No matter how often my friend rudely talks about me not breaking my word, im not going to respond talking about how many times hes broken his word. This morning the majority and minority leaders of the u. S. Senate will be here live. Is there any room for compromise on the big issues facing the Country Health care, jobs, and the economy . Or are the two parties entrenched, awaiting the next election . Majority leader harry reid and Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell square off. Plus, our roundtable weighs in on the politics of immigration, abortion, and the busy and lucrative life of a former cabinet second toir, potential 2016 powerhouse. Retar potential 2016 powerhouse. Good sunday morning. A lot of news this sunday morni morning. After deliberating 16 hours and 20 minutes, not guilty says the jury in the George Zimmerman trial, the trial filled with 12 days of emotional testimony and conflicting versions of what happened the night 16 months ago when Trayvon Martin was shot and killed. For reaction to the verdict, remaining questions, and what it all means, first we want to go live to sanford, florida. Nbcs Kerry Sanders who has been covering this case from the beginning. There was concern about negative reaction to this verdict perhaps spilling into the streets. The good news this morning, people just waking up, it has not been a violent night. Is that right . Reporter that is correct. Peaceful here, peaceful in south florida where Trayvon Martin was from. I was in the courtroom when the six female jurors entered the courtroom. As they walked in, not one of them looked over towards George Zimmerman sitting at the defense table. He stood up. They sat down. Then as the verdict was actually read in the court by the clerk of the courts, again, not one of those jurors looked over at George Zimmerman. They were then polled by the attorneys, as is custom, whether they had a unanimous decision, and then they left, again, not looking at George Zimmerman. This was a jury of six, six women, five of them mothers, five of them white, one of them described by the prosecutor as either black or hispanic, two of them gun owners. After they left, outside there was a fair amount of noise outside the courthouse that could not be heard up on the fifth floor. The jurors did not hear that. The rally was primarily those at least those who were most vocal were those who were disappointed with the outcome, complaining that they felt that the system had not delivered a verdict that they wanted. This is a community here of about well, we do the breakdown here, its 78 white, its 17 hispanic, and its 11 black. And the complaints have been since the very beginning here primarily from the Africanamerican Community that the system did not seem to represent them from the very beginning with the Police Department. There have been changes over time. The police chief has been removed. The lead detective who was strongly criticized at the beginning, he remains on the Police Department. He is the one who had put together an arrest affidavit. Well, they never actually executed that arrest affidavit. He was eventually put back in uniform, working occasionally on the night shift, but hes still here with the Police Department. All right. Reporter looking forward for this community, they now, david, have to continue to see if they can make the community more inclusive. And part of that is waiting for a report from the department of justice, the fbi Civil Rights Division launching an investigation here to see whether this community can move forward together. All right. Kerry sanders in sanford for us this morning, thanks as always. Let me widen the the discussion a little bit. Joining me the president and the founder of the National Action network and host of politics nation, the reverend al sharpton. The mayor of sanford, florida, Jeff Triplett is with us, and savannah guthrie, who of course is cohost of the today show, also nbcs chief legal correspondent. Welcome to all of you. Reverend sharpton, this is how the Huffington Post described it, a banner headline, not guilty with an asterisk but not innocent. Thats how you view it. Where does it go next . It goes to the justice department. Clearly there are grounds for civil rights charges here. The mother and father of Trayvon Martin and i with their lawyers met with the u. S. Attorney in florida the day i went down to organize the First National rally there. And we always said there would be a plan b, but there needed to be a plan a. There would never have been protests if there had been an arrest and if the Police Department did there did what it was supposed to do. You wanted zimmerman to have a fair trial. Thats what you were pushing for before charges were ultimately filed. Was this not a fair trial . The trial happened. The verdict came in. It does not exhaust the Legal Options of this family and the Bigger Community issues of civil rights. We now have a position on the books in the state of florida where an unarmed teenager who committed no crime can be killed and the killer can say selfdefense. That is dangerous. That is an atrocity. And i think that must be addressed. I think every american ought to be afraid that my child can do nothing wrong and can be killed and you can use selfdefense and tell four or five different stories that end up being inconsistent and still walk away. You disagree with the verdict, but you dont question that it was a fair trial. If you wanted him to have a day in court, that happened, that part of the process worked. I question the state law. I question yeah, there could have been some things done differently at trial, but the real object now is to move forward on dealing with the state law and the civil rights. And as we mobilize, as you know Martin Luther