chris hayes, the host of "all in with chris hayes," previously known as "up with chris hayes." chris' new book "twilight of elites." it's out now in paperback. appreciate it. we'll be right back. >>> yoga, voodoo, and their place in republican politics. seriously. they brought it up, not me. yoga and voodoo. that's next. >>> and now time for your yoga and voodoo update from the republican party in virginia. the republican party in virginia, the governor was refusing to comment on news that a grand jury was now part of the investigation into his corruption scandal. the party's nominee to succeed that governor, the state attorney general, ken cuccinelli, he was trying as hard as possible to build a gubernatorial campaign that made him seem like more than just the social conservative crusader he has always been. i mean, sure, everybody knows bob mcdonnell as governor ultrasound, but it really is ken cuccinelli the one trying to shut down virginia's abortion clinics who ordered the covering up of the insufficiently modest lady on the virginia state seal. and who has led the fight f

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. >> joining me now, msnbc's chris hayes and melissa harris-perry. my friends and colleague, hash tag real talk. that is what happened on the floor today. what happened to john boehner? >> man, i don't know, john boehner is just having a rough go of it. and here is the problem, the next thing he has to do -- you have to pass a farm bill. this is like the defense appropriations. i mean, i got an e-mail from a democratic member of congress today saying just for the record, we were able to pass our farm bill, there is good stuff, a lot of bad and good stuff, you have to pass it like the defense appropriations. so john boehner now, here is the fundamental problem, the 62 no-votes was because people thought there was not enough cuts, particularly on the food cuts. so if you're john boehner he has a calculation to make, a pre-staging, which is where do i go? where do i try to bring democrats back on board? and we've seen basically what that means, this farm bill amazingly will probably get worse in the next generation. >> well, i still don't understand the

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening, from new york. i'm chris hayes. and thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in," the white house says the so-called red line has been crossed by the syrian regime of bashar al assad. chemical weapons were used against rebel forces, and the drum beat for u.s. intervention grows louder. that's coming up. >>> also tonight, the supreme court's fascinating ruling and surprising ruling today on whether multibillion dollar biotech companies can patent the very genetic information that makes up the human body. we'll talk about the ramifications for the future of science and the future of your health. >>> plus, more than 40 people are arrested in dramatic early morning police raids. it's the latest exciting chapter in the chronicles of toronto mayor rob ford. do not miss that. >>> but we begin tonight with one of those moments where you find yourself asking, how the heck did i end up agreeing with this guy? that guy. today, new battle lines were being drawn in washington where an increasingly passionate but deeply strange

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"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. tonight on "all in" the blue revolution. i'll tell you why the great texas filibuster might have been just the beginning of something much, much bigger. >>> plus, on a week of huge victories for progressive america, the choice for the republican party becomes more and more clear. change or die. spoiler alert, they don't appear to be choosing to want to change. >>> and the cross-examination of rachel jeantel, reluctant witness in the trayvon martin case is a reluctant subject of national conversation. why what people say about her says more about them than the witness. >>> but tonight, we start with the uprising in the state of texas. an uprising that started last week when democrats and activists there began to mobilize against a restrictive abortion bill making its way through the texas senate. and that uprising has only gained strength. and if you want to know why, right now, people in texas are rising up and why it's not likely to end any time soon, let me tell you about texas gove

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening, from new york. i'm chris hayes. and thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in," the white house says the so-called red line has been crossed by the syrian regime of bashar al assad. chemical weapons were used against rebel forces, and the drum beat for u.s. intervention grows louder. that's coming up.

i'm chris hayes. thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in", if you still possess the ability to be shocked by the corruption that crashed our economy, then you're going to be shocked by the report "rolling stone" has for us tonight. that's coming up. also a shocking turn of events on the house floor as the house speaker brings crucial legislation to the floor and watches it go down in flames. i'll tell you why what's bad for john boehner is good for the

