you'd only need 17 republicans to go along. 17 out of the more than 230 house republicans in a republican party that is absolutely convinced it must find a way to say yes to immigration reform. all you need is 17 republicans. that's 7% of the house republican caucus. that's all you'd need. there are definitely 17 republicans who would vote yes if this thing got to the floor. probably many more than that. if somebody organize d an effor, that really would be all you would need to get it to the floor for a vote where it would pass then it would go to the president for his signature and he would sign it. this sort of thing has happened before. it happened on a gun bill in 1986 in an effort organized by the national rifle association. it happened on a campaign finance issue in 2002 organized by the pro-campaign finance folks. it's not the most frequently used thing in the world, but it is the trap door that congress could jump through right now that would save everybody's bac bacon. it's a win, win, win, win. the conservatives could get to complain all they want, this is a terrible bill, we v

the republicans don't have any power. all they can do maybe is stop things, but they can't make anything happen. the republicans are totally powerless. in terms of legislation and washington. they have the house. but nothing in the senate, they can't stop him anywhere. yet he's acting like he's got to overcome all of this opposition, and all of these mean people who want to prevent the american people from realizing their dreams. these dastardly republicans, the phony scandals is just another vehicle to continue the same modus open randy from being cold hearted, extremists, bigots, war on women, homophobes. >> a lot of people are unhappy about the phony scandal. a lot of people hate the irs. in early may he says, this is a serious problem, now it's phony, and it's just a campaign tactic? is that what you're saying? >> he can say whatever he wants, and he's not going to be called on it. i should add he couldn't get away with any of this without a slavish media. in fact, if he's on board with his agenda and trying to help a

republican governor paul lepage is embarrassing even to the republicans in his own state. you know who's doing a fund-raiser for paul lepage right now, right this second in maine? jeb bush. oh, god, shame of what it takes to run for president. thanks to the longtime bush family estate in kennebunkport, maine, jeb bush has ties to maine and seems to be trying to run for president. today jeb bush has to go wrap this gestapo vaseline abitros around his neck forever. poor jeb bush. that's one kind of embarrassing when it comes to american politicians. the other kind of embarrassing is less about style and more about substance. it's about policy that is embarrassing. this one's a little slipperier. while calling people nazis is a timeless embarrassment, policy embarrassments like, say, mandating forced vaginal ultrasounds for the women in your state, when it's against doctors orders, that kind of things starts off embarrassing, engenders national ridicule and protests at your state capitol and people across the country start calling you governor ultrasound. when it's a policy m

limit that to only republicans or tea party republicans.again, broadly speaking, that's what americans were thinking when they looked at the sort of strategy that the house republicans are using. lynn, i want to take with that in mind look at the other kind of showdown that is looming here. we have been talked about the idea of defunding obama care and government funding bills taking shape in the house now. the republican house that make just deep, deep cuts in all sorts of, for instance, this big fight getting a nominee confirmed and mccarthy and the senate filibuster and now the administration has its person in place and, yet, on the house side, they're basically talking about stripping out funding for the epa and putting in new rules that would bar mccarthy from doing what the president wants her to do. how do you think a number like this blends with the republican strategy? >> yeah, the other interesting number is the change in this figure over time. and i was looking at this yesterday. and people are moving in exactly the directions th

a republican president and republican senate? any rules democrats make now will apply to future republican majority. even if democrats don't change anything, there would be nothing to stop that future republican majority from acting on its own to change the rules. in other words, what happened this week probably is just another chapter in the argument about the filibuster and not the end of it. amanda turco from huffington post, michael dougherty, who edits the slurve.com, mo cowen, former democratic senator from massachusetts who served in john kerry's seat until this week, and parliamentary of the senate, only person to serve under both parties. alan, you know the rules of the senate like nobody else on the planet, i would say. i would start with you and what the deal -- we have nominations going through right now so the senate is functioning in a way it hasn't. what do you think long-term implications are this week? >> i think it's wonderful the senate backed down from the brink. i think it was very important that a critical m

