i'm going to be reelected let the republicans take the country over the cliff. >> republicans need to start talking to the elected barack obama. the youth that reagan won by 20%. this is generational. these policies are fiscal future. >> bill: here is your problem. >> i don't have a problem. >> you support gay marriage, correct. >> yes. >> traditional republicans don't. they don't. >> but a majority. >> bill: you don't want roe v. wade revoked. >> nor do majority of americans, bill. >> bill: i'm telling you the traditional core of the republican party opposes you on almost every social issue. >> let me tell you what the traditional core of the republican party wants this time. jobs, low gas prices, national security they want it in 2004 and that's what they want would in 2008. people like you who try to divide our party on social issues, that is not the way forward for the republican party. we need to be united 80%. >> bill: did you say people like me. >> reagan said 80% ally is not my 20% enemy. people like you. >> bill: stop it i'm telling you the truth and you can't handle the trut

the man who many republicans would love to run for the republican nomination for president against baracksn't doing so well in his home state. a new poll found that only 43% of voters approve of governor chris christie's handling of the state, and 53% disapprove. ppp says this is down significantly from his 48-45 rating in january, which wasn't so good either. christie is also down with independents, 40-54. in a head-to-head matchup, christie trails newark mayor cory booker 43% to 47%. and in the matchup we would really like to see, christie is tied with bruce springsteen at 42% to 42%. the poll was conducted through automati automated telephone interviews which we continue to believe is not as accurate as when a real person makes the call. >>> coming up -- new details about the hacking scandal at the rupert murdoch empire that point questions in the direction of "the new york post." michael isikoff joins me. >>> and later, something we never thought we would ever see. stephen colbert breaks character, and he does it to bring you a very important message in his own words. introducing the

and the republicans are ignoring you.d make some hay out of the heat being on the president. >> a huge opportunity. the biggest problem with the latino community and president obama they feel like they went on several dates with him during the election season then all of a sudden he didn't call the next day. they were hurt. so him coming was a huge way of saying he is reaching out. but what is happening is the republicans realize they have a latino problem so what we are doing is instead of actually engaging with latino community there are eight state legislators that passed really difficult voter id laws. that suppresses the latino vote and the young voter and elderly vote. they recognize they have a long-term problem and they won't be able to fix it in this election. instead of engaging smartly, they decided to take it to the state legislator. that's where people should keep their eye on the ball. that and by state legislators, not by coincidence, will get new districts because of the boom in the latino vote in 2008. >>

are republicans active republicans running in democratic primaries that's legal it was dancing but what's significant about it is as you suggested they did additionally on record to delay the election process so they actually were aiding the process but something different happened over the last thirty six hours and that is that the republicans ginned up a last minute del campaign to get people to cross over get republicans get conservatives and cross over and vote in the democratic primaries with the purpose of eating a real democrats instead substantial money on this they're doing robo calls they're using all sorts of digital tools and so i think this is a serious night now that we're going to watch these results closely this has been done before john i grew up in michigan and i was a kid in michigan michigan was the only state and i think it was the sixty eight primary that where the democrats went for george mcgovern urged wallace rather and the reason why is because we had open primaries in michigan and the republicans said to their own people go vote in the democrats the republican

republican presidential candidate. [laughter] but he has a simple way out of this mess: to keep the republicans from being blamed for raising taxes or defaulting all they have to do is ask the president to submit a request to congress to raise the debt ceiling. then, vote yes on a resolution disapproving of the thing they asked the president to do. then, obama would veto the disapproval, and since the republicans don't have the two thirds majority to override the veto, the debt ceiling gets raised and the republicans get to say they voted against it. twice. just like the classic jimmy stewart movie. "mr. smith gives up and starts shooting people." [laughter] [cheers and applause] it's brilliant. [cheers and applause] [laughter] it's brilliant. the gop gets everything they want, except anything they asked for. and obama gets stuck with what he wanted to begin with. and mcconnell has gotten their nuts out of that vise -- by cutting them off and leaving them behind for obama to hang from his rear view mirror as an air fre

