Good evening from washington. Im ezra klein sitting in for chris hayes. Earlier today, an afghan soldier being trained by the United States, so in theory, an ally, opened fire on nato troops in a military Training Academy killing twostar Major General harold j. Greene, and wounding 15 others. Major general greene is the highest ranking u. S. Military officer to be killed in overseas combat since vietnam war. Since the vietnam war. He served as the Deputy Commanding general of combined security transition command in charge of training and developing the Afghan National security force. The attack took place at the Marshal FaheemNational Defense university, a military Training Facility located on the outskirts of kabul where Security Officers are being trained by coalition troops. A large group of american and Coalition Forces led by the general were at the Afghan Military academy examining a new water tank when without warning, an afghan soldier from a nearby barracks opened fire with a machine gun. Taking direct aim at the u. S. Military officers. Killing general greene and wounding eight other americans. The gunman, himself, was soon killed by return fire. In all, 16 military were killed or wounded including two british, one german, and four afghans. Afghan President Hamid karzai condemned the attack saying it is an act by the enemies who dont want to see afghanistan have strong institutions. A taliban spokesperson did not take credit for the attack. Thats important. But praised the afghan soldier as a hero. Todays incident is the second socalled insider attack this year. Thats the name given when an Afghan Security force turns on their nato partners. The attacks peaked, the insider attacks peaked in 2012 with 38 such attacks killing 53 coalition troops. After a series of additional security measures were put in place, the number of such incidents has dropped dramatically. Last year, 16 americans were killed in 10 socalled insider attacks. Todays tragic attack outside of kabul was the first such insider attack in afghanistan in months. Joining me now on the phone is admiral john kirby, press secretary for the pentagon. Admiral, its good to have you here. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Can you walk us through your understanding of what happened earlier today . Well, the details are still coming in. This incident is under investigation. What we know is there was a Coalition Member visit to the after began military academy. Its their version of west point, really. Its where their train their officer corps. It was a official visit, not just by american troops, but by International Troops as well as Afghan National leaders. To look at the facility and improvements that had been made there. In the process of touring the facility, shots rang out. It appears right now they came from a building, obviously by an individual we believe to be an afghan soldier. Thats the assumption going into this thing. Fire was returned by the security personnel with the group killing the assailant. It was able to hit 15 in the group, wounding 14 and, of course, killing general greene. So you make the analogy to west point which is very exclusive American Military academy. You mentioned this university trains the officer corps within the Afghan Security force. How does it happen within that Afghan Security elite you have someone whos lying in wait to pull off this kind of attack against western trainers . Thats a great question. Again, thats one of the questions i think that the investigators are going to try to figure out the answers to. Its not clear right now that the assailant was quote unquote lying in wait. This could have been just an act of rage and not necessarily premeditated or even preplanned. So well try to get to the end of this. I think thats what the investigators are going to be working hard on, but, again, really tragic day for the greene family, of course, and our thoughts and prayers go out to them, but also for not juf the u. S. Army, but for all of our afghan and coalition partners. Given the prevalence of these insider attacks before the stricter security measures were implemented over the last couple years, what should people think about the Afghan Security forces ability to hold the country, to defeat the taliban after western troops withdraw over the next couple of years . I think what people ought to look at is how well theyve done in just the last year. I mean, they helped secure not just one, but two national elections. They helped secure the transportation of all of the ballot boxes or virtually all the ballot boxes to kabul for this auditing process thats gone on. Theyre in the lead in combat operations throughout the country. As you noted right before you put me on, the incidents of these insider attacks have greatly diminished over the last couple of years. Not just in par to measures we put in place, but due in part to the confidence, competence, and military capability of our afghan partners. They are doing much better this year. They have had a very solid performance this year. We expect that that performance will continue. In fact, one of the things general greene was trying to help him do in his capacity as deputy trainer of the training command, this is based on his personal experience as an engineer in the army, was to help them build the capacity to handle their own logistics and supply needs. Thats one of the things as we get ready to hand off complete responsibility to them, we want to make sure theyre able to do. In the combat arena, theyre strong fighters and proven that time and time again in the field. President hamid karzai said this was an act by those who dont want afghanistan to have strong institutions. How much are we still doing to help with other institutions primarily political and civil . Well, the cooperation with our afghan partners stretches more than just in the security environment. It does stretch to helping them, and this isnt a military mission, but an interagency mission. Our state Department Colleagues are involved in this helping to build the kinds of strong governing institutions that can help them secure the country when the mission changes at the end of this year. So were working across all the levels of influence and power of the government to do that. Its not just military, not just security. And, again, were aided in that by our by teammates internationally and through the u. S. Inner agency. Pentagon press secretary rear admiral john kirby who joined us while in flight. Many thanks for joining us this even. My pleasure. Thanks for having me. Right now, there are an estimated 32,000 american troops still in afghanistan. That is a number that is expected to drop to less than 10,000 next year. By the end of 2016, there will be only a residual u. S. Force left in afghanistan and an unspecified number of nato troops. And that timetable for withdrawal announced by the president earlier this year, that is at the heart of the political response to todays tragic events. House Speaker John Boehner said earlier today he has told the president that his biggest concern is that america will end its mission in afghanistan just short of the goal line. House Armed Service chairman buck mckean said, the event only underscores the importance of leaving afghanistan when the job is finished rather than stubbornly adhering to arbitrary political deadlines. Senator robert menendez, democrat from new jersey, however, said todays events should not change the president s withdrawal timeline. We have shed a lot of lives and National Treasure in afghanistan and we want to see the successful conclusion. It is worth adding some context to this debate. The United States has been at war in afghanistan for almost 13 years. 13 years. Over 2,200 american troops have been killed. Almost 15,000 afghan civilians have been killed in the last 6 years, alone. Today there are privates in the u. S. Army who were in preschool on september 11th, 2001. Think about that for a second. Joining me now, former marine corps captain, matthew hoh. He was a state Department Official in afghanistan but resigned in 2009 in protest over u. S. Strategic policy there. Matthew, its good to have you here. Thank you. Thank you, ezra, for having me on. So what should we take from the continuation of these insider attacks . What does our ability to turn the country over to the Afghan Security force look like to you . Well, you know, the first, of course, you know, our heart goes out to general greenes family. I didnt know him, but, you know, like in all these stories, ezra, he was probably a very good man. He had a ph. D. In engineering. You have to think, what a waste. What could he have done here in his own community, in his own home, rather than being part of this effort that youve described so aptly as its going on and on without any end . I think what is so perversely fitting about this murder, and i hope not to be taken out of context about this, but why it was appropriate that it occurred at the location it did was because it occurred at the Marshal Fahim military academy. For those who dont know, fahim was one of karzais Vice President s, also a defense minister. He was a notorious war lord. Also one of the biggest drug lords in afghanistan. Weve known this for decades. And still weve kept him in a position of power. Weve watched as hes stolen american reconstruction money over and over again to the tune of millions. Five years ago the New York Times ran a very extensive profile on him on the front page and citing how american officials, both Bush Administration and obama administration, knew how corrupt and how bloody this Vice President of afghanistan was. And so i think the fact that general greene was killed at this at the afghan version of west point, which is named after Marshal Fahim really sums up our war in afghanistan, that it is so absurd its lost any meaning, theres no purpose. And so further loss of American Life in afghanistan, i think its a really hard argument for the administration to make. This is our longest war. Its the most unpopular war than any other war in american history. Including the vietnam war. And so i think its really difficult for anyone to trust the administration in their arguments on why american soldiers have to continue to die for a government that is as corrupt as what we see in afghanistan. Well, then, on the other side of that argument, you have the administration arguing for this still multiyear timeline for full withdrawal. But their primary opposition is not really people saying get out now, right . Its people saying you are getting out into early, right . We heard john boehner, we heard congressman mckean. So, what is your answer to them . Because they believe they say publicly they believe, and so do, you know, some colleagues of yours, not of your institution, but in the Foreign Policy community, that we are leaving too early, theres a mission there that we can complete and it is closer to done but not done yet. Id ask them first what is the mission . I heard the comments from buck mckean and john boehner about goal lines and all these other type of analogies to Sports Events which seem to common in d. C. To compare to war which anyone whos been to war knows that there is no analogy to war. So id ask them, first, what is the mission . We al qaeda attacked us on 9 11. We chased them out of afghanistan soon thereafter and they turned into this ideological cloud that exists throughout the world. If we look at the attacks that occurred by al qaeda since 9 11, almost all of them are caused by homegrown terrorists. People who come from the u. S. Or the uk or from spain or north africa or other locations. So this notion that somehow we need to be afghanistan to prevent another 9 11 because al qaeda needs some type of personal space, some type of territory, just isnt found out by the evidence of the last nearly 13, 14 years. Matthew hoh from the center of international policy. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you, ezra. 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But here are the numbers on the palestinian side of this military victory. As hamas termed it. In gaza, Palestinian Health officials said the death toll reached 1,875. Well over 1,200 of them, maybe many more than that were civilians. Well over 1,200. And according to unicef, announcing today that over 400 of those killed were children. More than 70 of those children were 12 or younger. That is to say nothing of the wounded or damage done to gazas roads and its sanitation systems. That hamas could call this a victory of any sort is telling. And now as israeli and palestinian delegations arrive in cairo to negotiate a longterm truce, the focus turns to a political resolution and what comes next for the actual people on both sides of the conflict. With hamas insisting on an end to the gaza blockade, and israel pushing for hamas to completely disarm, much will depend on sentiment on the ground. As israelis return home near the gaza border, questions about safety remain. We scared. We scared of living here. We dont want to leave our country. Just getting rid of the tunnels, its not enough. As long as the hamas is anywhere in the region. In a poll conducted by israels channel 2, only 30 said the military operation had increased their security. And in gaza today, where daily life began to resume after four weeks of aerial bombardment, half a million residents displaced in the fighting were finally able to go home only to find in many cases they had no home to go back to. The destruction throughout the territory is extensive. One palestinian official estimating it could run as high as 6 billion. Chris gunness, spokesman for the United Nations relief and works agency, joined me earlier from telaviv, and i asked him about the state of gazas infrastructure. What do residents actually have to go home to . Well, its a very good question, and im afraid to say it says a lot about where we are in gaza. That i dont have an answer. And just as after the fighting in 2008, 2009, teams of surveyors, engineers, had to go and make site visits for days, weeks, months on end. Thats where we are now. So what we saw in the last few hours is a dramatic reduction in the numbers in unwra shelters, so about 60,000 people left our shelters. Theyre going to a very uncertain future. Theyre going to see whats left of their houses. We estimate that tens of thousands of people have had their houses leveled. Many will have had their houses so badly destroyed theyre structurally unsound and unfit for habitation. And, of course, many of those homes will be connected to water and electricity grids that are no longer functional. So big unanswered questions, and its only one weve got out there in the field that well be able to see the scale of the problem. And also one other interesting thing, our concern is that this time around, perhaps unlike the fighting five years ago, it may be, and the early indications are, that domestic habitation, homes have been hit perhaps more than Public Infrastructure and other public buildings. One of the numbers i think about a lot in this conflict is that 43 of the residents of gaza are under the age of 15. What about their prospects for the future . Thus far, gaza has been under a blockade. I dont think theres reason to belief that blockade will be lifted after the end of kinetic of actual physical fighting. What about their schools . What about their job prospects . What about International Investment funds . What reason do they have to be hopeful . Well, there are very few unless the blockade is lifted, and i would go further and say that the prospects for lasting peace are very slim unless the blockade is lifted, and thats because of the very things that your question points to. You cannot keep a society behind a fence where theres over 40 unemployment. Where there hasnt been any serious exporting for about seven years. Where 95 of the water is undrinkable. Where you have huge problems of Public Infrastructure. What is the point of being educated in gaza today . Think about that. You got universities turning out graduates on to job markets with unemployment rates which are amongst the highest in the world. Then one has to ask the question, what does that do for the prospects of a place living next door to a neighbor that is prospering . Its the startup capital of the world. Is it in the interest of israel to have on its doorsteps millions of impoverished people without a future . What are the prospects of peace for israel with a neighbor being kept behind a fence and in that position . And when one starts to unpack that, the issue of the notion of being a Good Neighbor and the fact that peace is likely to take hold between Good Neighbors, then you start to see the prospects for gaza in a slightly different light because theres no doubt in my mind that the future of these two people are inextricably linked, and that is a reality which at some stage has to take hold. And in the kind of situation youre talking about, that level of unemployment and that level of impoverishment, is that of help to the sort of extremism factions in gaza . I dont mean here, hamas, but those that are further beyond them . Is that helpful to those who try to radicalize palestinians . Well, if you look at the history of islamic radicalism, forget just about gaza. Look at, for example, after the cairo