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Take a lead on the issue. they do so by moving those bills through the house to the senate and letting the president of the united states, let the american people know where he stands. if he really wants to do something, hell sign the legislation the republicans produce. >> what about funding and lawsuits? is that nonsense that paints the republicans in a bad light? should they go the right that lou is discussing and do something positive and proactive opposed to trying to undo? >> i think youre...

2014, 2015. its 2017. if the republican party wont do this in the wake of 2012, they wont do this suddenly, especially if they have a good midterm this fall. >> theyre going to have a good midterm. >> they would be like, look, we didnt do it. >> im at enough republican meetings that cut across the tea party to center right republicans, two things i hear, guest worker program which a couple years ago was unacceptable, this current crisis of children and people, and its like mike huckabee saying h...

Credentials can the not be questioned. they have to make the decision do they want to build the apparatus to do that. that is a tough, expensive process. mike is a guy we saw come in long ago. he picked fights against the leadership. mike wasnt in love with congress. so being governor in indiana is a good day job right now for mike pence. the does he want to build a network nationally to get in the game. >> how is mikes relationship with the base of the party as we were talking about? hes going ...

Any discussion of sexuality in the military? >> i dont think people should be able to be proscibed in the military because of their sexuality. >> what made roosevelt great was how he dealt with the depression and world war ii. abraham lincoln was great because of his time. i think what clinton is, and its one of his problem, hes a consumate politician. i think its why we have politics and politicians. >> just in 20 years, the population of hispanics in l.a. has gone from 38% to 50%. is this a go...

Any discussion of sexuality in the military? >> i dont think people should be able to be proscibed in the military because of their sexuality. >> what made roosevelt great was how he dealt with the depression and world war ii. abraham lincoln was great because of his time. i think what clinton is, and its one of his problem, hes a consumate politician. i think its why we have politics and politicians. >> just in 20 years, the population of hispanics in l.a. has gone from 38% to 50%. is this a go...

Pressure on congress and president obama to do something about immigration. we now know president obama is planning to go it alone. what are his options and what might he announce if hes talking about executive actions? >> i think you have to take this in two parts. the short term is hell take the resources he can control now and get them down to the border and hell ask for more money and for people to help process to deal with the humanitarian crisis, but hes taken a tough rhetorical line and i...

But this might. there were 4 million hispanics elginigible to vote in the last election. at some point, that number is going to grow, and it may make texas a swing state. maybe by 2016, thats the democrats great hope, or 2018 by the earliest is what you hear from texas republicans. they want to stay in charge of texas, theyre going to have to figure out a way to continue winning elections which means they cant afford to keep losing hispanic voters. in 2012, the last convention, the texas republi...

Anymore, and this fairly modest appeal to a guest worker program, the texas solution, is one thing we could do. but it will be contentious tomorrow. the debate is going to be on the floor tomorrow between those folks in the party who say lets have this guest worker program, secure the border, but lets not have this harsh rhetoric. it aint good for the party. well see what happens. >> in terms of the state-wide candidates, texans running for congress in november and some of the conservative heroe...

These cancellation notices can keep their policies on into the future. >> i think we need to have immigration reform. clearly the system we have right now is broken. the senate has one idea. the house has other ideas. i hope they will move out of committee soon and on to the house floor. things like a workable guest worker program is an absolutely critical part of immigration reform. >> ive called on numerous occasions of the house to hold a vote. it would strengthen social security and medicare...

Of the law, working. if they dont work, they have a reasonable period of time to get a new job. if they cant get a new job its time to leave the country. >> all of those things, absolutely. i want to make it clear. im not quibbling with any of that if you can enhance what i have said and i also think there should be more stringent employers who continue to defy the law that we should go after them. we have to have a system in place too, where people can can check easily the identity of anybody w...