i believe that senate republicans are frustrated and that's why you saw a number of senate republicans democrats to vote against the boehner bill. >> the most frustrated people of any questions? no. you know... ♪ we're not magicians ♪ we can't read your mind ♪ ♪ read your mind ♪ we need your questions ♪ each and every kind ♪ every kind ♪ will this react with my other medicine? ♪ ♪ hey, what are all these tests even for? ♪ ♪ questions are the answer ♪ yeah ♪ oh ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ ♪ hah >> right now could make a very serious problem much worse. >> clearly, what is going on there is the usual negotiating, although the stakes are much higher than usual. do you think the politicians really understand that their common little practice of tit-for-tat arguing for days on end, the more damage to the economy they are doing any way. forget the default next week. >> you are exactly right. the conference is being undermined in the u.s. economy in usa inc. the borrowing costs will go up. every american will be affected by this because politicians are much more concerned today ab

it has a double benefit for republicans. it's idea logically tidy and undermines economic recovery which they think helps them in 2012. if the public comes to believe that republicans are deliberately sabotaging the economy, it will backfire politically. >> that is a harsh charge. that's a member of the democratic leadership arguably the second most powerful u.s. senator in the democratic controlled senate. do you agree with senator schumer there, congressman? >> the fact of the matter is even a republican economist, john mccain's economic advisor said today that if the republicans do not come to the table and engage in a fair and balanced negotiation that extends the debt limit without in a fair way that increases revenues and reduces spending that we will be thrown back into a recession. more people will lose their jobs. people's credit card interest rates will be going up. the fact of the matter is any progress we've made on the economy will be lost by the single act of republicans failing to negotiate in a fair and balan

that way he can hear directly from senate republicans directly from senate republicans why what he is proposing will not pass. all of us know that congress isn't going to approve hundreds of billions of dollars in tax hikes. >> mcconnell, who yesterday during the president's press conference, held a phony press conference about a phony constitutional amendment that will never pass, spent today issuing phony invitations to the president and making phony references to what he calls tax hikes. the current republican position that any agreement on deficit reduction must be 100% spending cuts and 0% tax revenue increases, contradicts an earlier republican position. republican leaders in congress clearly do not believe that any revenue increases are unacceptable in principle, because they are right now touting a study by three conservative economists from the conservative american enterprise institute which found that, quote, successful fiscal consolidations averaged 85% spending cuts and 15% revenue increases. 85%, 15%. 15% revenue increases. there is a big difference between 15% and 0%. t

republican jon kyl and democrat dick durbin. we'll hear from the house majority whip, republican kevin mccarthy. also, the recovering economy takes another hit. we'll ask our sunday panel if the debt ceiling standoff has made things worse or if a deal might ease the economic pain. we look back to what a roller coaster of a week it was in washington. all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again from fox news in washington. after a tension-packed day on capitol hill, filled with bitter partisan sniping, both republicans and democrats are now saying significant progress has been made toward a deal that would avert a government default. we'll take a look at the framework of the compromise with two senate leaders and a top house g.o.p. official. but first we begin with the white house view. and gene sperling, the director of the national economic council. director sperling, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thank you, bret. >> bret: saturday, the debt ceiling negotiation shifted back to the white house. here is what we are hea

the republican party run both republican party and not a new. well i put in the article. to become a republican just so yeah maybe i should have been in the first instance you could just wait we're going to have the people bang bang but. you know i the point of becoming a republican is vote on who way nothing left. but i hope indeed the republican just becomes a couple of glad i don't know if you've heard this but but ron paul didn't or several other candidates one of whom won a senate seat he has a very similar name he happens to be his son his name is rand paul so there's there's just an image now in congress as well i was a republican candidate myself you know in the in the party of the constitution of smaller government of individual rights there we welcome with open arms any blue republicans that want to be a part of it but you know that there really is a the long term opportunity here of working within the republican party when will we see the use the base of the republican party you know being brought into power in the so much in such pro

