bill saying at one point, the schumer rubio bill seeks to implicate -- at the table by handinghappened? >> if it continues, he may want to consider self-deportation, a little bit safer. right, he is supposed to be the savior of the party. we see what's happening with the -- doing to its savior and in a way, it's worse for the republican party now than if this whole thing had never happened because now, they have the guy, their guy, on immigration, a latino who came out and said this is what we need to do on immigration and he's gone from being the party's best hope for 2016 to being excommunicated and this is going to be, wind up being more damaging to the republican brand in the long run, turning off latino voters for a generation or more. >> dr. peterson, national review is a widely read conservative magazine. what does it tell you that they turneded over their cover story to mark, who has made his name by running a think tank that opposes all and any immigration deals. >> it tells you in all honesty how complicated immigration reform has gotten. on the one hand, you have rub

legalizing those people, as outlined in gang of eight immigration bill, being led by senators rubio, schumer, mccain, and others, could be in the trillions. in fact, up around 6 trillion. here's what heritage foundation president, jim demint, former senator, said today. >> we need an immigration process that attracts workers our economy needs, and encourages patriotic assimilation to unite new immigrants with america's vibrant civil society. let's be clear, amnesty for those who are here unlawfully is not necessary to capture those benefits. our analysis shows that taxpayers, including immigrants who've come here lawfully, will be saddled with $6.3 trillion in cost over the next 50 years. >> well, some have challenged that figure. first of all, that figure -- first of all, pointing out it's over a 50 year time period. $6 trillion may seem like a lot, but over 50 years it's not as much. the bulk of the cost, by way, from entitlements such as social security, and likely years away when we'd have to pay that bill. also they say the study doesn't account for the potential economic benefits immig

rubio and schumer are as one in this. >> they are and i think they're benefiting at least from the noise senate committee about the heritage foundation. it is much easier for someone like rubio, who has been very much under fire -- there was a big question of how hard he would stick to maintain the course i think you will see them hold together right now. schumer is getting other crosswind pressure but for now they will hold. >> one amendment that didn't get brought up, bob, is the issue of same-sex couples in this idea of getting -- bringing over citizenship. >> right. >> and the thought was that was going to go. that's not one that the gang of eight will be able to stick together on. >> no. and, you know, the truth is that they really don't want to touch that. i mean, even the ones who are supporters would like, you know, some magical way for this to go away. >> if it's going to recognize the whole bill, they would prefer not to deal with it. >> so i don't think it will not get dealt with. it will not be part of the package coming out of the senate. the thing that strikes me, with all

oh, you can talk about immigration, but it's out there on the horizon somewhere where rubio and schumerand mccain live in legislation land. no, the engine's dead. that's why this president is under fire. his people are unexcited because they've not been called to be excited. the middle is simply watching the fireworks right now and the right, well, the right is throwing torches into the fire, of course. so there's now a challenge to be met. and i can tell you from experience this is the time for professionals. yes, professionals. i saw ronald reagan in big historic trouble over iran/contra, caught sending missiles to the enemy in iran. nancy reagan called in bob strauss from the democratic party he said to clean house and bring in the pros. reagan did and saved himself. the pros were bacon and ken duberstein. president obama has to stop taking advice from fans who keep telling him he's right and only they can be trusted. he needs to act. he needs to fire people. he needs to grab control of his presidency. he needs to surround himself with people ready to fight on every front. the three

considered and rightly so immigration reform an historic achievement thanks to marco rubio and the republican side and chuck schumer? >> the ace in the hole is if the economy strengthens, as well. his approval rating has been around 50% the length of his presidency. as kim suggests, if he is hanging back and he is going to capture 17 seats in the house he is going to have be a lot more popular than he is right now. he needs some wins. >> paul: the problem with second term presidents have is flexibility. president obama has never really wanted to have an aggressive foreign policy agenda. he doesn't have that kind of flexibility that you saw with reagan, for example, or with bill clinton. >> no, it is as you say largely self-imposed. i think there were several people in the run-up to the election looked at what he did in troops in afghanistan and some of the other decisions and stuff that this was simply keeping things calm in the run-up to the election. what we've seen, after the election his decisions on syria as you said, this is not a president who wants to have a robust or big or bold foreign policy. so that is