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. thank you for joining us on a fascinating, frustrating news night. tonight, on "all in" we know where he is, at least re we think we do. i'll tell you where we believe the nsa leaker edward snowden is holed up at this very minute and why the trouble this guy is causing u.s. government has only just begun. >>> plus president barack obama stood in the 93 degree heat today and delivered the speech al gore called the best ever on climate n

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in", if you still possess the ability to be shocked by the corruption that crashed our economy, then you're going to be shocked by the report "rolling stone" has for us tonight. that's coming up. also a shocking turn of events on the house floor as the house speaker brings crucial legislation to the floor and watches it go down in flames. i'll tell you why what's bad for john boehner is good for the country.

hayes," chris hayes. and bloomberg news white house correspondent margaret teleb. christian, i want to go right to you. essentially wikileaks, which is aiding edward snowden in his move, sort of, around the country, why has wickdy leaks chosen to essentially defy u.s. law to help mr. snoweden? >> let's make it clear first that in my mind mr. snowden is not a fugitive. he is an asylum seeker. he has a right in accordance with international law to seek an asylum and he should be protected in that process. and that's where wikileaks came in. we gave him assistance through our legal team that has for obvious reasons good expertise in extradition laws and international treaties and angles pertaining to that. secondly, we were acting as go-betweens between his legal team and mr. snowden and governments and officials when he was seeking asylum. >> there are extradition treaties, for instance between the united states and hong kong. right? there were legal sort of extradition treaties in place when he was in hong

chris hayes is up next. ♪ >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes and thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in," our first guest is a journalist who should be prosecuted for breaking the nsa surveillance story. that at least the opinion of one prominent u.s. congressman. glenn greenwald of "the guardian" joins me in a moment. and later -- i don't remember agreeing to any of this when i clicked okay to those facebook terms of service. how do the giant tech companies at the heart of the nsa revelations recover from this? we'll discuss that coming up. plus, during an extremely contentious house hearing today one republican came this close to going full todd akin. republican male legislators talking about rape again. we will give you the grisly details. but we begin tonight with the unfolding spy novel that continues to play out in real life right before our eyes. today the battle lines over nsa leaks are being dramatically drawn, the rhetoric on all sides is heating up, and the stakes for everyone connected to this story are rising. after days of complete radio silence nsa lea

joining the panel, the host of msnbc's all-in, chris hayes, "twilight of the elites," which is out now in paperback. thank to you are joining us, my friend. >> thank you! it was a great intro. nailed it. >> i will ask you, given this kind of argument we're having over whistle-blower versus leaker, do you think whistle blowers are institutionalists insofar as they are ameliorate the system is. >> i think the most dangerous thing for authority are people that were institutionalists and became radicalized. a lot of whistle blowers are that. thomas drake who was an nsa whistle blower was as straight an arrow you could get. he served in the armed forces, worked for the nsa, he tried to go through the proper chain of command. ultimately he went to a reporter and the government turned on him he became incredibly radicalized because he got a glimpse of the bankruptcy of the system of authority that he had spent his entire adult life trusting in. i think that radicalizing experience is something that a lot of americans have gone through over the past failed decade. as we have seen institution a

. >>> "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes, and it's been an incredible 24 hours of democracy on display in the united states of america. tonight the newest and brightest star of the democratic party, texas state senator wendy davis will be here to discuss her unbelievable filibuster, a dramatic 11-hour stand for women, and an improbable victory that captured the nation's attention last night. that's coming up, and speaking of rising stars. joaquin castro is here to talk about how the new fight for voter's rights, the critical issue, the 2014 election has already begun. but we begin with the monumental news that was delivered to us this morning by the supreme court of the united states. >> take a look now, huge crowds outside the supreme court today. >> the supreme court has just struck down the federal defense of marriage act. [ cheers and applause ] >> the law passed by congress in 1996, signed by president clinton that prevented the federal government from recognizing the validity of same sex marriages in the states where they'r