is that what republicans like hannity, republicans who are suddenly saying, hey, you know, we don't have incentive to do immigration reform after all? is that what they want to happen. i want to bring in shawn trendy, msnbc contributor maria these ka kumar and dino garza for the hispanic group and dave weigel, senior political correspondent at slate.com. and shawn, we'll start with you because you made a big contribution to this discussion, maybe even got this discussion started recently with a series you wrote at real clear politics, if people haven't read it, i would encourage them to look at why. why they shouldn't con sen tate but being the party of white people. can you take us through the logic behind how that would work. i do think up front it is important to make the distinction you did. what should the gop do versus what wins elections and if you look at the demographics of 2012 as you pointed out, you know, the latino share of the electorate basically keeps pace with population growth same what the african-american growth but a marked decline of the number of whites who turned

not a single house republican voted for the measure and only three senate republicans went along with it. one of those senators, arlen specter, too so much heat that he switched parties. here's the kicker, out of republicans voting for, it the stimulus ended up representing one of the most bipartisan economic achievements for the president. he was fresh off a landstslide election victory, 65% approval rating and resistance from republicans was still nearly universal that set the tone for what was to come. a year after the stimulus in early 2010 with unemployment crossing 10%, obama offered a significant concession to republicans, one that infuriated many on the left but was designed to loosen the partisan opposition to him. >> families across the country are tightening their belts and making tough decisions. the federal government should do the same. tonight i'm proposing specific steps to pay for the trillion dollars that it took to rescue the economy last year. >> then december 2010 a month after democrats suffered historic midterm election losses. bush tax cuts were to expire and o

if republicans nominate a normal republican, they held out a seat. georgette is shifting a little bit. in the south, virginia has become a mid-atlantic states. it is really not behaving like a southern state anymore. it is a classic swing state. north carolina is working its way through the transition. not as far along as virginia it is, but giving less and less of a southern state every day. georgette is way back, but moving the same general direction. the rest of the deep south not moving at all. texas is its own world. so georgia is not there yet, but if republicans nominate someone that cannot reach out and do well and those that are moving to georgia over the past 30-40 years, that would be one they could potentially lose. that is really the only republican seats i'm paying much attention to at all. that is where we are right now. we are raising a lot of questions. it is early in the cycle. that is what keeps the stabbing, keeps it interesting is all the different permutations of what can happen. why don't we open it up now to questions or comme

republicans. caller: well, i don't know how much longer i will be a republican when i listened to some of the stuff coming out of the folks in washington. i find it interesting and rather silly that we have people calling up and talking about how long ago we did the same exact thing, but we did not follow through. most people don't seem to remember that it was a republican president at the time we let the amnesty go through and into anything about it. now, we can have our cake and eat it, too, and you can have people up in washing -- washington talking inflammatory stuff and expect the rest of mainstream america to really pay attention to what you are saying. seriously. you need to slow the rhetoric down and actually get to work. everybody wants -- democrats wanted to get to work, republicans am the independents want you to get to work. thank you. speaker nancyouse pelosi, now leader of democrats in the house, as comment that on immigration -- has commented on immigration and what immigration refo

we look at texas as conservative state, republican state. right now still a republican state. when you poll the question of abortion and sort of broadly speaking in texas. probably more pro-life sentence than pro-choice. when you filter it through the debate they just had had and ask specifically about sb5. that's actually more unpopular now in this poll than popular. so, sort of the theater and the attention that wendy davis drew to the issue and the way she drew attention to it seems to change the way people think about the issue in texas. >> her method and her politics, that is what is more effective, right? it is taking away what messaging from either side and getting to the real meat of the question. even in the polls, if you ask the question differently, then people have a different response. if you ask them about choice, they're for that. if you ask about restricting abortion or striking down roe v. wade, they're wait, no, wait, that's not what i meant. >> of all the issues, abortion is the toughest one. >> that's the thing. as many people believe the should be this ind

if republicans nominate a normal republican, they held out a seat. georgette is shifting a little bit. in the south, virginia has become a mid-atlantic states. it is really not behaving like a southern state anymore. it is a classic swing state. north carolina is working its way through the transition. not as far along as virginia it is, but giving less and less of a southern state every day. georgette is way back, but moving the same general direction. the rest of the deep south not moving at all. texas is its own world. so georgia is not there yet, but if republicans nominate someone that cannot reach out and do and those that are moving to georgia over the past 30-40 years, that would be one they could potentially lose. that is really the only republican seats i'm paying much attention to at all. that is where we are right now. lot ofraising a questions. it is early in the cycle. that is what keeps the stabbing, keeps it interesting is all the different permutations of what can happen. to don't we open it up now questions or comments or accusation