king iii and i are having the march on washington on his fathers i have a dream speech, how do we have this country with dr. Kings dream 50 years later and you cant walk an innocent child through a neighborhood without the child being harmed, lest known killed, and nobody can say i watched the whole trial, no one can say what Trayvon Martin did wrong . They always get away with it, zimmerman said. Who is they getting away with what . Thats the basis of the civil rights inquiry. Mayor triplett in sanford, one of the reasons i want to talk about this morning is the political element to this going back to the shooting and Trayvon Martins death initially. President obama weighed in at the time and his comments were striking. This is what he said then. My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if i had a son, hed look like trayvon, and, you know, i think they are right to expect that all of us as americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and this were going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. Has that been achieved, may wror . Did we get to the bottom of what happened . We said from day one that we were seeking justice when the demonstrations came to the city of sanford, that they wanted mr. Zimmerman to sit in front of a jury of his peers. Thats whats taken place. And they have spoken. Theyve listened to both sides of it. You know, weve done a lot within the city of sanford to make it a better place. Through tragedy comes an opportunity is kind of the way were looking at it. Weve set up blueribbon panels, community panels, set up community panels, set up conversations on walkandtalks with our Police Department and our community, and were moving towards a trustful relationship between you know, between city hall, the Police Department, and our community. So were getting were a better people. To reverend sharptons point, did Trayvon Martin do anything wrong . Can you address that point and the tension that comes with that in this situation . That was for the prosecution and for the defense to fight out in court. We saw it. We really didnt have a dog in that fight, so to speak. You know, we were our biggest concern was for the safety of the people, the citizens of sanford. And savannah guthrie, the legal part of this is important because ultimately its the question of whether there was too much pressure brought to bear by reverend sharpton and others to bring charges that some have said amounted to overcharging George Zimmerman. Some people think its an overcharge, that the prosecutors didnt have sufficient evidence for seconddegree murder conviction, but the fact of the matter is the jurors were able to consider the full range of options. They could look at seconddegree murder. They could look at the lesser charge of manslaughter. And ultimately, this came down to not any particular particularity of florida law but basic selfdefense principles that are enshrined in every state in this country which is, look, if somebody fears reasonably they are in danger of great bodily harm or injury, its the prosecutors burden basically to disprove selfdefense. This comes down to that concept of reasonable doubt. Its not necessarily that jurors by their verdict are saying we believe George Zimmerman acted in selfdefense. What theyre saying is we dont believe that the prosecutors proved he didnt act in selfdefense. Thats basically what this verdict comes down to. And quickly, the news from reverend harpton this morning, he and the family met with a u. S. Attorney. There will be pressure brought to pursue civil rights charges. Weve seen that before in the case of rodney king and the officers there. Do you think theres much grounds to move forward there . Well, look, the reason why some people thought seconddegree murder was an overcharge was because they didnt think there was sufficient evidence to establish that mental state, depraved mind, hate in the heart, spite, ill will. That would be the key element of a hate crimes charge. So the federal government will look at it. That investigation has been on hold. Whether the department of justice pursues charges well have to wait and see. Theres still an option of a civil suit by the parents. The burden of proof or the standard of proof is a lot less. George zimmerman could be forced to testify and be crossexamined so, you may see a different result there. But thats not an issue of whether he would go to jail. That would ultimately be an issue of whether he had to pay money damages. Thank you all very much. Well continue the discussion. Reverend al, youll stick around for our roundtable. We want to switch gears and talk about politics and the war of words in washington. On the senate floor, a pretty tensionfilled day on friday over republicans using Senate Filibuster rules to block a confirmation of several Obama Administration nominees. Some nominees particularly important to organized labor in this country and particularly important to the administration. The minority leader speaking on friday. What the majority leader has been saying all along is he wants the confirmation process to be speedy, and for the minority to sit down and shut up. He believes that advise and consent means sit down and shut up. Confirm these nominees when i tell you to. Well hear from the minority leader, mitch mcconnell, shortly, but we want to start with the majority leader of the senate, harry reid. Both are here exclusively this morning. Leader reid, always good to have you here. Welcome. Thank you, david. Before we get to the Senate Business and the debate there, the zimmerman trial, the verdict. Was justice done here . You spoke out about it after the shooting. David, i am a trial lawyer, have been over 100 cases to jury, i dont always agree with what the jury does, but