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pennsylvania and senator rob portman. john boehner's appointment, jeb hensarling, dave camp of michigan as well as chairman upton of michigan. republicans have come out, angry about patty murray's selection, and as you pointed out the president was involved, according to jay carney, with the collection from the democrats. >> well, one of the reasons why republicans are upset about the patty murray appointment is because she's also on the democratic senatorial campaign committee. a lot of people saying, look, that looks bad. she shouldn't be doing both. it's a conflict of interest. sh...

pennsylvania and senator rob portman. john boehner's appointment, jeb hensarling, dave camp of michigan as well as chairman upton of michigan. republicans have come out, angry about patty murray's selection, and as you pointed out the president was involved, according to jay carney, with the collection from the democrats. >> well, one of the reasons why republicans are upset about the patty murray appointment is because she's also on the democratic senatorial campaign committee. a lot of people saying, look, that looks bad. she shouldn't be doing both. it's a conflict of interest. sh...

Immigration systesystem system. >> your country or your family. the subject of a new movie, of a couple who met in chicago, fell in love, started a business and had a family. tony's wife came to america in 1989 from poland and claimed political asylum. by the time her case was heard, poland was no longer communist, be so he she spent the next 15 years locked in a fight with the american immigration system until she was deported in 2007. her husband, tony, became an american citizen just a few weeks later. now, janina is living in poland with their 6-year-old american-born son. tony remained be...

In the heart, i believe. when he was senator, he was my senator, you know, from illinois and i vote for him. i vote for him to be president. and i -- the president -- very good president, but our immigration system, we have to fix it we need to fix the immigration system. that's not about president obama, but we have to dish sent want to send a message to our congressmen, senators and all the governments, please, please think about the family, like my family, it is torn apart. and just -- we have to do something. >> what is the reaction, ruth, as you have got than story out what is the reactio...

>> i think the american people are very certain that this medicare radical change is not something they want. >> looks like we are definitely going to solve it today, right in the now gang of five meeting this afternoon to see if they can salvage bipartisan talks without conservative senator tom coburn, who seem was to given up. meanwhile, learning that joe biden's crew of lawmakers have their sights set on $1 trillion in cuts, a big number they think will make for good headlines, trust me, when those cuts come over a decade, they are addressing just a fraction of the problem. one th...