provisions around the country. there is a big challenge pending in arizona. the supreme court is weighing whether to take that case has decided that the state of arizona cannot go ahead and provide money to the candidates that are facing well funded candidates in the state. it is going to be very interesting to see how that plays out. that is a big campaign finance issue we see. host: a look at the numbers, charles, go ahead. caller: i have a couple of questions. i know under the constitution, it is s

they leaned toward republican for a long time. republican small business owners. you would think of them going back -- entrepreneurs. the defense of the rebellion -- the republican party said, we do not want you as a member of our club. obama -- southeast asians believe that obama has an asian background, too. he does. he lived in indonesia. during the primary, that was a bigger deal than people realize, at least organizationally. >> let's bring in some audience questions. there you go. >> my question has two parts. i am curious how you think about the potential positive by product of the congress going republican for barack obama in 2012. americans are looking to restore balance. losing congress might actually benefit the white house. there may be thinking about that in terms of how they actually get involved. the second question is relative to the national tied it that you talked about. i think jane brought this up. can t republican candidates really make those national issues salient at the local levels? it is not enough to simply say health care is an issue. i

republican line, lori. caller: i am a cafeteria food stuff worker and i appreciate everything that happens in the food-service industry. the i am first and foremost seeing what is being promoted to the children. the summer program is an excellent program. i do not work in the summer, but i know the government provides a lot of nutritional food. in our county, they provide a good, healthy, nutritional meal. we provide five different choices of vegetables and fruits, the sides and their meat choice. they are getting a choice of nutrition here. the school summer program is there for anyone who is in need, who signed up for it. also, it is more of a food supplement for someone who may not get food during the day. i believe it is important for that child to have a meal in the summer. guest: that is a a greatnote to end on. across the country and in congress there is a lot of support for these times of the efforts. bipartisan support across the committee's talking about how important these programs are to the nat

they are married and older, but this is a republican group and they will have one half of the republican party, and it will be an enormous impact if the republicans to win in november. >> we talked about the tea party before and i have written about the tea party, to their chagrin. not nice people. they are not nice people. they are mean spirited people. they fly and the flag of the fiscal responsibility, -- they fly under the flag of the fiscal responsibility but there is a lot of animosity there. >> if we were not in a year when the republican side had the wind at the back, this movement would devour the republican party. i like the two-party system. i think it is good for the country. i am afraid of what this is going to do for the republican party. >> i really accept the deepest of these of my colleagues here, and i know how concerned they are -- the deep sympathies of my colleagues here and i know how concerned they are about the future of conservatism and republicans. come on, this is rubbish. this is an important element of the republican resurgence, entirely spontaneous, complete

when we had republican leadership and a republican president.resident bush tried to rein in fannie and freddie. it was the objection of people like chris dodd and others who blocked that. barney frank, the current chairman of the senate finance committee -- these are good men, but sometimes will make wrong decisions. really find out about its on monday morning when we see the consequences. host: a couple of stories about the fall campaign in newspapers. president obama steps up money chase, eight fund-raisers in two weeks. related to that, democrats set to spend millions on ads. the democrat said on wednesday they're prepared to spend $49 million on television ads during the final weeks of the midterm elections. later in the story it says there's the two to one edge over republicans and raising cash. what does this say to you? guest: to me it says the democratic party, even though all the polls would suggest that they will lose their majority, at least in the house, and seven or eight seats in the senate, november 2, they will not roll over and

where do the republicans stand? well, why don't we just quote the republican minority leader, whose name i won't mention, but let's just say he represents the republicans in this house. he's their leader. in an interview with the newspaper in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, he said that this bill was a nuclear weapon to kill an ant. i got the exact quote here and maybe i should read it and maybe i don't want to misquote him because what he said was so out jage rouse. that's the social security which we ought to come to in a moment. and social security, he said, we ought to raise the social security age to 70 so we can fin ance the afghan war. where is it? he said this is killing an ant with a nuclear weapon, when referring to the wall street reform and consumer protection bill. killing an ant with a nuclear weapon. well, i'm sorry, but it is a clear indication of where the republicans stand. they are scleerl standing with the big banks. and on the senate side, in the last two days, the financial regulation to pay for this

