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Back and fight in jihad. and all of this has to do with re-election -- i call it box-checking. closing policies, closing gitmo, see what we can get done. >> this doesn't exactly rally the base. >> in a very big way it does. >> i think it's backfiring. i think a lot of democrats are distancing, including the senate intel chairman -- chairwoman, dianne feinstein, who said it wasn't good enough for the white house to apologize today. but it's hard to say. there is compassion that needs to be considered for the family and whatever he went through at the time. >> yeah. you never know what could hap...

Values and our interests. >> let's go straight to washington to our chief congressional correspondent, dana bash for more on what members of congress -- i know it's quiet in some parts of washington because many members of congress are still away on recess. we know that they were briefed via teleconference in that unsecure line so it wasn't classified, per se, last night. they've been speaking, i'm sure, with the administration today. what are you hearing? >> reporter: that's exactly right. i think a lot of what is going on as we speak is box checking by the administration. making sure that th...

>> he was talking to rachel maddow last night, and she said in the past you have heard people sort of check a box, gay rights, civil rights. there was a feeling in the way he framed on that platform it felt different to her. it felt different to me. that was your reaction as well? >> it felt different to me as well. we're all sitting around whether we're journalists or not. we're listening for things. from our own experiences. so when i heard the president of the united states say stonewall after saying seneca falls and selma, sort of an electric shock went through me. whoa, the president of t...

Could he hear me? i'm sorry. >> all right. al roker, we'll see you soon, doing great work watching the floodwaters rise there. thank you so much. see you soon. appreciate it. >> up next, president obama talking immigration in texas. is a deal really possible or is this a little bit of box checking when it comes to latino voters in 2012. former new mexico governor bill richardson joins us to talk about that and also to talk about what's going on around the world. plus, america's big budget problem. is part of the solution as simple as retiring the penny? we'll look at some of the seemingly ...

Attention. >> any thoughts to cancelling the trip? put it in perspective why this trip is so crucial right now? >> aides say they did not consider cancelling the trip. they point out the way the president is briefed on air force one, yesterday in between these meetings with the president of brazil, the president was getting briefed, was on the phone with his national security aides, so they think they can go forward with the trip. it's in ways a box checking, he wanted to visit latin america in his first term and the white house continues to frame it as a mission to increase u.s. exports, whic...