republicans i want you to raid tax revenue. most people give him credit public opinion polling reflects the president has positioned himself smartly here in the middle. but he needs a deal. he's a president who's going to be campaigning for re-election with unemployment somewhere in the ballpark of 9%. any further jitters to the economy murder undermine the president's re-election prospects. in terms of the house and the senate that's all we've had in recent days. the republicans want to pass their plan in the house and say that democrats won't do enough cutting, they won't do enough or they want to raise taxes. the republicans want to say that john boehner is hostage to the tea party. so what you have right now is finger pointing and a clock ticking toward a deadline that is significant. how significant? god forbid we might have to find out. >> and anderson, there's absolutely no trust right now between the parties and between republicans and the president of the united states. and i think what you see is a lot of republicans

i mean, olympia snowe says she's a republican, but a lot of republicans think she's just a republicanme only. they think she's some kind of like crazy lefty, like a socialist, and there's nothing a republican can do about that, because she keeps saying she's a republican. just like barack obama keeps saying he's a christian, and the funny thing about being a christian is you can't tell who really is a christian. all we have to go on is what people say about themselves. the only thing unfair about d 'ambroise believing that president obama is not a christian is he believes any other politician is a christian. if he wants to lead a movement that says we shouldn't believe what any politician says about religion because they all have a huge incentive to lie about just how religious they are and because we have separation of church and state in this country, then i would give him as much time as he needs to make that case on this program. but that's not scott d'ambroise. he says i'm a conservative but says about another politician he is not a christian. he is insulting the voters and wasti

republicans refused. they decided they wanted to protect .03% of minnesotans at the expense of the rest of the 99.7% of minnesotans and that's wrong. >> i want to talk about what the next step is. this is consequences. we have furloughs for 23,000 state employees. that's hurt a lot. have you state par closed. we have the busy 4th of july coming around. it stops child carees aance for the poor, et cetera. people will look around and go, whose fault in s this? governor dayton says, have your meetings, go to your town halls, see what you get. which is a strong move. how do you think it resolves itself as we take it to the people of minnesota? >> i think the governor and other democrats know, minnesotans are standing with the governor. they believe, a vast majority of minnesotans, believe his proposal is the best, it is the responsible way out of mess and by asking the richest minnesotans to did a little bit more, we can resolve the mess we are in. in coming days and weeks just like the last six months, the o

today at 5:00, president obama summoned the top two republicans in the house, the house republican leadership team, he summoned them to the white house, presumably to freak out about 24 hours earlier, this has been the president's message to the nation and house republicans in particular. >> we're in the 11th hour, and we don't have a lot more time left. we don't have anymore time to posture. it's time to get down to the business of actually solving this problem. >> that was yesterday. the 11th hour, not a lot of time left. today, no announcement from the president in the pressroom like you saw there, no congenial information and discussion of our options and what's before us. today, just literally a tweet from the white house press secretary announcing this meeting. the tweet was update, the president will meet with speaker boehnor and majority leader today at 5:00 p.m. as in you guys get over here now. one of the things president obama has been pointing out lately is the deadline that's upon us to raise the nation's debt ceiling is not really august 2. he has been trying to say that there's

the republicans are completely split, aren't they?e are not going to sign on to any deal. they don't want any revenue on taxation. they are saying no, we're not having this. your party is split in two. how does that help america and the american people who are 100 hours or so from the biggest financial crisis the country has ever seen. >> i don't agree that the republicans are split in two. the republican party united in the house and senate that sent to the senate the budget. sent them a proposal to put cuts in place and caps in place that were modest in terms of the issue we are dealing with and asked for a vote on the balanced budget amendment. that was rejected in the senate. now, they are proposing to send another proposal that will try to find the common ground. that will be rejected by the senate or vetoed by the president. frankly, i think the republicans are trying to put forward alternatives here to simply walking away from the debt ceiling issue and the debt crisis. i point out, the credit agencies made it clear, it's not r

if they get 30 republicans, moderate republicans, and there are 30 moderate republicans, it's a veryority part of the republican party, but they have enough to get 216 votes. >> they do. the question that i have and i think this is the holy grail which is what is enough for nancy pelosi to say okay we have a deal. if i'm going to pass this, if i'm nancy pelosi i'll pass this in the house. i'll put my people on the line. what are the republicans willing to give up for me to supply the votes, which is why the "wall street journal" editorialized this week about tea party republicans and said to them, you know what? you're empowering nancy pelosi. so, those are the kinds of discussions that are taking place right now and maybe the democrats feel the republicans are not willing to -- >> my own sense is if the president of the united states who is the leader, if he says this is good enough for me, nancy pelosi, the democrats in the house and the democrats in the senate they will salute the president, the commander in chief and say yes, sir. >> they have been griping about him throughout hi

