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Place my own long-term solution that will replace the presidents temporary measure. as president i wont settle for stopgap measures. ill work with republicans and democrats to build a long-term solution. >> leslie, did he offer today that which you thought he needed to close that gap in the latino community? >> i did. i mean, i would point to one thing. i think many analysts, many folks are saying he had to speak specifically to the immigration issue. i think what governor romney had to do that ...

Deportation of young illegal immigran immigrants. take a listen. >> some people have asked if i will let stand the presidents executive order. the answer is that i will put in place my own solution to the presidents temporary measure. as president, i wont settle for stopgap measures. >> and -- remind latinos that romney would vote against the dream act. >> you hear the president draw distinction between himself and mitt romney on this issue. this is a winning argument for the president according...

youre in "the situation room." their voters no candidate can afford to ignore any longer. and both mitt romney and president obama are reaching out to latinos this week with speeches to a national conference being held near orlando. the president addresses the group tomorrow. mitt romney spoke today. but the presumptive republican nominee has the greater challenge. a gallop poll shows mr. obama with a strong lead among hispanic registered voters. 66% to romneys 24%. but the president...

Great choice of two -- the presidents approach or the idea offered by governor romney. the country will choose. i think that will decide what ends up happening in lame duck 2013. >> depending on the out-t toutc the election, will you and other republican leaders feel like weve had a referendum on this, were going to have to give on this tax revenue increase and spending equation to get something done? or will you just pass some stopgap measures to put this -- the hard decisions off some more? >>...

Home prices have also changed. the one area you want to see them go up and unfortunately theyve done down from 169,000, basic overall housing price to 146. that is down 14%. >> right. lets be clear the president inherited a bad hand here as well and inherited a housing bubble that popped. the question is, has his policies made a bad situation worse? i think in the meantime, a lot of stopgap measures to try to prevent housing prices from going down and one thing about the markets, they are brutal...

Of the money? working class people. >> only a minute left and i dont want to get away, until we talk about housing prices. home prices have also changed. the one area you want to see them go up and unfortunately theyve done down from 169,000, basic overall housing price to 146. that is down 14%. >> right. lets be clear the president inherited a bad hand here as well and inherited a housing bubble that popped. the question is, has his policies made a bad situation worse? i think in the meantime, ...

Come over to the senate and will be passed so they can move on from this crisis and come back from the easter recess and work on a longer-term deal. jon? jon: yeah, we keep going to all these sort of short-term stopgap measures. i mean, whats going on in this congress? are they ever going to be able to come to a long-term deal on anything? >> reporter: you know whats interesting is these transportation bills, they used to put in pet projects to sweeten them to get people to vote on them, you kno...

Iraq and afghanistan and can support that dhs-cbp mission. jenna: that is interesting. you think this is a move that will actually make us safer? >> i do long term. i dont think the reduction of, you know, 800 or 900 national guardsmen is really a huge impact across that southwest border right now, not when we doubled size of the border patrol and you have a lot more fence and a lot more technology. i am concerned long term, even the air assets are just a stopgap measures. those dod air assets c...

Still, these programs, these unemployment benefits are band-aids that millions of bleeding americans need, those who are the most vulnerable among our communities. and our next guest is a republican congressman, david schweikert, out of arizona. congressman, its a pleasure to see you. i want to begin on something that i know that we agree to, because weve talked about this on a number of occasions, which is how can we be asked to continue to do these stopgap measures when we refuse to address th...

Television and said on "morning joe" were getting closer to a deal, republicans went crazy, house republicans saying were not close at all. whats going on there? >> well, i do think that there are significant differences here. part of the problem now is starting to creep up on the republican side where its very hard for house speaker john boehner to keep his troops together. the tea party wing, the more conservative wing of his party is getting tired of these stopgap measures and they want to be...