this former ins agent will be with us and steve stockman joins us as well. filing a motion calling for the arrest of lower consideration of the dismissal of lois lerner. and only 15% of americans approve of the job congress is doing very that is pitifully low, but it is nonetheless dramatically improved from last year's record low of 9%. but there are among our 535 legislators of the house and senate those who bring distinction to the service on behalf of the constituents in the nation. my first guest tonight, democratic congressman henry cuellar tonight. he places his constituents in the national interest above party and he is a former professor and the son of migrant workers, neither who made it past fifth grade, but they made it possible for him to earn an associate and bachelor's and master's degree and then a law degree and a phd. government, as you expect, he is a leading advocate for education and he's not afraid to speak his mind. last week it was him who called the president for playing pool and drinking beer in colorado and he said that he had a du

it did start with congressional republicans but it started with people like steve stockman who aren'tortant congressional republicans. they have no influence within the party. they're not looked to by their colleagues as leaders. at the same time with the exception of boehner he said it's a scam. but the majority was on fox news sunday this week and said didn't totally rule out impeachment. republicans didn't really respond to the impeachment talk but the firm know they should have. it gave the white house an opening to make it a bigger thing. >> i want to shift to michelle obama. she's the most popular member. she can help democrats during midterm. why are we not seeing more of her doing that? >> the simple answer is michelle obama doesn't like politics all that much. she's never been incredibly political person. if you read obama's memoirs she talks about she was skeptical of the times when he wanted to run for higher officer and things like that. she's not by nature a political person. she doesn't have the extensive relationship on the hill that maybe a hillary clinton had when she

congressman steve king from iowa, congressman ted from florida, the distinguished congressman steve stockman from texas. we've even seen michigan call this a dream come true. >> we're taking look at the headlines. the democratic congressional campaign committee raked in $2 million of fundraising with $1 million on monday alone. a recent cnn poll showed one-third of americans believe the president should be impeached. but 65% saying he should remain in office. >>> the house speaker and senate majority leader are clashing over immigration after harry reid suggested using the gop's border plan as a jumping off point for comprehensive reform. house republicans are expected to vote on the slimmed down border funding bill as early as tomorrow if it passes democrats could attatry to attach the immigration overhaul. speaker boehner slammed the door calling it deceitful and cynical. >>> turning now to the corruption trial former virginia governor bob mcdonald. opening statements have been read in the governor's legal team is revealing pretty unusual defense. if you remember in january, the mcdonalds

republican representative steve stockman filing a resolution directing the house sergeant at arms toest lois lerner. you heard right. arrest her on charges of contempt of congress. joining us representative and former irs lawyer michele bachmann. nice to see. >> you good to see you too. >> should she be arrested on contempt citation. >> well, can i understand the frustration that members of congress have. clearly there is a big problem here. lois lerner has not been forthcoming as we learned from her emails this week. i think the direction that we want to go is to continue this process and get through it. i think arresting her is probably not going to happen. this resolution probably isn't go to go through. but as we learned this week, true to course, lois lerner was directing employees at the irs to be very careful, shade what you say in your emails, she even went one step further, she contacted the it director at the irs and asked, point blank, are these instant messages -- are they saved? the guy wrote back and said no, they aren't. she had a one word answer, "perfect." in other w

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steve stockman taking the investigation into his own hands file add resolution demanding learner's arrestshe was they would in condemn president of congress in may. stockman saying i expect democrats to defend even praise criminal activity the question is whether republican leadership will join them in mocking the house and breaking the law. another irs hearing on the lost e-mails grass-roots watchdog to ask for a forensic expert to find out how they were lost and if that data can be recovered. >> mare mary anne, thank you. >>> do you think the judge's ruling will get us the answers we have been looking for. live debate at #keep talking. >>> 88 pounds of uranium from a science lab at mosul university in iraq. residents experts saying the toxins will be used for a dirty bomb to spread the radioactive material calling the materials low grade. some say we still need to be concerned. >> the fact is it still could be used for a dirty bomb. you get uranium and radioactive material you case it in explosives in conventional explosives and the blast will kill people and the impact of the radiation

steve stockman. ted yoho. then that crazy man from iowa.s started on the tea party again which is an example why you guys have got to get control of these people because they are going to kill you. they are a bunch of yahoo! idiots. >> i don't think that was an accurate portrayal of what those people said. >> it's right here. you want to read it. >> you're reading the earnest quote. >> bob, the thing is the left would like to try to make the right the center of the right be far more right than it actually is. you can't deny on the republican side you do have people that have a huge platform. i mean big platforms to spread this thing. then we're like oh, wait, we can't say that. >> look what they did to todd aiken. it only takes one maniac. they elevate that person to be face of the party. republicans have to be extra careful. i'll say this. there's a movement in talk radio and on the right to profiteer from these ideas. that's the formula, staking out their territory on the right. >> i still think it's a cool way to raise money for the demo

