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>> dan simon, living the collective dream in san francisco. cnn newsroom continues right now. >> hello, everyone, president obama is just about to land in columbus, ohio, to campaign for the jobs bill that republican leaders of congress are openly rejecting. barely 24 hours ago the president showed off his american jobs act and demanded congress pass it with, and i quote, no games, no politics, no delays. but then came the details of how the $447 billion package would be paid for. two words. tax hikes. and you could hear the opposition digging in. the biggest hike by far would be a c...

Paso. first, cnn senior white house correspondent ed henry. the president will stand at the u.s.-mexican border to make his case. his case for what exactly? >> well, first time as president that he's at the u.s.-mexico border. the case is going to be pretty straightforward. there are republicans pushing for years for more border security first, before you move on to path for citizenship for illegal immigrants. he's going to make the case, that starting in the bush administration, carrying on through this administration, since 2004, the government has doubled the number of border patrol agents ...

On this, that is problematic. he was, after all, in 2007 one of the people who said he supported president bush and senator kennedy and senator mccain on the comprehensive immigration reform and when the time came to vote on it president obama voted against a critical element, one of the three elements of the immigration reform which was the guest worker program and this is more a political speech and i'm not sure it is where the president ought to go to build on the image of being a strong leader and the odds of getting a comprehensive immigration reform are zero. bill: you think zero and we ...

Enforced by our law enforcement offic officers. >> any chance that there could be a circuit breaker now that people in arizona decide if we have a willing partner in washington, let's try to talk to through, let's not try to leave it to the lawyers and court. let's try to talk this through and maybe get a tiered process where you get border security first, then a process where you discuss the other things. is there any chance or will this go to the supreme court? >> i don't know what the administration's going to do. certainly it's their job to move forward and say to me, i believe that they'r...

Are less secure. the president doesn't seem to be seeing it the same way, rick, that the american people are seeing it. >> well, the american people are not. the american people have called 59% for border security first. the president's speech was a fine campaign speech full of rhetoric, had no specifics, no timeline, no plan about immigration reform comprehensively which only 30% of the american people want. i don't know why the border is such a partisan issue. this presidency is turning from, yes, we can, to, no, we can't. within the last week the president says the laws are unenforceable, b...