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 calculations, melissa, john boehner has not voted on a farm bill since 1996. they thought they had enough votes for it? but he was not sure. and after the plan b debacle, this is somebod

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 inside the halls of congress. >> john boehner and everyone else, you're the wiig party. if we stay together and hold true to true principles without regard to party, the republicans will go the way of the whigs. and we win. >> you know, there's an old saying in texas and a lot of other places, fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. >> they lied to ronald reagan and they have been lying for the last six months to the american people, they're not going to get away with it this time. because we'll give you a chance to work. but we should not be giving a chance to be a taker. >> there are people who are coming here who want to come to cut your lawn and have a better life. but there are p

i'm going to let john boehner bring it to the floor. if it passes i think that is what is going to happen. >> we shall see, watch this space carefully. joy reid and e.j. dionne, thank you for joining us. >> great to be with you. >>> this morning we lost a friend and colleague. writer and reporter michael hastings died in a car accident in los angeles today, he was 33, he most recently worked at "buzz feed," although you can find his news in a number of areas. michael was brash, funny, fearle fearless, and he will be missed. she's always been able to brighten your day. it's just her way. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual a

i'm going to let john boehner bring it to the floor. if it passes i think that is what is going to happen. >> we shall see, watch this space carefully. joy reid and e.j. dionne, thank you for joining us. >> great to be with you. >>> this morning we lost a friend and colleague. writer and reporter michael hastings died in a car accident in los angeles today, he was 33, he most recently worked at "buzz feed," although you can find his news in a number of areas. michael was brash, funny, fearless, and he will be missed. [ phil ] when you have joint pain and stiffness... accomplishing even little things can become major victories. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. when i was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel for my pain and stiffness, and to help stop joint damage. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders, and allergic reactions have occurred. before

you know, john boehner really is in a pickle, because a huge chunk of his caucus doesn't want to pass anything. you know, they don't want to pass a farm bill, they're certainly not want to pass immigration reform. they don't want to do anything, basically. and he does. so what's a solution there? i'm not sure. you know, he could ram through immigration and ram through a form bill, lose his speakership. >> ram through implies taking the lead, which john boehner has proven himself constitutionally unable to do. >> exactly.

it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> john boehner needs to have a talk -- 2012 john boehner needs to have a talk with 2013 john boehner to remind him about what he said about finding common ground to take care of immigration reform once and for all. i'll explain, ahead. [ male announcer ] zzzquil. it's not for colds, it's not for pain, it's just for sleep. because sleep is a beautiful thing™. zzzquil. the non-habit forming sleep-aid from the makers of nyquil®. ♪ because all these whole grains aren't healthy unless you actually eat them ♪ multigrain cheerios. also available in delicious peanut butter. healthy never tasted so sweet. >>> we go into this weekend with much more clarity than we've had in a long time about just who it is that will determine the fate of 11 million of our fellow americans. yesterday this historic vote happened. bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform passing 68-32. and now it's on to the house of representatives whose speaker, john boehner, was quick to issue this edict. >> apparently some haven't gotten the message. the house is not going to ta

john boehner doesn't care about that. all i cares about is -- all he cares about is holding on to the house in 2014 and he thinks this comprehensive immigration bill will make it harder for republicans to hold on to the house because the tea party won't like it if they pass it. he's thinking about 2014. what do we see on social media? >> talking about the political aspect of this. we're tweeting at bpshow where john says this is a win for democrats. they get a bipartisan bill in the senate. but no law ultimately because of g.o.p. intransigents. where will latino voters go? >> bill: no. it is a big win for the democratic party. stupid move on the part of the republican party. brandon in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. hello, brandon. >> hey, bill, how you doing? >> bill: good. what do you think about all of this? >> caller: you're right about it is overkill on the border. i don't understand how we would let 11 million immigrants who came over here illegally and broke our laws to get pretty much like you said amnesty on the whole

john boehner has called edward snowden a traitor, i think john boehner embodies the prevail is it conservative view the last decade, but it's also a republican party that wastes no opportunity to attack president obama, so he's looking for a way. that's what i hear when i hear that. >> i totally agree steve. >> we could do an entire block on his vision of the world. he discussed today the convicted philadelphia doctor as a reason we need the house's latest draconian anti-abortion bill. can i ask you, joy, why do republicans think using the name of a man convicted on three counts of first-degree murder, justify laws which limit women's civil rights? >> yeah, it's really a hail mary pass to take the most egregious case. this was a horrific case. i think the conservatives were unsuccessful, but john boehner, as always, is trying to find a way to get right with the farthest right part of his party. he is really not at home in that side of the party, but he tries to find was rhetorically to be with them. if they're going to pass 56 repeals, that's his favor issue john boehner is always a speaker in