"all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes, thank you for joining us. tonight on all in, if you think i'm the only one who believes that immigration reform is the single biggest policy priority of president obama's second term, well, then wait until i show you the circus on the capitol lawn today. this 66-year-old man has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking in south carolina, his story is proof that criminalization of marijuana is well passed ridiculous. plus, yes right wingers people are going hungry in america, and the gop's jihad on those in need gets uglier every single day. we begin tonight with house speaker john boehner's ashtray. this is not an actual photo of john boehner's ashtray, i'm guessing this is what john boehner's ashtray looks like right now, because he has a heck of a lot of reasons to chain smoke today. starting with the scene outside his capitol window. >> we're having this press conference outside the halls of congress because as congressman steve king has said, we haven't had much of a discussion yet i

and "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening. i am chris hayes in new york. the u.s. government filed criminal charges against former national security agency contractor edward snowden. he worked as a security analyst for the nsa and leak add trove of classified documents to reporters at the guardian news paper and the post. for more details, we turn to nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams, with the latest on the story. what do you have for us? >> you know, everybody is reporting this now because the government is actually released the charging document itself. the first page, it's a bare bones thing. this is the totality in what the government released, by the way, and the rest of the case if you go to the court's website and looks at it, it's under seal. he is basically charged with violating three federal laws. stealing government property, and secondly, two charges under the espionage chapter in the federal charging book, improperly giving out classified national defense information to somebody who is not cleared to see it and a separate charge f

chris hayes is up next. ♪ >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes and thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in," our first guest is a journalist who should be prosecuted for breaking the nsa surveillance story. that at least the opinion of one prominent u.s. congressman. glenn greenwald of "the guardian" joins me in a moment. and later -- i don't remember agreeing to any of this when i clicked okay to those facebook terms of service. how do the giant tech companies at the heart of the nsa revelations recover from this? we'll discuss that coming up. plus, during an extremely contentious house hearing today one republican came this

i'm chris hayes and thank you for joining us. coming up tonight, when president obama goes to the rose garden lately, he sure does make news. today the in your face appointment of susan rice to be his national security adviser. we'll talk about how that's going over. and later, obama's nomination of the district court judges yesterday, one comes with an amazing backstory, and a mission to fight against stop and frisk. i want to begin with marco rubio whom i believe is attempting to pull off a massive heist in broad daylight. i see you marco rubio. i see what you're doing. in case you thought no one was watching, i see what you are trying to pull. you see, there's a reason senator rubio's star is rising in the gop. he's a possible presidential candidate in 2016, perhaps even a favorite. and it's because in many ways marco rubio is just the perfect candidate for what ales the republican party. he's young, telegenic, inspiring backstory, latino heritage, all attributes that greatly assist a party that is out of touch with the rising

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in", if you still possess the ability to be shocked by the corruption that crashed our economy, then you're going to be shocked by the report "rolling stone" has for us tonight. that's coming up. also a shocking turn of events on the house floor as the house speaker brings crucial legislation to the floor and watches it go down in flames. i'll tell you why what's bad for john boehner is good for the country. >>> plus bailouts of struggling casinos? it is also something that is totally happening. we begin tonight with a truly rare bit of genuine progress from congress. excellent news that nonetheless has me seething with anger. here's what's happening that's great news and infuriating. making sure 11 million immigrants are given a road to citizenship is trying to pass a bill by a huge margin in the senate. they are called the gang of eight and the reason they think they need the huge margin victory is to put pressure on house speaker john boehn

. >>> chris hayes is up next. >>> good evening. i'm chris hayes. and thank you for joining us. tonight, in case any liberals were starting to fall for the lovable, huggable chris christie routine, his latest move should be enough to convince you how cravenly self-serving he really is. >>> plus, the war on weed is proving very one-sided as in one side is getting way more screwed than the other. and we have the proof. and the latest assault on obama care is coming from an old playbook, one written by the

i'm chris hayes and thank you for joining us. coming up tonight, when president obama goes to the rose garden lately, he sure does make news. today the in your face appointment of susan rice to be his national security adviser. we'll talk about how that's going over. and later, obama's nomination of the district court judges yesterday, one comes with an

. >>> "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes, and it's been an incredible 24 hours of democracy on display in the united states of america. tonight the newest and brightest star of the democratic party, texas state senator wendy davis will be here tsc