defeat republicans. >> the focus of this administration as they attempt to annihilate the republican party. >> he never appears to be governing. >> the president is finished with governing. >> i'm about defeating them. not compromising with them. >> so you did compromise. >> we found common ground. >> why won't you say -- you're afraid of the word. >> i reject the word. >> speaker boehner must be attending rush limbaugh's speech writing workshops. one by one, the gop mimic what rush says. but what might even be worse, they refuse to denounce his ugly talk that pollutes our political conversation. >> we have a name for michelle, moochelle. mooch, mooch, moochello obama. he's a street thug. as a community organizer that's what you are. you're a street thug. there is a gay mafia that has inflicted the fear of death, political death in the republican party. as the cdc ever published a story of the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens. 2016, waiting to happen. that is if obama decides to abdicate. obama may not give up the crown. just like queen elizabeth. >> th

within the republican party on foreign policy. and we will listen to recordings of phone calls president nexen made in the summer of 1972 and discussed them with historian richard norton smith. ♪ good morning, the debate over changing the senate filibuster, known as the nuclear option will continue this weekend with senator harry reid and senator mitch mcconnell here tomorrow on nbc's "meet the press." on monday night, behind closed doors, the full senate will meet in the old senate chamber to discuss and debate the issue. "the new york times" called the exchange, -- and another new headline this morning, "is congress broken? you can send us a tweet or give us a call. you can send us a tweet or join us on facebook.com. this morning from inside the new york times, and other look back at what happened thursday, essentially setting up the debate that that will come front and center on monday. she makes this point -- sarah wheaton has a q&a on a book focusing on the dodd frank legislation. you can read it online at nytimes.com. nytime

it's not crazy a republican won. what was unusual about bob mcdonnell getting elected, it was the fact that the republicans picked him. that the republicans had picked somebody so very deeply conservative for a statewide virginia job like that. i mean, he had been a leading anti-abortion crusader his whole time in the legislature, he had done an adult masters degree at the pat robertson televangelist college, how public policy should be used to punish homosexuals, fornicators and adulterers. it was a real statement for the state to put this guy up for governor after the state voted for barack obama for president. the ideological saving grace for bob mcdonnell has turned out to be a man who he ran with that year when he first got elected. bob mcdonnell does not want to be seen as the new jesse helms, the new rick santorum, the new alma matter, pat robertson. i mean, he wanted to govern in that vain, the forced ultrasound bill and the bill that would close the state's abortion clinics. he wanted to honor the brave conf

welcome to the show thanks for the elevate your middle initial so are you in the republican the republican party ready to apologize to america for thirty two years of reaganomics well tom lewis is incredible for years we've heard the left blame george w. bush for all of america's problems but now war now we're going back to the reagan years and i wasn't around but i've heard that the last few years of the carter administration were very difficult ones for this country interest rates through the roof of the world in turmoil and ronald reagan came under very difficult circumstances. worked with tip o'neill the democratic speaker of the house to bring the genius of bring revisionist history cuts to the american people knew was not enthusiastic about the tax code to say we're going to worked with tip o'neill you know it was it was the same it was the i was around during that time and it was the same sort of thing that you know that historically american politics has been what we have right now is an anomaly you know really it's it's been other than oh you know how it was our twentieth century

all republicans have to do, john, play mr. republican here and say we like that corporate tax cut.that. on the infrastructure, we'll do it as long as you don't waste money on what it's spent. on real construction. i want to smell the construction. and three, the tax -- the minimum wage, we'll give you little, but close to living adjustment for that. why don't you guys come back positively on the republican side? >> well, first of all, i do think there is a mistake that we have to have lobbying response that any time obama opens his mouth, we're going to criticize and say no. and i actually had some hope for this speech that maybe he could say something that we could agree with. the problem, obama took a speech that he could have unified people, talked about middle class and hardworking jobs and instead turned into it a political speech where he rapped the republicans, he complimented himself. and what he put forward is raise taxes over here so we can create -- >> raise taxes? >> he is going to get rid of loopholes. that's code for him. >> that's always been the case of lower rates.