stick around for the oracle earnings and the exclusive with john boehner. all in the second hour of the "closing bell." >> and it is 4:00 on wall street. do you know where your money is? welcome to the "closing bell." the bears ruled the day on the street. dow closingity worst day of the year. down 5% from highs and today we are looking at decline of 2 1/3 percent. mark set shy of the lowest levels of the afternoon. 370 point just about 15 minutes or so ago. the dow below 15,000. down 352 point on the session. all sectors down across the board today. the s&p 500 losing 40 point on the nasdaq composite. sharp 78 point lower. hair cut on the nasdaq. we have complete coverage of this big two-day sell off. bob pisani, rick santelli, mike pento, brian reling and hedge heather hughs standing by. we the get to john once the numbers are out. see what they say about oracle and technology sector right now. first, let's break down the huge sell off with bob pisani. bob, what happened today? >> it wasn't just the feds. several factors moved the market to down side. let

once again, questioning speaker john boehner's ability to control his troops. six months ago, republicans embarrassed the gentleman from ohio by refusing to back his plan b. debt deal. six months later, speaker boehner is now so accustomed to rumors regarding his impending dismissal, he is making jokes about it. >> the representative said you would bring immigration reform to the floor without the support of the conference and you would lose your job. do you think that's accurate? >> maybe. >> in an interview with cnbc, boehner acknowledged that getting stand in the back is, hey, it's just part of the gig. >> as a speaker, i take a lot of hits. i get a lot of hatchets thrown at my back every day. listen, it comes with the territory. >> the continual backstabbing and frontal assaults prompted one democratic aide to tell the "huffington post" no wonder he smokes. but the national review observed, the honey badger that is the house gop don't care. >> oh, the honey badgers are just crazy! >> joining me today, "washington post" columnist and msnbc political analyst,

that wit from john boehner reflects where he is with his confidence. back in january '12 republicans defected and since then he's struggled to corral his conference with his initiatives. i think boehner's wait and see approach, let the rohrabachers, but you don't see boehner being publicly opposed to immigration reform, he's just being cagey how he'll move forward. that's an important distinction because john boehner, kevin mccarthy, you don't hear them railing against this bill. they're being cautious knowing how fragile the house conference is, how they move ahead. >> we talk about will they just vote in the senate. the republicans officially are talking about having their own bill coming out of the house. you have goodlatte, he has a piecemeal approach. the key is anything the republicans propose is not going to have the path to citizenship in it. >> that's right. so, officially how congress makes a law is that maybe the house passes something, the senate passes something, they come together and work out their differences. it doesn't always work all

of course john boehner's caught in this interesting position. where the base of the republican party -- you saw that from that tea party rally -- they don't support this. there are senators -- you're going to be interviewing corker shortly who might be able to say look, i can be for this, as well as a pathway to citizenship. >> how has rubio handled this? we saw folks at the capitol complaining. how has he done this delicate balance? >> it's been difficult. doing legislation has been hard. covering the health care legislation from '09 to 2010, it's never pretty. always the hope is you actually get something passed. you can tout that i took all these slings and arrows and survived. that's what you'll probably hear rubio say if this thing passes. >> could be a lot of credit for a lot of folks. thanks very much. >>> coming up next, we shift to syria. we're going to talk to democratic senator chris murphy about why he's challenging the president over arming syrian rebels. >>> we remember a new jersey original. the sudden death of actor james gandolf

behind that, that republican universe in the house, jeopardizes john boehner? >> i suppose it could. isn't -- isn't there a threat that the republicans will say they -- will order him not to bring it to the floor and unless a majority of the caucus supports him? >> is there -- >> movement to change the rules of the conference? is that right? where this -- this -- informal idea of the majority of the -- majority would become the formal rule, you have to have a majority support of the majority to invade it. >> where does that stand? anybody know? >> i mean, people have been talking about it for a while. i think a lot of republican was like to but -- john baron does want to. >> whatever power he has. >> i don't see it happening. a lot members of the republican caucus -- are actually grateful for this dynamic, for things that need to pass, pass without them to vote for them. if you had the hastert rule they would not be able to do that. it is what helped them avoid various political distiers and didn't actually want to run past the debt ceiling. this was the way th