"all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes, thank you for joining us. tonight on all in, if you think i'm the only one who believes that immigration reform is the single biggest policy priority of president obama's second term, well, then wait until i show you the circus on the capitol lawn today. this 66-year-old man has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking in south carolina, his story is proof that criminalization of marijuana is well passed ridiculous. plus, yes right wingers people are going hungry in america, and the gop's jihad on those in need gets uglier every single day. we begin tonight with house speaker john boehner's ashtray. this is not an actual photo of john boehner's ashtray, i'm guessing thi w

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes and thank you for joining us. >>> tonight, rupert murdoch's new york post has put some scummy stuff in the papers but the latest has landed the paper in court. >>> congressman like peter king are committing political suicide in broad daylight and no one is in thing. i'll explain what that's all about. and if it's friday, it is time to sneak ryan gosling in click 3. one of those moments that remind you, regardless of what you think of him, president obama is and remains one of the most fascinating political figures ever to take the world stage. the president with a was in california today at a healthcare event and president obama was prepared to comment on reports that the national security administration has collected american phone records and internet data. the president agreed to take one question from a reporter and to know surprise the question was about the secret government surveillance programs brought to light largely this week by the guardian newspaper. but w

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. tonight on "all in" the blue revolution. i'll tell you why the great texas filibuster might have been just the beginning of something much, much bigger. >>> plus, on a week of huge victories for progressive america, the choice for the republican party becomes more and more clear. change or die. spoiler alert, they don't appear to be choosing to want to change. >>> and the cross-examination of rachel jeantel, reluctant witness in the trayvon martin case is a reluctant subject of

that's wrong. >> referring to chris hayes msnbc show. jane hall, contrast the tone of this pair of rulings by the supreme court with the decision the day earlier to strike down the heart of the voting rights act. there i found the tone underlying to be disapproving, skeptical, challenging. >> well, i think it was regrettable that two very important stories happened one day after the other. rachel maddow was pointing out the voting heights story was highly consequential. the gay marriage story was viewview ed celebratory. there was a lot of happiness. the supreme court was probably mirroring public opinion and the media were mirroring the supreme court's mirroring. but the voting rights story which is very important, it's hard to visualize what might happen, what bad actions might come because of this and it was completely swept away. >> it really was swept away, and it ignored the follow-on stories that there should have been about the individual states and voter suppression acts that they are now enacting. >> it's partly the nature of t

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in" the supreme court is about to hand down decisions on some huge, important issues. tonight, a look at how gay marriage, affirmative action, even the right to vote, are all on the table. >>> also, tonight, we'll look at how governor rick scott of florida might be our new leader in the race for america's worst governor. >>> and did you have a great father's day? i will tell you why things are much better for today's dads and the social movement we have to thank for that. >>> we begin tonight with this image of president, russian president vladimir putin sliding a big blingy ring on to his finger. you may be wondering what about this picture is so special? after all, you're probably used to seeing more exciting pictures of putin because he has become something of an icon for his many talents and skills from shirtless horseback riding, naturally shirtless fishing and looks impressive when he's dressed, too, doing judo or on a motorized hang gli

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening, from new york. i'm chris hayes. and thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in" the trial of george stimerman. charged with a second-degree murder of the florida teen trayvon martin has begun in florida. we'll have a full report on the riveting opening arguments and possibly the worst and most awkward knock-knock joke ever told. >>> also tonight, it might not surprise you to hear that supreme court justice clarence thomas really doesn't like affirmative action. you might be a bit taken aback by his opinion today in which he compares justifications for affirmative action to justifications for slavery. yes. he did that. >>> plus, jon stewart is back on tv in egypt and his appearance on the egyptian version of the "daily show" is the awesomest thing i saw on the internet today. >>> tonight we start with seat 17a on a flight this morning bound from moscow to havana, cuba. at seat, 17a, was booked for edward snowden. the admitted nsa leaker. the man wanted by the united states government for violations of the espionage

