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>> we know this is a rough year. i was with reverend sharpton's group. and i got a big applause because it was the first time i thought about saying it out loud. let's get this straight. there are almost three more years to the obama presidency. this man who has been elected twice by majority vote, first guy since eisenhower to win two majority votes, believe it or not know will be president for almost three more years. get used to it. this isn't transition time in the basketball game. it isn't about to be over. three more years. there will be a election this november, new people taking office...

Boehner and nancy pelosi encouraging them to take up immigration reform now. joining us now is susan page and reid wilson. susan, break out that crystal ball. i have to ask you what's going to be the timing on this? is it going to be new year's eve and we see the debate come down again? >> it's possible. the advocates home an immigration bill is passed long before we get to the end of the year. the history of congress is you should not expect them to get to a timetable and especially on the issue of immigration it's very important to president obama. the more it's identified, the harder it wil...

Tomorrow now even very close to hagel and asking for him to be confirmed. they suggested last week the white house that he did have the votes with richard shelby, a republican saying that he has endorsed him, that he at least stops the filibuster and gets a final confirmation sometime this week. >> we now have about 66 votes. not all of them declared to basically call on cloture, and they have well over the number of needed of majority votes, including richard shelby, potentially lisa murkowski, but she hasn't declared where she is on hagel per se. this looks like it will go forward. we're all...

Amendment and why the protection is important, but put it out there in the context of those kids who were killed because that's what people see most of all. >> let's talk about the president's strength now. bob, this monday and -- this tuesday he will have taken the oath a second time. the american people have doubled down on this president, a majority of the american people have voted for this guy. two majority votes. he will have that in his pocket starting monday afternoon. the second thing is his party is fairly -- not fairly to say any politicians are popular. but look at this. the republ...

Have voted for this guy. two majority votes. he will have that in his pocket starting monday afternoon. the second thing is his party is fairly -- not fairly to say any politicians are popular. but look at this. the republican party's favorable numbers are in the tank. right now the favorable rating for the republican party is 26%. and 49% unfavorable. that's 49%, an all-time high for the gop. what happened to your party? because, michael, i'm not blaming it on you. it was riding high comparatively under you. reince priebus -- >> i inherited a party where that number was 26%, and we got it bac...