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Relationships, and the norms that we've had in place to keep us as an alliance in a very strong position. bill: okay you said a lot in your answer there and you know being friendly does not necessarily dictate a friendship. >> no. bill: as twisted as that statement may sound but you had your own colleagues, john mccain, lindsey graham, marco rubio especially, they already expressed mixed feelings. will rex tillerson be confirmed? >> so, i'm going to bet at the end of the day, again i have had conversations with him through the year, bill. this guy is a guy that exudes confidence, calm, strengt...

That makes sense. that's why we're the 16th state to have an online voter registration form, pushing forrer lir voting. we have pour the first time have bipartisan legislation on it. i'll continue to work on that. my job is to make sure there's more convenience for eligible voters. for some reason, there are republicans in my state and around the country who are very uncomfortable with that. i don't really understand that. i think it's pretty fundamental. >> mr. candor, you're so eminently reasonable. you may not get a lot of play on this cable situation. your voice is all moderate and you hav...

Another debate on immigration, that it appears that republicans in this case don't see a pathway any longer toward getting this done? >> immigration would be one of those issues that shows that those who try to pigeonhole bishop's pastor's catholics are wrong. on health care we might be upset with the democrats, the administration. on immigration we're saying to the house of representatives, which is dominated by the republicans, you guys got to get your act together. this is the best chance we've had in fair and just immigration reform. it's in your lap and doesn't seem to be going anywhere, ...

It's in your lap and doesn't seem to be going anywhere, and we're not going to let you off the hook. so yeah, we're disappointed there as well. >> let me touch on gay marriage. this week illinois is becoming the 16th state, including d.c., to allow same-sex marriage. do you think this is evolving in such a way that ultimately it will be legal everywhere, or is it the opposite, that there will be a backlash and the status quo will be maintained? >> i would be a pollyanna that there doesn't seem to be a stance of doing this. sometimes we've been caricatured as being anti-gay, and as much as we s...

A year ago when they withheld the information on the essential health benefits that governors were going to have to offer in their exchanges? they held that until after election day. and then the deadline was a week or ten days later. so the governors in a lot of states looked at that and said oh, my goodness, i cannot make a decision of that order of magnitude in that short a period of time. so is it any wonder that 32 states told the federal government, if you want this to happen, you've got to do it yourself. >> i think -- >> hide the ball strategy that the administration employed prior to ...