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By basically a marsh cloud that eric cantor is basically making federal disaster relief funds part of political gamesmanship. shouldn't emergencies be separate from politics? >> absolutely, melissa. this is outrageous on the part of cantor and the house republican leaders. the fact of the matter is, traditionally, i've been in congress for 24 years now, emergency supplemental appropriation bills were for that, emergencies. the reason they bypassed the budget process is because we wanted to get the money to the states and the towns and the people quickly because they were in distress. so to sug...

Support that, they want to keep defense open for a year. they want to start their war on women in this budget. and they want to also begin to erode the environmental protection agency. so there are many issues outside that the republicans want to attach to a continuing resolution. the democrats have come more than halfway. >> i'm sorry. i interrupted you, congresswoman. but you're saying even that one-week extension, you're saying that planned parenthood and the epa and other riders were going to be part of that one-week extension? >> part of the republicans' one-week extension, yes. and also ...

To enforce and protect all citizens and rights. they are saying they don't want government to intervene. dr. king fought for full health care, full employment and he died working on a poor people's campaign. they would call that handouts. it is almost insulting and suddenly historically inaccurate for the political and spiritual ads of barry goldwater to now interpret to those ads of dr. king and what dr. king was about. >> do you think glenn beck is trying to make up for his comment that he made about president obama having a deep seated hatred for white people and maybe trying to draw some c...

Mary land roe is saying we have to do more oil drilling. she's saying, let's attack the oil slick over there before we attack it over here. rush limbaugh has this fantasy about environmentalists s.w.a.t. teams that caused this problem. he's bought in by corporate interests. and nobody represents us. and obama agreed to the ridiculous republican plan to do more offshore oil drilling. so now he's on board. who's fighting for us? >> matt, your perspective? and again the issue as i see it -- does the government function in a way where it serves the interests of our country? or does it function in ...

There are tools in place in the immigration system that can be helpful in preventing terrorism and you could make a very good case that every domestic terrorist attack prefort hood could have been stopped if proper immigration enforcement was put in place. jon: you say universities but it's really a government function, isn't it, to make sure that people are who they say they are when they come to this country to study? >> it's a great point. it's a shared responsibility and the government ultimately has the backstop, but the partnership with the universities is key, and unfortunately, right n...