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MSNBCW The Reid Report November 14, 2014

Hes not backing down on it. What is the latest youre hearing from republicans on the hill . Caller this is a fascinating story, joy. Just a week after the elections happened and Mitch Mcconnell talked about the Senate Getting to work again, there is talk of a possibility of a Government Shutdown. The reason i will say that, the reason because theres a strong bloc of conservatives that want to add language to a government funding bill by december 11th that would proebt the president from moving forward on executive action relating to Immigration Reform. That is something a lot of democrats, obviously, do not want to see at all. That is something that could be potentially very problematic with the democratically controlled senate. Mitch mcconnell and john boehner, this is their real test of leadership, even though the more conservative congress, even though the next one is not seated, a lot of people are emboldened and they dont want to give the president an inch. Rank and file members say all options should be on the table. Not the first thing john boehner and Mitch Mcconnell wanted to deal with the week of tremendous victory. Here we go. Reporter get your popcorn ready. Im going to start popping it after you get off tv thissing afternoon. Thank you very much. Coming up, we will dig deep into the partisan playbook and reveal whats really behind the new calls from republicans to shut down impeachment i mean, shut down immigration by any means necessary. Could that also include impeachment . Lets go to the white house in a scathing new report that details the failures of the secret service in septembers infamous fencejumper incident. Peter joins me from the white house. Reporter good morning. Save some of that popcorn. Good afternoon, i should say. Homeland security official calls this a harsh report. Its intended to identify problems that need fixing. This afternoon congressman peter king from House Homeland Security Committee Told msnbc news when youre protecting the president , there are no timeouts. He and some others are calling for a top to bottom review. Agency. Here are some of the details that came out of the executive summary, the nine pages from this report. After bargaining through the front doors, knocking down a female secret Service Officer to the ground, the report says omar gonzalez, the fencejumper, walked past the officer who accidentally grabbed a flashlight instead of her baton before ultimately pulling out a gun. Gonzalez ignored calls to stop, he walked to the east room, turned around. Thats where he was eventually tackled by some officers in the center hallway. The report says everything that could have gone wrong that night, did. The armed counterassault team, this is striking, didnt immediately enter the mansion because they were unfamiliar with the layout of the white house. They waited to get into a tactical formation before entering. Several officers who chased gonzalez through the bushes in front of the north portico doors not too far from where were standing thought the bushes would stop them. They were stunned when he charged right through there. Wow, that is pet harrowing. Popcorn for you. Peter alexander, have a good weekend. In missouri were having a waiting game as residents brace for the grand jurys decision in the Michael Brown shooting. Msnbcs trymaine lee joins us live from ferguson. What are we expecting over the weekend . Reporter well, as you mentioned were on pins and needles and everyone in the community is very anxious a waiting a grand jurys decision. The announcement could come as early as tomorrow or, you know, day by day, week by week. Whats interesting, i spent time with captain ron johnson, whos a native of the ferguson area. Also the captain of the Missouri State highway patrol. I spent some time at a local high school with him today, not far from what had been ground zero of the protest. Hes already trying to plant the seeds for moving forward, trying to help bridge the gap between many of these young people and law enforcement. The Prosecutors Office, st. Louis county Prosecutors Office announced the plan to alert schools of the announcement. If an announcement comes during the weekday, theyll give them three hours notice. If it happens on a weekend theyll give them 24 hours. I talked to some activists. Lets take a look at the interview from last night. Its become a lot more organized, man. The angers taken from off the streets, it is koerld but people outside. Were coming out more creative, better actions and still nonviolen nonviolence. Reporter joy, thats kind of the point here. Everyone is still continuing to build. The momentum leading into this decision is beginning to ramp up. The question is, where do they go from here, indictment or nonindictment . Thank you very much, trymaine lee. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, well talk with attorney lisa bloom and local pastor tommy wilson. In the middle east today, there was a break in the violence at a jerusalem holy site thats been at the heart of clashes between israelis and palestinians. For more on these developments were joined by msnbc news foreign correspondent. Thank you. For they call the temple mount, what is happening there . Particularly, in the its one of the most important square miles in the world. The noble sanctuary to muslims around the world and for the past several days or weeks sl there have been intense clashes between Israeli Police force and palestinians. A lot has been driven by a whole host of things that go back several months. Some involve the killing of palestinians and israelis. Some attacks by palestinians on israelis. More importantly the announcement by the Israeli Government to, one, build new settlements in occupied East Jerusalem. And also the restrictions that have been placed on Palestinian Muslim worshippers who have been trying to access the mosque. That has led to a combustible situation that weve seen spill over into violence. Today was the first day because israel also reduced the restrictions on palestinians trying to access the mosque. Youve now had jordan start to weigh in and try to get involved and calm things down. Have we actually seen resolution happening or is it quiet because theres an exhaustion with the protest . To understand that question, have you to look a little back. You know, ever since Israel Occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, there have has been this status quo agreement whereby israeli right wing worshippers who wanted to access the mosque were prevented from doing so. Only allowed to pray in certain areas. Israel was trying to introduce legislation that would change that status quo. That is one of the reasons that led to these protests. Now, what weve seen is that through the efforts of secretary of state john kerry and the jordanian government which withdrew its ambassador, recalled the ambassador back to jordan, the Israeli Government said there will be no change to the status quo arrangement that is in place, trying to calm down those fears that israel was about to change the dynamic. Because a lot of right wing groups in israel have been calling for a change. Saying they to want now start praying on top of the mosque, which would obviously be a major concern for muslims around the world, particularly for palestinians. But at the same time, its also one of the major tension points, if you will, between the countries and the people involved on the ground. And what position has this now put the two leaders in this region that are supposedly going to eventually try to negotiate a deal, Prime