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American people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. today we can definitively say the gadhafi regime has come to an end. i'm proud to finally say these two words, and i know your families agree, welcome home. welcome home. >> oh, it must have been just an easy lift to end the war in iraq, huh? last week the republican candidates stood on stage in iowa and they talked about really tough stuff, about illegal immigration. guess who took a real role in leadership when it came to immigration? it was a guy named bara...

Secure border. the president's accomplishments happened in spite of a congress with the worst filibuster record in history. and, of course, with the republican leader in the senate saying his number one goal was to defeat barack obama and make him a one-term president. but right wingers still say he's not a leader. if you doubt president obama's leadership, he has an answer for you right here. >> ask osama bin laden and the 22 out of 30 top al qaeda leaders who've been taken off the field, whether i engage in appeasement. or whoever's left out there. >> let's bring in msnbc analyst jonathan al...

Is an institution that increasingly has not adapted to the demands of a hugely competitive 21st century economy. i think the senate in particular, the challenge that i gave to republicans and i will continue to issue to republicans is if you want to govern, then you can't just say no. it can't just be about scoring points. there are multiple examples during the course of this year in which that's been the case. look, i mentioned the filibuster record. we've had scores of pieces of legislation in which there was a

Look, i mentioned the filibuster record. we've had scores of pieces of legislation in which there was a filibuster, cloture had to be invoked, and then passed 90 to 10 or 80 to 15. and what that indicates is a degree to which we're trying to gum up the works instead of getting business done. that is an institutional problem. in the senate the filibuster only works if there's a genuine spirit of compromise in trying to solve problems as opposed to just shutting the place down. if it's just shutting the place down, then it's not going to work. that's point number one. point number two, in terms ...

Holiday. the a.p. asked, are you worried about how this will affect you political? you're in a state with a lot of black voters. nl only was he not war -- not only was he not worried, he was doing that on purpose. that's what he was building his political capital on. filibustering that mlk day thing, he came back to that again and again in his political life. pro proudly. that was something he was not ashamed of. he used it in his re-election efforts. it can spike a particular white vote if you do stuff like that. even if it costs you most of your black or all of your black vote. can you go ne...