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And the remainder will pay for the judges and lawyers for the kids to go through that process. now, the question is, the president also wanted to expand the authority that the department of homeland security has to speed up the process in general. but, will congress pass this? already we're hearing pushback from republicans saying well, it's too much money. it's just a band aid. where's the accountability. here's one. >> you don't need that amount of money. the appropriations committee is looking at this very carefully. and we need to have very targeted appropriations for very specific purpose...

Aggressive plan for dealing with this border situation. it's a lot of money they're asking from congress, nearly $4 billion. even more than originally expected. about $2 billion of that will be to house and care for these kids awaiting this legal process of asylum that they go through. in some cases it takes years ago, but that process is required by law, even though in reality, most will likely just be sent home. another $1.5 billion will adjust border security, and enforcement. and the remainder will pay for the lawyers and judges for all of these children to go through that process. the que...

Joining us mark murray. let's talk about the cbo report on the health care law and its impact on the work force. >> well, tamron, political reporters almost have to dust off their macro economics textbooks from college. what this report was talking about was the labor supply and not labor demand. that means the labor supply, total number of workers out in the work force and under the health care law there are peoples because of the subsidies you end up getting, because of the exchanges, where people might be able to say look i don't want to work on my job anymore, i can get a subsidy, my healt...

Stakes are so high and so fatal in this instance. >> i want to come back to you on this question, ron, because for obviously so many of us who are observers of this, it feels like what happened here is that zimmerman racially profiling trayvon martin, but we are hearing pushback, oh, that can't be possibleb because in fact, sym zimmerman himself has latino or background of heritage, and what is happening there? are people understanding this as influence or inflections of race? >> yes. in a word, certainly. beyond this question of the racial epiteth, there are things that zimmerman said in the ...

And that's a very powerful combination for the 2012 elections. >> based on that profile, that demographic profile, and whatever research you have done on electoral issues, what are you seeing as the most powerful message that democrats have going into the 2012 campaign season. what are democrats going to be strongest running on? >> i think democrats will be strongest running on, it is time for this economy to work for the 99% of us, not the 1%, not the wealthiest 1% who don't pay their taxes. not the ceos and not the corporations that take our jobs overseas and our money to the cayman islands....