thats the system. And i support this system. Now, i may have feel differently, but i wasnt sitting as a juror or a prosecutor or defense attorney. So ill accept the verdict and take a look at the law that they have in florida that is so unusual. The standyourground law, the selfdefense law. I think thats up to the state. I think they should revisit that. Is there a new racial wound that you think needs to be addressed and healed as a result of this in this country . I heard the mayor. I think that he should continue on a path that he outlined. And the president , does he have a role in speaking about it as he did after the shooting . Yeah, of course. And i think the justice departments going to take a look at this. You know, this isnt over with, and i think thats good, thats our system. Its gotten better, not worse. Let me switch gears to whats happening in the senate and this war of words between you and the minority leader. Theres a lot of minutia about the rules that people may not follow. It basically boils down to whether the Minority Party can and should be able to stop the Majority Party from getting something done. And as we talk about whats striking to me, leader mcconnell was on this program nearly two years ago. This is what he said about the concept of divided government then. You know, divided government, that is when Neither Party controls the entire government, is the perfect time to do big stuff. The perfect time to do big stuff. So whats happened . Why hasnt it worked the way you thought it would . Mitch is going to be on a little later, and im hes going to defend the status quo. Is there anyone out there in the world, real world, that believes that whats going on in the congress of the United States is good . Our Approval Rating is lower than north koreas. It is really, really difficult. And, david, lets talk about what is happening. Were not doing anything that affects lifetime appointments. Were doing nothing that affects legislation. Heres what were doing. A president , whether its president obama, the new president clinton, or the new bush, whoever is president should be able to have the people on their team that they want. Now, the sky is falling. I have been leader for about the same time Lyndon Johnson was. During the time he was leader, one filibuster. Me, 420. During the time that president obama has been president , hes had 16 filibusters against his nominations. During the entire history of this country, the country, theres only been 20. And changing the rules is like the sky is falling. Weve done during the last 36, weve done 18 times, just a year ago. But heres no, listen. I want everyone to hear this. The changes were making are very, very minimal. What were doing is saying, look American People, shouldnt president obama have somebody working for him that he wants . The 15 people that we found cloture on that are pending, theyve been waiting an average of nine months, nine months. Is that good . Do we want to continue that . So were going to make a simple change. What were going to do is say in the future, just like the constitution outlines, the constitutions pretty specific, if you want a super majority vote, look at what a veto is or a treaty, but if you want to look at the nomination, you know what the Founding Fathers said, simple majority. Thats what we need. You wrote in your own book in 2008 with regard to the potential rule change over judicial nominees, which is not at play here, in fwooif, you wloet, in a fit of partisan fury they were trying to blow up the senate. Senate rules can only be changed by a twothirds vote in the senate or 67 senators. The republicans were going to do it illegally with a simple majority of 51. Youre saying is sky is not falling when republicans did it, you said it was illegal to do what you want to do. But youve answered my question. Were not touching judges. Thats what that was talking about. This is not judges. This is not legislation. This is allowing the people of america to have a president who can have his team, to have his team in place. This is nothing like went on before. Remember, remember whats going on. This president has had 16 executive nominations filibustered. We have now 15 pending waiting an average of waiting an average of i lost my number there for a second but theyve been waiting an average of nine months. Nine months. The three that you talk about all the time, this is wildeyed liberal they dont like, you know who he worked for . Bourque. He was a clerk for judge bourque. A clerk for justice kennedy. They have nothing against the qualifications. They dont like the jobs these people have. Qualifications, consumer protected against wall street, thats what he is. We have secretary of labor. They dont like that created during the depression. They dont like that because this man, perez, whos worked so hard, he was a garbage man during the time he was going through school. Perez, you see, wantings to be secretary of labor. Wed been waiting for months and months. Finally, two members of the National Labor relations board, what does this do . It protects American Workers from the abuse of employers. Theyve been waiting two years. How do you like that one . And were making big changes . All were doing is doing what the constitution says. Let these appoint these people by the president , let us approve them with simple majority. Another issue that is dividing congress is whether were going to get immigration reform. The senate has acted. It now moves to the house. Do you see this being acted upon by the house or dieing a slow death . David, the legislations been hard to come by because of the obstruction of the republicans. Im very happy, and we are so fortunate as a country, that one big issue weve had eight very wise senators, four