congressman steve king from iowa, congressman ted yoho from florida, congressman lou barleta, steve stockman from texas. blake farenthold raised the prospect. we have seen kerry bentavolio oh from michigan call it a dream come true. >> that was the manifest from the clown car. steve king and barleta. >> the idea that the dccc and democrats are raising money over impeachment fever, it would be malpractice if they didn't do this. >> explain why the core democrats shell out money because there is an impeachment drive. why does it make you give money? >> it's about embarrassing the president, embarrassing their guy. as you have been saying putting an asterisk next to his name in the history books. >> besmirching him. >> they have long viewed president obama as under siege by republicans and certainly since republicans took over the house in the midterms then. they will do everything they can to protect their guy, have his back. if they will talk impeachment. >> we all know it. you can have the ability to write comments to columns in the post. your power is unlimited. you write a column. someone

congressman steve stockman calling on congress to arrest ms.inistration will not prosecute her, so it's up to congress to act. texas congressman joining us now, filing just yesterday. congressman, good to see you. you want the arms of the u.s. congress to knock on her door? pick her up, throw her in a d.c. jail? >> this is the same as a contempt citation where you don't obey and the judge order you arrested. we look inept. we issued a contempt order against her, went toef a act upon it. it's a privileged motion. this is something john boehner, if if our understanding is correct, he can't even stop. >> how would this happen? would you have to just get votes from a majority in the house for this to happen? how would it happen? >> yeah, it would be a simple majority in the house because it is a house issue of contempt, and the senate and the president can't veto it or interfere, and under the orders of the house, she would be arrested and brought to a jail. she has to respond. what she's doing, this is -- history goes back to when she works at ftc

texas republican congressman steve stockman an opponent of the emergency funding says a better idea is for the president to save the money by simply doing a photo op. >> he's against photo ops. he should stand by a plane load of people sending back to guatemala and that send as message we mean business. >> reporter: whatever happens in washington it should happen down. while apprehensions are down, he expects that it's only a temporary lull and they will ramp right back up again when this oppressive heat breaks. >> it is hot. john, thank you. as we just heard one john's report we're told fear of gang violence is a primary motivator for the immigrants from the central america. tonight chief intelligence correspondent catherine harris looks at whether something else is drawing information the u.s. >> reporter: the intelligence assessment does not conclude violence is the main motivation for thousands of children crossing the mexican border. july 7th report from the el paso intelligence center said misperceptions about immigration policy is fueling the surge. of the 239 immigrants intervi

growing course of voices on capitol hill, though, including that of texas republican congressman steve stockman who believes the strongest signal that the president could make is to stand up and say the border is closed to illegal immigration, those who come here illegally won't stay, and will quickly be sent back to their home countries. >> they take their life savings, five to seven thousand. would you want to risk your life savings going over treacherous terrain knowing you will come right back here? no, you won't. that's the message we want to send. >> there's a lot of criticism for that position. they have claim to their lives being in danger in their home countries. this is almost an intractable problem and there's no easy solution. >> john, and by the way, i was down there last week, you know that the miles of border here, where that crossing level is so short is pretty massive, a lot of ground to cover. >> oh, yeah. it's huge. and you don't fully understand it, sean until you come down here. i came down here a month ago for my first visit. my producer came down here and said, wow! i hav

countries there is growing chorus of voices on capitol hill including texas republican congressman steve stockman, who believe the best way to deal with this, for the president to send strong message for people in central america, if you come to this country illegally, you will not be allowed to stay and you will be quickly sent back. >> they take their life savings, five to 7,000 for your life savings. would you want to risk life savings, going thousands of miles over treacherous terrain and risk it all-knowing you will come back here? no you won't. that is the kind ever message we need to send. >> reporter: certainly a lot of critics of that policy who believe there are certain number of central american illegal immigrants have a reason to flee for their lives from their home country. it is no easy problem to solve. it is so many tentacles, going so many different directions and levels of government, everybody has to work together to get this thing fixed. jon: there are times of year and places where you can walk across the rio grande. but that is not the case where you are. >> reporter: not wh

texas republican congressman steve stockman says a good deterrence would be if the president got involvedal aliens. >> a photo op of drinkinger into shooting pool but avoided the photo op with the kids which he should have done and said, we have to send you back home to your parents. a great message to communicate and the most compassionate. >> well, think it's safe to say the president is not about to do that. right now he is focused on trying to push through congress his request for $3.7 billion to deal with the problem which at the moment looks like it's probably not going to go anywhere. >> thank you very much. we don't know if they're here to stay but for those 57,000 illegal immigrant minors we will have to payment that's why tennessee republican congresswoman marsha blackburn sayscast the countries from which -- says cut off the countries from where they're coming. you're talking about cutting off aid america gives to honduras, el salvador, and guatemala. >> creek. say we have all these children coming in, so we're going to charge back your foreign aid account, saying you're going

