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I dont think it says moving into the future. substantively, well, the jury is still a little out there. he seems uncertain on immigration, which is a low-hanging fruit issue, frankly, for the republicans. lets see how he does on income inequality or marriage equality and things like that. >> michael, on this issue of immigration and his position, in recent interviews jeb bush seems to walk back a bit his recent opposition to granting a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. take a look at w...

Substance? as a marketing ploy, i think bush 3.0 is a mistake. i dont think it says moving into the future. substantively, well, the jury is still a little out there. he seems uncertain on immigration, which is a low-hanging fruit issue, frankly, for the republicans. lets see how he does on income inequality or marriage equality and things like that. >> michael, on this issue of immigration and his position, in recent interviews jeb bush seems to walk back a bit his recent opposition to granting...

I think what he has no mind are who he may be the -- the opponents he may be running against in the primary in 2016 foremost among them perhaps marco rubio, a fellow floridian and somebody who has come out with his own path to citizenship immigration plan. hes trying to kind of play off of marco rubio to a certain extent. the larger problem for him, of course, is the larger problem for the republican party. theres an argument there whether their issue is really marketing or substance. so ask you...

Thing about welfare quickly hook at this graph, it shows what president clinton did and this congress, bipartisan effort, works. look at this, the number of people getting welfare up near 16 million prior to when we passed the welfare reform act and look how dramatically it dropped and how relatively low its stayed since. there are stakes involved substantively in doing this. >> getting a program that works. the aid to dependent families with dependent children did not work. it was and they repl...

Unplanned. what they are losing politically, theyre gaining substantively. >> i think that people not reading it, thinking a plan doesnt come out, because if it did, would republicans stop saying it? the other thing is, like what i think jean hilly said if only the president would come up and give a speech, the speech that is slightly different than the one he is giving now. or if he would slightly tweak his agenda, then republicans would come to the table. were saying what i think is true. the ...

Skeptic. im sorry, but ive never drank the kool aid that he is the greatest thing ever. people overestimate his fabulousness because he has the image components the right needs. but substantively, that was marco rubio last night. >> joy reid, great to have you on "the ed show." thank you so much. president obama, well, would have made ted kennedy very proud last night. next, ill tell you why $9 an hour minimum wage is just the beginning. "the ed show" congressional committee tells us just how ...

Im sorry, but ive never drank the kool aid that he is the greatest thing ever. people overestimate his fabulousness because he has the image components the right needs. but substantively, that was marco rubio last night. >> joy reid, great to have you on "the ed show." thank you so much. president obama, well, would have made ted kennedy very proud last night. next, ill tell you why $9 an hour minimum wage is just the beginning. "the ed show" congressional committee tells us just how president...

Consultant whatsoever. and it would it seems to me that the republicans would probably do well to invest in cosmetics of doing this properly next year. theyre going to get a shot at it again next year. and rubio is probably thinking gosh, id like to have another shot at this. >> or just invest in cosmetics period to wipe the sweat off. look, im a long-time rubio skeptic. im sorry, but ive never drank the kool aid that he is the greatest thing ever. people overestimate his fabulousness because he...

Weve passed bills that said its got teeth in it and its got amnesty for people who have been here for awhile. is this going to work politically and substantively? >> politically i think its definitely going to work. politically theres the tune of the immigration debate, the fact you have business that needs this, whether its agricultural, whether its high-tech. business community is demanding at washington to do something about this, and then you have the politics simply of the hispanic vote, so...

One that fixes the problem of decades, deals with the 12 million people here illegally, stops the illegal hiring and exploitation of workers. so the challenge is out there right now right there in tonights news packed and ready for tomorrows newspapers. will it explode into action, light a firecracker under the republicans? will it detonate an avalanche of action driving teeth into the reform, ending the perennial talk thats led to nothing or to the old bogus reforms of the past? will the politi...