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I called senator leach up and said, hey, lets work together. lets get together working on a people issue, lets get this done and get this message out there. this is way, way too important. >> how far did you get. how far did you get? >> we got it through the senate 43-7. i had 20 other republicans to vote with me. so it was -- it was a good victory. and now were set and were poised were introducing this senate bill 3. and were ready to go. and the advocates, the mama bears, they have been awesom...

Reach out to members of congress, reach out to republicans and say, lets work together. id rather do it with you. >> he laid ute an agenda that the -- laid out an agenda that they the market is watching and consumers, talk about tax reform, infrastructure spending, trade deals, various moves he thinks will boost the economy and he thinks will win significant republican support on capitol hill with the new power dynamic. but when you talk to folks like bob cusack of the hill, they say when the pr...

This argument that if it werent for the executive actions, they would have been more productive. theres no evidence of that. so i intend to continue to do what ive been doing, which is where i see a big problem and the opportunity to help the american people, and it is within my lawful authority to do it. and i will side by side reach out to members of congress, reach out to republicans and say, lets work together. id rather do it with you. immigrations the classic example. i was really happy wh...

Alive. >> the president go it alone as opposed to president lets work together, we might actually is -- >> we had a president who worked together, we had a senate that worked together. everybody worked together. the only people that are preventing any bipartisan legislation from passing were the republican head led house of representatives. >> thats not true. >> of course it is. >> hundreds of bills never introduce -- >> on immigration? on immigration? >> a ton of -- >> on immigration? >> immigr...

Opinion both of these sovereign governments have to stand on their own feed. >> i heard today there was a phone call between nouri al-maliki and putin of russia. whats up with that? >> very interesting. eyebrows being raised. the readout from the kremlin was that vladimir putin was reaching out, wanted to make clear he is supportive of iraqi efforts to get extremeis out of there. he might be concerned about his ally in syria, al-assad, very close to vladimir putin, business dealings, arms sales,...

>> this is what the republicans are doing though. theyre firing back with criticism. firing back with some sort of response that it doesnt exist. firing back with why you should deal with it instead of lets work together. i mean, it does exist. >> i believe there should be strength in the current laws for no discrimination. we should have joni ernst on. the woman i hope who wins the nomination is iowa. >> have you seen her independent ad? >> of course. yeah. its an excellent ad, yeah. >> lets go...

>> not that i dont like him. one here time he doesnt have his facts right. >> im confused. you probably heard our report that a lot of the money guys think chris christie may not run. >> charlie said today im having trouble raising funds for christie. >> is that true? >> im not raising funds for christie. what are you talking about. >> what are you doing? >> telling him if he runs i want to support him. >> you still feel that way? >> absolutely. >> how are republicans going to feel regardlessoff...

About him being president. a lot of the speech, while it was promoted that he was doing what he could alope, a lot of the speech was on immigration, even voting rights, saying lets work together. >> lets work together. and these executive orders are about really small things. were talking about a retirement accou account. and executive orders can be undone by the next executive. so if republicans really find this so offensive and a monar monarchical of power, they just need to win the election. ...

Mind because i found it to be a conciliatory speech that he would like to work with republicans to solve these problems, but if they werent willing to meet him, he was going to do stuff he could do by himself. >> i heard a lot of that myself. i thought it was somewhat conciliatory to the point on how executive action works, richard. obviously it was this critique is somewhat ahistorical. barack obama has done about 16 executive orders so far, that leaves him behind a lot of other presidents. we ...

Dont want to say playful but he helped his case a lot trying to say lets work together, lets all try and do this and lets not be ridiculous anymore. >> mika, when i talked to democrats ahead of the speech, particularly for those running for reelection, they said the president needs to stop apologizing for obamacare. they dont want to spend all the time trying to win the argument. they want to neutralize the argument. the president said to american people the republicans are beating this dead her...