for republican women, they need to make an argument as to how they can frame republican issues to appeal to women, and you saw callet thy mcmorris-rogers, the chair partially on that argument. in the senate, republican women don't have core power in the caucus because there's just four of them. they can't band together as a group, and they have desperate ideologies, the four there, so collins and mccowski, and there's an unknown in terms of some of the issues as they come up. i'll be, actually, watching deb fisher from nebraska because she was not the most conservative candidate in the race, and she kind of won because of the fight between the two most conservative guys, winning the primary because of the fight of the two conservative guys. there's no doubt she's conservative. >> host: i don't want to earn a reputation on c-span. >> guest: got the engorsements in the conservative circle. the republican women, they are in the position where the issues are not the core issues. they may not want to focus on them. look at kelly ayote, shements foreign policy and military issues, and she gets

republicans like this one.d of fitting, one of the quietest members of the senate and also possible that he wasn't at the senate floor at that moment but more dramatic if we put it this way. take our word for it, he's really quiet. he has been there for 17 years and rarely makes headlines. partly because he is a low-key guy and never does anything that is really surprising. he votes exactly like you would expect a senator to vote. that means a lifetime rating of 93 out of 100 from the american conservative union. means he was ranked by the national journal this year as the eighth most conservative member of the senate. ahead of tom colburn and it means he has spent the obama presidency republican ubstruckism. you can say a lot about the experience he has racked up but keep him safe from what every republican on capitol hill came to feel most, a primary challenge. >> i am running for the united states senate. because i believe deeply in the values that have made our state and our nation great. i am running becau

very few republicans are convinced by that. a lot of republicans just sort of assert that. what we really is the industry, the k. street, the chamber of commerce pushing for something that will bring in more workers and that will help business. this cuts against the idea of trying to get the missing white voters. because the missing white voters aren't the southerners that you spent the opening talking about. the missing white voters are people in pennsylvania. in ohio. all the way down to nevada. who are working class whites, who feel left out by both democrats and republicans. >> so this is a fascinating analogy. first, take them in steps. i completely agree, here's what i would say about the marco rubio thing. i agree passing comprehensive immigration reform, with republican votes, marco rubio at the signing ceremony, that's going to turn the boat around for latino voters. i agree that is magical thinking. what i do think is this, having the house republican caucus kill this bill when the hopes of 11 million people are on the line will be absolutely deathly destructive f

time for the republicans to match it.ey really want to partner in growing this economy, they'll act. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> thanks, chris, and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, history's repeating itself. and guess what? it's on the president's side. 48 years ago today, president johnson signed establishing medicare and medicaid. signing the social security act into law. over the years, it's strengthened our safety net and has saved millions of lives. today the president spent that monumental anniversary defending his own health law in going right after republicans who are standing in its way. >> rather than keep our focus on what should be our priority, which is

abraham lincoln was the first republican. that's when the republican party started. so i don't know that it has anything to do with the war, civil or anyone. as far as the filibuster thing, i wanted to say that that i think that the biggest problem here is all the lying and rhetoric going on. lining harry reid was p. this is according to the republican side, but i didn't hear harry reid try to refute ny of these numbers. it's taken 51 takes to confirm nominees, obama's administration, whereas bush it took 55 days, and clinton it took 50 days. so i mean, they're all basically the same averpblgs, so i think they're just pulling this -- getting rid of the fell getting rid of the filibuster thing. host: national labor relations board, also members of the president's cabinet, and the head of the consumer financial protection bureau. here's what chris in alabama tweets in. the filibuster is not being removed, it's being limited with respect to obama's nominees only. chris, columbia, maryland, independent caller. go ahead. caller: that's what i was going to talk about, the

north carolina will join the republican government of texas and the republican government of mississippi in rushing through voter restriction laws on the heels of the supreme court's voting rights decision. according to a "los angeles times" report, north carolina freed from the voting rights acts preclearance provision, well in addition to working on a voter i.d., work to end early voting which 2 million people, mostly democrats, took advantage of during the last election. eliminate same-day registration. and end sunday voting. now, the context of this is that the republican party in the south, in particular, is, well, it's a party of white people. a party that has, frankly, every incentive, strategically, to maximize levels of white turnout and minimize levels of other turnout. that's more or less the tactic the republican parties of the south have taken, certainly in north carolina, sparking massive protests in response. those suppression tactics were not supposed to be the strategy of the national republican party. particularly after the clock cleaning they received in 2012. because

