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Make no mistakes today not a single republican candidate announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. not one. when they talk about legal status, that is code for second class status. i will fight to stop partisan attacks on the executive actions that would put dreamers including those with us today, at risk of deportation. and, if congress continues to refuse to act, as president i would do everything possible under the law to go even further. there are ...

Dreamers and others with a history of service and contribution to their communities to make their case and to be eligible for the same deferred action as their children. >> republican new in the race slammed clinton. >> i think we need to start with basics and secure the border. >> jeb bush fluent spanish speaker, put out a video to mark cinco de mayo and tuesday clinton took on republicans that took on legal status but not citizenship. >> when they talk about legal status that is code for secon...

Only that vote but the independent white vote. >> and also making the nuance about the difference between shipship and legal status. this is going to be a litmus test because executive action is completely under the presidents control. do you stick with the presidents action? do you take it even further or roll it back? >> the idea that she opens up an opportunity for a lot of the folks at the editorialal level to say this is where the game is won. we need not only hillary clinton to basically -...

Citizenship. not one. when they talk about legal status that is code for second-class status. >> so shes not mining words as far as the 11 or 12 million people in the united states who dont have legal status right now. she wants them dana gloria start with you, wants them to have an opportunity to become full citizens of the united states. >> she does. its translation, bring it on republicans. there is no reason for hillary clinton to not take on the republicans on this issue. she could stand to...

Grasp -- >> because the nonwhite section of the electorate has gotten bigger overall. one thing about this hillary clip, this is another example of her being the status quo candidate. this is the obama policy on immigration. were going to have a republican house in 2017 so were not going to have a comprehensive immigration bill pass. shes going to use executive action on that front just as the president has done. maybe she will find some things by digging under the couchon -- >> but i think the ...

Path to citizenship and now said maybe legal status. heres the issue for jeb bush. if he cant win iowa new hampshire has never been kind ot bush family. his dad got beat by pat buchanan there. his brother got beat by john mccain there. what happens? >> jeb bush has to basically make a decision. this is a decision that other candidates in the republican field have faced before. does he essentially give up on iowa and turn his attention fully to new hampshire? its risky because you never know what...

That doesnt make sense. >> i agree with that but i think first we have to secure the border. then we have to fix the legal immigration system, and finally for those who have come here illegally and stayed here illegal and havent committed crimes they can earn in my view to a path to legal status. i think it isnt fair to say to people who have worked hard to earn the privilege of citizenship, never mind that you played by the rules. people who didnt get to have the same privileges as you do. >> y...

Spoken to do they not want a repeat of the beginning of the obama administration where, from even the campaign he said first hundred days hed have immigration reform and that never came through. >> thats exactly what they were talking about. they were saying that theyve been through this so its easy for somebody to say im going to do this, im going to do that. what a lot of folks talked about, this is about creating a contrast between jeb bush marco rubio, i was in houston last week and jeb spok...

Comments have earned him a lifetime ban from the nba. when sterling spoke to cnns anderson cooper, he repeatedly brought up the ex-nba stars hiv status and called him unfit role model for children. johnson said he found sterling shockingly ignorant. >> hes living in the stone ages. he cant make those comments about african-americans and latinos. he just cant do it. >> sterlings comments won him a quick and stinging rebuke from the nba commissioner adam silver who said owners were working quickly...

Issue of the draft in a minute because it is a legitimate issue a lot of people raised. colonel mcsally does the kind of second-class status, i dont mean to call you second-class but the idea that women are not allowed in combat roles, as general dempsey said men are warriors and women are something else. do you think that contributed to the environment in which sectional way sault happens? >> when you have an environment where women are treated as second-class warriors, can do everything but no...