republicans and four democrats, Work Together to come up with a bill. You know, my friend the republican leader will get on here and say we havent been able to do the farm bill. We did immigration. As if p we should be celebrating. It used to be we did big legislation all the time. But im asking you in this case, will the house act . Yes, they will act. They have to. This is something that the vast, vast majority of republican, democrat, and independents support, and john boehner should let the house vote. Thats all he has to do. If the house voted it would pass overwhelm lig. But the specific complaint by house conservatives distill bidwill yam krystal and rich lowry, and they write this the bills fatal deficiency is it doesnt solve the illegal immigration problem. The enforcement provisions are riddled with exceptions, loopholes, waivers. Every indication is they are for show and will be disregarded just as Prior National requirements to build a fence have been and just as president obama has recently announced hes ignoring aspects of obama care that are inconvenient to enforce on schedule. Why wont we waive a requirement for the use of everify in the workplace just as hes unilaterally delayed the employer mandate . If we were in the courtroom, i would object to your question because there are so many different questions, but ill try to answer. First of all, obama care, whatever comes up, republicans throw that in. You realized theyve voted to repeal it 40 times . Whats happened 40 times, of course its failed. Obama care has been wonderful for america. 6 million seniors get wellness checks now. 3. 1 million young people now have insurance that insurers cant rip off people anymore. Thats why people got millions of dollars of refunds last year. If you have a preexisting disability, youre covered. They should just get real and understand this is a law thats important. And they need to work with us to improve it. The narrow question, the specific charge on immigration. Immigration. We have the chamber of commerce, conservative groups all over America Running ads telling republicans, vote for this. This is a good bill. It gives us security on our border, and it gives people who are here a pathway to citizenship. And, david, finally, it saves the country a trillion dollars. Its good for the economy. Not a billion. Not a million. A trillion. All of these issues could play out in the midterm race, including abortion. You now have states voting to ban abortion after 20 weeks. Will this come up . Is it reasonable for it to come up in the United States senate . Youve described yourself as prolife in the past. Is it not reasonable to put some restrictions on lateterm abortion as were seeing in the states . David, we had a transportation, infrastructure, Construction Development bill. So important. It was agreed upon. Chairman boxer, Ranking Member hough. You know what happened . It was filibustered because they wanted to prevent women from having contraceptives. It took us a month to get that off the floor before we could vote and defeat that. They can offer an amendment, the senate. On the substance, is that reasonable or unreasonable . I think we should deal with the problems that affect this country. We need to do something to help the american working class and stop worrying about fringe issues. Is it unreasonable to put restrictions on abortion after 20 weeks . Im happy to take a look at this. I repeat, lets do things that the vast majority of the American People think we should deal with. Leader harry reid, thank you very much. More to come on all of these things. Appreciate you being here. Now to respond. The leading republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, of kentucky. Senator, welcome back to you. Having a difficult time hearing you. Well try to establish that. Let me get my first question in. Your reaction to hearing your colleague say, look, this is different. Changes the rules here is not like its been in the past with regard to judicial nominations. It is appropriate for the majority to be able to get the work done at once. Yeah. The reason we call it the the Nuclear Option, david, is because its breaking the rules of the senate in order to change the rules of the senate, which the majority leader, as you pointed out, in his book, indicated was something we should never do. Look, rather than getting down in the weeds on the rules, what is the problem here . The president has had 1,540 of his nominations confirmed, only 4 defeated. Hes not lost a Single Member of the cabinet. Hes getting them faster than president bush was at the same time in his second term. The majority leader needs to bring these nominees up. Most of them are going to be confirmed. It really kind of comes down to three appointments that the federal courts have told us were unconstitutionally recess appointed. Two members of the nlrb and the cfpb. We need to talk about that. And were going to talk about it at a rather unusual joint session in the Old Senate Chamber on monday of all senators. We need to Start Talking to each other instead of at each other, and see if we cant resolve this in the same way that we did ten years ago when republicans had genuine provocation. We Charles Hadlock five of president bushs Circuit Court nominees defeated by filibuster. Here, nobodys been defeated. Theyve all been confirmed. And thats why were wondering why the majority leader is thinking about the Nuclear Trigger when all the president s nominees are being confirmed. But just as there are past statements that senator reid made that speak to sort of the folly of washington in a lot of peoples minds, here you are back in march of 2005 on cnbc advocating for the thing that hes talking about now. This is what you said. What they did last congress was