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One senator facing reelection and a border state where that is happening is rolling out his ow. texas republican senator ted cruz says he is going to introduce to protect kids and parents act this week, which he says will double the number of federal immigration judges, and reorganize temporary shelters, so its possible to keep parents and children together while they are awaiting immigration hearings. its not clear how seriously democrats will take plans like that because they are accusing the ...

Crossing families being slid apart at the border has been thrust into the conversation for the first time in several years when sen. facing reelection in the border state where that is happening is rolling out his own plan, ted cruz is going to introduce the protect kids and parents act this week which he says would double the number of federal immigration judges and reorganize temporary shelters so it is possible to keep parents and children together while awaiting immigration but it is not cle...

Allies trading allies also relations the united states are very bad at the moment i think is causing alarm and feeding into this polarization but it has to be said i think that the eries growing evidence that even among president of ones own supporters there are factors that are starting to get appearing to be can turn a concern and possibly a softening in support among those for one and that is crucial because the president when its facing reelection in presidential elections in the next two ye...

President obama hit the campaign trail in miami for hillary clinton, but he went out of his way to poke senator marco rubio, floridas incumbent senator who is facing reelection. >> how can you call him a con art artist and dangerous and object to all the controversial things he says and then say "but im still going to vote for him." [ laughter ] come on, man. [ applause ] it is the height of cynicism. thats the sign of somebody who will say anything, do anything, pretend to be anybody just to ge...

If they do what you want them to do, get rid of the felony conviction. >> take it off their record. >> get it off their record. because theyre doomed to failure if you dont. >> put yourself in the position of a member of congress who is facing reelection, though. how does that person go out and not get painted as soft on crime by wanting to do away with some of these things? >> you know what, i say they have to grow. they have to get the courage -- >> you can say what you want to say. >> they ju...

Do, get rid of the felony conviction. >> take it off their record. >> get it off their record. because theyre doomed to failure if you dont. >> put yourself in the position of a member of congress who is facing reelection, though. how does that person go out and not get painted as soft on crime by wanting to do away with some of these things? >> you know what, i say they have to grow. they have to get the courage -- >> you can say what you want to say. >> they just have to get the courage to do ...

Controversial. >> and chris stirewalt our digital editor and host of power play. the president is out there again pushing for this gun control legislation, but as i said in the introduction, i mean, his main problem here is members of his own party who led harry reid to conclude accurately, according to most pundits, he doesnt have the votes in the senate. hes not oeven putting this in the main bill. >> and he made no secret of it. ten votes short, maybe 20 votes short on this. it wasnt even clo...

Republican president, a republican senate and a republican house and there are, you know, seriously curtailed minority voting rights in the senate and shut out. >> all that matters to the obama democrats is the next 18 months, the strategy is break the back of the republican majority in the house and divide and conquer the republicans so they cant block things and president can get his larger initiatives through, so he can have more tax increases, that he can do more stimulus spending, that he c...

Make it into orbit. another headline this morning. facing reelection next year, new jersey governor chris christie is speaking out against his states public education system stressing the need for reform even if it costs him his job. take a look. >> i will not -- i love it. i have a great time every day. but im not your cup of tea, vote for somebody ems. im never going to pretend to be anything other than what i am. im going to fight for those kids in those failing schools because i could have...

Heres a republican facing reelection, chastising people in his own party in the house. whats going on here? >> well, basically the house of representatives is without a leader. mr. boehner is not the leader. hes a puppet run by the tea party. and hes like a weathervane. whoever he talks to, he agrees with them. then he talks to the second person and he agrees with them. hes spinning in so many directions, nobody knows where theyre doing over there. and pulling the strings is mr. cantor with the ...