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so john boehner has a choice. he can get stuff done in the house by working with the democrats or keep his job at speaker by placating his base but not get anything done. >> this is another testament to how weak his leadership is. they snuck something in thinking they would get democrats to go along. there were enough republicans who said why am i going to stick my neck out if we're losing democrats. clearly he does not have control of his caucus. >> dana, it's not even mere counting because republicans sacrifice democratic votes with the extreme sutherland amendment you referred to. incentivized states, kicking families off of s.n.a.p. and the far right jump ship anyway, i can't tell you which is worse, their morality or political instincts. >> they jump ship for a couple of different reasons. the fact of the matter is, this bill was going to pass even though there were cuts to food stamps. the republicans weren't -- the 62 republicans weren't at all concerned to the cuts to the food stamps. they wanted more. the

to bring it back to john boehner, john boehner is caught in a sways where he has some big money corporate forces that he's used to appeasing who want a certain kind of immigration reform. he's trying to go up against an ideology zenophobic on what have of those corporate forces. >> michael: i am going to apologize to you thinking that john boehner might have had good intentions even for a moment. let's move to the nsa leak. president obama has been making the rounds. let's take a listen. >> i would provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools that they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our constitution and our freedom. that means no more illegal wiretapping of american citizens. that's not who we are. that's not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists. >> and what i can say in evaluating these programs, they make a difference in our capacity to anticipate and prevent possible terrorist activity. >> michael: well, it's a little unfair to compare them because in the first video he was actually 11 years old, but the difference in tone as

john boehner is a tactic without a strategy. he lives to survive with the gavel on a daily basis. >> i agree. >> but he has no long-term strategy to govern the country and it is why we have this political partisan mess on our hands. >> he's not a nut. he doesn't fit in. yesterday, eric cantor blamed democrats for the bill's defeat. let's watch that. >> what we saw is today was a democratic leadership in the house that was insistent to undo years and years of bipartisan work on an issue like a farm bill and decide to make it a partisan issue. >> well, what do you make of that? was it about the food stamps, the fact that there was a poison pill thrown in here? >> you know, i love the finger pointing from the majority leader who's in charge of getting a majority to pass bills. here's what happened. when the democrats were in the majority, we passed a farm bill with over 300 votes, democrats ab-republicans because it was based on compromise. compromise was we support assistance to farmers and also support settlemental nutrition assi

do they even care if john boehner looks like an idiot? do they precount the votes in that is kevin mccarthy's job. to david's point, you shouldn't be bringing bills to the floor unless you have a count. they couldn't even getting a gri business taken care of. >> it's very true. i'm afraid we don't have enough time for any more laughs. joy reid and david corn, and great thanks to eric cantor. >>> coming up, snap goes the farm bill. it's another questionable moment in the life and times of the great speaker. >> what is happening on the floor today was a demonstration of major amateur hour. they didn't get results, and they put the blame on somebody else. the boys used double miles from their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hello. mother. mother! traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly any airline anytime. two words. double miles! this guy can act. wanna play dodge rock? oh, you guys! and with double miles you can actually use, you never miss the fun. beard grow

john boehner has been a representative from ohio since 990. we are so pleased that he is peaker of the house. i can tell you that just watching him, i have had the opportunity to interact not only with the speaker, but his incredibly talented staff. the job of speaker of the house, i believe, is the hardest one that exists in washington, d.c.. the drop of speaker of the house i believe is the hardest one that exists in washington dc. imagine if you had 435 cats, and anyone who had a cat knows knows there are no to cats the same personality. equally debt to the united states house are presented to us read the speaker is -- equally that to the house of representatives. the speaker has a great leadership team that's also focused on jobs, and we are really pleased that he's here to talk to us today about their platform. but i wanted to tell you a little about the speaker that you may not know. first of all, one of the reasons that john boehner is one of the greatest people in washington, .c. is because he's from ohio. i appreciate that. he used he