the republicans said no. we rank in wall street. wall street.n the republicans said know. no. they want to repeal, repeal, repeal and apologize. republicans want to talk about repealing legislation that eliminated discrimination on the basis of pre-existing conditions. we welcome that debate. they want to repeal legislation withprotect consumers credit cards and the interest being paid on that. we welcome that debate. if they want to have a debate on issues like unemployment insurance and what that means to workers to have played by the rules but lost their jobs through no fault of their um, we welcome that debate. but we are not going back. that is the choice of the american people, go back to the failed economic policies of the bush administration -- which, by the way, are embodied in the budget that the republicans have put forth. privatization of social security -- is the 70th anniversary of social security. democrats are here to protect social security. the republican budget calls for privatizing social security. i think that the distinction between the two parties is a c

if you are a college republican, a young republican are teenage republican, stand up. was not the time to be shy. i want you to know you are already empowered to leading. you cannot have to ask for anybody's permission to do what you do to help the party grow, expand, and reach new voters and reach your generation. folks, you are not looking at the future of the party, this is the right here and right now. these young men and women right here are our voice and we need to make sure they are empowered to go well and deliver a new message about a new party and a new day. [applause] empower them further. encourage them, support them. anybodygoing to dog out here but we need to have more of them in this room the next time we gather. let's think about the future right now. let's think about the opportunities you can do right now for them. for all of you who are . anding, don't stop you want to do it, do it. you want to run the campaign or run for office, you want to raise money, you want to strategize, you want to be in the room, take your butt and put it at table because no

not republicans. wish we had the authority and the votes to kill some of these crazy ideas that are coming out of the progressives on the left. we don't have those votes. we can't kill crazy ideas. now i have to sit here and listen to the crazy allegation that republicans are to blame for blocking unemployment benefit extensions. outrageous thing to say. then to follow it up with, may god have mercy on your soul, as if the gentleman has a deep core of faith and was worried about the souls of republicans. i'm awfully glad he's not been appointed to be st. peter. if he could make that call at the paroley gates, i'm pretty -- at the pearly gates, i'm pretty sure republicans would be condemned to the fires of hell in his judgment. we have been fed a line of baloney. republicans don't have the votes to block an unemployment extension. if it didn't happen in the house of representatives, it didn't happen by the will of the speaker and the majority in this congress, the democrats. that is a fact, mr. speaker

he was speaking to some republicans and republican supporters, a small group of republican supporters and he introduced an idea, an idea that in his poor judgment made sense and that is to attack obama with a lie. now, what is the republican party policy? the republican party policy is to attack obama and to attack democrats and liberals with lies. they do it routinely, they do it regularly, you know, they've gone to extremes. but why was bill clinton impeached? he was impeached on the basis of lies. why do conservative republicans, 24%, believe that mr. -- president obama is or could be the anti-christ? because republican leaders have told them how terrible mr. -- president obama is, he wants to destroy the u.s., he wants to change it into a socialist country. the republican party policy is lies. host: let's hear from the republican line now. leomia, somerville, south carolina. should michael steele resign over these comments? caller: yes, he should. host: why? caller: he should because that's why a lot of bad people don't vote for republicans. they are so negative. so he should resi

rockford, ill., republican, mike. caller: my question is, what you do when you find at the local government does not seem to respect the importance of small business? i have a home occupation business. i talked to my government about helping me out, access to my business driveway, and things like that, and keep being told, you are a home, not a business -- you do not count. guest: it sounds to me that there must be regulations or laws in place that if you worked out of your home you're not considered a business, so that sounds like a legislative issue that needs to be changed. so, talk to your representatives. in general, the local and state government should support small businesses. o of thene other issues they're up against these days -- there stressed with their funding belote, laying off teachers and firemen. another proposal out there is to help states with their funding. for the federal government to provide money to states for that. host: what else can you tell us about folks running a small business out of th

and i think just want to say that everyone, independents, democrats, republicans, that the republican party has been the obstructionist party and has failed to pass employment benefits for millions and millions of americans, and if they think that people are going to vote for them with that record and the fact that they're the runs us into this economy, i think they need to rethinks. host: i want to tack on this twitter message from mr. happy 4807. guest: there's going to be a dropoff from 2008. the number of people who came out and voted was huge, absolutely unheard of. the most people who had ever voted before. in -- democrats really need those first-time voters to come out again, and the democratic national committee is setting aside $30 million to turn them out again and saying you voted for president obama for the first time, you voted come in and vote one more time. keep the democratic majority that he needs to pursue his agenda. that being said, independent voters have largely made up their minds on this administration and the democratic congress and it is not favorable. indepe

