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One of those days here. the galleries were filled. joe biden, the vice president, is in the chair, as you mentioned earlier. he is officially the president of the senate, comes up for these big moments. he had to warn people in the galleries not to say anything after he announced the vote because thats how full the galleries are. so thats this moment. and of course the open question is what happens next? its got to go through the house of course to become law to get to the presidents desk to giv...

Risks backlash. thats why he pushed so hard for the house group to come up with something, anything, so he could say he passed immigration reform and they could have a more formal conference but that makes nancy pelosis comment that it could be finished by august sound absurd. according to the people i speak to on capitol hill, when think this will go until december. so we can see another stare down with new years eve and new years day and we could be in the capitol. >> this is fast and furious ...

They are working right now. senate plan john boehner said cant pass the house. so he probably wont even put it on the floor. and there is open question whether a house bill can pass the house. actually, open question whether anything could frankly pace the house on immigration. >> jake, im not going to ask you to join in the bachmann pile-on. lets talk about something else. >> we can talk about that later. >> im sure someone else will ask you to. mitch mcconnell has a new ad up called, demand ...

Lead to other people doing it but they can be used to recruit people. they can be used to fire up people in this country and weve seen this. we just saw it in boston, people getting fired up by what we did in afghanistan and iraq and using that as a basis for their own radicalization. >> thats right, chris. and thats why you and david are exactly right say iing put in t proper perspective, lets be very clear, barack obama has been an ass kicker when it comes to al qaeda. he took out bin laden. h...

My kids to be killed? its time to start nation building here at home. start bringing the troops home from afghanistan. refocus our efforts on the true threats but most importantly on nation building here at home. and not continuing this military industrial complexion that bush and cheney started. >> well said. thanks for coming on. patrick murphy, couldnt agree with you more. david corn, thank you, sir. coming up, where is the irs scandal going from here? big question, actually. open question....

Coming up, where is the irs scandal going from here? big question, actually. open question. the official overseeing the mess had been removed from duty. the acting director has been forced to resign. are the critics left now with anything more than their conspiracy theorieses? plus when he couldnt sell his tootty fruity ice cream, he offered to fight any in the house for $1. he refuses to join his fellow republicans. also why one republican congressman, has ronald reagan to thank for him bec...

Persistence of people, maniacs, extremists, murderers, criminals, the existences of those people out into the future who may do horrific things like what happened on the streets of london yesterday does not require us to be in a perpetual state of war. thats the most important point he made today and the most important point for american society to understand, we may never be able to create a world in which there are no tsarnaev brothers. we may never be able to create a world in which there are...

That point there was a pretty broad carve out at the administrations insistence for national security concerns. basically allowing the administration to say well we like "the shield" law but in this case we decided it doesnt apply. it sounds thats the basic language thats reintroduced here. it raises the question is this window dressing, is this administration trying to look like its responding to something or is this shield law worth something. >> its called hypocrisy. it gets to this issue you...

The valerie plame situation came out. that was a politically deliberate leak of a cia covert operative that did endanger lives. when you have a politically driven leak where you have an administration that says ill punish joe wilson by leaking his wifes name do we want prosecution for the leaker in that case. its a very nuanced question. >> what they didnt want in the media was the fact on the one year anniversary of the bin laden killing theres a retaliatory attack planned. it was not designed ...

This information gets out and that i cant think of an example where that was ever the case. they would have said that about the pentagon papers, you know, would we have been a better society if daniel ellsberg had gone to jail. theres all kind of scandals that are out there, waiting to be reported on. so, you know, i cant give the administration a pass on this. >> the question, it isnt true theres never instances -- >> didnt say theres never, im saying there are very few instances that any one c...