are stepping farther and farther away from the negotiating table with the republican party actually forced the united states into default just to protect their billionaire billionaire buddies are well more moderate voices in the party and as much as the republicans would like to argue how corporate taxes are destroying our economy truth be told they're not the truth about corporate taxes will be revealed the nights alone liberal rubble. you need to know this another day another step closer to default and enough another debt limit negotiations set for this week and every state yesterday president obama squashed the idea of a short term debt limit increase killing republican hopes to kick the can down the road into an election year when republicans would have even more leverage and then called for another meeting later this week with congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle to reach a long term debt limit deal a deal president obama is pushing for includes closing tax loopholes on corporations millionaires and billionaires in exchange for trillions of dollars in spending cuts

republicans.is is a very good pollster, to conduct a poll of republican iowa caucusgoers. who would you vote for? someone who could beat obama? ee someone wclosest to my view. >> i think what republicans are hungry for is somebody who's authentic, willing to tell the truth, i agree with you on the big things, and therefore support me. i found this last week in south carolina. >> right. >> people said, social conservatives said, fiscal issues are huge. and if somebody is at least honest with me, i can deal with it. >> brian jones, you seem to raise an eyebrow. you were a little bit surprised by, i guess, the gap. >> it is a little surprising, particularly when you see the people who are trying to really make a strong play in iowa. and you see last time mike huckabee was the social conservative. maybe not the most electable character. michele bachmann doing well right now. but at the same time, it just shows that among the republican electorate, this dislike of obama wanting to throw obama out of of

within that house, republican coalition -- within that house republican coalition, you have to look at the 1987 freshmen class and the tea party. they saw the shutdown as a washington compromise that was less than met the eye. they gave speaker boehner and president obama a chance to cut the deal, they looked at the deal and said, we got burned, we got much less out of it than we thought. this time they're going to be much more reluctant to follow the president, certainly, and even follow their speaker. >> isn't it -- doesn't it put the republican leadership in this an awkward position, they can't deliver their members, that means they'll need more democrats to pass it, that gives the democrats more leverage to move the whole package to the left. >> if you want to do it. there are many republicans who want to make in the moment, the moment where everything comes to a head and people blink and decide to do something completely out of character and they want the democrats to make that move, not them. >> i was wondering about timing. because it seemed like the negotiations were going alon

the republicans go back and talk to republicans, democrats to democrats.le political rekward and compromise. >> in our last 30 seconds, i think john boehner and barack obama have a common goal, and that is people want their leaders to lead. so if boehner wants the house to remain republican, he needs a deal, and if the president wants to go back to the white house, he needs a deal, yes? no? go ahead and agree with me. >> i think the country needs a deal and i hope the republicans get one done. >> history shows when presidents are re-elected, congresses get re-elected. >> thanks so much. >>> up next, our "sound of sunday" -- highlights from the other sunday morning talk shows. then "fareed zakaria: gps." to make science as exciting as a video game. i need to reach peter, who's falling behind. and push janet who's 6 chapters ahead. ♪ [ male announcer ] with interactive learning solutions from dell, mrs. davis can make education a little more personal. so every student feels like her only student. dell. the power to do more. so i wasn't playing much of a role

all republican votes. not a single democratic vote, and a scant majority. 218 out of 435-member house. when it came to the united states senate, it was dead on arrival, on a bipartisan basis. a bipartisan majority of senators, 59, voted to table the boehner proposal. and now we have a chance to reopen this conversation. and i can tell you, there is a growing sentiment among senators on both sides of the aisle to sit down and reach a reasonable compromise and to save our economy from the disaster that awaits us if we fail to extend this debt ceiling. what these senators on the republican side are waiting for is a permission slip from senator mcconnell. he told them to hold back until boehner had his chance. hold back until the boehner bill came to the floor. that's all history now. the american people want us to move forward. they want us to come up with a bipartisan approach that doesn't have us relive this scene that we've seen for the past week over and over and over and over again, like the old groundho