this is the last administration, whether the republican president or the republican congress could notolve. what you have are conservatives interested more in being right than doing what's right. you would not have all the conservatives leaning further to the right now -- further to the right. a guy that john mccain has always been pro reform is now anti-reform because he wants to get elected. >> larry: what is -- give me -- give me -- >> -- like aisha just said, who do you reach out to, john mccain who was on the mccain/kennedy immigration bill -- >> when george bush was president, he said his top cabinet members, secretary chertoff, to negotiate directly with the democratic leadership. >> larry: i'm going to take a break. when i come back, i'm going to ask the panel to give me their law. what would they say should be the law? we'll also talk about president obama make history on "the view" and we've got a clip coming up. don't go away. > >>>. >> larry: ben, give me a con size law. >> close the borders. spend real money on border patrol and enforcement. allow a guest worker program. l

brad on our republican line. caller: just like you remember the o.j.s days, blacks never should wrap their arms around simpson and they won't around obama. the glove fits and they know it. just listen to yourselves on this program. socialism is un-american and it won't work. most of my ancestors started with nothing and they survived with no aid from the government. it was an embarrassment from them to have others take care of them. today, there is a sense of entitlement that is being created by this democratic socialist machine. host: what does it mean for the elections in 2010? caller: i think it probably means that people are going to realize that they've had enough of this program and they want to change. they want to change back to the way things where, where people could take pride in this country, lift themselves up by the boop boot strap and quit depending on people to take care of them. host: how this morning? caller: i'm calling in support of our fantastic president. i love barack obama. i'm a white man

coun hat is the republican brand. it's why i became a republican. it less government, lower taxes, less spending and common sense egulation that grows private ector jobs. country.n tells anything, if we get back to basics, we speak to some of the concerns that people have in new jersey and across the country. >> the biggest item on your agenda is dealing with the budget. budg here you are on cnbc. >> we passed a budget that cuts m11 billion from our state's state's balances it without any balances iteases on the people of the state of new jersey. >> patrick murray, director of allling of monmouth university says that's a nice talking point. it's absolutely untrue. there are a lot of legal obligations that the state has that the governor ignored. budget analysts say the $11 billion deficit was closed deficitby avoiding costs. avoidinget skipped a $3.1 billion payment to the pengs fund. continuing a decade-long pattern christie had had criticized. the billions you're not funding, g,e you doing this just by executive fiat? ohio doe how does this work?

[laughter] he can live with a republican house in 2010. it might even help him win reelection this is the same way clinton used new gingrich and republican trove -- control, he used them with great success. obama has achieved all the big achievements he will have. he has done that with all of those issues. he will not do anything between now and inauguration day, whoever is elected in 2013. he is worried about his reelection. he is not concern about house democrats and they know it. >> will it be a republican house? >> it is very much possible. there is a path where you can see the gop getting the 39 seats. they have taken a tough votes and their attitude is not for the white house, it is toward the senate. the house voted on the energy bill in 2009 over one year ago and it has never been taken up in the senate. house members were take -- facing tough elections this fall. quacks expectations for republicans were raised this week said that if they do not get 40 seats, it looks like they failed. >> they will get a wave of the question is if

' agenda if the republicans don't. might have some success saying we want to go back to the bush policies and just cruel and heartless, so republicans need to step forward and say we're serious about reducing the size and scope of the government. they should be bold and they should really try to limit government. juan said earlier in the first segment, you know, he doesn't understand why obama is doing badly, because the economic indicators went up. that is true. they're higher. but obama's numbers are lower. maybe it suggests voters aren't moved by the latest g.d.p. number and they're concerned about the growth of unlimited arbitrary government. they want to hear an articulation of a broad agenda. >> chris: when you say "an articulation of an agenda," are you saying if there is a lot of spinach in terms of cutting spending and cutting popular programs and cutting entitlements, they should say it now before the election? i'm not talking about whether it gets them in the political science hall of fame, but whether -- >>

not once did republicans stand up to say the bush administration and the republican-controlled congress were responsible for this. but now, when americans are in need of help, the republicans refuse to offer it. the financial crisis left a lasting affect on our country. not only will wall street and our nation's financial institutions left in disarray, but millions of americans were left without jobs. our unemployment rate jumped to 7.4% at the end of december, 2008, and now stands over 9%. americans are suffering because of this crisis and are in dire need of assistance, yet republicans believe that it is politically astute to deny millions of americans -- american families the aid they need to put food on their tables while searching for a job during this difficult time. when the house took up the restoration of emergency unemployment compensation act on july 1, it passed by a 270-1 53 vote -- 270-153 vote. it was wonderful that 270 members of this body see the needs of this people and are properly providing for them. yet 0% of the republicans in the house opted to continue being the

