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Lot of reasons we are doing that. most important of which is national defense. the individuals in the national security community are telling us that at the current levels, in the current processes, they believe that we are hollowing out, their words, not mine, hollowing out the national security. thats not a responsible thing to do. the spokes on the left wont allow us to get to appropriate levels in the national security arena without increasing dollar for dollar on the nondefense discretionar...

That -- the midterm election is going to be nationalized. and that means that both parties will have to have a message. and no or a blank sheet of paper, as we have heard about, right, is not going to be a message. and when you have primaries where youre all fighting each other, it makes it much harder to make an argument to the american people as to why republicans should be in charge. >> well, and let me push back a little bit on that. and go to you, professor. what republicans would say is, h...

And yet there are still legitimate concerns that this not so grand bargain will not cut the mustard with hard line members of both parties, and as usual, time is running out. cnn chief congressional correspondent dana bash joins me with the very latest. dana, how soon would this have to be brought to the floor of the house or senate to realistically have a chance of becoming law? >> well, theyll have to do it very soon. we are told from sources in both parties there could be a deal within the ne...

Eventually ill beat you down. [ laughter ] >> oh, he of little faith. >> do you think youll change? can you see -- youre a man -- he has this incredible library, rick warren, literally one of the great libraries ive ever seen. kept beautifully. you have great books by great scholars, many, many of them evolved thought processes depending how they see -- can you see a time when not just you but other christian preachers and the catholic church and others say, you know what? actually real equality...

>> do you think youll change? can you see -- youre a man -- he has this incredible library, rick warren, literally one of the great libraries ive ever seen. kept beautifully. you have great books by great scholars, many, many of them evolved thought processes depending how they see -- can you see a time when not just you but other christian preachers and the catholic church and others say, you know what? actually real equality means everyone has the same right to get married gay or straight? >> ...

Throughout this government. were in a recovery from a recession. were not adding federal jobs. and so the idea that he is sort of taking this government in a direction that its never been in before is absolutely absurd. and just a little more history here. history will say this is the president only in this period of time who talked about contracting executive power. hes the only one who is publicly talking about reeling in executive power. when he responded to the heckler for the immigration pi...

>> krystal makes a good point. it does really feel, james, like the supposed district dictatorial activity, what he has done, has been to sign bills, right, that republicans dont like. >> right. >> to -- exist, basically. they dont want him to -- just performing the normal functions of president are seen as dictatorial. appointing judges to the d.c. circuit. which all presidents do. so the idea that when he tries to do things that presidents ordinary do, he is seen as a dick da dictator what is ...

>> a short time later, its apparent her brother had not made it to the visit. >> i just want to see him. >> i know. we are going to work on you seeing him, even if you dont see it today. the problem is, hes running through the same processes as you. you know the other day on the phone you told him it isnt his fault. you tell k him that and him coming to the belief of that is two different things, you realize that, dont you? >> yeah. >> remember you questioned the other day, was it something you ...

The immigration system. it has to be legislative processes. i think the president responded to the heckler in the right way. let him speak his mind and long-term solutions require a long-term effort and immigration reform is one of those. >> thats like you cant bundle all of this together. there is a mistrust right now. >> its an under statement. >> you cant have the huge bill and we pass it and figure out whats in it. thats not going to happen again. you have to do simple things like border sec...

That is part of our tradition. so easy way out is trying to yell and pretend like i can do something by violating our laws. and what im proposing is a harder path which is use our democratic processes to achieve the same goal you want to achieve but it wont be as easy as just shouting. >> he changed health care law. take away a teleprompter and the truth comes out. did that heckler just get the president to admit if he could hed wave a wand and implement amnesty? here with reaction is perfect th...