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. thank you for joining us. tonight, on "all in" you may not have even ever heard of the man who sat down before congress today to testify on the nsa surveillance programs. but he is a man so powerful it's possible that he has heard of you. >>> also tonight, new whistleblowers have emerged. these have got nothing to do with the nsa. these insiders pulled back the curtain on one of the most shameless schemes by a big bank to fleece americans that we've ever seen. shocking details coming up later. >>> plus why would president obama threaten to veto the farm bill? doesn't he like farmers? maybe it's because republicans are using the bill to once again gut the safety net. the absolute poorest people in america. all that is coming up. >>> but we begin tonight with a big vote on capitol hill that gaveled to a close just 90 minutes ago. yes, ladies and gentlemen, here it is, one of the two houses of the article one branch, the cornerstone of this great republic of ours hard a at work tonight.

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. thank you for joining us. tonight, we have a name and a face of the man at the center of the nsa surveillance revelations. the question still remain, are the programs necessary, are they dangerous? we'll be debating the issue coming up. >>> also tonight, how is this happening in america? another major metropolitan city is closing almost two dozen schools, laying off hundreds of teachers and aides, but plans for a new $400 million prison are still moving forward. i'll talk to the mayor of that city, michael nutter of philadelphia. >>> plus the primary field is set for the special election in new jersey senate race and it is a doozy. i really am excited to introduce you to the candidates. >>> we begin tonight with the biggest mystery in the news today. where in the world is edward snowden? this is the mira hotel in hong kong where edward snowden is believed to be holed up until today. it is just across the harbor less than 15 minutes way from hong kong's consulate which houses a cia sta

"all in with chris hayes" starts now. >>> good evening. i'm chris hayes. and thank you for joining us. tonight, in case any liberals were starting to fall for the lovable, huggable chris christie routine, his latest move should be enough to convince you how cravenly self-serving he really is. >>> plus, the war on weed is proving very one-sided as in one side is getting way more screwed than the other. and we have the proof. and the latest assault on obama care is coming from an old playbook, one written by the slave power. i'm not making that up. we start today with a photo. this is a photo of some of the people in charge of grilling a collection of top-tier generals from the united states military today. if you've been a general, called to testify today before the senate armed services committee, this is what you'd be looking up at. this committee. you'll notice it's quite a bit different than this one. which is actually the same committee 30 years ago. and the big difference, of course, is women. 1983, there were zero women on the senate armed services c

and "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening. i am chris hayes in new york. the u.s. government filed criminal charges against former national security agency contractor edward snowden. he worked as a security analyst for the nsa and leak add trove of classified documents to reporters at the guardian news paper and the post. for more details, we turn to nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams, with the latest on the story. what do you have for us? >> you know, everybody is po

i'm chris hayes and thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in" nsa surveillance is the big story. i've still got my eyes on you, marco rubio. you don't get to pretend to be the hero of immigration reform while working behind the scenes to kill it. i'll tell you about his latest back door shenanigans coming up. >>> plus, surprising good news from the violence-plagued city of chicago. but is the news too good to be true? i know the tonys were this week, but the truly star-studded affair, the one with hugh jackman and tom cruise live on stage together, that was at a walmart shareholder meeting in arkansas. and, yeah, it's just about the weirdest thing ever. seriously. you have to see this tape. >>> we begin tonight with this man. former alabama governor george wallace who 50 years ago today made his infamous stand in the schoolhouse door. a principled stand on behalf of evil. in defiance of the united states justice department, governor george wallace stood outside the university of alabama personally blocking two black students

"all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >> good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. thank you for joining us. there is big breaking news tonight you definitely want to hear about if you have ever used the internet. i mean that seriously. it is pretty incredible what we have just learned. plus, remember when arizona governor jan brewer was doing everything in her power to block obama-care in arizona? crazy thing, she is doing everything in her power to implement obama-care in arizona. that is a picture of the president in the white house situation room being briefed last week to the latest threat to our homeland. that threat is climate change. it's hurricane seasons, everybody. we begin tonight with this guy. this is u.s. district judge roger vincent, a senior federal judge for the northern district of florida appointed by ronald