of a safe republican seat back in may. the democrats in charge of taking back the house for their party in 2012 rather gleefully announced they did have a three-part strategy and they three part strategy was medicare, medicare, and medicare. if every swing state and swing district republican started to sweat over their fate in the next election, even those worried republicans all spared a thought for this poor sot in nevada. his name is dean heller, and because of the quirk in the timing over his sex scandal and when the nevada governor appointed dean heller, because of that, dean heller is the only poor sap on earth who had to vote to kill medicare twice. while he was still in the house, he voted for the plan to kill medicare, then voted again for the same thing again, voting not once, but twice to kill medicare, and he represents a swing state, and this is what dean heller's life is like now. >> this spring congressman dean heller voted to end medicare. then heller was appointed to the senate where he voetded again to le

tonight republican leaders under fire for being the party of no. "usa today" says they're acting, are you ready for this? like the taliban. plus mitt romney is at it again. another day, another flip-flop. with all his contortions, this guy's going to need obama care. and president clinton says to president obama, don't blink in his standoff with republicans. i'll give you my thoughts on that. welcome to the show. i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, president obama ramps up pressure on republicans to do their job in the debt fight. this afternoon, the president pressed congress to make a long-term deal on the debt ceiling. >> i don't think the american people here sent us here to avoid tough problems. that's in fact what drives them nuts about washington, when both parties simply take the path of least resistance. >> the president says he's willing to compromise, but are the republicans? >> it's my hope that everybody's going to leave their ultimate mate tums at the door, leave the political rhetoric at the door and we're going to do what's best for ou

the republicans put 60's six on the table in march. obama came back at four and we'll be lucky to get two now and it may be smaller. >> the way these deals usually come out is kind of immaculate conception. nothing is going to get done until a deal is done and suddenly attached and there it is. where is the president's budget plan? what are his specific entitlement cuts? at the press conference today it was interesting because i heard the president talk about needs testing medicine tear medicare. really? gwen: john boehner talked about it a little bit today. let's listen. >> i don't want to preclude any chance of coming to an agreement, but they've been unwilling to put a real plan on the table and without serious spending cuts, without real reform of our entitlement programs, this problem is not going to be solved. gwen: then the president also spoke about means testing as well. >> we've said that we are willing to look at all those approaches. i've laid out some criteria in terms of what would be acceptable. you can envision a situat

republican position again. one would hope -- >> more posturing, is what you're saying? >> yeah. the rhetoric should be tamed because if you enflame people who have to vote for something in 48 hours, you're going to make that task much more difficult. we'll see how they handle it and whether their words are measured. >> let's go to the white house. that meeting is private. what does the president need to do at this moment as he deals with the democratic leaders moving forward to try to cobble together a compromise? >> one assumes senator reid is going to tell the president what he may have to swallow. it probably won't be pleasant, assuming a deal can be worked out. potentially, when this comes back to the house, if it gets back to the house, speaker boehner may have to rely on dozens or hundreds of -- or more than 100 democrat votes to get this passed depending on what's in it. it may truly end up being bipartisan. no one will like it, but it will still be bipartisan. >> back to your analogy as professor. there

probably not a majority of the republicans. if it comes up for a vote, they'll pass it, and the cries i will be averted. having said that, there's no guarantee that that's going to happen. there are so many obstacles standing in the way. and the more the rhetoric heats up, the less likely a deal will be struck. it's going to be tough going. we're going to be working all weekend. i suspect the cots are going to be brought out of some warehouse. staffers on the hill will be keeping all nighters, keeping this movie. it's going to be tough. >> jessica, it is to most american people watching this, they're saying, what the hell you playing at? you're playing with our future, with the finances, with the nation's economy, we are a few days away from a potentially catastrophic default. yet we're hearing the detail from the press conference. i heard a report earlier and maybe you can confirm this. that speaker boehner and the president haven't exchanged a word in five days. >> reporter: that's right, not since monday, nor has -- mccon sd

