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Congressman from texas. i want to start with the response from the speaker's office. this comes from his spokesmen what schumer had to say about the house passing a senate version. he said wishful thinking frankly so not a strategy to get a bill to the president's desk. is it dead on arrival? >> well, let's face it when you are handed a couple thousand page bill there is a lot of complications in this issue. i think the senate bill is on arrival in this fashion but that doesn't mean we don't do our work and find those areas where we have agreement, where we have need and grind through them. >>...

When they were crafting the bill. >> and others, i put this statement up, this is the doma project on schumer and feinstein, and what you saw in the intro there. this was the moment that required courage and leadership. the most vulnerable members of our community relied on senator schumer and senator feinstein to stand up for us and end decades of catastrophic and irreparable harm to our families caused by doma and our exclusion from u.s. immigration law. think about the logic behind what schumer and feinstein did. if they were pushing for this from the beginning, is there some way markco rub...

Sullivan had this in their article. the statement regarding marco rubio was a deliberate attempt by rubio to slow down the momentum toward a deal on immigration. what rubio was doing in releasing his statement then was ensuring that schumer, that it is all over. but the shouting declaration. they are watching every move the florida republican makes. basically in a nut shell, this article says that the tea party and some of the other conservative who's helped make marco rubio are certainly standing by, willing to break him if they don't like this deal. >> reporter: i think that's fairly accurat...

Chuck schumer's proposal to levy a 30% capital gains tax on people who renounce their citizenship after edwauardo saverin rin threatened to leave the country presumably to avoid taxes. you said i think schumer can probably find the legislation to do this. it existed in germany in the 30s. at the probably just plagiarized and translated it from the original german. now, in a season where political rhetoric is as sharp as it's been perhaps historically, do you think having these lowed metaphors is an effective tool in getting both sides of the aisle to compromise to move the country forward? >> ...

2012 that's sole purpose is to raise money to try to hold the senate. now, what schumer's doing frankly by calling these hearings, he's guaranteeing that group's not able to raise any money. that clearly is what the hearings are intended to do, which is to spook donors. you know, the fear of being dragged before congress. but why there isn't just a full-fledged conversation, somebody ought to reintroduce mitch mcconnell's alternative bill to mccain/feingold back in '98 where mcconnell was for instant disclosure raising the limits. somebody ought to do that. it's at this point -- if the supreme...