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 boehner to bring the legislation to the house floor even though it it will almost certainly not have the support of a majority of house republicans. so that's the game plan. the goal is get 70 votes in the senate, a goal that has seemed, well, further away by the day lately. when one of the bill's architects, marco rubio, i see you, started flirting with killing in. in order to stabilize and further build support from their side of the the aisle, bob corker struck a deal with the gang o

zillow >>> i almost feel bad for john boehner at this point. today was so bad it was enough to bring tears to your eyes. if there's one thing you should be able to do as speaker of the u.s. house of representatives it is a thing john boehner failed to do today, which is pass a farm bill. a farm bill is one of the pieces of legislation that's generally passed without controversy at fairly regular intervals. it's usually the definition of routine business in congress. today in a surprise turn the house voted down the farm bill. >> 62 republicans joined the kras in voting to defeat the bill. most oppose massive cuts to the food stamp program. republicans thought it didn't cut the program enough. but regardless of why the farm bill failed, its failure was a great defeel for john boehner and a victory for anybody who cares about making sure the poor have enough to eat. because this farm bill was, how can i put this, a piece of garbage. we have been talking about how this bill would have cut $20 billion over ten years from the federal food stamp prog

and "sincerely, john boehner." clearly, speaker boehner, a man on fire. joining us now is democratic congressman chris van hollen of maryland. welcome, sir. my apologies for you for my somewhat limited acting skills. how galling is it for you to hear the speaker try to pin legislative obstruction on the president? i mean, even he didn't sound like he believed what he was trying to sell us today, did he. >> martin, this is one of the most outrageous displays of what i would call political twister that i've ever seen because -- >> some people call it rank hypocrisy, sir. >> that would fit the bill very well here. because what you have is a situation where the speaker of the house, john boehner, is on record right now refusing to go to a budget conference so that the house and the senate can work out our differences on the budget, so we can move on with the process, try and replace the sequester. deal with all the important issues for jobs and the economy. he is standing in the way every day to the point where even senator mccain said the republic an positio

guest: i think john boehner is plenty tough. i do not think you get to be speaker of the house by being a wallflower. he can make the tough decisions. he has made the tough decisions. when he needs to be confrontational, he can be. i think the bigger issue for what is going on in the house is the lack of ability of the leadership to exert power. i take us back to campaign- finance reform, mccain-feingold, when they destroyed the power of the political parties. then at the house took away the to do earmarks. this is not a john boehner issue. this is the ability of the leadership to exert discipline. if you're going to have a speaker of the house and a house majority that has to work its will, and the way to be successful is by exerting discipline, you need to give the leadership those tools. they do not have them from a fund-raising or earmarked standpoint. host: based on that point, let me share with you the point from dana milbank on darrell issa's scandals -- guest: i think darrell issa has been very aggressive. host: too aggr

up next "on the money," my one on one with the speaker of the house, john boehner. he talks about the fed policy, immigration and the economy. and the issue that has him all fired up. >> i can say the sun is not going to come up tomorrow, but guess what? it is. >> take a look at how the stock ended the week. back in a moment. >> welcome back, house speaker john boehner, a man under a microscope, republicans recently failed to pass a farm bill that was expected to go through. his leadership is being challenged in the house, and everyone is waiting and watching to see what will happen with the crucial immigration topic. >> you know, you cannot continue to deflate our money and deflate it and deflate it, have the equity markets go up, without -- without some change. now, bernanke has made it clear, he is doing thinks policies in the absence of the government doing its part. to help improve our economy. that is why depositimocrats and republicans here on capitol hill, and the president, need to fix the tax code that will help us promote economic growth and deal with the

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

john boehner can't get the job done. it's friday, june 21st, and this is "now." >>> the dysfunction of the people's house was on full display yesterday, as the farm bill went down in flames, offering yet another striking example of how republican leadership is unable to count votes. shortly before the vote, agriculture committee chair, frank lucas, pleaded with his colleagues not to abandon ship. >> vote with us. vote with me on final. and if you don't, when you leave here, they'll just say it's a dysfunctional body, a broken institution, full of dysfunctional people. that's not true! >> actually, it is. describing the come immediatecally doomed house vote, politico reported someone in the house leadership screwed up again. the defeat of the farm bill shows once again how massively dysfunctional the house and leadership has become. still, that did not stop the very same leadership from taking to the floor of the house to blame democrats for the failure of the bill, even though 62 republicans defected on their own bill. >

to learn more, visit coke.com/comingtogether >>> will john boehner take a gamble on immigration. it's wednesday, june 19th, and this is "now." >>> i'm joy reid in for alex wagner. yesterday after a tough day of setbacks in the house and dlib bir ra ber races in the senate, they got a big boost. the senate immigration bill would decrease federal budget deficits by $197 billion between 2013 and 2033. the -- 2023. the washington post ez ra clyne writes, this isn't just a good cbo report, it's a wildly good cbo report. they're saying immigration reform is a free lunch. the report comes at a critical time with majority leader harry reed and the gang of 8