marco rubio, john mccain, lindsey graham, chuck schumer, all segments of both parties of conservative, progressive, they're moving toward a solution. >> sean: but nobody wants to hear from obama. >> he's been a leader. >> sean: no, he hasn't! >> come on! because he announces a title, he's a leader? announcing a title is not leading. what is leading is bringing people in and mediating the differences. >> that's what's happening. there's a senate compromise that's moving forward. you just want it not to succeed. i think that's the problem. >> no! i'm all for getting the border sealed. i'm all for stopping the flow of illegal immigrants into the country. and if it requires us to make some kind of a deal on people that are already here, if it's the right way, i'm very comfortable with that in the long run. but seal the borders, enforce the laws, and don't let holder let people go just to make hay out of a sequester. >> well, it's moving in the right direction. i don't know what you're complaining about on the sequester. look, the problem, the short-term problem -- >> sean: guns aren't goi

of eight, bipartisan group of lawmakers, people on the left like chuck schumer of new york, people more on the right like marco rubio, florida, john mccain of arizona, and they've hammered out the broad outline of a deal. but the key for conservatives is they want to make sure border security is a key priority in this legislation because conservatives have already given somewhat on a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the u.s. they want to make sure that in exchange they get tough border security measures. there is a lot riding on this for the president. this past week he crossed the 100-day threshold in his second term and hasn't gotten any of his legacy items. gun control, he desperately needs immigration reform done. >> ed, thanks so much. >>> new developments in the boston bombing investigation. we're learning a search of computers in suspect tamerlan tsarnaev's home turned up an al-qaeda magazine called inspire. it's best known for providing bomb making instructions, along with propaganda. all this as new details emerging on tamerlan tsarnaev's cause of death, as well as issues that are impli

. >> i just think the willingness of chuck schumer talked about it and marco rubio talks about the willingnessed to a senator yesterday who said rubio is all round edges. if you don't like something, we can do this. so a spirit of compromise. >> that is way they lafayetwork >> we were talking about background checks. it's these districts are so jerry make any difference nderr >> this is a perfect test of the republican staebleted which clearly wants something to pass, right? >> who is the republican establishment? >> that's a good question. >> i'm serious. what is the answer? because i don't know -- if there were a republican establishment, ted cruz would have been -- >> not elected. >> -- talked to a long time ago. >> the difference is unlike guns, republicans have a vested interest. >> exactly. >> huge interest makes a difference i. >> in moving forward. the future of the party. >> it's really up to john boehner. because if he is willing to put together a coalition of democrats and some republicans. >> that's it. >> then they can get it through. if he is feeling very beat up by the republica

rubio that will strengthen our nation's agricultural industry. the proposal is part of the broader, more comprehensive immigration policy submitted last week by senator schumer, mccain, durbin, gram, menendez, flake, bennett and rubio. it is great to see so many of you on this committee today. thankfully, many of you on this committee are very committed to fixing our broken immigration system. as someone born and raised in texas and with almost all of my extend family in texas i'm proud that both texas senators are on this committee and i hope to leave here today going i can count on the support of senators cornyn and cruz to advance this proposal in addition to those of you who already work, we worked so hard with. both recall farmers and farmworkers worked together over the last five months with support of these senators from both political parties in representing very different regions of the country in the interests of improving our nation's agricultural industry and securing our nation's food supply. we have worked so hard to come together and we ask you as members of this committee to come together to support this proposal because america's farms and r

my senate colleagues in this group include senators schumer and mccain, durbin, graham, menendez, rubio, and flake. and i want to come to the floor today first to stay thank you to them for their leadership and courage to move past the talking points on this issue and to produce this bipartisan product the committee is now considering today. this is a bill that's been applauded by editorial boards from "the wall street journal" to "the new york times," two editorial pages that seldom agree on anything. in colorado, editorial boards from across the state, including the denver poarveghts the colorado springs gazette and the durango herald have all praised this bill and it has the support of wide-ranging coalitions from the left and right, from business and from labor, from rural and urban all across the united states. all this is to say that the pieces are in place today to actually get something done in this town, in washington, d.c., and in this congress. that's not a small feat for a place where a stale mate has become standard operating procedure. we have, madam president, i would say

