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Things, particularly something that has, where you have emotional connectivity as immigration is for a lot of emerging voting groups, you won't have a chance to even make your case. >> they are being called deadly and untreatable and actually a nightmare. health officials are sounding a serious alarm and scrambling to stop super bugs that are spreading in hospitals right across this country before it is too late. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is with me. first of all this is not something you hear medical officials say, a nightmare. at first i thought that was someone else's...

The highly skilled people that want to come. >> how do you convince republicans that they need to be part of this? >> i think there is a growing consensus that not that immigration is the driver of people's decisions but it's a gateway issue. it's an issue that does allow republicans if they are engaged in it to make their case to a broader -- on a broader suite of issues. today basically if you keep being against things, particularly something that has -- where you have emotional connectivity, as immigration is for a lot of emerging voting groups, you're not going to have a chance to even mak...

Couldn't the democrats start introducing a bunch of laws on a state level that would be anti-voter suppression laws and force the republicans to legislatively take a stand on it? >> absolutely. we should definitely do that and continue to unite with the voting groups. we're not going to sit by and let them to continue to push this kind of stuff. what happened in 2010 cannot happen in 2014. we have midterm elections in congress but we have general assemblies where folks have to re-up to the voters. we need to make sure that every voter understands very clearly that folks who try to suppress the...

And stand up to their colleagues. >> what about that? couldn't the democrats start introducing a bunch of laws on a state level that would be anti-voter suppression laws and force the republicans to legislatively take a stand on it? >>. absolutely. we should definitely do that and continue to unite with the voting groups. we're not going to sit by and let them to continue to push this kind of stuff. what happened in 2010 cannot happen in 2014. we have midterm elections in congress but we have general assemblies where folks have to re-up to the voters. we need to make sure that every voter unde...

Losing for decades. >> and joe, there's another issue that i know you think a lot about and thought a lot about that huntsman also talked about which is afghanistan and ending the war. that's another populist issue that i think republicans missed in 2012. the president was for winding down the war. you had others who didn't run that thought that that was an issue to tap into across the board populists including a lot of the groups you just talked about. that was an issue that would have surprised voters. that's one of the things that people criticized the republicans who ran for, no deviation ...