host: reseda, calif., a republican line.: i read your article on the neo conservatives taking over washington. this all boils down to -- this comes down to where our money is going to appeared we can of the fault -- afford all these services because the neo-cons to go for washington. neoconservatism is totally a jewish movement because the adl, apac controller congress and president that we are spending billions of dollars dying for wars in the middle east because of israel which apac has pushed us into. they are now trying to get us into a war with iran. -we afford to take care of the poor? host: comprehensive reform is our topic. caller: that is it because that has to do where our money is going. we can't afford to take care of our own people. guest: i disagree with the promise the new conservatism is a jewish movement. is a philosophical answer to cold war liberalism. when it comes to money, the fact that the united states is not broken and will not go broke -- what has happened as a result of the bush tax cuts is that we

there's a more republican congress in town. and they deal with it then and a slightly -- slightly less volatile time i guess you would say. >> unemployment, they'll kick the can down the road. >> that's what's going to happen. >> the scenario that you raise is the nightmare scenario for all incumbents. that they be responsible for taxes going up on everybody. that's why i think it's not going to happen. gloria: that's not exactly what they had in mind. all right. now we're going to switch some topics because we've been talking about how the president's not getting any credit for his legislative successes. we did not talk about what exactly happened this week. and there's another reason that this president's accomplishments were overshadowed, and that was a controversy over the almost instantaneous firing of an agriculture department official due to outrage over something she said. now, as it turns out, mike schneider -- mike duffy, there is much more to the story than that. so who is shirley sherrod and why is she so suddenly f

now today the republican national committee retracted that. >> yeah. just one quick thing on boehner and that is that this is been used in the past quite effectively by the democrats to try and make the face of the republican party, the rep office holder work very well for bill clinton's re-election in 1996. so unpopular when the democrats are able to make newt gingrich. >> woodruff: demonize. >> that bob dole became almost paralyzed and had to withdraw as republican senate leader to distance himself from newt beginning rach-- gingrich. i don't think you can do that with john boehner. i think what we are talking about is ambition in the republican ranks. i think eric cantor's ambition is not very well clothed. i won't say it is naked but it is pretty well exposed but as mar as michael steel is concerned, michael steel has had a gas filled year. he had his young donor meeting at the lesbian bondage club in west l.a. you must remember, that caused a stir, and caused the finance chief to leave, chief of staff to leave, political consultant to leechlt he p

it is not republicans. don't blame the republicans. they are trying to save money not to put our children in debt, and that is exactly what is happening and it is so sad. >> listen to house speaker nancy pelosi for the rationale for letting the tax cuts expire. >> it is my understand sg that bush era tax cuts did not create jobs and they should be repealed. we should reveal middle income tax cuts. because of the middle income tax cuts that we had in a recovery act, american people paid taxes at the lowest level since the 1950's. by the way, this gives me a chance to remind people that around $300 billion of the recovery act was tax cuts for the middle class. so i believe that the high-end tack cuts have not created jobs, they have increased the deficit and they should be repealed. >> that's house speaker nancy pelosi talking about whether or not the tax cuts put in place under president bush should expire for the wealthy. we are talking to all of you about that this morning. gilbert, democratic line, good morning. gilbert, are you with

it is republicans. it is not democrats. it is not republicans.have to figure out a way to work together. host: san antonio. stanley on the republican line. caller: i have a couple of statements i would like to make. my unemployment runs out next week. cahthere is millions of people figuring out where to get the money. take our money from the political advertisements, the millions they spend thaon peopln prison and give them a pardon. there are plenty of money that we can get out of the prison system and out of what they spend. we know how these people vote. we do not need them to bad mouth each other on tv and spending millions of dollars, six months of commercial time to prop themselves up when they're making $174,000 per year. guest: part of your suggestion is exactly the place we need to be looking, and that is the thing that the government spends on that it doesn't add to spend that much on. that was jails and people that are non-violent offenders. the mandatory minimums that have become popular in the country and the discrepancy between crac

the last administration with a republican president and republican congress could not solve.nd what you have are conservatives who are more interested in being right than doing what's right. and if they were really interested in collaborating with the president on this you would not have all of the conservatives moving farther to the right now, farther to the right -- >> the president has not -- >> a guy who has always been pro reform -- >> the president has not reached out to the -- >> larry: what is -- give me -- >> i -- >> larry: give me -- >> i'm like aisha just said, who do you reach out to? john mccain, who was on the mccain-kennedy immigration bill who dpunts want anything to do with an immigration bill? >> when george bush was president, he said his top cabinet members, secretary gutierrez to negotiate directly with the democratic leadership. that is presidential leadership. >> larry: i'm going to take a break. when we get back i'm going to ask the panel to give me their law. what would they say should be the law? we'll also talk about president obama making history o