republicans in washington who are scared.hey're scared of being beaten up politically. harry reid and president obama will scream at the top of their lungs. the evil mean nasty republicans are trying to shut down the federal government. that's when we need to respond and say no. >> oh, my gosh. it's not just the issue of obama care and a government shutdown. in addition to shutting down the american government this september, they're also moving to block an increase in the debt ceiling. that means the government wouldn't be able to pay its bills, wouldn't be able to pay its debts, would go into default. it would destroy the united states credit rating and send us spiralling into default. this is cruz's operation. and his allies' operation. this is more than obstructionism, this is political terrorism, a strategy of mass destruction and demolition with a hope after the rubble is settled they'll be the ones left around to pick up the pieces. david axelrod is and steve schmidt. david, first your view. i believe it's terrorism. t

and so that's the way in which you have some national republicans sort of represented by the 14 republicans in the senate, and then you have the house republicans who just follow -- a different country to them. and so their politics and what's driving them is much different than what was driving the senate. >> and some pressure from the business republicans are for it, grover norquist is for it. aren't they going to get some pressure? >> that's the open question. because there's no question regardless of what side you're on this debate is so different at this point than it was during the last major immigration debate. because the chamber of commerce is supportive of it. some of these big republican perpacs, crossroads, and i'm not quite as pessimistic as sue. i don't know how they get there but the republican party can see its future and it's a potentially a short one if they don't do something. gwen: but i remember having this conversation after newtown that they had to do something about guns. that we had the moral authority of gash rell giffords. we had the -- of gabrielle giffords. we h

republicans can't even pass a republican bill. very bad for gop future. ian is up next from florida on the democrats line, also coming -- calling in as an immigrant. where are you calling from in florida? caller: from dade county. host: go right ahead. caller: ok. sharing lot of people the same thought pattern that this is some sort of devious scheme to gain votes. but ultimately if you step back and look at the larger picture of things, you can easily see that at the end of the day, that is really not the final determinant on who is elected. it comes down to the electoral college. i just wanted to share that. i hear a lot of people preaching on here about, again, this is some devious plan to be able to get an advantage in the popular vote. the mostis really not finite thing to go after. gothey really wanted to after the vote like that, via theg might be done electoral college. host: i understand you come from kuba -- cuba. what is the conversation going on right now in the cuban- american community in florida? it is relevant, and it is not relevant, i su

>> i think republicans are going to blink.ry reid is simply asking for them to allow an up or down vote tomorrow. these are not big deals. republicans have just made it so because they hate these agencies. they don't want the agencies to exist in the first place. harry reid is not asking for much, and even senators bike john mccain, john mccain has certainly suggested that harry reid isn't asking for too much. the question is can harry reid get enough republicans to say okay, fine we'll let you have the vote on the seven. we'll try to unblock some of the nominee votes, but you still have to allow us to use the filibuster on other things. i have a feeling that the republicans will back down, and we'll certainly know tomorrow if harry reid will change the senate rules. >> michael: yeah and that would bring on a bigger fight. i want to go back to the george zimmerman verdict that we were talking about. president obama released a statement about the verdict, which is pretty rare for pat to do. what is a president's role in a case

he doesn't speak for the republican party. republican party is not a monolith.e of good faith, of good will who are coming along, who are evolving, just like our president evolved. so the fact is that we're trying to find a way to work with republicans at all levels and we'll find allies. we have allies like steve schmidt, allies like jimmy la sylvia, a tea party member also on our payroll -- a member of the tea party? >> you emphasize -- >> they exist. i was shocked. i said you remember the tea party, you believe in marriage equality? absolutely. how many of you are there? he said 10,000. i'm like, you got to work with us. >> your point on the president's evolution is such an important one. you sensed the reticence on the part of this president to be very clear on the issue of marriage equality. we know was the vice president who sort of jumped the gun. >> thank god for joe biden. never thought i'd say that. but that said, part of what he learned and i think some of us learned as a result of that is that precisely the communities some thought would reject the p

