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Kentucky and texas is vast, you are right. this is total control of congress in the white house for republicans, something that no one thought was going to happen 90 or 120 days ago and we saw though i would say andrea today with the house republicans the danger of i dont want to say overreach but of not sort of considering political consequences. >> and ann guerin while laying this out, what schumer is hoping on is united democratic senate caucus. hes got bernie sanders and elizabeth warren on ...

What is harry reids main legacy? >> i think hes the most consequential democratic senator since lbj. he pushed through a very ambitious social agenda. he was ruthless in the use of political power, but unlike lbj, his league see is going to be -- most of what he did was unpopular and he made procedural changes in the senate that will make it easier to get rid of everything he passed, especially in the first years of the obama administration. >> james, the nominees in particular, he blew the fili...

The hillis chuck schumer. one of the most democrats to watch is outgoing president obama who up until this point has been very careful. hes said all the things that an outgoing president is supposed to say in terms of cooperating with the incoming administration. but theres an article in the "new york times" that obama might not disappear after the election the way he may have want to or be intending to. he may be standing up in battle against the administration. it will be relatively unpreceden...

Swallow. >> yeah. but unless i misunderstanding the nature of that story schumer is not opposing the deal. what schumer is doing is demanding congressional having a vote on it in congress. i think there will be a broad bipartisan consensus. theres long time struggle between legislative and executive. a lot of democrats like all republicans are going to want to have a vote on this deal. president obama is asserting he doesnt need to give them a vote but i think politically he does. whether its le...

Motivate them to come out to vote. >> and to hang on to senate, and start right there. >> yes. it is short term gain for them, but long term, it makes no sense. and the republicans are well positioned to pick up the senate in 2014 and they dont want to do anything to screw that up. so they are going to go ahead to make it their focus, and yet the longer term prospects are just getting narrower, and narrower, and if they are the party of the o older white people, they cant win at the national lev...

Congressman from texas. i want to start with the response from the speakers office. this comes from his spokesmen what schumer had to say about the house passing a senate version. he said wishful thinking frankly so not a strategy to get a bill to the presidents desk. is it dead on arrival? >> well, lets face it when you are handed a couple thousand page bill there is a lot of complications in this issue. i think the senate bill is on arrival in this fashion but that doesnt mean we dont do our w...

When they were crafting the bill. >> and others, i put this statement up, this is the doma project on schumer and feinstein, and what you saw in the intro there. this was the moment that required courage and leadership. the most vulnerable members of our community relied on senator schumer and senator feinstein to stand up for us and end decades of catastrophic and irreparable harm to our families caused by doma and our exclusion from u.s. immigration law. think about the logic behind what schum...

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...

Chuck schumers proposal to levy a 30% capital gains tax on people who renounce their citizenship after edwauardo saverin rin threatened to leave the country presumably to avoid taxes. you said i think schumer can probably find the legislation to do this. it existed in germany in the 30s. at the probably just plagiarized and translated it from the original german. now, in a season where political rhetoric is as sharp as its been perhaps historically, do you think having these lowed metaphors is a...

2012 thats sole purpose is to raise money to try to hold the senate. now, what schumers doing frankly by calling these hearings, hes guaranteeing that groups not able to raise any money. that clearly is what the hearings are intended to do, which is to spook donors. you know, the fear of being dragged before congress. but why there isnt just a full-fledged conversation, somebody ought to reintroduce mitch mcconnells alternative bill to mccain/feingold back in 98 where mcconnell was for instant d...