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It hasn't gone that way. what did you see when you were at net roots and how do you think this is playing out for the democratic party? >> you know, in the middle of biden's speech a group of people shouted stop deporting our kids. you heard that happen. at net roots, this is the left of the left among democrats. there was a lot of opposition to the president's idea of changing the 2008 law. people there do not want to see is easier for kids to be deported. they're pretty opposed to the idea of changing the 2008 law and you heard from voter after voter at net roots. people praised martin o'mal...

The moment that sticks in my mind through all these years is when it was becoming clear hillary would lose to obama she started to ridicule his hope an gave this speech, i think she was in rhode island and talked about, he talks like the clouds will open when i'm elected, celestial choirs will start singing. i wonder if there's a sense that the democratic base -- not that obama failed but just everybody in the democratic party in 2008 may be underestimated what they'd be up with politically in terms of the republicans in washington and maybe think of that moment and think of hillary clinton no...

Rushing to deal with this right now. >> absolutely not. congress is in town this week until thursday at 3 p.m. and does not leave any time at all to get this done. we're supposed to hear more details about the house gop's package which includes changes to the 2008 law and some funding but much less than the president has asked for. as a result, not much of a chance. john boehner was asked about this at his news conference last week. if he's not optimistic, neither should anyone else be. >> there's a lot of divisions between the house and the senate and even divisions in the house itself. perry...

Grandsons can do. >> but there's one democrat who was conspicuously absent, hillary clinton, who is on her book tour and declined the chance to address the progressive audience. she's received a cool reception because of her situation with bloggers over the situation in the iraq war. in 2007, she was booed at net roots over her ties to interest interests money. the new republic puts it, hillary clinton is winning over the left. she's performing better among liberals than moderate and conservative democrats. her favorable rating is at 90%, ten points higher than in the summ summer 2008. in a ne...

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