>> part two of my exclusive interview with the house speaker, john boehner, is coming up. we'll talk about the irs scandal, government surveillance, getting things done in washington. stay with us. back in a moment. ideas, goals, appetite for risk. you can't say 'one size fits all'. it doesn't. that's crazy. we're all totally different. ishares core. etf building blocks for your personalized portfolio. find out why 9 out of 10 large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospectus, which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. read and consider it carefully before investing. risk includes possible loss of principal. ♪ [ male announcer ] the parking lot helps by letting us know who's coming. the carts keep everyone on the right track. the power tools introduce themselves. all the bits and bulbs keep themselves stocked. and the doors even handle the checkout so we can work on that thing that's stuck in the thing. [ female announcer ] today, cisco is connecting the internet of everything. so

john boehner does not like the senate bill. the house is working on narrow kind of noncontroversial immigration bill. so this -- this legislation has a long way to go, eric. >> do you think there'll be some type of compromise? can there be between the senate and the house or right now there's just too far off? >> no. i think that those talks could go on for months. that's the danger here. is that immigration reform could get bogged down in a conference between the house and the senate. and why? because of the pathway to citizenship. a lot of the conservatives in the house are strongly opposed to the senate bill and the pathway to citizenship. but a decent amount of senate republicans support it. so that's where i think the block is going to be. the house is certainly not going to be moving the senate immigration bill, at least not any time soon. >> you're talking about a sizable number of senators. they talk about 15 republican senators supporting that. can they potentially sway some of the recalcitrant members of the house to

and then john boehner -- i mean, i just find that amazing. again, it's a human moment. but -- was that a mistake? i mean, she doesn't realize the cameras are on her sometimes or michael, do you think that's just another example of well that's why people like her, she'll roll her eyes at john boehner. >> i think that was a mistake and i think that's also why people like her. what i'm reminded of here, there was a big incident in the truman administration, where a music critic for the "washington post" named paul hume gave a really nasty review to truman's daughter, margaret. and truman wrote him a letter which was immediately publicized, basically threatening to beat him up. and everyone said, oh, this is so terrible, it's beneath the president of the united states. >> it's totalitarian and fascist. >> sometimes you have to react to people being jerks in a very definitive way, and i'm glad the first lady did it. i've never approved of anything she has done as much as this. >> wow, well, i have to say -- >> listen, aaron, i roll my eyes every time john boehner talks, so i

speaker, the big question here is will john boehner, should john boehner go forward with a bill that does not have the support of the majority of republicans. >> no. i don't think he will. i think john boehner will find a way to get the majority of republicans and a majority of democrats, and there will be a more conservative bill than the senate and a bill that is stronger on bored security than the senate. >> you think a majority of republicans are going to sign on to a bill that includes a path to citizenship? >> sure. depending on how long and the circumstances, yeah. most people have two general beliefs, one is that you got to do something when you have 11 million people currently outside the legal system. the other is you have got to control the future. that means you have got to control the border and got to have an employment system that includes guest workers or kid yourself, and ten years from now be back here. i think boehner has been very careful. he's not going to carry everybody. i think so he'll carry a majority of the republican conference or not bring a bill to the f

it is a problem that john boehner -- john boehner three times already has violated what the hastert rule is. the hastert rule named for speaker dennis hastert was that you only bring up legislation when you're in control of the house when a majority of your own caucus is on board in support of it. he three times on relief for hurricane sandy victims, on the violence against women act and on the fiscal cliff at the beginning of the session he three times brought up legislation and passed it with a minority of his own party and democrats providing the margin of victory. and, you know, that i think in all three cases it was in the interest of the nation, certain in the interest of the party not to go on record against violence against women and not to be against hurricane sandy victims but it does jeopardize his leadership, his -- i think his speakership. he's under siege right now. >> it's hard to believe there's anybody else who could be doing any better. >> i agree. >> this is the structure of the party right now and we're going to have a presidential election and somebody like rand paul

john boehner, the speaker, who i like, but john boehner, who got beat up by his own caucus, who suggested he would bring immigration to the floor without having the majority of republicans, having that discussion with this taking place is more stinging. with tom delay, as much as i disagree with him, there was never a time he brought a bill to the floor for consideration where he didn't have enough votes before hand or he didn't keep the vote open long enough until he had the votes. i remember the famous vote for medicare, 3:00, 4:00 in the morning we were there till until he had enough votes. >> you know who else wouldn't do that is nancy pelosi. if she brought a bill, she was guaranteeing those 218 votes, and she got them. she got them every time or she didn't bring it up. >> how do you think this happened, joe? >> so you know, there has been this sort of urban legend growing up around a variety of bills this year. one, background checks. if we get 70 or 80 votes around background checks in the senate, which they couldn't even get 60, then the house will have to pass it. or we're hearin