and house republicans on this issue. even 14 senate republicans voted for the bill and of the others who didn't most of them still say we believe there will eventually be a pathway to citizenship and not only inevitable but most of them say that is actually a good idea. they are haggling over the triggers and criteria to get there. that is by far not a unanimous view in the house among house republicans. what are you seeing that is different? is it a different political sense that you have for your constituency? what is driving you in a different direction than the senate republicans? >> i have talked to a great many of the senators on the republican side some of whom voted for the legislation but 70% of the senators on the republican side voted against the bill. i think you would find a higher percentage of house republicans voting against that senate bill. but we are all looking for ways to not say we want to kill the immigration process, kill the senate bill, which is what happened in 2007. what we are saying is we wa

now by decree, from republican governor john kasich and the republicans in the ohio state legislatureyour pregnancy begins even before implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterine lining. since several forms of popular birth control work by stopping implantation in the uterine lining, the ohio state budget now essentially says, hey, you want an iud or want to be on birth control pills? that means you want an abortion. now, of course, there's a mandatory ultrasound before you can do that. followed by the speech from your doctor that your doctor doesn't have a choice about. under this bill, under the letter of this new law, ohio women might conceivably need to get a mandatory ultrasound by order of the state just so you can keep your birth control pills. the birth control, the iud, the birth control pill you've been on forever, now mandatory ultrasound? that's how the law is written. nobody knows for sure if they really freaking mean that or if they have considered that implication of the change in the definition of the word pregnancy that they put in the state budget. nobody knows i

republican caller.ou know, i have been listening to the last three or four colors, and there is a and there -- callers, is little bit of credence to each of them. to me, the issue is bigger than the democrats or republicans right now. i think that we have possibly the worst leader in the senate in the history of america in harry reid. at what hisback body of work has been over the last six years, it is terrible. some of the comments that he has , like when wetime were trying to get a budget put through, and they go for years, and they do not get anything through, and then he comes out and makes this smug, arrogant comments about the great have ad, and we had to bathroom just for us, 4 million dollars, we do not want to mix with the people that we actually -- we are actually paying their salary -- under his leadership, it has been nothing but andumvent what is the law absolutely -- he just makes , and helook like a fool has just shut down congress. let's hear from eric here in washington, d.c., an indepe

you had to deal with republicans. [indiscernible] >> and i went back and forth. >> western it has to be a few --there has to be a few. thatt me not answer question but use it for what i would like to say, which is -- [laughter] you have two major things going on here at a cross. when ronald reagan was president, republicans had a lock elect orally on the map, and the democrats had a -- electoraly on the map, and democrats at congressional lock. cultural issues are switching to democratic strong suits. if you look at the history of where houses are going, florida where it was 10 years ago, when it will be 10 years from now, true about arizona -- go through it. then you have what has been a detriment. on the congressional side it is not the republicans have a lock, but we have a system where people are to pick the representative, but we now have representatives taking their voters. -- representatives pick their voters. basically, people will be republican members of congress immune from the argument, which i think to de

, two republicans, the president is nominating the republicans won't let it for a vote. until mitch mcconnell gives them a vote, the nlrb is in limbo. now, why would anyone want the nlrb to be in limbo? big business wants nothing more than for the nlrb to not issue decisions, and conservatives want nothing more than to just quietly destroy and render permanently inoperable the government body that oversees labor law. they want to make it disappear without anyone noticing. so far they've been able to do that. today at that news conference, those lawmakers featured workers whose lives are in limbo because the nlrb decisions effecting them are just out to lunch. here's kathleen von eitzen, a baker at panera bread in michigan, who works the night shift, describing the process of trying to organize her fellow workers. >> we had to attend meetings where the boss, a good christian, decided we didn't need a union because he would take care of us. during this process we heard about how we would have open talks, we heard about how they would take care of us and then they started t

republicans have total control in north carolina.hey hold the governor's mansion and supermajorities in both the house and the senate. and today, today was slated to be the final day north carolina legislature would be in session. in other words, today is a day when you cram everything through. last night, state lawmakers presented republican governor pat mccrory with a bill that bans courts from recognizing, court, foreign law, also known as sharia law. so that got done. but there are also a few big-ticket items to keep an eye on. democrats spent much of yesterday and today stalling one of the most far reaching voter suppression efforts in the country. north carolina republicans put forth a bill that goes after early voting and voter registration drives. and the a icing on the cake, the bill bans certain forms of voter i.d. that ordinarily easily have been allowed in order to cast your vote. despite the stalling tactic, republicans in the senate passed that voting bill tonight. it's now back in the house where it's being debated as

