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>> good. senator chuck schumer could see an immigration plan as early as this week but the bipartisan plan has a long way to go. where are we? >> three issues the president focus on the next year coming into full light. the gun debate which you just talked about. you have his budget coming out wednesday and dinner with senate republicans at night. by the end of the week get the immigration bill that includes rubio and schumer. if that group can keep together, if they can put this bill out there ...

But hill aides believe they will have to strike a deal, frankly, by tomorrow, if this is going to work and the white house is not very optimistic that will happen, according to the reporting being done by casey hunt, our politics reporter. if that failed, theyd say majority leader harry reid could go forward with schumers background check bill and force the filibuster and willing to have closer votes, even if it fails or tries to put pressure on members for the strategy and on how he asked with ...

Brave young woman, a young diplomat. we lost her to a horrific attack in afghanistan. today, our hearts are broken. >>gregg: she grew up in river forest, illinois, near chicago. the world has lost a beautiful soul. she died doing what she loved to do, understandably, they are devastated. >>heather: congress returning to work tomorrow after a two-week recess. high on the agenda is immigration where a pivotal moment is approaching. bipartisan groups in the house of representatives and the senate a...

It is not even ideological. it is cultural. it is -- the numbers are predisposed to be pro second amendment. i think to some extent the power is overblown. i think -- >> you agree with me. >> you think the power is overblown? >> on this line, i have to say, when you have 91 -- all the background checks and a vote where nobody was going to record it, the background check bill would pass, dont you think? >> yeah. i grew up in this culture. i owned guns all my life. ive hunted, my husband as well, ...

Sullivan had this in their article. the statement regarding marco rubio was a deliberate attempt by rubio to slow down the momentum toward a deal on immigration. what rubio was doing in releasing his statement then was ensuring that schumer, that it is all over. but the shouting declaration. they are watching every move the florida republican makes. basically in a nut shell, this article says that the tea party and some of the other conservative whos helped make marco rubio are certainly standin...

He cant look like hes hashing some deal out with democrats and hes doing this behind the back of conservatives and behind the back of everybody else. we live in an era where members of congress, especially republicans, want to see everything done through what is called regular order. going through committees. taking this long path. not cutting deals like john boehner tried to do with barack obama. those have all blown up. so while schumer is out there saying this is done, this is done. rubio nee...

Agreement but then i have to sell it to all these conservatives. not to mention the house which doesnt have an agreement yet. >> and it is interesting. this guest worker program has been the sticking point when immigration reform was brought up in the past. now you have business groups and labor unions if you will, working together. by having the workers in the system. if these groups are involved and we know many times the force is lobbying behind the scenes, why would marco rubio come out and ...

Of the accident is "under investigation." >>gregg: a major update as bipartisan senators known as the gang of eight appear to have passed a key hurdle attempting for sweeping immigration reform. owe national correspondent has more from washington on that story. >> in spite of a breakthrough on issue of guest workers florida senator rubio says reports that the legislation is finalized of premature. he is one of the gang of eight senators trying to hammer out an agreement and wrote the judiciary c...

Eight of us next month. >> we are much closer with labor and business agreeing on the guest worker plan. that doesnt mean we have crossed every i or dotted every t but we still have a ways to go in terms of looking at language and making sure that it is everything we thought it would be. we are closer, certainly. >>gregg: now we have doug schoen and a former spokesman for governor jeb bush and publisher of www.safetyreview.com. >> i think there will be a deal, we heard that from senators flake a...

Wasnt in the coalition? would it hurt your cause to get a large vote? >> you bet. hes extremely important as senator schumer said, hes had great input, a lot of input into the language already. hes making the point now that we immediate to go through regular order which i certainly support, so hes extremely important to this effort. >> when you say regular order and i heard senator leahy, the senator of the judiciary committee, would have hearings. experiencive hearings. expanser hearings. there...