"all in with chris hayes" starts now. >>> good evening. i'm chris hayes. and thank you for joining us. tonight, in case any liberals were starting to fall for the lovable, huggable chris christie routine, his latest move should be enough to convince you how cravenly self-serving he really is. >>> plus, the war on weed is proving very one-sided as in one side is getting way more screwed than the other. and we have the proof. and the latest assault on obama care is coming from an old playbook, one written by the

"all in with chris hayes" starts now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes and thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in." our first guest is a journalist who should be prosecuted for breaking the nsa surveillance story. that at least the opinion of one prominent u.s. congressman. glenn greenwald of the guardian joins me in a moment. i don't remember agreeing to any of this when i clicked okay to those facebook terms of service. how do the giant tech companies at the heart of the nsa revelations recover from this. we'll discuss that coming up. >>> during an extremely contentious house hearing today. one republican came this cross to going full todd aiken. republican male legislators talking about breaking again.

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening, from new york. i'm chris hayes. and thank you for joining us. tonight on "all in" the trial of george stimerman. charged with a second-degree murder of the florida teen trayvon martin has begun in florida. we'll have a full report on the riveting opening arguments and possibly the worst and most awkward knock-knock joke ever told. >>> also tonight, it might not surprise you to hear that supreme court justice clarence thomas really doesn't like affirmative action. you might be a bit taken aback by his opinion today in which he compares justifications for affirmative action to justifications for slavery.

"all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. thank you for joining us on a fascinating, frustrating news night. tonight, on "all in" we know where he is, at least re we think we do. i'll tell you where we believe the nsa leaker edward snowden is holed up at this very minute and why the trouble this guy is causing u.s. government has only just begun. >>> plus president barack obama stood in the 93 degree heat today and delivered the speech al gore called the best ever on climate given by a president. we will bring you the highlights. >>> but we begin tonight with the truly stunning decision by the supreme court where, if i may speak metaphorically, i believe john roberts' court took out a knife and plunged it into the voting rights act soft underbelly and dragged the dying gasping body across the street on to the steps of the capitol building and left it there with a note to congress saying it would be a shame if this law were to die. the decision in this case, shelby county v. holder is one i believe will go down in history as o

i'm chris hayes and thank you for joining us. coming up tonight, when president obama goes to the rose garden lately, he sure does make news.

"all in reques" with chris hayes right now. >> good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. thank you for joining us. there is big breaking news tonight you definitely want to hear about if you have ever used the internet. i mean that seriously. it is pretty incredible what we have just learned. plus, remember when arizona governor jan brewer was doing everything in her power to block obama-care in arizona? crazy thing, she is doing everything in her power to implement obama-care in arizona. that is a picture of the president in the white house situation room being briefed last week to the latest threat to our homeland. that threat is climate change. it's hurricane seasons, everybody. we begin tonight with this guy. this is u.s. district judge roger vincent, a senior federal judge for the northern district of florida appointed by ronald reagan, has a facebook fan page with 198 likes. he is a chameleon flower enthusiast, president of the american soviet camellia society. he has found his way into the news in a very big way. judge vinson enjoyed brief stardom and tea party rul

." >> god bless you chris hayes. >>> thanks to you at home for staying with us this hour. amazing. it frequently seems as if congress can't do anything. today they did. the united states senate really did pass an immigration reform bill. this is a huge deal. you could tell this was a huge deal by watching the way in which they physically cast their votes. typically when the senate votes, they wander around and chat each other up and the place kind of looks like half a garden party, half a bus depot. but today, senate majority leader harry reid had the members of the united states senate stay formally at their desks and vote from their desks. that is how you know they think this is a really big vote. this is the eyes of the nation are upon you stuff. and also, vice president biden, as vice president, he is technically the president of the senate. he also exercised his right to preside over the senate today for this vote. as the senate passed immigration reform, which, of course, is one of the administration's marquee policy goals. historic day today. the bill passed. immigration ref