tell republicans -- say republicans should not compromise on taxes at all. the middle, of course, is in another place. independents and the tea party are not in the same place. they were in 2010. that's why republicans came to power. they're not right now. that's why the president is winning this problem. >>> michele bachmann is rising. she's surged into second place on our poll and the republican prima primary, 16%, trailing mitt romney. a month ago she was at 3%. we've seen this every month in our poll going back to april. in april, it was trump that surged to second place. in june, the candidate that surged was herman cain. right now, it is bachmann. next month, is it going to be rick perry. look at our poll. combine rick perry and richelle bachmann, the two of them got 27% to romney's 30. there is an anti-romney coalition out there. will some conservative coalesce it? that's the game to watch over the next six to eight weeks. >>> momentum may be building the gang of six budget plan. democrat senator, michael bennett, member of the banking committee, sena

the republicans, particularly the house republicans, really need a way out of this corner they have backedwhat's happening tomorrow in this debate, yes, everybody knows nothing will come of it. but it could be a catharsis. it could be a way for the house republicans to say, we've got our marker in the ground. this is what we are trying to do. we couldn't get it done. all right, let's sneak in the deal that's been negotiated in the senate. you will see, i was just looking down on the senate floor. you see harry reid and mitch mcconnell walk off for a private talk. you kind of get the sense that they know they will work this out. you just have to let the house republicans get it out of their system. >> matt, you saw the walk-off of the senate floor as dana just talked about with mcconnell and reid. we are hearing that boehner went to the white house sunday with eric canton, talked to the president. i mean, are we just playing to the extremists with the theatrics tomorrow and they have already thrown in the towel? what's going on, matt? your side of the aisle here. >> i don't think so. i thin

obviously some republicans and most republican leaders, republican leaders up here, do not support that. they say it would be devastating for the economy. a lot of members on both sides aisle are saying we need to focus on jobs. democrats in particular have put the white house on notice that deal you strike it better create jobs or we're not going to vote for it. i think you're going see a lot of democrats when the deal is done see a surprising amount of no.crats vote host: and this is a piece in the "the washington post" this morning about the c.b.o. who c-span viewers know the reference to it. and the headline, c.b.o. packs an authoritative punch. tuesday afternoon the c.b.o. scoring of speaker boehner's plan changed the outcome. on tuesday afternoon when the congressional budget office announced that house speaker john boehner's proposal for raising the debt ceiling would have saved significantly less than promised, the republicans' response was instantaneous. they backed down. it continues about how the c.b.o. works and when it was created, which was 1974, by a congressional budget

now the republicans are walking away yet again. after receiving a phone call from house speaker john boehner, where the president learned that the speaker and the republicans would no longer negotiate with him over a deficit reduction deal, the president went to the press briefing room to give his reaction to the american people. >> i just got a call about a half hour ago from speaker boehnor, who indicated that he was going to be walking away from the negotiations that we've been engaged in here at the white house for a big deficit reduction and debt reduction package. we were offering a deal that caused for as much discretionary savings as the gang of six. we were calling for taxes that were less than what the gang of six had proposed. and we had -- we were calling for modifications to entitlement programs. this was an extraordinarily fair deal. if it was unbalanced, it was unbalanced in the direction of not enough revenue. nancy pelosi, harry reid, the democratic leadership, they sure did not like the plan that we were proposing

what are the republicans bringing to the table. i'm sure they're bringing a balanced budget amendment to the constitution of the table that's one thing but that's actually it's actually not a balanced budget amendment it's a two thirds majority agrees taxes on billionaires and corporations and then that has a little bit of balanced budget attached to it so they can call it that but i don't know if you noticed in the balanced budget amendment the languages and say anything about millionaires and billionaires it applies to all americans it would be it would take it two thirds vote of both chambers to raise taxes on all americans no matter how much you make that's a good thing we need to make it harder to have been cut dramatically in the last thirty years of there's going to be a raise that you know during the period of the strongest growth in this in this country from the forty's to the seventy's millionaires and billionaires are paying ninety one to seventy four percent despite the high tax rates of this country right now it will a