change 200 years of history during which we had never killed executive Branch Nominations by use of the filibuster. They introduced that. Its a terrible precedent. The senate can, with 51 votes, not 60, reverse that precedent. And i believe that its time to do that, and i believe that we will go forward with that at a time of the majority leaders calling. So you were for it then, you think its outrageous now. Look, im glad we didnt do it. The provocation was that five Circuit Court nominations had been defeated with a filibuster for the first time in american history. The democrats invented that. We went to the brink, and we pulled back, because cooler heads prevailed, and we knew it would be a mistake for the longterm future of the senate and the country. Thats what i hope is going to happen here, david. We have an opportunity to pull back from the brink in this joint meeting that were going to have of all senators in the Old Senate Chamber monday night. I hope well come to our senses and not change the core of the senate. We have never changed the rules of the senate by breaking the rules of the senate in order to diminish the voices of individual senators. Weve never done that. We sure shouldnt start it now, particularly since every one of the president s nominees that would be subject to this rule change have been confirmed. Do you really believe that your old friend and colleague harry reid is the worst Senate Leader ever if he goes forward with this . No. He wont be if he pulls back from the brink as we did ten years ago. We had much more serious case then than he has now. Hes a reasonable man. Hes a good majority leader. And were going to have a chance to air all of this out in a joint conference with all of our members monday, and im hoping we wont make this big mistake. One more on this. Secretary napolitano of Homeland Security is now stepping down. Do you now see a nomination fight over key security post depending on who the president puts forward, particularly with the immigration debate, a key component of what the secretary of Homeland Security does . Well, guys in your line of work tend to use the word fight when were having a debate. Some of the president s nominees have been quite controversial. I mean, thats what we do in the senate. We have big debates over big issues. But theyve all been confirmed. Well take a look at whoever the new secretary of Homeland Security is. I cant guarantee you there wont be a spirited debate. Look, we have over 300 Million People in this country. We dont always agree on everything. And they elect us to come to washington, and we have some big disagreements and big debates. But sooner or later, when it comes to to nominations, as ive indicated, the president hasnt lost anybody. He hasnt lost anybody. Are they saying they dont want us to even debate these nomination . And crs says theyre getting them more rapidly than president bush got his. Thats why were wondering why this threat to blow the senate up when the president s getting his nominees. On the issue of immigration, which i just referred to a moment ago, how important is it to you to act this year, to get some kind of reform . Well, i hope we can. As you know, david, im the proud husband of an immigrant. A young girl came here at age 8 not speaking a word of english. In fact, her parents didnt have enough money for a plane ticket. They came over on a freighter with a freight. My wife, elaine chao, became secretary of labor and was in president bushs cabinet. Im a big fan of what illegal immigration has done for our country. I hope, even though the senate bill in my view is deficient on the issue of Border Security, i hope we can get an outcome for the country that improves the current situation. I dont think anybody is satisfied with the status quo on immigration, and i hope the house will be able to move forward on something and we can get this into conference and get an outcome that will be satisfactory for the American People. How do you deal with 11 million or 12 million Illegal Immigrants in the country now without a pathway to citizenship . Is that dead on arrival if that remains . Well, you know, i think the stickiest issue actually the Border Security. Question is can we actually get the border secure and not have this happen again. Thats the skikiestitickiest is. I hope the house will concentrate on that. We need to seriously beef up the Border Security part. I think thats the key to getting a final outcome. I want to talk about obama care and the implementation, which is controversial, a lot of senators on your side talking about repealing obama care. As theyve tried to publicize this law and get people familiar with what is possible as theyre setting up exchanges around the country, this is a letter that you wrote to the nfl commissioner, one of the leagues who were going to help in publicizing this. You wrote, given the divisiveness and per sis sent unpopularity of this bill, it is difficult to understand why an organization like yours would risk damaging its inclusive and apolitical brand by lending its name to its promotion. I read the letter, leader mcconnell, and it was striking how political it was, that letter you wrote to them. You referred to it as a bill. Its actually the law of the land, which has even been affirmed by the supreme court. How can you write such a letter at a time when dont you feel the need for people to understand what the new law is . Well, the president himself seems to not think parts of the law ought to be implemented. I mean, he is selectively delaying parts of it as if its all just kind of a smorgasbord of options for him to figure out which ones to execute and which part of the law not to execute. A delay is not a failure to execute. For example, they decided to say never mind