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MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show November 22, 2014

Las vegas in which he announced the terms on what he thought republicans and democrats could agree on comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation. A bill along those lines did pass the senate about six months after that speech. But House Republicans refused to ever vote on it. That refusal is why president obama says he acted on his own. Unilaterally as president last night to use his powers as president to improve the system as much as he can. And then, today, he went back to del sol high school, at the same podium, basically to tell them he made good on his prom. He got it done. Congress couldnt get it done, but he got it done. I cajoled and i called and i met. I told john boehner, ill warsh your car and walk your dog. The fact that a year and a half has gone by is time that has been wasted. Las vegas, ive come back to del sol i will never give up. Im not giving up. I will never give up. [ cheers and applause ] i will not give up. [ cheers and applause ] last night, when president obama gave his big speech, that, of course, was a formal address from the east room in the white house. So what that means in the moment is that the president just spoke to a camera and not to any audience there in the room with him. But you can tell when he got out in front of the crowd, you can tell he knew what the good parts were from his speech. And he knew theyd sound a lot different, a lot better when you can say them in front of people who will respond. Whether we fled famine or war or persecution whether we were wealthy orr poor, we all shared one thing. That is hope that america would be the place where we could finally build a better life for ourselves. Thats what makes us americans. Its not what we look like. Its not what our last name is. Its not where we come from. Its not how we pray. What makes us american is a shared ideal that all of us are created equal. All of us have a chance to make our lives what we will. For generations. For generations. America, by choice, and americans by birth have come together to renew that common creed and move this country forward that brought us to this moment. That is the legacy that we now have to deliver to the next jeblg e generation. Thank you, nevada. God bless you. God bless the United States of america. Blaung e blae. If theres any question as to whether or not democrats will run and what this president just did in order to do the right thing on immigration in this country, the president is modelling for democrats nationwide, basically how you preach that particular gospel, how you run on this. And it now seems pretty obvious that president obama probably should have don this before the midterms instead of waiting untill after them. When you see how this announcement has been received and the kind of energy it has put into potential democratic voters. The way it makes democrats seem in the fight, in case that isnt clear enough yet just from whats happened already in the last 24 hours, its not what he has done that has this crowd today up on its feet screaming. Check out the response just by checking out the kind of box he put the republicans into on this. Members of congress question my authority to make our immigration system work better, i have a simple answer. Pass a bill. Pass a bill. Pass a bill. Nobody is stopping them from passing a bill. [ cheers and applause ] pass a bill. You know that was president obama speaking in las vegas today. And who knows, maybe the republicans will pass a bill. Ha, ha, ha. I mean, that is one of their options for what to do about immigration now, right . Or had you expressed their very hard feelings. They could pass their own bill on the issue of comprehensive Immigration Reform. Anybody who thinks House Republicans are now going to roll out their own Immigration Reform plan . May i interest you in a fine, genuine u 100 authentic rolex time piece . I only take cash. I mean, really . Oh, the republicans are now going to do their own thing on immigration . There is this thing that happens in politics after a president has a really, really bad midterm election. Usually, what happens is the president kind of shrinks. And you can tell the president is shrinking because he has to spend a lot of time saying im not shrinking. Im still here. And the constitution gives me relevances. The power of idea gives me relevance. The record that weve built up over the last two years and the things that were trying to imp lemt it give me relevance here. Its one way to ensure that i am relevant. Its one way to ensure that im in the process. George w. Bush and bill clinton speaking after they suffered terrible midterm losses. This current president suffered a terrible midterm loss. But that is not what is happening in this white house right now. If you couldnt tell it from how manifestly psyched president obama was, the white house is also just happy to flat out admit that theyre delighted with how things are going right now. Basically because they are getting done what they want to get done. We feel very good about how the last 2 1 2 weeks have gone here. I think that, you know, typically, when you have a change in power and congress, the new congressional majority dominates the conversation and drives the discussion. I think since essentially right after the election, its been the president whats been driving the discussion in this town. Dan pfeiffer, White House Communications director, basically saying what everybody is thinking whats going on in politics right now, which is that this president appears to have found his mojo. Hes back. I mean, for all their stomping their feet and hollering about how mad they are and upset they are, how sorry hes going to be for what hes done on immigration, you know, after knowing for weeks and months that this announcement was coming after threatening all that time that president obama wold rue the day he took action like this on immigration. What did the republicans actually do today . In washington . They held a press conference and then decided to go home. They closed up shop this morning, left early for the thanksgiving break. Theyll be back sometime deep into december. They started their vacation today. Thats how theyre fighting back. They knew this was coming for weeks. For months. They said hell be sorry. Wait till you see what we do. What they did is they went home. For all the lighting hair on fire and getting burned when you play with matches and the nay palm and the grenades, what the republicans say theyre going to do in response to this now is they say they are not going to impeach him, they say they are not going to shut down the government, they say theyre not going to shut down even a little piece of the government. And if they do have Something Else in mind, like passing their own immigration bill or something, 10. Theres been no peep about it so far. And now they really have gone back on