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$2.5 million that cantor raised in this quarter. very little money and he takes down the house majority leader. carl cameron is still with us here. karl, we talked about this on the show tonight, on "special report." we mentioned this race. >> sure. >> and, you know, the. >> immigration. the. >> the push back was always immigration. >> yeah. and one of the things, it's a real dilemma for the leaders in this case. house speaker john boehner and eric cantor said repeatedly that they wanted to pass some sort of immigration reform. they specifically said that they did not want to support amnesty b...

[chuckles] >> greg: no mention in this lawsuit about discrimination or civil rights. so that leads me to believe that that was a ruse at the beginning, wasn't it? >> well tmay or may not have been. but what we are seeing here now is the fact that the federal government wants to control this issue. they want to do it from the president's point of view to put forward an amnesty proposal. right now, the chaos along the border, the more people cry out for something to be done, the greater chance that the wrong thing will be done. we seeing the usurpation of the state's ability to defend its border...

Comprehensive as kach word for the amnesty proposal that reflexes the mistake we made in '86 which is something that really gets people upset. if you're talking about requiring all employers use e verify and we crack down on the source of the problem, illegal employers but to hold all the process hostage for a proposal to somehow accommodate those who are illegally here before we talk about stopping illegal immigration is the one that sets people off. >> why is that such a problem? explain to me why that's such a problem. why is it such a problem that there are 11 million people illegally here...

Have faded on their own. is there enough time for gingrich to do that as well? romney isn't the only rival getting into it with gingrich and that makes the romney campaign smile. his reputation for going after people who disagree with him was on full display yesterday after michele bachmann called his immigration position amnesty. >> some people are challenged, you know? and it's unfortunate. i don't a student who couldn't figure out where things were or what things were or what the right date was. >> speaker gingrich was a professor and professors don't like to be challenged, but he would hav...

To explain why it's inaccurate. he favored president bush's immigration reform bill which was commonly called an amnesty proposal. >> yes, speaker gingrich is known to favor a humanitarian approach on immigration. no one would accuse newt of being overly compassionate to the poorest youth as he doubled down on the grand plan to have them scrub the school's toilet. >> what if they became assistant janitors and the job was to mop the floor and clean the bathroom? you paid them. >> let's bring in the panel with me in new york. msnbc contributor is the managing editor and joining us from washingto...