earthquake. Look at, you know, any situation of impoverishment. Look at syria. You dont have to be the worlds leading political scientist to see the relationship between impoverishment and the kinds of ideologies that youre talking about. Im not here, though, as a political analyst. Im here as somebody working for a humanitarian organization, and for us, Human Development in and of itself is an end in itself. We do this because we think and we believe passionately in universal values. Its about making people achieve their full potential. We educate children so that they can make choices. We make choices. And let us hope that as we move forward beyond the period of the ceasefire, Human Development, allowing people in gaza to fulfill their full potential, is something which is firmly on the agenda. Chris gunness from the United Nations relief and works agency. Thank you, again, for being here. As the ebola virus spreads through africa, some Major Airlines announced they are canceling flights there. The latest, next. Hey pal . You ready . 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Yet congressman todd rokita used the outbreak as a cautionary message for addressing unaccompanied minors crossing the border. Here he is recounting a conversation with a doctor and fellow representative who helped write a letter to the president asking for more information on the minors arriving in their state. He said, look, we need to know just from a public held standpoint with ebola circulating and everything else, thats my addition to it, not necessarily his. He said we need to know the conditions of these kids as well. Never mind that anyone infected with the virus would be much, much, much too sick to make the long journey to cross the u. S. Border. According to arthur kaplan, director of bioethics at nyu langone medical center. Now, the idea of being diagnosed with ebola is terrifying, absolutely horrifying. Todays outbreak is the worst than ever, 1,600 suspected cases and 887 deaths according to the world health organization. It is not nearly as contagious as another more common disease. The flu, which you might have heard of, causes as many as 500,000 deaths each year. 500,000. Ebola is scarier with the whole sometimes bleeding from the eyes thing. But you are a lot less likely to die from it. In a press conference today, bruce johnson, director of sim usa, the organization Nancy Writebol is working for in liberia, added some perspective. I dont know if you know, but there are 50 doctors, liberian doctors, for 4 million people. The kind of infrastructure that we have in the u. S. Is something that really provides this. I saw a report, you can help me here, someone in new york went into a hospital and felt like they may have ebola. Thats exactly what people need to do, but its not available in liberia. They cant go to the hospital. And thats why its spreading. 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Where 78yearold senator pat roberts, whos been in Congress Since 1980, and who as his detractors are quick to point out, does not actually own a home in kansas, is facing a tea Party Challenge from a 43yearold radiologist named milton wolf. Wolf generated headlines for posting grisly xrays of gunshot victims on his Facebook Page then joking about them and for, believe it or not, being second cousin to president obama as laid out by Washington Post in this obama wolf family tree. Meanwhile, kansas governor sam brownback, whose disastrous selfdescribed experiment in governance left kansas with a 300 million revenue shortfall and increased poverty rate and statewide backlash thats been extensively covered here on all in. Brownback is expected to win his primary today. Some polls show him actually trailing democrat paul davis in the general election. And remarkably, more than 100 republican officials have now endorsed the democrat davis over brownback in that race. Theres National Political news as well with three big new polls including once released just hours ago from nbc news and the wall street journal providing insights into the state and the electorate nation. We have four numbers to help explain where america is politically now and you should be paying attention to tonight. Number one, americans seemed to have reached a Tipping Point when it comes to their own members of congress. Polls have long shown that while we have little regard for congress as a whole, we tend to like the person who represents us in the house. This is why even when congress is really unpopular as it is now, polls in recent years have shown congress to be less popular than Richard Nixon during watergate, less popular than paris hilton, than the band of nickelback, less popular than even head lice. Even though congress is really unpopular, most members of congress get reelected. People hate congress but they like their member of congress. But maybe not anymore. The new Washington Post abc news poll found that 51 now disapprove of the job their own member is doing. That is above the 50 threshold for the First Time Since the question was asked a quarter century ago. That is huge. Takeaway number two, the party of congressman mo brooks who this week accused democrats of waging a, quote, war on whites, continues to do absolutely terribly among minority groups. What a shock. Not much better among women. The post abc poll showed the Republican Party is viewed favorably by 25 of nonwhites while 70 view them unfavorably. That brings us to our third big takeaway. Americans are split on who they want controlling congress. In the new nbc news wall street journal survey, 44 want republicans in charge, while 43 want democrats in control. The nbc poll found while Congressional Democrats dont have a great reputation, 31 of voters have a positive image, while 46 have a negative one. Republicans fair much worse. Theyre viewed positively by just 19 , while 54 , 54 have a negative image of the party. That is a net negative of 35 points for the gop. Okay. So if people dislike republicans so much more, why are they split on who should control congress . It is related at least in part to president obama whose own Approval Rating this poll was 40 . More than one in five registered voters and 43 of republicans say their vote is meant as a check on republicans and Congressional Democrats. Our final takeaway shows america is depressed. 