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He told sarah palin that we dont want any political speech-making. i dont know how clearer the man could be so-to-what the presentation was going to be about. you heard al sharpton say oh yeah he said he was going to do xy and z. im telling you i know beck better than anybody. i never heard him say anything political or racial about this whole deal. all he wants is to get americas mind set back into the judeo-christian flow. you may disagree with that juan. >> no, but, bill. >> bill: immobilizes...

We worked so hard to get you all in office. why havent you done immigration reform? you promised that, mr. president. why couldnt you get the public option in the health care bill? thats a big liberal complaint. dont ask, dont tell. its still in place. gitmo, guantanamo bay, the president promised to close it within a year, it is still open, and the left also doesnt like the president not only isnt drawing down troops in afghanistan, at the moment, the troop levels are going up. time and time ag...

Entirely political speech. >> greta: maybe im too steeped on the topic because weve been doing so many trips to arizona and mexico. i think both topics, jobs and illegal immigration are so important. i think the president is a little late in giving a speech on illegal immigration. he didnt layout a path but the timing was late. >> look, this president gives lots of speeches. he gave another speech. what did it accomplish? does he have legislation? does he have any chance of passing anything? doe...

Everyone misses ted kennedy. >> does he miss him now with the hard time? >> sure. he was the lion of the sfenate. he was a superman that got stuff done. he was the guy you went to, and i wasnt a fan of a lot of his politics and a lot of our exchanges werent the most pleasant u-but he was a real leader, strong, tough leader. right now it looks as if it is strategy by speech making. i dont mean to diminish that. speeches are important. i happened to be in wisconsin yesterday, so my flight was dela...

Immigration reform? no was the terse response. no way was what a house democrat told me unless republicans step forward first. why is it so hard to get congress to debate solutions, and will the president make congress act in the four months between now and the big term elections? with me now representative diaz from florida and democratic representative busaro of california who discussed the immigration issue on tuesday. i want you to listen to this. we reached out today to mario solis, who you...

Campaign money so they win. its part of a big, complex game. its a lot bigger than health care pharma at this point. so i think youre seeing the campaign move out. and one side note to that is missouris an important state, right? so there are a lot of house members in missouri. theres a lot you could be doing by trying to jump into that media market, beyond senator mccaskill. but mccaskill may be the safest way to do it. >> now, im having trouble thinking of a legislative campaign where speech m...

Making around the country, in the final closing stages of getting legislative votes on the hill, where those speeches made any difference? >> i cannot. i would say two things about this. one is that you actually see tightening in the polls on health care reform, which really surprised me. i thought things were pretty cemented. but in the last week or so, actually past the summit, youve seen the support go up a bit and the opposition go down a bit. so thats one data point. the other is that a lot...

Right? so there are a lot of house members in missouri. theres a lot you could be doing by trying to jump into that media market, beyond senator mccaskill. but mccaskill may be the safest way to do it. >> now, im having trouble thinking of a legislative campaign where speech making made any difference at all. in fact, you can normally -- when the clintons tried this, you could track that the popularity of the bill declined with every speech that bill or hillary clinton gave. we saw a similar pat...

>> thank you, rachel. >> thank you, lawrence. well, today the president went to missouri to give a teleprompter speech about tax cuts, and apparently just to try to prove that he does have empathy. he read every word that his speech writers gave him about thoughts and prayers for the victims of hurricane harvey. >> i think what were seeing is really how unnatural empathy is to president trump. >> collective criticism from some circles is that he met no victims, saw no rain, and demonstrated no...

Okay? >> the president hasnt demonstrated over a period of a week or two weeks that theres any consistency in his speech making in front of a crowd and his law making. >> the polling shows that there is no doubt a bleeding in his support among conservatives and republicans. >> he has got to be his own worst enemy. he couldnt be any worse at achieving goals in politics. >> hes embarrassed them as a president. this is not what they want, and this is not what they expect. >> hes not even profession...