thomas massie of kentucky and congressman steve stockman of texas. joining me now is former congressman barney frank, he is now an msnbc contributor. you, mr. frank have spent a lot of time in that chamber, have you ever seen something like this? >> no. as a matter of fact i've been sitting here humming in my head or singing in my head, the line from guys and dolls. sue me, sue me, what can you do me? this has been reduced to the level of bad musical comedy. unlike guys and dolls which is a good musical. the inconsistencies here are replete. it's been the conservatives who said restrain the unelected judges, let the elected branches do their job. and in particular they've upheld the concept of standing. the courts only deal with disputes. and that has been for all of our history, tightly interpreted to mean you can't just sue because you disagree with the policy. you can't just sue because you think somebody's misinterpreting the constitution. you have to show that a particular action negatively affected you that is different than anybody else. that

steve stockman a conservative in the house filed a resolution with speaker john boehner putting pressureto in fact arrest through house sergeant. exerting its wing. putting pressure on john boehner in order to take action against lois learner. >> john sullivan means business. he wants an answer under oath. he wants it in writing within 30 days. no ifs, ands and butts. >> apparently the irs commissioner is glad to come talk to the judge as he did the hill, so he will get that what's interesting here though i think it's exactly what elise said. you are going to get a judge refereeing this issue because it's so highly polarized and political at the moment. it's hard to it make sense of it it at some level. people are very suspicious of the fact that anybody's emails suddenly disappears. the irs says no it's not atypical that other events do occur. other news today is the inspector general at the irs says he is going to look into this as well. >> charles, one of the interesting things is the court seemed to be making much more progress than congress. >> that's right. i think the reason that

republican congressman steve king and steve stockman told world net daily this is all a deliberate move by the obama administration which is derived they say by a strategy by radical sociologists to transform america into a socialist state. congressman king referring to the sociologist claimed kloward and piven. i do feel this attempt to flood the border with illegals is the ais a playing out of the clowar-piven theory. to make it into a blue state. that's the open secret, according to him. after cloward-piven, that sounds downright simple. the time for action, for actually passing legislation to address this problem is ticking away. there is just 11 days until congress breaks for the summer. dana bash is there along with republican strategist anna navarro, former huntsman 2012 chair and dan restrepo. dana, let's start with you. you're on capitol hill. every day you talk to the members of congress. do you get a sense this kind of amped up rhetoric is actually increasing? >> well, certainly with the members that you put up there, which is unfortunately not that unusual. but i actually ha

steve stockman tweeted, quote, any border package that doesn't defund barack obama's amnesty is a crapimichanga. those are his words. figure him out. and erick erickson defended ted cruz against critics tweeting, house gop twitter fans are behaver toward senator cruz like justin bieber fans after someone has pointed out his lack of talent. that's playing to the younger crowd. what deyou make of that? you have crazy people. the crazy card chasing after the speaker. >> that's not the person. they have to get other folks who are going to vote for the package and not worldy about the folks who are always going to vote no. >> is there more crazy people in the republican party? >> i think it's about the same amount of people. >> far more. >> i think actually with social media, people are more able to express their opinions in a crazy way. >> the tweeting world is filled. >> this is a story ability gerrymandering and 57% of the republican base thinks the president should be impeached. these guys are trying to navigate the speakership and hold the house with a bunch of crazies who are perfectl

steve stockman is one of the members of congress who believe what you have to do is i have to send a clear message to people in central america that if you cross this border illegally you will be sent back. >> i think you should stand by a planeful of people being sent back to guatemala and that would send a message that we mean business and we are going to send back the folks that come here. >> reporter: it's only 100 yard from the mexican side to the american side and in some places where the current runs fast it only takes 8 seconds to get across. you can see what a difficult job it is to cure this enormous rough in the rio grande valley. martha: for some people that mayor be the easiest part of their trip learning what they have goon through to get there. bill: a man comes down with a rare form of the playing. here in the united states. how in the world did this happen? the latest on a potentially deadly illness. martha: what are the fed trying to do to reduce the numbers. you saw how cheamging this really is. >> it's not a one dimensional issue. we can't just air border security

congressman steve stockman pushing for the rest of los lerner by the sergeant at arms of the house of representatives. this is pure nonsense. >> it is political theater but of arresting her doesn't matter if it is that the apartment of justice isn't going to do anything to prosecute her or enforce what the house says it needs and forced. stuart: a terrible idea. >> i don't blame house republicans for trying to keep the national attention on the irs scandal. stuart: this trivializes the whole thing. what about the impeachment process? that is nonsense too. >> we editorialize on that earlier this week. that is a far right portion of the republican party. they are upset, angry, they want something done. they have been told by guys like ted cruz that we really can't get rid of obamacare even the republicans only control the house and unfortunately that really does damage the party. stuart: impeachment is nonsense. got it. oil on. turns out i may have put my money where my mouth is concerning about that i made with former nba star jonathan bender. more on this after the break. >> you are 7