on the employer mandate. What about the individual mandate . Does the president get to decide which parts of the law to comply with and which parts not . Its a massive, complicated, unpopular bill. Obviously, if we had the votes we would repeal it. But the president himself but leader, its not a bill. You support the democratic to process. This is not a bill. Now its law. You refer to it as a bill. Doesnt that undermine the view if the shoe were on the other foot and there were a law that was passed by republicans in congress, would you not refer to it as the law of the land and want to see it implemented as best it could be despite the fact that you disagree with it . Well, of course its the law of the land, and i wonder why the president himself is delaying various parts of it. He, you could argue, is not executing or implementing the law that he thinks is such a wonderful thing for the country. Look, this is a big controversial issue. Its not going away. Its in all likelihood going to be the premier issue in the 2014 election. The American People dislike it even more now than they did when it was passed, and they hope that the congress will respond to their desire to stop this train wreck before it happens. Final point here. Another divisive issue. That is a potential part of the republican agenda this year. And that is tax reform. Are you for tax reform, or might you even support some in the Republican Caucus and others who are calling to for abolishment, to get rid of the Internal Revenue service . What i would like to see is the same kind of premise that Ronald Reagan and tip oneill, a republican and a democrat, had back in the 80s. And the premise was this were going to do tax reform, but it will be revenue neutral to the government. In other words, the government doesnt gain revenue for itself. Its for flattening out the tax rate, making our country more competitive. If we can agree in advance that the exercise will be conducted within those parameters, that its not a tax increase for the federal government, then i think it would be a very good thing for our country to do comprehensive tax reform, lower the rates, and make america more competitive in the global economy. All right. Leader mcconnell, a lot of debates on a lot of issues that well continue. Appreciate your time this morning. Thank you. And coming up here, all eyes now on the house, as weve been talking about, as it grapples with immigration reform. Some are asking if the momentum has stalled. Well talk about wit our political roundtable coming up well talk about wit our political[ jen garner ]ming up imagine a makeup so healthy your skin can grow more beautiful every time you wear it. Neutrogena® healthy skin liquid makeup. 98 of women saw improvement in their skin. Neutrogena® cosmetics. Its been a happy union. He does laundry, and i do the cleaning. Theres only two of us. 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Joining me now, former governor of mexico, bill richardson, president of the center for american progress, neera tanden, editor of national review, rich lowry, president and founder of the National Action network, host of msnbcs politics nation, reverend al sharpton and republican strategist Steve Schmidt. Welcome to all of you. Wow so, much to get to. Steve schmidt, washington dysfunction. Again, you can talk about the rule change and the minutia. Its about whether the minority candidate wants to block what the majority wants to do. What are we seeing here . Thats right. One of the fascinating aspects of it is the fact that when leader mcconnell was in the majority of course his view was completely different, as was leader reids. These are complicated issues. The dysfunction you saw play out this morning is why the senate, why the congress has such a low Approval Rating with the American People who view this as an institution almost completely removed from dealing with anything thats relevant to their actual lives. Neera tanden, mcconnell making a point and saying what are they so upset about . The president s gotten most of what hes wanted. These are particular nominations that legally we have a right to challenge. We also know its ideological as well. Yeah. No. I think what people are concerned about is there are a number of agencies, not just the ones that mitch mcconnell, senator mcconnell was talking about, its epa, it is cpfb, Consumer Financial protection board, but its tallas department of labor, its also its a range nlrb a range of agencies that actually protect consumers against large special interests. And i think the issue here is really that the congress is really unpopular because its not dealing with the countrys problems, and i think people really want a functioning senate. And if it cant function, even though it passed immigration reform, we see another area where we get nothing done. And i get to the issue of immigration, rich lowry, which, as i referenced to senator reid, you and bill krystal, prominent conservatives, said kill this bill spp it going to be killed in the house . Will it die a slow death . Will they do nothing . Its definitely in trouble in the house. I wouldnt say its dead because there are still powerful interests in the Republican Party who want this thing to happen. Former president bush didnt approve the particularities of it, but he certainly wants something done. Sure. But i think the senate bill is fundamentally flawed. If you believe the cbo analysis and believe their optimistic assumptions that the enforcements of this bill actually happened the way its written, which never happens, were still going to have, depending on estimates, 6 million, 7 million, 8 million more plants here in ten years. That means this bill fails on its own terms, it fails on the terms marco rubio sate seth out