he could be a bridge between the tea party republicans and establishment republicans.d be a big player if he gets in. >> bret: his record, though, in texas is getting scrutinized. the state budget has grown faster than inflation and population growth and the spending has grown faster than his predecessor george w. bush. rick, if he gets in, if he is as expected gets in, what does it do to the iowa race? conventional wisdom is congresswoman michele bachmann is positioned well right now. >> it makes things interesting. ames is critical for a lot of candidates and it would become critical for perry even if he is not a candidate. he needs springboard to come in saying look, without lifting a finger this is what i did. that is the boost that goes, to his back as he moves ahead. it throws iowa in contention. >> bret: iowa is big for other people, tim pawlenty and herman cain and others on list. ron pall has a following in iowa as well. what about that? >> there are two storylines. one will any of the all-star, running in the low single digits like a cain or a santorum or a g

do not like that, house republicans and nat republicans, do not like this. point in the senate. >> bret: final thoughts from the panel on this day. speaker boehner's bill passed 218-210. the next step is happening now. [ jasmine ] i want to be a pediatrician so i want to major in biology. miss gopie is the best teacher i ever had. she's amang, i love her. [ de ] i'm teaching jasmine ap biology. i knew she had the talent... i always pushed her. [ jasmine ] her class you literally have to think, le it takes so long to do her homework. [ jade ] she's gained the confidence that she can achieve anything. [ jasmine ] i'm going to be aediatrician... and i'm going to make this dream come true. a 100 percent. ♪ >> yays are 218, the nays are 210. the bill is passed. without a objection a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. [gavel pounded] >> bret: finally house republicans did pass speaker boehner's bill to increase the debt ceiling and cut spending. it goes over to the senate for a vote. we're back with our panel for final votes. steve? >> the significance o

has never been a concern of the republican party tonight a daily take on what the last five republican presidents united states all have in common here's a hint illegitimacy. the republican race to the bottom is heating up in an interview with fox news sunday herman cain ripped apart the constitution and argued that any american community has the right to ban the construction of mosques cain was alluding to the controversy in murphysboro going to see their plans to build an islamic center had been put on hold by bandos and right wing lawmakers in the community can defend his position with this piece of impeccable logic. any community then say we don't want to a mosque in our community they could say that chris let's move back to the fundamental issue that the people cost base of the same but they objected to be objecting to the fact that. is both a religion and set of laws to real law that's the difference between any one of our other traditional religions which is just about religious purpose and the people in the community know best and i hope in the south the people in the community

caller: i am a republican. i tell you, the past 30 years i have seen a lot of changes in this party. it is frightening. to think that the intern on the middle-class the way that they have done. all of this anti-work policy going on in wisconsin and ohio, that is the backbone of this country. if you ask me, it seems like they are purposely doing it for some reason. i do not know why. i cannot figure out why. but everything that comes out of their mouth is sideways. the country is being blinded by it, 90% of the republican party exclusively gives their news from fox. fox is brainwashing these people into believing that their agenda is the truth. over in england, you can see perfectly well what fox's to agenda is. host: do you think that your lawmakers should vote in the house for the speaker's plan? caller: absolutely not. they should not even be voting on the debt ceiling. obama should clear everybody else and use the 14th amendment. it is obviously there were situations just like this. host: let's go to dan in

obama used them to beat up the republicans. republicans ought to vote what they believe. send it over and let the democrats and the president take it or leave it. >> what's the point of passing measures like congressional amend mountains that don't get the two-thirds vote even in the republican controlled house? what's the purpose of show events like that? pat? >> the purpose, go home to your people and say, we tried to do this. an awful lot of democratic house memberless vote for that balanced -- >> the clock is literally ticking, and they'd rather have these show votes than actually get together. you know, pat, back in december the president showed, as did mitch mcconnell, give him credit, you can compromise pap compromise of both people on the left and right were not only always happy but the tax cut deal, got together, did the hard work and they showed that -- >> in december the president of the united states -- >> and worked things out. when you have the tea party saying we're not even going to talk to you about anything you want, we're going to cut out the air suppl