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you're in "the situation room." their voters no candidate can afford to ignore any longer. and both mitt romney and president obama are reaching out to latinos this week with speeches to a national conference being held near orlando. the president addresses the group tomorrow. mitt romney spoke today. but the presumptive republican nominee has the greater challenge. a gallop poll shows mr. obama with a strong lead among hispanic registered voters. 66% to romney's 24%. but the president's advantage all but disappears in the battleground state of florida where the conference is being...

Be sent to another land. >> i guess the only thing i would suggest is i don't think that fidel is going to meet his maker. i think he's going to go to another place. >> joanne reid is managing editor for the grio.com. she joins me to talk about this. it's nice to have you with me. >> good to be here. >> when we talk about florida politics, let's talk about that in the aspect of where we think governor romney and newt gingrich are falling. do you think they play to the florida electorate last night, the people that are watching who want to know who to vote for? how do you think they did? >> mit...

Poor people with a dream of making a better life for myself and for my family and here i am now as a faculty, as a brain surgeon at the number one hospital in the united states and possibly the world, johns hopkins. living that american dream that many of us have lived and have tried to fulfill. the way that it happened to me was through, you know, back in the 1980s, with ronald reagan and the amnesty, i really didn't come through that precise program. it was a legislation, immigration reform of california that gave ability to people like myself working in the fields to pay a certain amount of...

And for my family and here i am now as a faculty, as a brain surgeon at the number one hospital in the united states and possibly the world, johns hopkins. living that american dream that many of us have lived and have tried to fulfill. the way that it happened to me was through, you know, back in the 1980s, with ronald reagan and the amnesty, i really didn't come through that precise program. it was a legislation, immigration reform of california that gave ability to people like myself working in the fields to pay a certain amount of money to begin a legalization process that allowed me to wo...

To sink the entire bill. they would tack on so many hurdles to the citizenship process that many of us think the bill would look a lot more like the status quo than reform. let's look at some specifics. take iowa senator chuck grassley. he tried to create a rule that would not allow the legalization process, the whole point of this thing, to begin until the department of homeland security could certify six months of control over the u.s. border with mexico. his senate colleagues dismissed that out of hand, the measure lost by 14 votes. then texas senator john corn in, his proposal would hold p...