A hoax or just another example of show and tell capitol hill style . Im chuck todd. Joining me to provide insight and analysis this morning are radio talk show host hugh hewitt, Helene Cooper of the new york times. Maria hinojosa of latino usa, and Chris Cillizza of washington post. When republicans seize control of the senate and expanded majority in the house in november after four years of divided government in capitol hill, the partys leadership made a few promises. No longer would they be the party of no and no longer would we see governoring crisis to crisis. If this week is any indication they failed. Speaker john boehner was embarrassed when he went down in defeat after republicans angry over the immigration policy voted against the speaker. In the end boehner had to be bailed out by Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell and House Democrats in order to keep the Department Open for just seven more days. In a moment, ill ask a Top Republican if this is the beginning of the end for legislating of the Congress Just two months into its term . But first this politicizing of National Security is happening at a time around the world beginning with the latest news about the isis killer known as jihadi john. Hes been a potent symbol in the isis propaganda war, a mass killer whose cult of fear tlifz on anonymity. Jihadi john was unveiled this week as mohammed emwazi, a british citizen born in kuwait, in his mid20s and college educated. I think all the families will feel closure and relief once theres a bullet between his eyes. Reporter but is the u. S. Losing the propaganda war . Isis now has social media feeds in 23 languages and this week, the nations top spy offered a bleak assessment of the threat. Problem there is their ubiquitous use of the media and so the challenge is how do you take down the internet . Reporter a dispute over how best to prevent iran from getting the bomb is increasinglying debooeg defined by the tom igs relationship between two men. There has now been injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate i think it is destructive of the fabric of the relationship. What is destructive in my view is making a bad deal that paves the way for a nuclear iran. Reporter all of this is the backdrop to this weeks political fight over funding the agency created in the wake of 9 11. I had it with this selfrighteous delusional wing of the party that this is like the charge and the light brigade, were going right into the valley of death. Joined by House Majority leader kevin mccarthy. Valley of death, some republicans not happy with other republicans. Congressman, let me ask you this, this is what you said in october. If you have a cliff, it takes attention away. Why put cliffs up that hold us back from doing bigger policy . That was you in 2014. This immigration dispute in the funding of Homeland Security with a cliff that the republicans chose to create and in this case as far as making the protest over the immigration policy a part of Homeland Security, was it not in. It was not. Lets go back and remember how this was created. The president right after the collection had a lunch bicameral senate and house leaders creating a problem would not solve the immigration problem, which he said he did not have authority to take action. After lunch, he took his executive action to chaos. We funded 11 of the 12. And then what did the house do . Five weeks ago, because we do not believe in cliffs, we took this issue up. It was the Senate Democrats who not only voted against the bill but denied the Senate Republicans from even bringing it up when seven Senate Democrats said they opposed it. They created the cliff, moved the bill at the last moment and what was the house action . Lets go to conference. Because even harry reid said last year thats the way for the last 200 years we settle our differences differences. We avoided a cliff they created one. But you guys chose to use dhs funding as a way to fund the action. The lawsuit is moving forward. It is likely the courts are going to say this has to go to the Supreme Court before the president can even decide it. So again, you know, you chose to use the dhs funding as a way to protest. Was that the wrong decision . No, no. We chose an action. Remember who did this. The president chose to use an authority when he said 22 separate times he didnt have the authority to do. Which is being challenged in the courts. In the last two years the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, had overruled the president and specifically said he overused his authority in two different cases. This president has created this frustration. And remember, you see a frustration in the house. That is reflective and representative the frustration in our district. This president doesnt want to work with the American Public. Hes creating these problems when were trying to work it out. The best thing that can happen is we go to conference, and we settle our differences. Well, let me you brought up the senate and said Senate Democrats. One way this could change is since republicans do the majority is Mitch Mcconnell invokes the socalled nuclear option. Right now there are no filibusters for any executive appointments, judicial or in the executive branch, but on legislation, the filibuster is still there. Do you want Senate Republicans to i dont think