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With deregulation on wall street. i opposed that. i think the results prove when you allow the greedregular less -- recklessness of wall street to go unchecked, you are going to end up where we are today and eight years ago. >> when you watch your chief primary opponent right now, secretary hillary clinton on some key issues, she has changed her position to a more progressive view. on same-sex marriage, immigration, this is over the last ten years. nafta, on trade, on the iraq war, on cuba. she has moved from a position basically in disagreement with you to a position that comes closer to your...

Give her such small comfort. >> i'm not sure she's worried about the republicans yet. >> what is your view? elizabeth warren is apparently able to take this populist message into red states. do you think this is somebody who might be able to pull away some republicans? >> i don't see her as necessarily taking republican votes, but i think she will be an extremely attractive candidate for the democrat voters in 2016. if she chooses to mount a run for the presidency, i would agree with newt, i think that if i was mrs. clinton, i would be extremely concerned with what i see. it's interesting what...

Chief, and that's clear that pope francis, this is a hard issue for him. this is an opportunity to rally people around this and say it's unacceptable not to pass immigration reform. this is a justice issue but it's also a gospel issue. i don't think you can be a catholic in the congress and go against that. >> i also think that the religious right has a lot of influence so it's positive to have a religious leader of the status of the pope having a more progressive view on the issues of the economy. >> will the american religious right, and i'm thick of the evangelicals, are they going to liste...

I think we don't want to misread or misinterpret or interpret too early his politics. but the fact is that he does stand for social justice. he is a jesuit. and we have not -- and he stands on behalf of vikt ms. vikt ms of all sorts of things. victims of economic injustice. victims of social inequality. victims of racial inequality. and even sexual inequality. he has, i think, addressed that in part. not, i think, many american catholics hoping for a more progressive view of catholicism are going to be disappointed. but we're going to let this play out. we're going to hear this man speak. i wa...

>> i think sam's piece really helps explain why immigration, of all of the issues -- i did a piece last week. of all the issues the president talked about his address last week, immigration has the best chance, and that is such a shift from a year ago, from five years ago, six years ago when it was just a radioactive issue. the fact that immigration is at the front of the legislative priorities on the republican party helps explain, you know, his piece helps explain why that is, which is that immigration is sort of an issue where like julian castro says it's a piece where hispanic voters decid...