71 say the country is headed in the right direction. 76 are not confident their childrens generation will be better off than their own. We dont want to go out on such bad news, so lets take solace in the fact that even in this age of political polarization, and acrimony, the nbc news wall street journal poll found widespread agreement on russian president vladimir putin. Hes viewed positively by only 4 of registered voters. That is even worse than congress. 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In preparation for a likely 2016 president ial run, rand paul spent the last year reaching out to communities of color, specifically to americas latino community. February, he met with george p. Bush, the half mexican nephew of george w. Bush running for texas land commissioner because paul really, wanted to get advice from him as much as anything about how the party grows in texas and states with large hispanic populations. After their meeting, george p. Bush tweeted out a picture of him and senator paul, adding great to visit with senatorrandpaul. It should be noted this, quote, Bright Future of the gop, penned an opped for politico explaining why he was voting no on the Senate Immigration reform bill. Because, the legislation does not secure the border first. This despite spending a tremendous amount of money to secure the border and require the border be certified secure first before the path to citizenship could really work. Senator rand paul wants to be seen as a reformer, while at the same time being seen as an extremely staunch opponent of border security. In other words, he wants to appeal both to traditionally democratic groups as well as to the hardest of hardcore conservatives. When it comes to immigration, hed like to have it both ways. Which brings us to what happened yesterday in iowa. Senator rand paul sorry, senator paul was at a fundraiser for representative steve king, a man not in favor of immigration reform, to say the least. A short time after both men sat down to eat, they were confronted by Erika Andiola and cesar vargas. After the two identify themselves as dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to america as children, rand paul whos just taken a bite of his burger, takes off. While still chewing that bite of burger. He doesnt even have time to swallow. Hi, my name is erika. How are you . Question. Im actually a dreamer, myself, and im originally from mexico, but ive been raised here. I graduated from Arizona State university, actually. I know you want to get rid of daca. I want to give you the opportunity, do you really want to get rid of it . Just rip mine. Rand paul appears to have trouble swallowing his burger once erika announces shes a dreamer. He does a choking double take. His staffer shoots him a look, pushes back his chair and gestures to get the heck out of there. You can almost see the wiley coyote puff of smoke as he high tails it. This is another angle of paul and his staffer leaving. You can kind of see it better in this one. Yikes after that kentucky senator left, steve king hung around to hold the spirited discussion that paul probably wisely wanted no part of. For you to be fighting so much against dreamers, calling us names, saying that we have i dont call you names. I say no, no. Please, please. Stop a minute. Youre very good at english. You know what im saying. I was raised in the United States. Right. So you can understand the english language. I spoke of drug smugglers. Youre not going to tell me youre one of those, are you . Do i look like a drug smuggler to you . You can tell me. Im not. I graduated from Arizona State university with a bachelors degree. Im here to stop. You recognize that so your ears work, too, right . I know they do. And so and so, here, i was speaking of drug smugglers. Drug smugglers only. I wanted to serve my country. After 9 11 as an american. Even though i came when i was 5 years old. As an american, i tried to enter the military. The law says you have to be an american or a green card to join the military. Were americans. Abide by our laws. Joining me now, one of the dreamers you saw in the video, cesar vargas, codirector of the dream action coalition. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you so much for having me. What did you take away from your conversation with congressman king . I think it was very simple, its seeing the vision of a vision that the congressman sees. Its a vision of fear. A vision of pretty much really demonstrating the extremism of, especially on immigration, and the vision of, like, with erika and myself. We were there to tell him were american like anyone else and here to serve the country because we grew up here. Thats really what i took. And for me it was pretty insulting that actually theres a part where i actually brought up the fact that the first person who died in iraq in the iraq war was an undocumented immigrant. And, you know, this person fought for this country and congressman king was, like, hes a liar. He shouldnt have done that. So it really goes to show you how extreme he can be on this issue and any other issue. Yeah, well, its striking, you know, i almost give congressman king this. He didnt back down from what hed said when he spoke with you. He had told