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Russell pearce is the guy who introduced it and got it passed as state senate president. but the guy who takes credit for writing sb-1070 is this guy. hes now secretary of state in kansas, but one sb-1070 passed into law, when he was a lawyer for a group called fair, the federation for american immigration reform. this is the group that helped right sb-1070. fair was founded in 1979 by a named john tanton. for some insight into where john tanton and fair were coming from, what theyre all about i...

Powerful that is russell pearce and his career ended up freaking out his home city of mesa, arizona. freaked them out enough that they recalled him from office and replaced him not with a democrat, but just a mainstream republican last year. its the first time any stay senate president in any state was ever recalled from office in american history. its the first time that any arizona lawmaker has ever been recalled from office in arizona history. but russell pearce did get himself recalled. howd...

Romneys silence on the matter speaks volumes on who mitt romney is as a leader and as a person. lets turn to karen finney, msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director and democratic strategist chris kofinis. chris, good to have you back with us. its about time. >> thanks, ed. >> i want to play this for you. heres romneys senior adviser, with eric fernstrom, moments ago, talking about this. >> yeah, and thats disappointing. whenever there are voices of intolerance within the pa...

nic robertson, tell me more about what was discovered and more of what we learned about osama bin laden. >> reporter: here is the big picture that emerges from here. it is only part of the big picture. 17 of 6,000 documents. it is a partial picture of bin laden. it is bin laden struggling with the affiliates. he is trying to chastise them and give them direction. one of the big eye openers there is bin laden was jealous of some of his rising stars. anwar al awlaki, the yemeni cleric ac...

Arizona sb 1070. administration filed the lawsuit before the law went into force. issues like the cordray appointment. no regard for article ii or section two or three, calling it recess appointment when there was no recess. there was business being done. wont defend defense of marriage act. they dropped that. look at issues like the border, for instance not going after sanctuary cities, at the same time still going after arizona. the list goes on and on. not responding to the inquiry of "fast a...

Consequences of immigration on the other hand. the case in arizona, maybe one of the issues is that the law, sb 1070 has driven a lot of undocumented or illegal mexican immigrants in particularly, out of the state. and that always tends to sort of bring down pressures and make people a little bit more relaxed. its not the best way of solving this issue but it does have a certain effectiveness. >> yeah. >> there are some numbers that show some pretty tremendous changes under way. this he is are n...

The firestorm seems to be cooling over arizonas controversial law cracking down on illegal immigration two years after sb 1007 was signed into law, a new poll shows 60% of voters support the law. but at the same time, 73% support the dream act proposal, which would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are college students or members of the military. joining me now is jorge cafineita, latin america policy analyst for msnbc. lets look at all of this. with the majority of the ar...

The sb 1070 pioneered in arizona, imitated in alabama and south carolina and elsewhere is currently having its fate decided at the united states supreme court. they strip union rights in ohio before the people took them back and wisconsin where its likely to end scott walkers time in office before the scheduled close of his first term. this michigan law is in my opinion the single most radical thing done by november the all red states since 2010. this law described as michigans emergency manager...

Were going to take a recess on this. >> well take a little recess. democracy, wait back here until we decide on something else. the law at stake here is an important one. right now, 21 states are in total republican control. the whole legislature and the governor ship are republican. since the big republican wins that made a lot of that possible in 2010. since that great red tide in the mid-term elections in 2010, republicans have been using their control over these states to pursue some pretty ...

Sotomayor and ginsburg says they think the law might eventually result in some real lez dense because of that the aclu came out of the hearing feeling good. >> it became clear through the course of todays argument the justices are concerned about a system of mass incarceration that is going to catch u.s. citizens and i am grants who are lawfully in the united states. the governor whose state is at the heart of all is feeling even better. >> today was a great day for freedom and state rights an...