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Illegals. the dreamers brought here illegally by parents those kids all now get healthcare under the california system. medical. they can't get medicaid. not federal but state benefits. >> the state can make its own rules. >> correct and they have. so now this whole class of individuals whose related to the dreamers and who are going to get benefits thanks to president obama is going to california saying how about us? we are now in the same position the dreamers were in and they got medical. >> they got residency here. >> advocates saying absolutely right. nothing more needs to be done to give...

The dreamers brought here illegally by parents those kids all now get healthcare under the california system. medical. they can't get medicaid. not federal but state benefits. >> the state can make its own rules. >> correct and they have. so now this whole class of individuals whose related to the dreamers and who are going to get benefits thanks to president obama is going to california saying how about us? we are now in the same position the dreamers were in and they got medical. >> they got residency here. >> advocates saying absolutely right. nothing more needs to be done to give them heal...

Pueblos behind me. it's a perfect time to revisit the history of these two western states. both were carved out of territory that belonged to spain and then to mexico. in 1863, arizona was created as a territory separate from new mexico, but it would be decades before they were admitted to the union. in 1906 congress stipulated that arizona, which was mostly english-speaking, and new mexico, which was half spanish speaking could join the united states together as a single state. new mexico approved it but arizona rejected it out of concern that fears that its neighbors, spanish-speaking cultur...

More inclusive. the hispanic population, the voters are able to give a higher percentage of the latino vote in texas to republican candidates than to mitt romney, for example. they do distinguish are you for solving this problem or against solving this problem. but the long term, this is a real problem for republicans. it's also in the short term, a problem for the democrats. if you go to some of the focus groups among latinos, this is's a high level of awareness. he could have solved the problem in 2010 and didn't, and he uses this as a political weapon rather than to get it solved. still a...

I haven't been on since you returned. >> thank you very much. >> great to have you back. secondly, i actually was asked about this earlier in the day. i think probably the hispanic population is lost to republicans for a generation. i think this is sort of the national -- of the republican party. and i think it's a disaster. it's a disaster for moral reasons. but it's also a disaster because whether it's fair or not, these folks are going to get -- the people who did this are going to get a line in the minds of most latinos with the tea party. and i think it's too bad. i think it's too bad we ...