Going Nuclear when you have 57 of the senate voted for to cause the amendment that would take away the president s action, that is not nuclear when 57 of the american representation says its wrong. Thats not in the constitution. I think they should change the rules. Could you have been more clever about this and written legislation that youre giving us high expectations. Written legislation that essentially you had the lawsuit you had the one decision in the federal court. We have a Circuit Court that will decide whether they can inplemt. Why not make the funding contingent on the lawsuit . Well, there is a different argument to go with the fees and what is going forward. But dont you think somethings wrong with this administration, this president , when the highest court in the land twice in last year said you overstepped your authority and 22 times you said he didnt have the authority and did it . I think thats creating a problem more so than what is going to happen in five days . I hope we settle our differences. Thats what the American Public expects. Thats what harry reid said. Can you bring the senate bill on the floor . The Senate Passed full funding of dhs without the without the extraneous amendment on the immigration policy. Can that pass the house of representatives . We sent the bill back to the senate. The democrats had a motion to instruct and it failed on the floor. That answers the question right now as of now no it cannot. What will happen in five days . The best thing for the American Public is we do our job, washington changes, the senate and the house get together and sticks their differences and find common ground. This is not the reality we live in. The reality we live in how do you fund this in five days . From the majority leader of the house, i will be in that room and help solve that problem. All we need is harry reid to say the same thing and this can all go away and be solved. 57 of the senate agrees with us. We can get this done very quickly and never let me make one point very clear. The First Priority of the republican majority is the security of america. Well make sure we have the security for this country. Do you have an issue inside your conference of conservatives . Here is what daniel nunez said. I prefer to be in the arena voting than trying to placate a phony group of conservative members with no political strategy to stop owe he owe owe obama. Were united in the principle, there is a right way and wrong way to legislate. Unfortunately, the president chose the wrong way. And when the highest court in the land tells you you overstepped your bounds, that means there is a problem. Is it fair to say legislating for the rest of this year, this is the climate. If Senate Republicans and House Republicans cant agree on a way forward on dhs funding and you have control of both houses, how do you get tax reform done, how do you get trade proposals done . Shouldnt we be looking at this and throwing up our hands and saying wait until 2016. No, no. Winston churchill said you can count on americans to do whats right after they exhausted every other option. That was friday. I have high hopes for america. Youre setting a very low bar of expectations. Is that what youre saying . No look were committed to doing trade, tax reform infrastructure. All we need is someone that wants to work with us. Well work with anybody that wants to work with us. We find administration he offered four times as many veto threats as bills he signed. He has a veto threat where he just stopped 40,000 jobs. Here is the thing. It seems like nobody wants to be the adult in the room then. I understand youre criticizing the president. It is not like youre acting like the adults in the room right now. Could we have done better on friday, yes . And will we . Yes we will. We took up legislation five weeks ago. If there is somebody not being an adult, it is the democrats. I can work with anybody. Homeland security did not shut down. We say lets go to conference. Were ready to get the job done. Five more days. See if were here again. Senator mccarthy thank you. The panel is here. Hugh hewitt, Helene Cooper, Maria Hinojosa and Chris Cillizza. Did the republicans create this cliff or not . I understand what mccarthy is saying putting the blame on the president. This is a tactic that House Republicans chose to do. Did they set their own trap . No ive been a critic of the leadership a lot. This is not an immigration issue. This is about the scope of the president s aggressiveness on the use of his authority. They didnt create the cliff. The president created the cliff. The leader made that point. He also made the point too, i tried to make some news saying it is not in the constitution that was sort of lets go to the nuclear option. I thought wow, my eyebrows went up i had not heard a member of the house leadership say it go that way. Maria, were talking about Homeland Security. The backdrop is immigration. I guess were not going to see a bill about immigration reform. Thats not going to happen. But should it be congress that decides this or should we allow judicial review at this point . Are we getting our branches confused here . So the interesting thing is it is actually not the republicans or the democrats that have created a problem. It is a reality that immigrants are in the United States of america. There are millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States of america. When i spoke to latino republicans, they say, like youre feeling the shame for someone else. This is when republicans can stand up and do something and theyre not doing, not leading. What im getting from my reporting from on the ground is that latino voters are saying so republicans were prepared to put into question the security of our country because of the fact that they want to continue to deport brown, you know, women, children, fathers . How does this help us . Theyre saying they theyre saying were blaming the republicans here, not the president who took a long time to act but theyre saying it is the republicans that this is sort of the 2016 implication, what maria is indicating here on one hand i get where the conservative base is coming from. I think look it is possible the president cant do anything until the courts the Supreme Court. But that means yet another two years where there is no resolution on immigration and demographically that does what . The math is simple. John mccain gets 31 of the hispanic vote in 2008. Mitt romney gets 27 of the hispanic vote in 2012. That trend line, it is not complicated. If that trend line continues, maybe in 2016 you can elect a republican, gets dicey in 2020. 2024, given the country is young and it is un it is less registered to vote than it should be in terms of its population, you move that line up and you cant win. I dont disagree with you about the constitutional fight. The issue is a constitutional fight, not everyone understands it as that. This is really about the president s power. They understand it. To what maria is talking about this is about republicans again just like they did the last two years, they dont want to push immigration reform. What it looks like and what it is may not be the same thing but it may not matter. Thats the perception problem. Thats the box that i think the republicans might be in. You look at how this issue is playing out in the press and on tv and where americans go to get their news and it looks, again, as the republicans are threatening to shut down government over a stance. And it just it also shows that i think it makes it makes Congress Look so dreadful. What i think at the end of the day is what this shows is that Congress Seems to have lost its ability to perform its job no matter which party is in charge. Loretta linkynchs nomination may come up this week. I dont think it has been fully scheduled yet. A lot of republicans like her, but dont want to vote for her over the immigration issue. Should Senate Republicans not basically stop her confirmation over immigration . No shes a very qualified nominee. Very qualified. They should move to confirm her. But fund dhs when the ink junction re injunction remains in place and get to the budget. It doesnt require the president s signature. If the republicans change the subject, because im afraid it may end up where maria and helene and chris are saying i think people still understand it is a constitutional problem that the president triggered but they got to move this ball. Well be watching that. They got five days to move the ball. In a moment, well change subjects here, the latest on the murder in moscow. A fierce critic of vladimir putin, a friend of the victim, over the next 40 years the United States population is going to grow by over 90 Million People and almost all the growth is going to be in cities. 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Nemtsov, one of russian president Vladimir Putins fiercest critics, was due to leave this march and was shot on friday. The the condemnation of the murder has been met with a lot of eye rolling and distrust. Im joined from new york by russian opposition politician, former world chess champion and chairman of the human rights foundation, gary kasparov. Welcome to meet the press. Thanks for inviting me. I want to get your initial reaction to the loss of your friend. I was shattered when i heard the news. Hard to believe boris, the man i knew for more than 20 years and we have been working together closely since 2004 in opposition to Vladimir Putins regime, the man was so full of life, energy he was shot dead. But it is a fact. And it is a crime committed in putins russia. Do you trust putin to do this investigation . Do you somehow believe hes responsible for this death . Whether he gave a direct order, i dont know. Well probably never know. But definitely the atmosphere in the country was hatred where people disagreed with putin had been portrayed as national traitor, enemies of the state an boris was one of the most formidable critics of the regime and hes pictures on big billboards and spread around moscow. So it is definitely the atmosphere. But this morning i look again at the video of the shooting, thats what we could find from one of the many cameras that are located at the bridge, and there are so many questions about inconsistency of the official theory and the big question is about this snow removal track that suddenly appeared exactly at the spot where camera could catch out the killer. What is this going to do to the Opposition Movement . Does this become a moment where suddenly democracy activists feel more freedom to come out and protest, feel as if they he shouldnt die in vain, or do you fear that it is actually going to make folks go underg