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Stimulus act. he had overwhelming control of both houses and could have brought it forward. president bush to his credit had two members of his cabinet assigned to get immigration reform passed. president obama did nothing of the kind. this political pandering is not the right thing to do. we need to move forward with legislation. >> maria teresa, 2011, look at the number, a record number of deportations. nearly 400,000 people. does that at all temper latino voter support for the president with this new policy? >> i think what they are saying is that i think a lot of the latino voters are goin...

Brian's got. he was playing at the top of his fwam. >> apologies. but in the stimulus act alone, it saved or created 325,000 jobs in education. so, you know, obviously, the federal government uses money to help states and municipalities hire teachers, hire firefighters, hire cops. i'm quite sure that mitt romney is aware of this fact. >> well, in addition to the fact that he was a governor, right? >> right! >> so the people who are recipients of these type of block grants that the stimulus was. and the whole issue in the stimulus passed when a lot of republican governors say, no, no, we don't ...

Cops over time, which they did, effectively. federal government has been pay ing for teachers, paying for firefighters, paying for cops directly and indirectly for decades now. do you think romney's going to be able to get away with that ignorance that the federal government has been funding these things? >> well, you know, there's two possibilities here. the one possibility is, as you put it, that he's ignorant or stupid, which i don't actually think that he is. i think that he is trying to willfully not answer the question and deceive people. because he can't be this stupid. i don't think th...

And he didn't answer the question straight up but i think the evidence does mount. i don't even say that to impugn the good faith of the republican party. i can imagine a scenario in which you think that the president is such a disaster for the economy. right? you think he's so bad long term that a short term -- that contributing to the short-term demise of the economy is actually for the greater good of rescuing america from a second term of barack obama. but i think it becomes harder and harder and harder to make the case that that is not what is going on. i mean, clearly is the case that re...

Deftly done opening monologue which is are the republicans intentionally tanking the economy? and he didn't answer the question straight up but i think the evidence does mount. i don't even say that to impugn the good faith of the republican party. i can imagine a scenario in which you think that the president is such a disaster for the economy. right? you think he's so bad long term that a short term -- that contributing to the short-term demise of the economy is actually for the greater good of rescuing america from a second term of barack obama. but i think it becomes harder and harder and ...