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Become american citizens? >> as a republican, are you politically concerned that this looks like that the party is basically picking on mexicans coming across the border? >> well, actually if you look, a lot of people are passing through mexico from other places. as they come in. is it a political hot button issue? absolutely. also with the great many millions of american who is are tired of not seeing the law being enforced. they dont want to pick and choose the laws. they want to alets enforce...

Hot button social issues that are so important to many americans. until that changes, until we have a potentially more liberals coming to the bench, the conservatives are going to hold sway. it is going to be hard for a liberal justice like elena kagan to have an immediate influence in that area. >> one thing she does have is time in terms of building that respect to sway some colleagues. what is she going to be facing? thats a big question. what are some of the big cases that the court is going...

Have kids in hospitals and in public schools, doesnt the cost fall on the taxpayer? >> well, you know, one image that the sensationalists and extremists would like to have is there are regions of pregnant ladies waddling over the border to have babies here in the united states and thats simply have not the case. we do have a broken immigration system, but stheez attathese ate 14th amendments, some of our most cherished principles are a distraction from the debate we need to be having. >> what ab...

That election because peoples minds seemed to be set on how they feel the economy is going in the summer. you are right. we are in that sorted of critical time where people are looking at the economy and there are signs of recovery. there certainly are things the president man touting that are improvements but it is just not being felt out there. one of the big reasons for that is that unemployment rate. >> the time when people sit down and say well, am i better off? if im not what will i do abo...

The battle over gun rights. im joined now by political analyst pat buchanan and karen finney. all right. people are reacting. we teased what they were talking about this story and you hit a hot button there. pat, what are we? are we in a continued culture war or is this a new one? >> its the same one but it will go on forever. you add to that illegal immigration and gun rights and i tell you, tamron, all of these issues coming back and its red hot. you add that to the tea party issues, which are...

Things like repealing the pre-existing conditions ban, which americans sort of like. so if obamacare goes away as a fund-raising issue, whats next? >> the american people strongly support the biggest positive impact that you could have on the economy, the so-called bush tax cuts of 01 and 03. >> extend the bush tax cuts. now, this is not just a call from elected republican politicians. its also now a call from the conservative political machine, which is hoping that this is the next political ho...

Not going to last forever, and i think theyre starting to realize that now, particularly because repealing it means things like repealing the pre-existing conditions ban, which americans sort of like. so if obamacare goes away as a fund-raising issue, whats next? >> the american people strongly support the biggest positive impact that you could have on the economy, the so-called bush tax cuts of 01 and 03. >> extend the bush tax cuts. now, this is not just a call from elected republican politici...

The 14th amendment is outdate. that grants u.s. citizenship to anyone born in the wriets. it reads, all persons born or natural liezed in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the united states. that amendment was passed after the civil war because of concern that southern states would try to find a way to deny citizenship to freed slaves. paul rothstein is a professor at the georgetown university. thank you for joining us. immigration is the hot button emotio...

Particularly politically oriented judge. yes, she is a democrat. she was appointed by a democratic president, and judges dont like to admit this, but it is true that there are differences by and large with some exceptions. but certainly most of the time, on these very hot-button political issues, whether its immigration, whether its gun control, whether its abortion, you are going to often see different results from a democratic judge than from a republican-pointed judge. as a democratically app...

Panther party case where the bush administration filed a voter intimidation case and some felt that the obama administration has not aggressively pursued that case and it is now a matter of contention before the u.s. civil rights commission and the argument over whether or not the push administration politicized justice with the firing of the attorney generals, the obama administration made a decision not to go forward in terms of prosecuting anybody in that case. then you have immigration which...