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Voters saying i'm american and you're saying you want to pass immigration reform under the goois of racial profiling. >> an effort to bring legislation that would call on congress to pass presencive immigration reform and to stop deportati deportations. what does it say about the fact we're seeing this happen at the state level. does it speak to which the extent the effort was stalled nationally. >> it speaks to the larger narrative. when you're talking about congress, this congress is broken and stalled, everything from supporting the minimum wage to passing gay marriage, you name it and incl...

Sincere is also political and also about saying this is the thing that really gets people to understand why they have to show up and vote. >> and this is the thing that will hopefully get people to show up and vote in 2014, right? >> oh, 'tis the problem of midterms. >> and i think we also just have to ask ourselves, where are the democrats on this larger conversation, right? we have the president versus the republican party. but not to throw water on the parade -- they're in there, but there are many democrats on local and state levels who actually it behooves them not to have more people in ...

Especially at the local, municipal, and state levels for republican politics. but then they have to also face the federal and national levels. and that's where they run into problems. so while they can speak to specific loud vocal consistents through some of this racialized and deplorable rhetoric, they ultimately have to reconcile that what the challenges are at broader levels. that's why the republican party is shrinking and why it will be difficult for them to win at the state and national levels. >> you know, michelle, the view of the republican party has turned extremely negative. 51% vie...

Eastern time today. the county executive with howard county, ken ullmyou ulman is wi now. he was at the police chief brief an hour and a half ago commemorating this has ban cooperative effort by so many agencies on the local and state levels, and, ken if you're with me and able to hear me, do you know whether or not this mall has since been secured, about an hour and a half ago, police said they still had some patrons and employees inside the mall and were unable to lift that lockdown. what's the latest now? >> yeah. thank you for having me and thank you for your attention to this. no. our law...

They work hard can they get ahead. if i look at this past year, there are situations where i wish congress had moved more aggressively. not passing background checks in the wake of newtown is something that i continue to believe was a mistake. i look at the debate that occurred the work that has been done at state levels to increase things has been done. there is a lot of focus at legislative activity at the congressional level. but when congress doesn't move on things they should move on. there are things we are still doing. the connect-ed program that we announced. where we initiate wireless