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What president barack obama did was very smart. it wasn't political because these 800,000 people can't cast the first vote for him. what it did was mobilize and energize people like me who is latino who is registered to vote, who was born here. that's the root thing to do. as americans we came here, and people came here with an idea, to kind of honor or values. we were supposed to be equal, all equal under the law. it puts him in a bad place. >> here's what one former mccain adviser told z "the new york times", if they have the wrong tone or rhetoric on immigration, hispanics won't listen to a...

Immigration. today in his speech his job proposal is more trade agreements. when i hear that, more trade agreements, that says my job is leaving, and on education, he said we need a choice when it comes to education. when i hear that that means schools for profit, privatizing schools and no public education. he said all the wrong things today, and i think he has a long ways to go. >> president obama is going to speak to this very same group of latino leaders tomorrow. how's he going to be received? what does he need to say, if anything, at this point? >> i think that he hasn't fixed the proble...

Down from the beginning. senator mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate said their object all along has not been jobs and the economy but the defeat of the president and we have -- the irony here in the white house where we can't even get a vote on the president's job proposal, pending since september, yet they want to vote for the first time in u.s. history to hold an attorney general in contempt, with all the other things that are going on here at the end of this month, the transportation bill that provides investments for transportation expires. at the end of this month, stude...

The issue of blame. people are angry, it seems, with both sides but in that poll that we mentioned, there's also more blame it looks like going to the g.o.p. the numbers there, if this doesn't work out, who do you blame? congressional republicans get the most blame with 39%. democrats in congress get blamed 27%. both get blamed 23%. i want to ask you both to react to that. congressman, you first. >> well, first of all, let's understand that the deficit is being dealt with by both democrats and republicans. there's over $2 trillion of deficit reduction that's already been put in place but i thi...

$447 billion, his job plan and the first one was 850 in february of '09, stimulus one. are the democrats really pushing this? are they standing behind it or going -- i don't get the sense the democrats in the senate are heavily advocating for this. >> to the point they actually, harry reid changed the rules of senate last thursday night because the democrats did not want to vote and do not want to vote on the president's job proposal. the one that he said passes a dozen timings he said pass this bill now, no changes. the democrats have said and over half-dozen have said we don't want to vote o...