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To kick off that fight and have that fight. and see what the election returns show. and then sort of go at it. theyd be in a much better position than they are now. every news cycle is precious. every day is precious. you talk to senior trump officials as i have. you asked them, gee, what are you really worried about? they say we may just run out of time. >> you see that matt burgess would be more than happy to have that fight 29 days from now. >> we get a sense of the turmoil. we were just gett...

That is not a white male. in 1937 only a third said they would vote for a woman. on civil rights issues the country marches forward not backward. thats my argument. im joined by "washington post" opinion writer jonathan capehart who is somewhere outside in colorado. and theyre all in open spaces there. shes with the nice backboard at least somewhere in 30 rock. let me ask you this. i sense, as mr. dooley said of great age and vintage, that the supreme court follows election returns. that this co...

Opinion writer jonathan capehart who is somewhere outside in colorado. and theyre all in open spaces there. shes with the nice backboard at least somewhere in 30 rock. let me ask you this. i sense, as mr. dooley said of great age and vintage, that the supreme court follows election returns. that this country has in our lifetime moved very dramatically toward acceptance of equality marriage equality the whole works when it comes to gay people. the supreme court is either almost in tandem with thi...

Not so slowly. look at 19 years ago with the house and senate overwhelmingly voting most democrats, every republican but one and most of the democrats voting to make same-sex marriage illegal for all practical purposes and thats where we are today. >> remember mr. dually said he thinks the supreme court listens to the election returns? 67% of the people support it. do you think anthony kennedy. hes a good guy but do you think they were listening? >> not to the polls but to the reality. i do thin...

So i think youre absolutely correct and this article is spot-on in interpreting -- >> let me go back to the author of the article. i know its not your thing, its your reporting, but the fascinating thing about the old joke is the supreme court follows the election returns. i know that. but thats a fact. but also, if you look at the landmark decisions, and this will be one, like the brown case or the prayer in school or the roe v. wade, on abortion rights. they come out of some of reading of the ...

>> i dont know what happened to ted olsson. i have no clue. ted used to be one of us. >> so many of your fellow conservatives are on the other side of the issue. >> i havent had a chance to talk with them all yet. >> joiningboyce and ted olson. congratulations, gentlemen. youre my heroes and heroes to the country. why did you take on an issue which most think is a liberal issue? >> i grew up in california, stunned by what california did to their own citizens. all the diversity that exists in cal...

Take, i am shocked. he thinks the supreme court files the election returns. here is a proposition we heard from joy that the supreme court mixes up the decision to create a moderate pallet there, a moderate plate. >> i think that is probably more strategic than they are. they put the decisions off because the decisions arent ready. as soon as the decisions are ready they are going to release them because they want them over with. i think what is happening in these cases is that there are multipl...

>> this will be the year congress finally gets it done. today, a ray of hope, possibly. >> four democrats and republicans will lay out a framework. >> this bipartisan blueprint is a major breakthrough. >> a major breakthrough on immigration reform. >> it shows momentum. >> momentum is on the side of comprehensive reform. >> we welcome movement and progress. >> republicans have to deal with the facts of life here. >> when we see an opening, however small, we should take it. >> theyre doing it f...

Undocumented workers along side a provision for stricter border security. jon mccain an architect of the proposal underscored the urgency in getting something done, especially for his own party. >> how can you convince republicans about the path to citizenship? >> well, look, ill give you some straight talk. look at the last election. look at the last election. we are losing dramatically the hispanic vote. >> immigration reform made sure that compromise is possible, but the question for the next...

The country illegally. so thats the nod to the dream act thats so popular on the left. >> andrea, what chances do a major plan like this have of getting through congress? >> i think better than ever. and the real sadness here is that john mccain, lindsey graham and others are totally behind this now. if they had been able to do this in 2007 and had not run away from george w. bush, they could have achieved this then, and perhaps the republican partys trajectory would be different. >> andrea, a b...