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Big push for a public option and it didnt pass the senate. and thats an unfortunate thing, i wish we had a public option but i believe very strongly that this health care reform will be a critical change anding one of the reasons republicans fought so hard against it is because they know it will be a critical change. they will provide safety and security to the american people and thats why they attacked it. i think the fact is that he has taken on some of the biggest challenges, hes not hiding ...

nbc news white house correspondent savannah guthrie is live at the white house. >> reporter: hi, jake. >> hey, savannah, how are you doing? >> reporter: you just heard the president make his remarks, obviously the white house want toss tout this as a campaign promise they have kept. obviously we know that the president was on record early saying this was a, quote, dumb war, but since taking office, he has gone with sort of a slow, gradual drawdown of forces. more than 90,000 troops hav...

Comprehensive bill that includes some status for those who are here illegally? >> im not sure what i said, but certainly i had no intention whatsoever to say january. ive said a thousand times -- actually ive said since 2007, we have to secure the borders first. we can get that done, but certainly not by january. there might have been a question about whether we would take anything up in a lame duck session. ive said and continue to repeat, we have to get the borders secured first because its ob...

Have. at the end of the day well look back and say the tea party was probably a negative. >> truth be told, we know governor crist if he wins will vote more republican than democrat. >> i think the democrat in the room is conceding that should be a republican seat easy. >> fair enough. >> its a seat that should be more yours than ours. >> here is another one that many thought would be more yours, being republican than theirs, being democrat. new trouble for senate majority leader harry reid. the...

Republican presidental nominee. senator mccain is face ag challenge from the right, leading comfortably, if you believe the polls at the moment. a little less than a month to the primary. i want you to listen to your opponent, j.d. hayworth, the former republican congressman. i want you to listen to his criticism of you on the immigration debate and well talk about it on the other side. >> john still uses the poll-driven talk, we must secure the border first. then he goes right back to comprehen...

Legislative action. erick erickson, a little feisty and testy when word of this surfaced to day. whats wrong with the president using his power to do something that if you look at the polling many americans would like to see done? >> the issue this has come before congress a number of times and congress has so far punted. weve got this conversation from a while back with john kyle where he suggested the president didnt want to secure the border unless he could get comprehensive immigration refor...

I dont think people should put other eggs in a lame duck. >> you want to tell that to all the conservative democrats in states that mccain carried or districts that mccain and bush carried, you want them to vote on comprehensive immigration reform, including letting people stay in the country who came in illegally before the election? >> i think its really a bad idea to pretend its not going to be an election issue if you do it after the election. theyll get hit on the specter of that happening ...

today made it tougher. yes, the economy is growing, but at a very, very motdest rate. not good for the party in power in a big election year. a leaked obama administration memo suggesting ways to bypass the congress to allow illegal immigrants to stay in the united states and get legal status. the presidents conservative critics have a catchy headline. the amnesty memo. 95 days and yes, you bet, were counting. immigration in a moment. lets begin with the economy. the unemployment r...

And that means that now theyve got this temporary injunction. they need to step up, the feds do, and do the job that they have the responsibility to do for the people of america and for the people of arizona. >> joining us now from new york is kathy rue, the publisher of "catalina" magazine and the executive director of the national immigration forum. well give you both cracks at this. ali, lets start with you. what did you like about the ruling and what are you concerned about still with this r...

>> you said two things that were inaccurate. its a no spin zone. number one, shes a clinton appoint appoint appointee. anti-immigrant. pejorative and its wrong. anti-immigrant is wrong and i know john kyle, not anti-immigrant. this decision is a preliminary injunction ruling. stuck on the merits. we have to be very clear. sorry to interrupt you. >> because she feels the government has a very strong case that questions the constitutionality of this law. therefore, we are very happy in that she to...