so this is an opportunity for republicans. this is an opportunity to show we can get the policy right. this is an opportunity to show we are ruled by not just by political motive but by a desire to do the right thing. i reread his 2006 address to the nation where george w. bush made a call on -- it was on the congress, but it was really a call to his own party to stand with him and very few of them did. and that speech really laid out exactly where we are today in the senate bill. so marco rubio's office has built on all of the failures of our 2006 effort. they have put together a much better effort. they brought along the conservative sort of talking class as far as they can and to see it fall apart now would be a policy this disaster. the political consequences would be dire but they concern me far less than the consequences of getting the policy wrong and missing the opportunity to do the right thing. >> the pundits in the conservative media, on the conservative side were onboard. >> which was miraculous. >> it's over now.

president, republican leader. >> the nlrb is not republicans. i mentioned to the administration on several occasions to send us up two nominees who are not illegally appointed. we cannot seem to get that done. the tank attached to the two nlrb nominees and to mr. cordrey is that they were illegally appointed. the agencies have not been at a disadvantage. they are waiting. he is not waiting to do the job, he is in office. the question is -- do we respect the law? a federal court has said that two nlrb members were illegally appointed. mr. cordrey was appointed on exactly the same day in exactly the same way. is it the senate completely lawless? do we not care what the federal courts say? i am just stunned at what radar. i am just stunned at where we are. all of the other nominees are likely to be confirmed. what it comes down to is the majority leader is owing to break the rules of the senate to change the rules of the senate in order to confirm the 51 votes, three illegally appointed positions. the federal courts and told us there unconstitution

how did the republican party?t emancipator lose the trust in faith of an entire race? from the civil war to the civil rights movement for a century, most black americans voted republican. how did we lose that vote? >> so then paul tried in that same speech to answer his own questions and he did so by pointing to the great depression and fdr's new deal. >> i think what happened during the great depression is that african-americans understand that republicans did champion citizenship and voting rights but became impatient because they wanted economic emancipation. they languish below in every measure of economic success and oppression was harsh for those on the lowest rung of poverty at that time. everybody will get something, well republicans offered something that seemed to be less tangible, the promise of equalizing opportunity to free markets. >> but the real answer to the questions rand paul asked about why the republican party has failed to crack even 20% of the african-american vote in every election since 19

on republican violence. this kind of dlint sit only took place in certain urban communities but this is what we're seeing between republican presidential candidates? >> they'll blame black culture first for its wide influence. >> it's all down to baggy pants. >> it's no doubt about it. you know, obviously, squabbles are good and healthy. people ought to express their differing viewpoints. it's rather interesting that the soul of the republican party is at stake here and that people are making arguments based upon you know, strange alliances and they become strange bedfellows because on the one hand, they're forced to acknowledge that maybe some liberals or progressives have a viewpoint that is legitimate and on the other hand, some of the conservatives are finding themselves at a loss for words to really express how they can remain relevant to the broader conversations in american society. so when it comes to intelligence is, surveillance, when it comes to food stamps, when it comes to talking about how we w

on immigration, house republicans reject the bipartisan plan passed by the senate. >> the house will do its own job in developing a immigration bill. >> why delay? why don't we get about the business on developing a bill? >> on obamacare, criticism of the president delaying part of healthcare reform. >> its provisions are unworkable. its timeline it's unworkable. regulations are unworkable. >> house republicans driving this narrative are not concerned about a delay and the implementation of a law that they oppose. they want to kil to kill the bi. >> chris: republican steve king of iowa and democrat steve israel of new york join us. then the nsa leaker edward snowden asked for temporary asylum in russia. >> they still have the opportunity to do the right thing and return mr. snowden to the united states. >> chris: will the u.s. find a way to bring snowden to justice? plus, secretary of homeland security janet napolitano resigns. we'll sit down with chairman michael mccall, chairman of the homeland security committee. hello again from fox news in washington. george zimmerman is a free