they used to hammer out progress. >> classic john boehner. john boehner is that kind of republican. it's. right. >> so when he throws it back to half of my republicans need to approve of something before we actually put it on the floor, i think we are going abackwards. hopefully he can get to the point where he says let's deliberate like a house should. let's have people say what they want to say. they have the right to do that and let's move forward. i think we will have a bill going to conference. >> bill: it may be we should take it for granted. i want to ask you the question. how important this issue now this year that action happen to the latino community? >> i think it's important. it's long overdue. i think latinos realize that the politics in washington matter to this country. i think latino households whether you have an immigrant in the household to the or not, they remember grandma or great grandma came to this country. it's not just latinos. >> good point? >> we have tens of thousands of irish who would love to get documented right there in boston, working in constructio

. >> john boehner likely will have to do it with democratic votes. >> immigration reform, that is a very difficult issue. >> remember this, we're still in the senate. >> leahy from vermont wants gay elements to bring in their friends. >> marco rubio is doing something very interesting. >> i respect people's views on the issue, this is already tough enough as it is. >> he is playing it down both sides against the middle. >> i have never seen a politician do that. >> i mean, if amnesty goes through, it is over, you have 11 million legalized. >> will never win another national election. thank you, marco rubio. >> he announced a new bill. >> thank you, marco rubio. >> many americans already say it is the goodest news they have heard all year. >> republicans thought they had a way of killing immigration reform today. it came in the form of what they called a poison pill amendment, something that if it gets in the bill it will create enough opposition to the bill to kill the bill. the poison bill was offered by republican senator chuck grassley, but five republicans opposed their party and kep

. >> michael: tough times for house speaker john boehner. this is what a rebellion sounds like at the u.s. house of representatives. >> the yays are 1 5. the nays are 234, the bill is not passed. >> michael: that's a bill despite speaker john boehner's support. a test that he clearly failed. boehner faced an up-hill battle trying to obscure enougher republican votes. 52 republicans defies boehner by killing the vote. if the senate can get it's act together on immigration, all eyes will be on boehner as the bill could head to the house very soon. it turns out that the senate is, in fact, going to get it's act together on immigration. a new plan with a catchy name. border surge with a support of both parties. bob corker and john hoeven of north dakota, wrote the new agreement in hopes of softening g.o.p. opposition. the republican colleagues argue that the original gang of eight proposal didn't do enough to supremesecure the border at mexico. this new border surge deal calls for 20,000 new border patrol agents, doubling the agency. here's bob

john boehner is calling on the senate to pass a bill. it has not passed a bill. last year they were very much on defense on this. this will be a big issue this week. host: first call for bob cusack. tammy from huntland, tennessee. caller: i have a question. back in 2006 when senator corker -- it was gerald ford and it came up about illegal immigration. it came up that senator corker and some of his construction business -- he's a millionaire, you know -- was because of illegal labor. i find it offensive that he should remove himself from voting, since he used illegal labor to profit. also the hill came out for illegal immigration, so i don't think we will get fair answers from you. host: we are not taking a position on the immigration reform bill. we are a nonpartisan pubbledation indication. i'm not sure what he said during the campaign race, but it is worth looking into what he said then and now. the interesting thing about senator corker, he has almost broken -- forged deals with democrats on auto bailouts and other issues. he is a centrist. he has struck a de

even if this passes with a vote next week, it's not being taken up right away. 00 john boehner wants to --house speaker john boehner wants to vote on this later this year. >>> there's new information about the effort to find missing teen sierra lamar. it is warming up just in time for the weekend on this first full day of summer. but rosemary orozco will be here to talk about a major change and when you will need your umbrella. >>> and to go along with the warmer temperatures, comes the nascar race going on this weekend. we'll preview the race as well as how you can beat the traffic. >>> we're getting word of a grass fire burning along 880 in oakland. here's a live look from the ktvu roof cam. you can see the plume there. so far traffic does not appear to be affected on 580. we do have a crew on the way to the scene. we'll bring you more details as they become available. >>> only on 2, a new effort to catch the person who killed a single mother. silvia valdivia was found stabbed in her home at the river shore apartments on willow pass road six years ago. investigators say there was n