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our senior analyst ron brownstein standing by to weigh in. we'll also get the white house reaction. >>> welcome back. i'll wolf blitzer reporting from washington. president obama is heading to texas for a fund-raising trip. the state is at the heart of a huge immigration debate. the trip comes one day after the president asked congress for almost $4 billion in emergency spending to help deal with the flood of immigrants crossing the border illegally right now. many of those, unaccompanied children. while the president will meet with texas governor rick perry today to discuss the situation, the obama administration says there are no plans to visit the border right now, where there has been this influx of unaccompanied minors. a lot of kids coming across. let's bring in our cnn political analyst ron brownstein, the editorial director of "the national journal." the trip under a lot of criticism. he's got three fund-raisers in texas other the next day. no type ime to go to the border right now. how much of a political liability has this visit to

but i think to be fair, the president -- ron brownstein's colleague, ron fornier wrote a great pieceent seems to be concerned about me, myself and i. even went to the border and made it about him. >> but there's a -- >> to be fair, i'm not sure how fair -- >> the point i'm trying to get to, kelly. >> a self pity party. >> republicans can sit there and brag about what happened in 2010. it's true they made massive gains in 2010. democrats are rightly brag about president obama racked up the biggest share of the popular vote since lbj. the over all-takeaway what is the message the electorate is sending when they can't do anything. >> we have divided government here. if you look at the part of the electorate that shows up in 2010 and likely will show up in 2014, looks different than the electorate showing up in 2008 and now in 2012. i think that's a big part of it as well. we're really talking about two different sets of people, the type of people mobilized by a president or a can't is a see like barack obama and potential can't dwa see like hillary clinton are different than those mobil

in august, the "national journal's" ron brownstein did the math on turnout and democrat graphics and voter registration and came up with this bombshell conclusion. he found in white people were going to make up the same proportion of the electorate in 2012 as they had in the previous election, mitt romney was going to have to win 61% of the votes of all white people voting in the election. 61%. that means he would need to get a higher proportion of the white vote than john mccain did in 2008, higher proportion of the white vote than george w. bush got in either 2004 or in 2000. bob dole did not win the election the year that he ran, but he did pretty well with white people. mitt romney would need to beat the bob dole share of the vote with white people by 15 points. he'd need to win more of the white vote than poppy bush did either time he ran when he lost or upon. he'd need a higher proportion of the white vote than any republican candidate elected in the last 28 years. 61% of all white people had to vote for mitt romney for him to win. this freaked out washington basically and frea

ron brownstein of the national journal is saying the president is moving to a executive order probablyuld rock the world, both immigration reform and o bam ma's executive orders rally the base and put them together and -- if john boehner is already suing the president over executive actions related to a segment of obamacare, you know a ground breaking executive action on immigration would probably lead to enough billable hours to build a new beach house. brownstein says every 2016 gop nominee would feel compelled to repeal and turn hispanic americans more firmly against the gop and the outlook is not good for them when they have to win with a pausety of voters of color. truman, eisenhower and kennedy used them to help thousands of european refugees displaced by world war ii and nixon arranged for thousands of czechs to stay as a way to get back at russia. millions of central americans who don't come with the moral stamp of approval are a separate issue but we cannot have 11 million people living here as undocumented second class citizens, it lacks compassion and impractical and un-amer

. >> i'm joined by ron brownstein, editorial director of the national journal.as thrown a big curveball into the overall strategy on immigration. it's a confusing time, isn't it? because we're talking about a president who has been aggressive on deportations, but then now, he's getting criticism for his, for this latest influx of mostly central americans projecteded by by this 2008 law. >> right. it's important to understand this crisis in the context of a larger debate about immigration that we're having. as you know, the president throughout his administration has had a clear, but controversial strategy. he has toughened enforcement at the border and internally, taking a lot of grief from the left over that and that was to -- politically, the goal was to create a predicate, to say, look, the border is under control and now, we can deal with the broader issue of the 11 million people here undocumented. that in fact was able to get legislation through the is that the in 2013 on a bipartisan basis, but this summer, you know, the house republicans after struggling