Minister netanyahu, who obviously has a lot of conservatives on his right that are pulling him in one direction and obviously Mahmoud Abbas for the palestinians. Well, palestinians have particularly extremists on both sides f you take a look for inside abbas government say this is a declaration of war, the position israelis were taken, and right wings inside israel say this doesnt represent the interest of the jewish people. When you have both sides making these types of calls, its only going to fuel that tension, fuel that violence. A lot of people are asking, are we seeing the third Palestinian Uprising . The truth of the matter s not so important to focus on the beginning of the uprising, were seeing a downward cycle of palestinian israeli tensions for the past several years. Were not seeing an upward trend. As things continue to deteriorate, its just a matter of time before we see these upticks in violence. Whether or not they become sustainable, i think thats the question that everyones afraid to see happen. Yeah. And in the wake of gaza, it doesnt look good. Its not a good situation. Its not promising. Thank you for being here. Thank you, joy. Still ahead, more on tensions in the middle east. This time through the movie camera lens. Ill talk to the man who inspired the daily shows jon stewart to make a film based on his horrific cap tifrt tivity i first, break out the partisan playbook. Congressman blake joins me next. Ring ring progresso i cant believe im eating bacon and rich creamy cheese before my sisters wedding well its only 100 calories, so youll be ready for that dress uhhuh. You dont love the dress . I love my sister. 40 flavors. 100 calories or less. Weve always been on the forefront of innovation. When the world called for speed. When the world called for stealth. 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Some conservative pundits want the gop to go all 1998 on president obama if he goes through with the plan to reprioritize on immigration and border authorities pursue undocumented workers. That is what people mean by executive action. It could mean relief for millions of people working in this country. Now, when a democrat, for instance, South Carolina James Clyburn this week on msnbc, warns of impeachment, you tend to get a response like this from republican leaders. The only people i ever hear talk about impeachment are democrats. And i think its for political purposes. Congressman, you know thats not true. Youve heard some of your republican colleagues over the past six months at least very seldom and usually in response to something democrats have said. So, to reiterate, its mostly just democrats talking about impeachment. You got that, congressman barton . Impeachment is indicting in the house. Thats a possibility. But you still have to convict in the senate. That takes a twothirds vote. But impeachment would be a consideration, yes, sir. Congressman blake farenthold, thank you. You askwere asked that the he would have votes to impeach president obama but senate wouldnt convict him republicans will have the senate and do you think impeachment is something thats plausible that was something we talked about a year and a half ago to a constituent in a town hall. Believe me, im now out of the business of predicting what the house will do because i got a lot of feedback from that saying exactly what some of my fellow members have said. Its going to take a twothirds majority in the senate to impeach the president. And that would mean wed never over a dozen democrats on board. So, theres not going to be a conviction. Its an exercise in futility. And it is the democrats talking about it. I got forwarded an email from the dnc not two hours ago with fundraising off of mr. Bartons comment you just showed. But you did have this summer talk of impeachment that actually did come from republicans. You have the Lieutenant Governor of texas, david ewhurst talking about it. Youve had conservative pundits talking. I want to play you Charles Krauthammer who was talking on the fox news organization. We are in new and unchartered waters here and thats why some say republicans have no choice but to call out that perceived lawlessness and do something as politically unpopular as impeach him. Look, i believe it is an impeachable ovenls. Sir, he was talking specifically about executive action on immigration. Do you believe it would be unlawful for the president of the United States to take executive action on immigration . The constitution clearly spells out that congress has the power of naturalization. So, there is a real frustration among conservatives, especially with a new congress coming in. The president talking about doing something right now, not even waiting to try with the new congress. But, sir, you do realize that previous president s going back to dwight eisenhower, jimmy carter, George Herbert walker bush have all used executive action on immigration because immigration enforcement, obviously, is a federal agency controlled by the executive. So you realize there is quite a long precedent for president s taking executive action, sflit. Youve seen past president s loosen up some requirements but youve never seen anything to this magnitude. The plans being reported in the media now are talking about affecting millions of people. In the past, weve been talking about very small groups in the thousands of people. You have its a matter of scale. You signed a letter, which i do have here, along with several other members of your party, calling on the congress to actually use the funding mechanisms at years end to block the president from implementing policies that you make very specific here. Issue green cards. There havent been any specifics out of the white house out of what they would do. Does it make sense for congress to pass a bill blocking something that the president hasnt even specified . Well, if were looking at doing funding for the government for a year, and youve got the president talking about doing actions that we think are inappropriate, are beyond his power, one of our tools is the power of the purse. And were looking at using that proactively. Would you shut the government down over immigration . Theres nobody talking about shutting the government down. But we can include it in the regular appropriations process that moves forward. And if the president wants to veto that bill, based on that provision, it will be up to the American People to decide whos shutting down the government. It would still be a Government Shutdown. Just to end and wrap this up, congressman, youre saying, in fact, you do not believe your party would want to impeach president obama over immigration . I dont think we dont want to shut down the government. I dont think were going to go go with an exercise in futility to articles of impeachment that wont pass in the senate, wont get convicted in the senate. Thank you very much, texas congressman blake farenthold. The pentagon plans to overhaul its Nuclear Weapons program after reports of, quote, systematic problems across the Nuclear Enterprise including decay of silos. Also a widely reported Cheating Program among officers in the navys Nuclear Propulsion program and among the air force crews that maintain int intercontinental ballistic missiles. Secretary chuck hagel spoke earlier today. As long as we have Nuclear Weapons, we will and we must ensure that they are safe, secure and effective. The internal and external reviews i ordered showings a consistent lack of investment and support for Nuclear Forces over far too many years has left us with too little margin to cope with mounting stresses. 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