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Majority leader democratic senator harry reid of nevada says republicans are either taking leave of their senses or their principles in advocating repeal of that part of the 14th amendment. how do you respond? >> reporter: if youve taken leave of my senses by looking at a law that rewards people who break our own laws, that produces the next wave of illegal immigration. im saying we are going to grant citizenship on our terms not yours. we dont want laws that will require the third wave of illeg...

Crank it all the way. they were reticent but we explained weve been in hurricanes, we had some experience witness. i tell you i dont know that ive ever experienced that kind of a wind in a hurricane even though we covered some that wind speed in excess of that you would never stand out in it. this is obviously a very safe situation. i may take this thing to my next hurricane. jenna: well, jeff we are glad we were able to share that moment with you. we all are. thank you so much, the brave jeff l...

>> reporter: he says his staff is going to meet with doj officials today to try to get more clarification, jon. jon: what is the department of justice saying about all this. >> reporter: they have responded in a letter dated friday they said, quote the department of justice is firmly committed to ensuring that our men and women serving in the uniform services and living over seas have the opportunity to vote and have their votes counted. any suggestion to the contrary is simply untrue. they say ...

Border, theyll sneak you into america, go to an american hospital so you can have your baby here and that baby becomes an american citizen. reach people from the mideast to china to kwraoerp are flying in, buying a visa for 90 days. going to a resort, having the baby and turning around and leaving so the child will be an american citizen. i think that cheapens american citizenship. lets clean this mess up. make sure we dont have 20 million more 20 years from now and look and see whether or not t...

About this vote and what comes next, steve. >> reporter: by a 71-29 margin primary voters here in the state of missouri yesterday essentially said yes to proposition c which in theory null tpaoeus, voids or opts out of the individual mandate in healthcare reform. there is going to be a court battle down the road. in the meantime there are republicans in missouri and outside of missouri saying, see, the folks in hour have sent the white house, democratic leadership in washington a message that he...

Decifit paid off with social security. thats crazy. >> reporter: and it would be raise crazy if officials were planning to do that. >> thats just not true. any changes made to social security wouldnt take place for years or even decades, and theyre designed to fix social securitys funding problems, not to deal with todays decifit. so theres just a confusion there. >> its not even legal, thats not the way the law works. the idea here is to make social security itself solvent, not to make it a pig...

If we can re-establish our link with diane well get back to you as soon as possible. jenna: interesting on that, both now criminal investigations in that area. very desay are. we are also watching this developing story the fight to cleanup the gulf. brand-new information from president obama who spoke moments ago. take a listen. >> it was very welcome news when we learned overnight that efforts to stop the well, through whats called a static kill appear to be working, and in a report -- that a r...

Could be more fallout from that article, jenna. jenna: no specifics exactly. why would mcchrystals team be at risk, if we can speculate a little bit here. >> reporter: if you remember the article that sent general stanley mcchrystal to an early retirement, obviously he was held accountable because he is the boss and because it was perceived as not the first time that he had spoken out about leadership on the national security team of the obama administration. some of the damaging information was...

Reid of the democrats, however, yesterday gleefully read allowed from a "washington post" op-ed by former bush 43 speech writer mike at gerson whose column faulted graham and senator john mccain for abandoning their beliefs on immigration and extol dollars the wisdom of the original drafters of the 14th amendment. >> they purposefully chose on objective standard of citizenship, birth. it was not subject to politics. reconstruction leaders established a firm, sound principle, to be an american ci...

Money. jenna: bill kwrars are saying they are going to donate half of their earnings to charity. a couple of big names on this list. bill gates, warren buffet and 30 other bill kwraeurs saying they are going to do this. >> reporter: its a pledge, it doesnt mean they are legally bound to do it. its a good thing. im glad they are pledging. some of the skeptics have said being rich aint that cool any more after the big recession weve had. 4 this is a good thing, they are going to pledge away to giv...