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The ask is going to be on the other side for expedited deportations or amending the 2008 law. we'll look to see how that develops. congresswoman loretta sanchez. thank you so much. koch brothers-backed group americans for prosperity spent millions trying to destroy obamacare. a new study shows they succeeded in doing something else entirely. i'll explain, ahead. go ahead, run in the halls, put your feet on the furniture, jump on the bed. the rules can wait, it's time to play freely, in pampers cruisers. they adapt at the waist, legs and bottom, with up to 12 hours of protection for pampers b...

Moment from speaker boehner. he issued a statement tonight that said his lawsuit against the president will only focus on the affordable care act, and a few weeks ago we thought maybe the lawsuit from boehner could be more broad, include executive actions on immigration. because boehner's statement tonight did not include immigration, i think that means there's room for a deal on some kind of border package. >> it strikes me that republi n republicans are in a situation now where they have been part of the brigade of people sort of talking about the nature of the crisis, and in their terms it'...

National political reporter for the "washington post," one of the best sourced reporters about the republicans in the house of anyone. and robert, what does your reporting indicate about how boehner and republican leadership are reading the politics on this emergency budget request? >> well, chris, i just got here from the capitol, and i think on both sides, it's pretty fluid. i think the "ap"'s right. if any compromise is going to happen, it's going to be about quickening deportations. at the same time the republicans are wary ahead of the midterms of striking any kind of grand deal on immigr...

To take care of us. they aren't. they can't. >> according to the "washington post," americans for prosperity spent $30 million since last july on ads attacking obamacare. kantar media, that looks at tv ad spending, estimates since the signing of obamacare in 2010, $408 million has been spent on ads attacking the law. compared to just $27 million on ads supporting the law. that's a 15-1 negative to positive ratio. the obvious intent of all that negative spending was to drive people away from obamacare. but there's an old pr cliche that goes, i don't care what they say about me as long as they s...

And there are a lot of things. i saw an earlier segment you were talking about the affordable care act. that's having, to my view, a very positive impact on the labor market. one of the things in this report i haven't heard anyone tout, we saw that voluntary -- i'm emphasizing voluntary part-time employment is up 800,000 over last year. point here is you had a lot of people when used to have to work at a full-time job in order to get health care insurance. they're getting it through medicaid, through the exchanges. they have the option to work part time. i know that gets people angry, but to m...