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Their health care. i drafted the first bill back in 2004. and we passed it in 2010. it expired this year. so it's very, very important to reauthorize it. and jose, you've covered this story repeatedly, and i want to thank you and your network. >> thank you. >> it's good for the country. it's vital to our security and to the health care of these heroic people. so thank you. >> it really just boils down to -- thank you -- to just helping people who really decided to help regardless of what the danger was for their personal safety. what is -- talk to me about this, because the expiration from 201...

We're in the weird space part modern day drama and part schoolhouse rock of how we get a bill back and forth between the two chambers and all that have matters because the -- the procedure is sometimes a big part of what is unfolding here and so you had the democratic leaders out front before speaker boehner is to address us in about 20 minutes or so to give his latest interpretation of what the house can do. the democrats out front trying to sort of carve out territory, urging the house lawmakers not to do anything that could mess up the works. that becomes more important as time shrinks befo...

Take a smoke break. >> take a smoke break. you can always count on "saturday night live" for these things. we are just a few days from the republicans taking over the senate and a larger majority in the house. as you head back to washington, what are the priorities you're thinking of? what concrete legislative actions can be taken to solve the problems here including the one on immigration? >> we actually passed a bill back at the end of july the one our speaker originally proposed was a disaster. the fact that it was amnesty. but after a few hours of getting together of reading the bill and d...

The media covered this 24 hours a day, seven days a week. what if these kids were cuban? would this be very different? the media was totally on the side of giving elian gonzalez back. >> they were cuban, they didn't have to leave because the law says so. you're right about harry reid pulling that bill back. the fact is, the bill passed and it has been sat on by the republicans in the house for political reasons. bring the bill out and debate it and amend it and go to conference. they won't do it, because they want an issue. here's the problem with the white house. they were at their best durin...

Took him at gun point? the media covered this 24 hours a day, seven days a week. what if these kids were cuban? would this be very different? the media was totally on the side of giving elian gonzalez back. >> they were cuban, they didn't have to leave because the law says so. you're right about harry reid pulling that bill back. the fact is, the bill passed and it has been sat on by the republicans in the house for political reasons. bring the bill out and debate it and amend it and go to conference. they won't do it, because they want an issue. here's the problem with the white house. they w...