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Campaigns without any accountability to anybody. >> this is not an interview with the southern law poverty center. if anything you think i said was not based in fact, ill have you back to talk about. >> im saying youre -- youre asking me a fact. what im telling you is. >> youre saying -- youre im y implying that i am the southern poverty law center. im rachel maddow. this is msnbc. im bringing you facts ive researched. if you cant criticize them, dont criticize me for asking about them. rebut th...

Thats on their website today. f.a.i.r. likes to project a moderate image and the media gives them credit for having a moderate image. but why is that exactly? joining us now is dan stein, the president of f.a.i.r. mr. stein, i really appreciate you offering to be here with us tonight. thanks very much for your time. >> happy to be here. >> i said a lot there about your organization, let me ask you if i got any of the facts wrong about f.a.i.r. so far. >> well, i dont think youve said much about ...

If anything you think i said was not based in fact, ill have you back to talk about. you imyou puning the way i do my research isnt going to change it. >> youre saying -- youre implying that i am the southern poverty law center. im rachel maddow. this is msnbc. im bringing you facts ive independently researched. if you cant criticize them, dont criticize me for asking about them. rebut them if can. thats all i want you to do. >> the answer is no. >> dan stein, i wish this could have been a more ...

this is head spinning. last night president obama told reporters on air force one that congress probably lacked the, quote, appetite to take on immigration this election year. that comment from the president led to the broadly understood truth expressed by this completely conclusive associated press headline. its not going to happen. immigration reform off the agenda, so says obama. this morning house minority leader john boehner, quote, there is not a chance that immigration is going ...

the tick-tock of what led up to this is head spinning. last night president obama told reporters on air force one that congress probably lacked the, quote, appetite to take on immigration this election year. that comment from the president led to the broadly understood truth expressed by this completely conclusive associated press headline. its not going to happen. immigration reform off the agenda, so says obama. this morning house minority leader john boehner, quote, there is not a c...

Living here for years and years and years. so if you are going to have enforcement that works, youve got to have a legal way to come in. youve got to have a bigger front door if you want your back door to work properly and this law is not the way its going to do that. >> but, michelle, if you see arizonians again, were talking about the people there, trying to take control of a situation that, as dan says, has been the fault of the federal government for not having dealt with it properly, can yo...

In the course of a legitimate stop, a lawful stop, if the officer has reasonable suspicion, he or she is required to verify the persons right to be in the country. very straightforward. look, people need to understand if were ever going to get control of illegal immigration we have to break down this barrier between state and local law enforcement agencies and the federal government f. you want to know why we have a problem is because state and local governments dont work smoothly in assisting a...

Thank you. keep it here on "msnbc sunday." well bring you the latest details throughout the morning. to politics and the new immigration law thats expected to draw hundreds of proep testers to phoenix this afternoon. later this summer it will be against arizona state law to be in the u.s. illegally and state police will be required to question anyone they suspect of breaking that law. im joined now live by dan stein executive director for american immigration reform and michelle, executive dir...

This is actually lower than the constitutional bar. this is a civil procedure were dealing with here. so police have the right to verify a persons status in this country, has a right to make that inquiry, and the idea that somehow state and local governments cannot enforce federal immigration law consistent with the statutory scheme is nonsense. >> all right, dan, im going to let michelle get in here. lets get to the recent polls showing 70% of likely voters approving the bill, and it was bipart...

Down the criminals, going after the smugglers and the people who are the real problem. >> so can i get from both of you a prediction as to whether or not you think federal immigration reform, perhaps this being the catalyst reporting on the front burner, if you will, of the presidents plate there, do you think were going to have federal reform this year? dan, you first. >> i want to applaud russell pierce for pushing the bill in arizona. i think this is the direction the country needs to go. i d...