republican issa -- republican issa said yesterday in a statement. the government has spend billions on auto assistance under the tarp program, criticized the inspector's audit and said without government aid, both companies faced failure and possible liquidation. the department's auto task force in early 2009 found detroit-based g.m.'s plan for closing dealers by 2015 too slow. instead, they found 14rks00 to be shut down by october. chrysler, which planned to shut 400 dealerships by 2014 decided to immediately close 789 in bankruptcy after treasury's urgings, according to the report. the treasury department using advice received from industry experts encouraged smaller dealership networks to help boost sales and better compete witha pan's toyota motor company and honda motor company according to the report. g.m. which moved to trim the closures by about half said in the statement that events described in the report have since been overtaken by a new g.m. and stronger dealer network to match, unquote. the statement added the new g.m. is moving forwar

republicans are a little wary. you have to be concerned if you're a republican. the brand of the republican party that was so badly diminisheded at the end of the bush years in the second bush term that led to obama's victory, they're not completely rehabilitated. you saw the number that 73% of voters don't necessarily have faith in the republicans to solve the country's problems and get it on the right track. the thing that the republicans have going for them is the country may not be looking for an alternative right now. voters are so angry at what is that they may be willing to take a risk on what is next without actually buying into the republican argument. >> lehrer: okay. david, now i get it. >> i'm glad. >> lehrer: thank you very much. >> thank you. >> ifill: still to come on the newshour: discontent trickles down to the states; a tool to fight poverty; freedom for political prisoners; and haiti's president, rene preval. but first, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: the u.s. trade deficit hit an 18-mont

judy on the republican line. caller: i truly have to laugh when i hear congress people say that we are secure. the first place you are to secure the nation was at our borders. our borders are not to care. you have no idea who has come across but we are spending billions, if not trillions, on security. hamid karzai is laughing on us -- at us. we just gave $500 million to pakistan when our own people's homes are being foreclosed on. when are you going to close the border? what part of the constitution says i have to give my tax dollars to pakistan? davy crockett left congress because they were going to appropriate money for charity. we have no security. the american people are not stupid we know as long as the borders are open, you have no idea who is here and why. guest: i think you miss heard me. i said that we are more secure than we were in 9/11 from terrorist attack. i happen to agree with you. any country must be able to control who and what comes across its border. part of the reason is economic, part is cul

if you are a college republican, a young republican a teenage republican, stand up. was not the time to be shy. i want you to know you are already empowered to leading. you cannot have to ask for anybody's permission to do what you do to help the party grow, expand, and reach new voters and reach your generation. folks, you are not looking at the future of the party, this is the right here and right now. these young men and women right here are our voice and we need to make sure they are empowered to go well and deliver a new message about a new party and a new day. [applause] empower them further. encourage them, support them. anybodygoing to dog out here but we need to have more of them in this room the next time we gather. let's think about the future right now. let's think about the opportunities you can do right now for them. for all of you who are . anding, don't stop you want to do it, do it. you want to run the campaign or run for office, you want to raise money, you want to strategize, you want to be in the room, take your butt and put it at table because no

i don't know if republicans are going to take the house or not. i don't think there's any doubt they are going to make some significant gains based on what we see today. and it's to the because there is more republican voters out there than there were just two years ago. when you look at the polling among independents, those who voted for obama and brought in a lot of other folks, that made nancy pelosi speaker, those are the people that are very unhappy. and so i think they were wrong to look at that if you are a democrat and say that doesn't matter. those are the people who put new power. it's not just the democratic base. they've got some serious -- >> none of it matters today. because we're nowhere near the election. and because we're just getting back home. every election is based primarily on what people think close to that election. that's where you got to watch. >> that's right. >> now let's get back to, because i do-- she unlike any other, or almost any other female american politician i've interviewed and i've interviewed a lot of them,

by republican obstruction -- stonewalled by republican obstructionism. mr. speaker, enough is enough. enough of the politics. let us extend these benefits to hardworking people who have lost their jobs, who are dealing with this difficult economic time. this is the right thing to do, this is the decent thing to do, we should have done it a long time ago. i urge my colleagues to support the rule and the underlying bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from north carolina. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i have to remind my colleagues across the aisle again that the democrats have been in control of congress since january, 2007, and we have a democrat in the white house -- had a democrat in the white house for almost two years. the democrats have been in control and the republicans are in the minority and the democrats can do what they want to do because of their numbers in congress. while the obama administration continues their so-called summer of recovery, mr. speaker, claiming th