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Budget office are due any time now to update the finances of this deal, right? >> except that they havent necessarily gotten the complete legislative language to do their analysis thats part of what a.b. is talking about. >> bill: not sure thats going to come at all. >> they want it to come at some point. if they get to friday and nancy pelosi hasnt got the votes, the only other alternative would be to use this deeming pass process to essentially get around the -- >> bill: you are smarter than i...

Budget office are due any time now to update the finances of this deal, right? >> except that they havent necessarily gotten the complete legislative language to do their analysis thats part of what a.b. is talking about. >> bill: not sure thats going to come at all. >> they want it to come at some point. if they get to friday and nancy pelosi hasnt got the votes, the only other alternative would be to use this deeming pass process to essentially get around the -- >> bill: you are smarter than i...

Know about politics, i know about courage. i can assure you this, the white house does know about politics. this very much has to do with the midterm no question about that. republicans need 40 seats to take back the house. they think that if democrats pass health care reform, they are within striking distance of taking back the house of representatives in november. >> well, brianna, on that point, everybody is adding these days, and everybody is talking about this magic number of 216 they need ...

Contributor is joining us along with andrea can ton tarot, welc nice to have you here today. bob, let me ask you the stakes are high as we head into what promises to be a spirited congressional election year and why would moderates want to distance themselves from the president whose just in his first term? are they ducking for cover? >> it is nothing new, by definition, moderates represent districts that have a lot of independent voters and, the least partisan and go back in history, back to jo...

>> the united states is determined to prevent iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, period. i know -- i know that for israel israel. [ applause ] i know for israel there is no greater existential greater threat. trust me, we get that its also a threat, the acquisition of nuclear weapons by iran. its also a threat to the security, short-term, midterm, and long term to the united states of america. >> bret: vice president biden talking about iran in tel aviv today. what about administration policy ...

Covered, going to relieve the pressure off emergency rooms. theres a lot of good in this bill. its not what i wanted. its not what a lot of liberals wanted but it is a step forward in the right direction. now, of course, a lot of liberal groups in the country are going to be expected to hear the senate democrat say if we get the majority after the midterm were going to come back with the public option and do more. this will be in play for a long time. >> real quick. congressman eric massa, the i...

To have amnesty for the 12 million people here undocumented. i think an amnesty bill or provision would kill an immigration bill given the political climate. >> its the best and safest and the quickest solution to bring americans into the fold. they are americans. they are here. theyve been here for a long time. i view this, ron, as rearranging our immigration laws. >> i think, ed, people that come to this country that are documented and have gone through the legal steps have every right to be h...

>> the united states is determined to prevent iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, period. i know -- i know that for israel israel. [ applause ] i know for israel there is no greater existential greater threat. trust me, we get that its also a threat, the acquisition of nuclear weapons by iran. its also a threat to the security, short-term, midterm, and long term to the united states of america. >> bret: vice president biden talking about iran in tel aviv today. what about administration policy ...

As the white house vows to pass immigration reform and a group of proimmigration activists support reform. tea party activists are counting on support in the midterm is d grassroots advocacy group that focuses on policies of people of color. thanks for being here. >> great to be here. >> what has been your experience with tea party activists and immigration? is the tea party really just all about deficits? >> well, my sense is that this is going to be a case of two bad things that are going to g...

The parties among that voter group. slight leap for the democrats but this is a pretty dramatic shift and its happened, i think, in large measure because of disappointment in what obama has done. >> its amazing because harvard by all accounts is a bastion of liberalism. the idea that young people there who were surveyed, 18 to 29d years old, the idea that 41% now of young republicans say that they will go to the midterm elections but only 35% of young democratic voters, what does that say about ...