he had said previously of undocumented immigrants in the military, as soon as they raise their hand and say im unlawfully present in the u. S. , we shouldnt take their oath in the military, but were going to take your deposition and have a bus for you to tijuana. Do you think that the do you think that hispanics in america will accept this from folks like congressman king when you look at texas and arizona and states with those rising latino populations . Well, what i can see is this. A lot you know, there was a recent poll said that over 90 of people who know either family or friends. Just myself, the rest of the my family are either u. S. Citizens or lpr. This is my sister, who are going to be voting. When congressman king talks about immigrants with calves of the size of cantaloupes, hes talking about me, and my family and millions across the country are seeing that. And its something very personal and it can definitely guarantee that a nice commercial from the gop is not going to do the job, especially when we have members of Congress Like king talking about immigrants and talking about hardworking immigrants like our parents. So we can definitely see the striking distance that we have seen. Cesar vargas from the dream action coalition. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much. We are not done talking about that totally awkward video starring rand paul and steve king. More, next. So factors like diet can negatively impact good bacteria . Even if youre healthy and active. Phillips Digestive Health support is a duoprobiotic that helps supplement good bacteria found in two parts of your digestive tract. Im doubly impressed phillips Digestive Health. A daily probiotic. Been all fun and games, here at the harrison household. But one dark, stormy evening. She needed a good meal and a good family. So we gave her purina cat chow complete. 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I want to play for you both what senator rand paul said defending his quick exit from the steve king fundraiser yesterday. You are seen getting up after you have a bite of your hamburger, grabbing your drink as you trying to get away. Whats the explanation for this video . Five minutes before that or two minutes before that the another reporter came up and asked will you do an interview . I said ill take a couple more bites. Then i had to leave and do the interview. Christina, do you buy it . Well, i wasnt there. I mean, the republicans are in a difficult position right now, and you can understand why in a state like iowa, where somebody is testing the president ial waters, they want to avoid confrontations. But i will say this about senator paul. He has not been one to run from confrontation. He has answered a lot of questions. Hes gone to a lot of different audiences. This just illustrates what a tough position this is right now. For five weeks during recess. And, amanda, one of the things that what i was confused by is what was rand paul doing there at all . What is a republican who is does not shy away from confrontation, is trying to expand the Republican Partys appeal to minority voters. What is he doing at a steve king fundraiser . Its iowa, and if he wants to run for president , he needs to try to appeal to Iowa Republican voters and so he is there fundraising for an iowa congressman. But i mean, i think that maybe senator paul did have an interview. I think hes also smart enough to realize that being in a confrontation with the congressman and immigration activist is probably not the place he wants to be. Let the congressman deal with it and just sort of run away. That seems to be the problem, christina, for folks like paul even if they run very, very perfect campaigns and do do a very good job appealing to my minorities, theyre stuck with the steve kings and further out than that, the mo brooks. Dont forget, this is steve king who told our roll call reporter the bill, itself, was like he had ordered it off the menu. This is someone who is shaping republican policy right now and thats not a place Speaker John Boehner wants to be in. Even Mitch Mcconnell who had a successful effort defeating this bill, you know, the democratic bill on the senate side last week before they went for recess. They dont necessarily want to be in those positions, either. Steve king is looked at as one of the extreme sides. As amanda noted, its iowa, and roads do lead through steve king. This is happening all across the country right now. Lawmakers are going home. Theyre hearing from constituents. You have groups of dreamers, advocates going to apply the pressure at the same time the crisis is happening at the border and the antiimmigration folks who are still angry and worried congress is going to pass some sort of amnesty. Amanda, quickly, in something this is an agreement between paul and others. Is this something they can resolve before 2016 . I dont think so. There are very few issues where republicans are in agreement. The Democratic Party always used to be in disarray and disorganized. Right now its the Republican Party. Democrats have been much more organized. Amanda terkel from the Huffington Post and christina bellatoni. That is all in. Im ezra klein. Read more of my work at vox. Com. The Rachel Maddow show starts now with steve kornacki. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Rachel has the night off. This is the United States military academy, better known for the name of the town where its located, west point, as in west point, new york. Its at west point where they train cadets to serve in the u. S. Army. Its incredibly rigorous and incredibly prestigious fouryear program to go through. If you can make it through the four years at west point, you really are the best of the best. 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