rubio. is he a good guy but i think he is incredibly naive in this regard. you don't go into a room with chuck schumeric durben and bob menendez and come out the end of it and they basically write the bill it's going to be good for republicans and good for enforcement and ultimately it's going to mean a perfect patch of all these immigration problems. let me just tell you two things quickly, bill. today, jeff sessions and chuck grassley both offered very common sense amendments to this bill. sessions wants a huge increase in the number of boots on the ground at the border, border patrol. that was shot down. okay, they don't want that that was voted down. they said no, we want high tech stuff on the border. we don't need more boots on the ground. grassley, his thing was let's shut down the border for six months, let's enforce it. after six months then we can proceed to consider all theser issues. that was also shot down. if you can't say you will enforce the border for six months, we're supposed to think that over the next 10 years you're going to do it? oh, come on. that tells you all you need to know

schumer refused to commit to reporting it. he said: >> religious leaders from the southern baptist convention, national association of evangelicals said they might be forced to pull their support. senator michael rubio another member of the gang of eight said if the same sex bill passes, it will doom the entire bill. the conservative national review called national immigration reform rubio's follow folly. the american conservative union issued a statement saying: between that and the senate agreeing to get rid of the typos in the bill, i'd say we're seeing real progress. way to go, senators. joaning me now is michael tomasky, coming to us from washington d.c. thanks for being with us. >> thank you michael. hi. >> your latest column about marco rubio will he be able to withstand criticism from the right on this? >> it's a tough call. there's going to be a lot of it, and we saw some senators today jeff sessions and ted cruz against this bill, but there are more. there are a lot of republicans and they're going to try and push this bill far to the right and rubio's going to be in this very difficult position where he's going to have to be placating that base, but at the same time he has certain promise

schumer and feinstein did. if they were pushing for this from the beginning, is there some way markco rubio would be involved inthat came from those who helped craft the language for the families act, and what they saw this week was that this issue that had been since democrats began talking about comprehensive immigration reform several years ago. sam same-sex couples were a part of that discussion. and then all of a sudden this week, on tuesday, they were told, well, no. not really. and i think that where that left a lot of temperature krats feeling was exactly what richard described, which was that this isn't the bipartisan comprehensive bill that democrats had been fighting for all along. >> which is the dilemma, you know, immigration reform is the big thing that might get through, but it's a dilemma for anything, you have to get right now republican support if you're going to get anything through the senate and you have to marginalize the house if you're going to get to the house. if you're going to get that vote in the senate, if you're going to get republicans to vote for it, is there any way you can inc

me as much as schumer on one side, that three people would get behind graham's position on the other side and he said he would walk away and they said this will kill the bill of i think rubiomy support if it were in it. >> rubio. florida for god's sake. >> initially. >> has he ever been to south beach? >> initially rubio didn't make the stand. they coalesced and their position hardened as graham said i will walk away from this thing. both john mccain and senator rubio were saying there are a lot of provisions going to be troubling. we don't know how this is going to work out. blah, blah blah. then it's not load the bill up with social issues and lindsey graham saying i will walk and the bill will be dead if this is in it. >> that's really just because it was this game of chicken between democrats and republicans. >> bill: not that it's a broad-brush question but the latino community is not raising hell about this issue. right? >> no. in fact, polling done by latino decisions which is the premier, by lingilingual sort of polling firm that did all of that great polling during 2012, they did a poll on this for immigration equality and i think 63% of latinos support inclusion

klobuchar, senator rubio, we worked together on the bill and i felt that was an important contribution to this and the leadership of the gang of eight, in particular, senator schumer, for negotiating through this resolution i think is a significant step forward for this bill and i am eager, senator hatch, to see this bill come out of this committee with a strong bipartisan vote. i think this series of endments addressed legitimatee administrativeability how companies will grow jobs here in the united states and i think new requirements and i'm hopeful they will work, as senator grassley and senator durbin described. this bill includes a requirement that all employers, no excuses, no exceptions that they recruit u.s. workers first and i think that will be a positive change for u.s. workers. i'm listening to concerns from labor and want to make sure we strike the right balance here going forward. i think this standard is the department of labor with expanded authorities will be able to force and i think senator durbin and senator grassley, you've made a real contribution of focusing on firms and the abuses we've seen in the past and striking a good balance here with