on it. He said i dont want to have to deal with this problem again. He will if his own bill passes. I think the house should pass incremental measures and if the senate wants to take them up, great, bipartisan consensus. If not, wait. The western border governor formerly, how do you respond . I think the bill is in trouble, and i regret it because i think the true conservative position on immigration reform, heres legislation that improves the gross domestic product. It reduces the deficit. It creates jobs, more Social Security rules. Its a path to legalization that takes 13 years. Theres a lot of steps that need to be taken. Employer sanctions. I was a border governor. Illegal immigration has gone down. Its gone down. The border fence that has been created is not going to do much, but if it gets some republican votes, it makes sense. My view is the congress is totally dysfunctional. Its not just immigration pipts the farm bill. Its nominations. Its the National Labor relations board, consumer bills. Farm bill, an example, no food stamps for poor people. What we have is subsidies for the big farmers. I hope theres a filibuster change. I think the Nuclear Option needs to be exercised. I dont go anymore, even though i served 15 years in the house, for this were going to sit on monday and discuss Senate Traditions and hope nothing happens. I think the American People want change and a real change could happen if theres filibuster reform. There can be a stoppage to some of these huge blockages of major legislation. On immigration, according to the cbo unemployment will be higher when this bill passes between 2014 and 2020. No. No. Look it up. Wages will be lower until 2024. Read the cbo. But theres an increase of jobs of 122,000. For someone whos advocated so strongly for deficit reduction when its a democratic president and youre attacking him for not doing enough, here we have 800 billion of deficit reduction, and here youre saying, no, we cant take it. It doesnt make any sense. Can i get Steve Schmidt on this . Beyond this particular issue is richs other point, which is youre going to have to come back and deal with the fact youve got a significant number of Illegal Immigrants still here. You will have to address this again. Is that whats motivating conservatives, steve, or is it pure politics not wanting new democratic voters in their view coming into the country . Look, i think the bill is in trouble. I do think that is part of the motivation for conservatives, the notion that it doesnt fix the Security Problems on the border. But what we have today is a de facto amnesty in this country. Weve had it far long time. We have an utterly broken, completely uncompetitive immigration system , and the senate bill does a lot to move this country towards a sane immigration policy. What the house should do is pass a version of this legislation that could be conferenced together and the country can take a step forward in fixing this problem, which is an enormous one. We have a permanent underclass that lives in the shadows in this country, and we ought to fix it. And what this has always been premised on is the notion that there is a path to legalization and then there is a final at the end of the day solution for the Border Security issue, that we are able to secure the border. And this bill does, in fact, make great progress in the securing of the border. Reverend al, your comments. I think that we can have different opinions. We cant have different facts. I think clearly it reduces the deficit, this bill. I think that clearly it creates jobs. And i think that it is very conservative for many of us that have been in the Immigration Movement and have said lets be fair. I dont know how more fair you can be to take 13 years to make people natural citizens. The dysfunction of this congress around this and around blocking appointments and taking food stamps out of the farm bill, i mean, its any wond theyre the public has any kind of respect for them at all. Final point on this, rich, before a break. Look, the structure of this bill was exactly the same in 1986 when were told all the same thing, amnesty first and all this great enforcement off in the future. It never happened. And if you want to cut the deficit, there are other ways to do it and the cbo says theres no deficit reduction the first ten years and unemployment will be elevated until 2020. Look it up, governor. Respected conservative, but thank you very much. I feel something bad is coming after that, though. The tea party, there is a political side to this. Heres the utmost politician. The Republican Party is going to become a Minority Party. Maybe all those Tea Party Republicans in the house will keep their seats. But youre going to continue to lose president ial elections. Youre going to lose the hispanic voter even more than you did in the last election. And its political suicide what youre doing. What happened after 1986 that reagan signed . Did the republican share of the latino vote go up . It did. It didnt. H. W. Went down. H. W. Went down. George went up. Amnesty issues change, and this is a gateway voter. This is a gateway issue for latino voters. Let me get a break in here. Well come back and talk a little more about the political our daughter is all kate. Same grin, same walk. And the same beautiful hair. Nice n easy. In one step get expert highlights and lowlights. For color they may just think you were born with. Im a lucky guy. With nice n easy, get the most natural shade of you. Were back with more of our roundtable. We spoke to reverend al sharpton earlier on in the program. New push after the zimmerman verdict for civil rights charges perhaps to be brought against zimmerman. Rich lowry, youve written about this as well. You think this has been an overreach