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That is -- well, rick, you -- >> no. >> rick knows as i know, south became more democratic, whites in south vote more and more republican. the blacker the states, the more the republican whites vote. mississippi and alabama, look at 90% votes for cain, romney, bush. the question over time, the democrat, if it happens -- latino went to 72%, the increasing identification of latinos with the democratic party, will that create a next wave of -- >> i've seen counties like in east texas where it almost feels like that's already happened. >> it's it won't be a free vote. >> i think to thank tom schal...

0 leading to some division among democrats about how far to go to amend the bill to attract even more votes from the gop. democrat chuck schumer has repeatedly said he hopes to get 70 votes in the senate for passage in the house but that would require a significant number of republican votes and, therefore, significant changes to the legislation. >> i've heard some who say we should not change -- consider any further changes to the bill. dare the other side to volt against it. i reject that approach. >> schumer's approach contrasts sharply by the strategy preferred by many leading democrats wh...

>> look, there are a lot of people that don't like to be held accountable. but here was their argument. they said, listen, before you did this, the politics of it were great. the dems were the good guys, the republicans were bad guys, now we all look like a bunch of squishes. well, there is an alternative. you could just not be a bunch of squishes. >> joining us now is abby rappaport, staff writer with the american prospect and not a squish, for the record. >> definitely not. >> but you know, this cruz question is so interesting to me because we're talking about maybe he's going to run in 2016...

0 syrian state tv blamed the attack on israel, said that israel was working in alliance with the opposition, an opposition it calls terrorists. steve? >> nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. right now i'm joined by political analyst joan walsh, the author of a book and editor for salon.com. professor of middle eastern history and a member of the day-after project, a coalition of syrian opposition groups planning for a post-war transition. andrew tabler, author of "in the lion's den." senior fellow with the washington institute for near east model. and senior fellow at the progre...