it would be impossible for people to get to work, get to school, to live as a functioning state. andrea mitchell, martin fletcher, joel, we will ask to you stand by. the news conference expected to start at 2:25 now, instead of 2:05. when that happens, we will of course bring it to you live. back here, developing, the manhunt for the gunman who shot and killed the from colorado corrections at his own home. also, immigration reform is back on the fast track in washington. but our first team quotes some gop senators are trying to slow it down. we are on twitter and you can
part and setting it aside, it s a test of a functioning state. whether it can collect taxes. this is actually a basic developmental action that you ask of states. look at greece. this is a test for america. can we collect taxes from people at the top of the social pyramid and change policy to make the tax code more fair? these are vital questions of what the future american government can do. and mitt romney has said nothing about any of those. he has spoken through his anchors. chris hayes, saturday and sunday mornings, thank you, sir. next, karl rove wastes no time hitting the president on jobs. a new $25 million ad buy to spread some cheer. stay with us. ople have doubts about taking aspirin for pain.
in the way it s practiced. the realization people don t understand we scalia wrote it s important, necessary you have due process but not necessary that you actually be guilty is, i think, morally shocking to people. people might say, yes, i would like to see murderers and i would like to see terrorists and other executed but to say i m not comfortable of doing it that knowing on some deep level innocent people be executed along with them. i want to show this for a second just to the viewers. this is the company we keep in terms of executions. the top ten countries in terms of executions. do we have that? china, we have 1,000. iran, 252. north korea, 60.53. the united states, 46. saudi arabia, 27. libya, 18. syria, 17. bangladesh, 9. somalia, which does not have a functioning state, i m not sure where the 8 come from, but to me
might be? reporter: i think that the death of bin laden provides and icy political narrative and can say, the guy is dead and we can start to move away from here. there s a much more complicated situation on the ground. only recent people have talked about the presence of al qaeda re-emerging in some of the havens where u.s. forces have withdrawn from on the pakistani border so concerns about that but also about trying to ensure that america leaves behind a functioning state. the reason why they came here in the first place was the taliban had used the dilapidated kind of collapsed nature of afghanistan as a place in which they could allow al qaeda a safe haven so i think there will be two argue many, one from a democratic side suggesting, yes, it is time to leave and perhaps another one saying that the fact this man is dead does not change the situation on the ground and perhaps we might even see what remains of al qaeda trying to retaliate and trying to raise this operation here in