vacation. One sure sign that the republicans just got outma nooured here and they are really going to walk awaif from this and put it behind them. The fact that fox news has already stopped talking about it. Today, when everybody else was covering it, on foxz news channel, they were just pretending like it wasnt happening. And this is awkward. President obama doing this was supposed to be the biggest deal in the world. It was supposed to be the death of the republic. And now its like lets move on. Its awkward. Theyven gotten their base so whipped up about it. They did throw their base a nice bone today. Hougs republicans finally filed their lawsuit today that they had announced during the summer about something having to do with obamacare. So think about that. They saved the filing of the lawsuit until after the big immigration announcement. So it would look like they were suing him over immigration. It would look like theyre punching right back. Oh, yeah, youre going to do that . Well, well take you to court. Were going to cram the tyrant back into his box. Tgs a totally unrelated manner. They just saved the announcement so it looked like they would have something to say even though it has absolutely nothing to do with what president obama Just Announced or immigration at all. If you want the best last evidence that the republicans just had gotten beat here, its the human documentary evidence of what it would mean for them to actually, you know, stop doing Everything Else they want to do in congress and, instead, try to tear down what president obama just did. It is one thing when you are crusading against the president for something the president wants to do. Hes the bad guy and they love to crusade against him. But now they have taken these actions, fighting this doesnt mean just fighting him anymore. It means fighting this. It means fighting these folks and their families and what this means for their american lives. Hes going to keep us together. I think thats the biggest news. Its a bitter sweet moment. Im a little bit in tears rite now because i was able to call my dad and my mom and let them know that based on the criteria that has been shared, they will be prerkted from deporation. I can breathe belter. Thats very important. Thanks god. Thanks to the president obama. Finally, the president listened to us. Ecstatic. Just hugging my mom right now and knowing that shes going to be here at the end of the day is the greatest feeling in if world. It is one thing to wage a fight against big, bad president obama. It is another thing to wage a fight to materially and drastically hurt the millions of families who president obama has just helped. Republicans made a lot of niois about this until he did it. Now that hes done it, it iend e kind e kind of feels like its over. Joining us now is allen gomez, immigration reporter for usa today. Mr. Gomez, nice to have you back. Thanks for having me, suzi. Suzie. Well played, sir. All right. Allen, so among the people who have been add voe kvocating for change, whats been the reaction to the president s announcement. Obviously, the change is not going to help everyone. But among a advocates, how do people feel about what he did . Well, as you saw on the video a second ago, its absolute elation. Theyve been fighting for this so long. They finally got not all of what they got, but they got a lot. Theyre now going to be able to work and find better job opportunities. Theyre going to be able to get better education opportunities, more access to drivers licenses. And base kpically that core issf when they leave for work that day, they know that theyve going to come home. There is a bit of a sense of guilt that they get it, but others dont. So if youre the parent of a u. S. Citizen, yeah, you get to stay in the country and youre legally protected, by if youre just an undocumented immigrant and you just dont happen to have any children, you get a little left out. You got completely left out. I think overall, the whole community sees what hes done and theyre all incredibly excited. I know the republicans have talked about how mad they are about this, about all the Different Things theyre going to try to do to stop this policy. Are there concrete signs that they are doing something . I think youve laid it out pretty welt. Let lets forget about the idea of impeachment. Thats not going to happen. A lawsuit is incredibly difficult. Probably not going to happen. Congress has learned the last couple of days how difficult it is to defund this process. So going the appropriations bill is pretty difficult, as well. But theres one thing they can do. They can come back when the new congress sits in january and pass a Border Security bill. Think about what happens if they pass that and send it to the president. If he signs that, hes going to enrage democrats, he east going to enrage all of these immigrants and be back at square one. But if he doesnt, republicans get to say hey, look, we tried to work with him. The is the most important thing to secure the border. We offered this as a first step and he walks away from it. It puts him in an incredibly uncomfortable situation. Youre going to hear from a house Border Security bill in december. I have to say, with everything that hes been willing to shift with the number of people hes been willing to deport that he just put in what he announced last night. Im not sure hed be so shy about sign etc. That will be fascinating to see. I think the other side is now the primaries. This is incredibly difficult to them. Previously, people protected from deportation under the president s plan, they received two year reprieves. Under this, theyre going to get threeyear reprieves. Assuming that these start being passed sometime in 2015, their period of protection is going to run well into the next administration. Thats going to start any day now. Theyre going to have to annals the question, are you going to revoke that status. Are you going to extend it. Are you going to be forced to deal with this issue. As you pointed out, as president obama is running around talking about how many people he saved, the republicans are going to be left arguing over whos going to be tough around undocumented imgrants. Whos going to uphold it. I think a lot of democrats are happy to see. Yes, the fascinating thing about it is its not going to be a hypothetical. Its about identifiable, named people who you can meet who will be affected who will be the individuals that they have to decide about. And it will be something within the power of the next president to decide. Thats going to be a very, very interesting fight. Allen gomez, always great to have you here. Thank you very much. Lots ahead tonight, including the most unexpected thing you could possibly imagine me saying abwashington right flou. Lots to come. Gas at the same location. During the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar. At night and when its cloudy, we use more natural gas. 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