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Which is important to remember. some are cheering it on. this is utah congressman jason chafe who know the romneys pretty well. listen. >> i dont see an emerging frontrunner at this point. you have to have somebody able to raise a billion dollars an convince the public, majority of the public that he is the right person for the job. if there is a void i think mitt romney jumps into that or gets recruited to jump into that. >> reporter: he is not joking. he is serious. he has been saying it for a...

The president. do you think republicans feel return together health care law will pay off for them this time around in the midterm? >> what it focussed on the aca in the lawsuit does is allows john boehner and house republicans to talk about obamacare again. its fallen out the news cycle a little bit. there was positive news about the law. it is something that animates the republican base and something that gets republican voters out to the polls. it does allow them to say were focussing on the ...

About the substance. if either of them were addressing whats at issue here, i think what they would be saying is, there was a law passed in 2008. the intention of the law was to keep kids out of the hands of sex traffickers. kids who were coming from central america. this, frankly, is a situation of unintended consequences. and its time for us to go back and quickly rewrite that law and deal with this problem. but, you know, you cant fund raise based on a statement like i just made. you cant dri...

Writes, taking my comments in order, when a woman claims to have been raped the police determine if the evidence supports the legal definition of rape. is it a legitimate claim of rape or an excuse to avoid an unwanted pregnancy? you know, patricia, that old rape excuse when you get knocked up. >> i -- what i find most is the word bizarre. most bizarre about todd akins entire popping his head back out of his hole, he thinks he was misconstrued and mischaracterized by the media. thats not what ha...

Talked about, you know, the impact in his church and souls to the polls that it used by african-americans to register to vote. the transportation issues that really require the churches to get involved and really be a vessel to help these communities to register and vote. so we have had what we believe certainly have been several, a couple very good days and were marching forward and were looking forward tomorrow to hearing our experts put on what we believe is really exceptional evidence that t...

To escape. the united states isnt the only country seeing the influx. its a much bigger problem than simply securing the border there are agents patrolling every mile of the border. it has much larger implications of what is going on in central america. >> we see them target the violence there and economics there. switching gears here to both of you before we let you go. we want to ask you about at headline in the washington post. michael bloomberg is beginning the 2014 midterm strategy and aski...

Excusing himself from enforcing statutes he has sworn to uphold, at times even boasting about his willingness to do it, as if daring the american people to stop him, and that is why later this month we will bring legislation to the house floor that would authorize the house of representatives to file suit in an effort to compel president obama to follow his oath of office and faithfully execute the laws of our country" and just so we get in the other side, here was the presidents reaction to som...

Legislation to the house floor that would authorize the house of representatives to file suit in an effort to compel president obama to follow his oath of office and faithfully execute the laws of our country" and just so we get in the other side, here was the presidents reaction to some of the things that he has done, because of course he says but congress is not kt aing acting so i will. >> i might have said in the heat of the moment during one of these debates, i want to raise the minimum wag...

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...

A hard working high school graduate with a strong back, you do not have a reasonable expectation of a good middle class lch. that has changed permanently. whoever gets the presidency next will inherit that. and you have to figure out what well do. you have to get more people educated, you have to have different kinds of industry going in the sector. the jobs report, these numbers, i think are so disconnected, i think that way of looking at politics, here is an unemployment number, what will it m...