his fellow congressman, steve stockman says if the president is looking for a good photo-op, him standing in front of a airplane with people being sent back to central america. martha: unbelievable you said 80 men crammed into a 20 by 20 space. what does the border patrol say about this whole situation, john? >> reporter: those numbers are better than they used to be. the border patrol chief of the region tell me believes they're beginning to get a hand dill on this crisis. they're processing the illegal migrants more quickly than they were able to in the past. there are more places to send them than the detention facility of border patrol. they say they're getting just about everything they need from the department of homeland security to address the situation here on the border. bigger picture the border patrol union told me this will be burden american taxpayers, interdicting the migrants, providing medical care, social services, potentially education for those who eventually stay here in the united states. not to mention the american jobs that many of them will end up taking if they s

paul broun, scott garrett, thomas massey, and steve stockman. and walter jones. president obama was in kansas city, missouri to talk about the economy. he criticized how -- republicans in locking -- blocking legislation. >> hello to my kansas city. -- hello, kansas city. it is good to be back. back in the midwest. it is good to see governor jay nixon here today. congressman emanuel cleaver is here. the mayor is here. and you are here. all of your here. if you have a seat, feel free to sit down because i do not want everyone to start to fall out. if you do not have a seat, do down but bend your knees a little bit. it is always good to spend time in kansas city. last night i had a chance to get .ome barbecue at arthur bryant they had run out of coleslaw. , i said did you say some coleslaw for me and they said no. what arenot saved any. you hollering about? ok. i believe in god. thanks for the prayer. amen. thank you. [crowd chanting "we love you"] >> i want to be a record because people have been asking me this question. i deal with a lot of tough issues. i'm not g

for five republicans who voted no, paul broun, scott garrett, walter jones, thomas massey, in steve stockman. today, washington journal is next. live with your phone calls. then, live coverage of the u.s. house. scheduled to work on a bill to add funds for border security. and 45 minutes we will discuss the israeli-palestinian conflict with keith ellison. , the lawsuit on president obama challenging executive actions on the affordable care act. . .

thousands of people responded, including texas republican congressman steve stockman.ons without contributing to society. perhaps the best one, though, comes from long-time democrat who was one of the original authors of the clean water act. he said i don't know who or what a kardashian is. you guys okay, epa? >> running the twitter there. >> thanks. >>> we know yesterday was not a good day for vladimir putin. when he appeared in front of a town, he was wiped out. he did not look like the confident, cocky guy that we're used to seeing. he knows that at least indirectly and who knows, possibly directly, he was responsible for the deaths of 298 innocent passengers who just happened to be flying over the ukraine-russian border on thursday. as international outrage starts to build, you're wondering what the president is going to do to form a coalition and rally the world against this horrific scene and this incident and the violence that the russians have began. >> let's deal in laura ingraham. she joins us once a week. today is the big day for her. good morning to you. >>

steve king and stockman say this is ade deliberate move by straty of wrath radical social ol' gist. telling world net, i feel this is an attempt to flood the boarder of illegals is plague out of the clowahd-p many i -- piven theory. an open secret obama is flying to flood texas with illegals to make it into a blue state. to address this problem is ticking away. they are just 11 days until congress breaks for the summer. dana bash is there and 2012 hispanic chair and dan rastrappo. dana, you're on capitol hill. do you think this rhetoric is increasing? >> with the members you put up there, which is unfortunately not that unusual, but i actually had a chance to talk to one of the members, republican richard nugent and you know this, anderson, sometimes when we try to chase -- try to talk to members and clarify comments, i have to chase them down the hallways. that wasn't the case with congressman nugent. they invited us in. he said yes and explained why. >> i believe that some members of ms-13 have come across the boarder. i know that only because of the reports from fox news from pho

congressman ted yoho from florida, congressman lou barletta from pennsylvania, the dished congressman steve stockmanfellow texan has raised this prospect. we've even seen another from michigan call this a dream come true. >> and he didn't even mention sarah palin there who has said this, so speaker might be right, they have no plans to do this, but this is a mess of the republicans' making, how is a democratic white house so happy to talk about this. >> the white house is loving this, like their birthday and christmas all rolled into one perfect package. they are happy to talk about, it because, one, it raises the the money. steve israel said they raised $1 million yesterday. the democratic base loves this and is playing into this narrative that they have been pushing for quite some time, it's not president obama's fault that nothing is getting done in washington, it's the republican congress' fault and this allows them to say, look, it's their last week, something we're going to hear possibly even from the president said in kansas city, their last week in town and they are focusing on impeachment r