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Right at the top of their priority list. the bill on this thing is hr-7. its the first bill that the all male judiciary committee decided to move on this year. after clearing this committee with unanimous support from every republican, the bill then passed the full house yesterday on almost an entire party line vote. and now it will die in the senate. if by some miracle it does not die in the senate, it will be vetoed by president obama. why do it then? all the pundittry about the republican par...

>> thats right, anderson, theyre still working on the speech. hes going to issue a challenge to lawmakers that says if you dont like working with me, youre going to work around me. officials at the white house do caution that the president will still call on congress to pass a few items -- legislative items that are on his priority list, namely immigration reform and the minimum wage. but there are two basic reasons for all of this, one is, look at what happened last year, congress did not move ...

Be here in washington for president obamas state of the union address. heres some behind the scenes pictures. the president meeting with advisers getting ready for the speech. joining me with true politics, jim acosta. the president may have tough words for congress tomorrow night. >> thats right, anderson, theyre still working on the speech. hes going to issue a challenge to lawmakers that says if you dont like working with me, youre going to work around me. officials at the white house do caut...

Have that. >> specifically the way, though, that mitt romney ran his primary campaign in 2012 went a long way to debate the things he was saying, no doubt about it. i think its something, though, that bill kristol said, i agree. we wait until after 2014 and probably will have a republican senate, knock on wood, somewhere, if they can keep libido in check. >> that will be tough. >> tough to nominate candidates who talk about legitimate rape. >> you have three, not one, not two, but three! youll h...

Hell basically issue a challenge to lawmakers that says, listen, if you dont work with me, im willing to work around you. so, youre going to hear the president tomorrow night, officials say, announce a whole series of executive actions that he plans to take over the coming year. officials here at the white house do caution, anderson, that the president will still call on congress to pass a few items, legislative items that are on his priority list, namely, immigration reform and boosting the min...

I got the questions what are you doing in seattle? how did you get to san francisco? oregon, illinois, new york, pennsylvania, florida, georgia, louisiana. alabama. >> a lot. >> a lot. >> ladies and gentlemen, the pacific. >> the adventure became a book. the priority list. friendships became a new reason to live. >> even in the state of mostly blind, im alive and doing things with my life. im very happy about that. >> what did you like? >> i can make a difference and im proud of that difference ...

Pennsylvania, florida, georgia, louisiana, alabama. >> reporter: a lot? >> a lot. ladies and gentlemen, the pacific. >> reporter: the adventure became a book, the priority list. friendships became a new reason to live. >> even in this state, mostly blind and crippled, im alive and im doing things with my life and i am very happy about that. >> reporter: what did you learn? >> i did make a difference and im very proud of that difference and the people that they had become. >> reporter: some of hi...

Pacific. >> reporter: the adventure became a book. "the priority list." friendships became a new reason to live. >> even in this state, mostly blind and tripled, im alive. and im doing things with my life. and im very happy about that. >> reporter: what did you learn? >> i did make a difference, and im very proud of that difference. and the people that they have become. >> there was no cap for the shampoo bottle. >> reporter: some of his old students now help him get to the doctor, run errands, ...

It is moral lly bankrupt. >> how can they be so out of touch with their priority list? none of them poll very well. >> not at all. they wanted to pass legislation, a bill, that mandated all high school students read -- youre absolutely right. this is a travesty. were not dealing with income inequality. rubio suggested he wanted to deal with income inequality in terms of poverty, but it is a war on poor. they dont have a sense of those issues that are serious for america, like extending benefits ...

Momentum seems to be with people on pat leahys side of the argument and you have the panel recommending changes and you had the federal judge this week and calling the changes unconstitutional and the meeting at the whois with tech executives and that meeting went twice as long as it was supposed to. so does that change the equation? >> slightly. i think a lot of the pressure from congress for the moment is diverted to some other matters under the year and one of the reasons that i say this is t...