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Bill. republicans are well aware of the long odds that the bill faces in the house. >> to our friends in the house, we ask for your consideration and we stand ready to sit down and negotiate with you. >> earlier in the day, house speaker john boehner reiterated his position that the house's own efforts wouldn't be affected by what happened in the senate. >> the house is not going to take up and vote on whatever the senate passes. we are going to do our own bill and for any legislation, including a conference report, to pass the house, that's going to have ato be a bill that has the support of ...

African-american members in the house, and what do you make of how that's come about? >> it's still really hard as an african-american politician to win in a big state. this is not an accident. it's really hard. a lot of members in cbc districts are pretty liberal. don't have big fund-raising bases, and this is really gauling at this point and in terms of policy as well. think about the voting rights act this week, struck down who is the gnat will take that out? you watch the female senators are handling sexual assault in the military? the female senators are driving that. there are 20 of them...

I think there is a lot of uncertainty. not the case that some mysterious path has been choreographed. boehner doesn't know what will happen. we have what was once a gang of eight in the house, nowist a gang of seven. they have gone back to work and do have some hope they will produce an actual house version of the legislation, but then what gets done in the committee? very conservative committee members in the house. will anything get to the floor, much less passed, and then go to conference? immigration reform opponents believe their only hope is to mobilize, go during next year's recesses or...

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Cory booker is different. >> he went for the constituency, the counts, which is wall street, in addition to african-americans. so he's very strategic in the way he's risen and that puts him in a special category. >> he's hedge funders candidate candidate, and this is a guy who was one of the people who came out in front and said don't criticize mitt romney for being a -- >> it was on "meet the press" during the 2012 -- >> this is where his backing comes from, wall street. this is as much of a wall street candidate as everyone and that's why he has that broad support. it really comes from the w...