by civil rights leaders and reverend sharpton and others both in the leading up to and the charges being brought. Obviously, this was a fair trial. You can argue the judge hated one of the Defense Attorneys if you saw the way she treated him. And initially, when this case came to national prominence, i thought it was wrong that he wasnt charged. I thought it was right for people to draw attention to the case for that reason. But the more we learned in the trial, the more clear it was that the police judgment initially was probably correct and that this was a case of selfdefense, and certainly it was always absurd to compare this case to emmett till or the crucifixion of jesus christ as the reverend did. That was always putting way too much social and political baggage on what was just a terrible tragedy. I dont think any of us compared it to the crucifixion of jesus christ. I think we compared the reaction of the fact that these police made no arrest. We would never have known would we known if the country hadnt watched this trial. Clearly the police should have made an arrest. The story told the police we found to be inconsistent, some of it outright lies at trial. So just because the jury said he wasnt guilty does not mean he was innocent and that they should not have tried him. And it has nothing to do with civil rights charges. You must remember, the state said this has nothing to do with race. Race was not in this trial, which means that it can be tried by the feds to see if bias was involved. They clearly stated were not talking about race in this trial. Well, the civil rights case of the federal government wouldnt be around whether race was involved. Governor richardson, we played on the program the president talking about in such personal ways about Trayvon Martin, if i had a son he would look like Trayvon Martin. Is there a racial wound to be healed here . What are the ramifications of this verdict . I believe there is a racial wound to be healed. I worry about the aftermath. I was disappointed in the verdict. It seemed like a sound legal process, although the standard seemed very high for the prosecutors. But i worry about the aftermath. I worry about all those young black kids out there that see a system of justice that maybe doesnt respond to them. I think a National Dialogue is needed. I think the reverend is right. Theres a legal process, too. But a conversation is needed, because theres a lot of simmering resentment over this trial. Obviously, we didnt see any big demonstrations, but its out there, and we should talk about these things because, you know, heres a young, unarmed 17yearold whos shot. All right, the system of justice, we respect it, but that doesnt mean we dont have a dialogue. Neera, i want to switch slightly to a couple political notes. Some of the gun laws at work here in florida could be fodder for whats happening in the legislature and for 2014. Also abortion. Right. We were speaking about it on the break. Were you struck by leader reid saying he would take a look at lateterm abortion bans in the senate and that Marco Rubio Might advance that legislation . Look, i think if the u. S. Senate wants to take on this issue, you know, anyone who wants to take on this issue i think is really going to motivate progressives and liberals. Youve seen this in texas. These laws are really just efforts to undermine abortion by another name. And whats been surprising about these debates is is how much its energizing women across the country. Ill remind my conservative friends that we did see a giant latino gap, a huge vote in favor of the president. We also saw a historic gender gap. And i think on a range of issues the Republican Party is moving out of step with the Rising Coalition of women, latinos and others, and this will help seal the deal. Prominent woman as Hillary Clinton in the news this week for the lucrative deal that she signed with regard to speaking around the country. Might she like the private sector more than running for president . Or is this the kind of platform that could actually help her reach the grassroots by speaking across the country . She has 30 years of history. Im talking on a range of issues. And im sure people are fascinated by her substantive conversations on these issues. Shes had a range of experiences both domestic and international. So i think this will be a great opportunity for her to get her views out to people around the country. Steve, your assessment of where Hillary Clinton stands now in the democratic shell be a very formidable candidate for the nomination. If you look at it right now, its tough to see in who in the Democratic Party who beats her, but she also has no illusions about what its like to be to run for president. Shes been around it far long time. It may be as she thinks about this very brutal process that lies ahead if she does it again that maybe she doesnt want to do it. I think well have to wait and see. Well take a break and be ive been coloring lizs hair for years. But lately shes been coming in with less gray than usual. Whats she up to . The new root touchup by nicen easy has the most shade choices, designed to match even salon color in just 10 minutes. With the new root touchup, all they see is you. 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Reaction around the country and at the department of justice to the verdict in the George Zimmerman case. Reports this morning that Edward Snowden has very specific blueprints on how the National Security agency does what they do. A major loss for highspeed motorcycle racing. Plus, an autopsy will be done today to determine the death of cory monteith. Good morning. The verdict is in. And the trial is over. But the controversy is not. It is spilling from social media and into the streets. More on