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On obamas goals. the article says congressional republicans are moving to gut many of president obamas top priorities. one top republican even says those priorities are a, quote, going nowhere. its clear the gop is against president obama. but what are they for exactly? the white house and i would love to know. joining me now is bob strum and ryan grim. bob, let me start with you. in the "new york times" the gops are vowing to gut his top priorities. but hes ready to fight. whats your reaction? ...

Idea where the republican party could be competitive at a congressional level but could be entirely uncompetitive over time at the presidential level. you put all of this stuff together with what theyre doing on immigration, and you cant even begin to figure out how they could win a national election because the primary electorate thats going to choose their presidential nominee is also the primary electorate that chooses those 150 people in the house who are telling john boehner if he makes any...

Tea party agenda ought to go into effect. you know, they have a big problem here. which is that their central objective which is to get rid of obama care is no longer popular. in the new national journal poll, people dont want obama care repealed. and what if these people go out and shut down the government so they can kill big bird by defunding the corporation for public broadcasting, slash medicare, slash medication, slash clean water. its going to be more perilous if they crash the economy ma...

These immigrants are carrying around sacks of weed that could be carried around by hard working americans. you know, these are good jobs. >> is that really what he was saying? >> weed has to be moved from one place to another place. and you know, and if americans arent willing to move the weed, somebodys got to move it. >> dana, is this representative, i have to ask you, is this representative of elements within the republican party? >> well, fortunately, its representative of a very small eleme...

Afternoon? >> hes not shown any particular shame in the past for such things. forced to step down from congress only when it was clear that he had no superior and no other choice. i havent been reporting out the story, but anthony weiner is one to react as many others do to a sense of shame. ryan grimm and dana milbank, thank you so much. we are watching breaking news. a surprise press conference from anthony weiner. this should be good.

Collapse of extraordinaire proportions? >> no, on the contrary. i think hes got this exactly right. you see on sunday he said he should be judged by how many pieces of legislation hes able to repeal essentially to have killed. so when he says hes done more for immigration, he means hes done more to kill immigration than anybody. >> hes right. is it, ryan grim? >> in the up or down world, thats exactly whats going on. >> ryan, do you agree with that analysis? >> sure, i mean, if thats what he -- ...

Fired from their job. there are all kinds of repercussions that continue to hit people. nearly a million people a year are still arrested to this day for marijuana. now, the statistics are that marijuana selling has increased 10 to 15% the last several years, with arrests flat, the intensity of the arrests is going down, thats a small comfort to these nearly 1 million people whose lives are being disrupted by these arrests. >> ryan grim from the huffington post, thank you so much. >> thank you. ...

Resources on that? >> right. and even people who arent in that situation, you know, because -- they might not be able to get a job because of this, i mean, they might get fired from their job. there are all kinds of repercussions that continue to hit people. nearly a million people a year are still arrested to this day for marijuana. now, the statistics are that marijuana selling has increased 10 to 15% the last several years, with arrests flat, the intensity of the arrests is going down, thats ...

Frank about, it they were losers. paul ryan, sarah palin, gary bauer ran for president in 2000, lost. all of these people have tried their ideas in the marketplace and they lost. the republican party is supposed to be the party of the market place, the marketplace of ideas, free enterprise, but they keep going back to these same people and same ideas and arguing to themselves that maybe if we say it differently this time or maybe if those -- theres also this myth that 6 million white people stay...

>> well see what happens. perhaps the clintons have some kind of master clintonian plan, tbd. nia malika henderson and ryan grim, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. coming up, a new meaning for the phrase "putting a ring on it." vladimir putin, a super bowl ring, and yet another international incident. thats coming up. hey kevin...still eating chalk for heartburn? yeah... try new alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! im fe...