Rapidly right now is an Amazing Community organizing infrastructure that got my boss elected, that got an incredible city council elected and thats been really savvy about moving the politics in a way where we can move things a lot more quickly than we have even in the past. And i think Something Like executive action where you have Community Organizations with memberships that are going to be interacting with people about this, its an opportunity to capitalize on that for membership growth, for, again, building the legal key political power to then move for a larger scale Immigration Reform and really strengthening that. Thats unfortunately not my job anymore but i do think its a critical part of this whole equation is how we take the Service Delivery and move it into organizing and power building. Steve . I just want to build on that. I hope that as we move whether its administrative reform or congressional action, that the country has gotten more sophisticated about integration. I k
Im frances rivera. Happy super tuesday, 2014. The polls are open this morning in six states from coast to coast. The key races to watch are in kentucky, idaho, and georgia. The primaries there will highlight the republican establishment versus tea party battle. In kentucky, state republican leader Mitch Mcconnell is up against Tea Party Challenger matt bevan. Mcconnell leads him by 20 points in the latest bluegrass poll from the career journal. A win for senator mcconnell today would set the stage for one of novembers Top Senate Races against democrat allison lund lundergan grimes. In georgia today, a crowded seven way Senate Primary field will be narrowed down to two with a runoff to be held on july 22nd. Recent polling suggests david purdue and Jack Kingston are most likely to face off then. And finally in idaho, matt sincen is poised to defeat brian smith. Today, primaries will shape the ballots for critical contests this november. New this morning, in a surprise move, thailands arm
We begin with breaking news from syria. The Islamic State group has killed another journalist. Video showing that they killed Stephen Sotloff. It comes week after the Islamic State group said that it killed u. S. Journalist james foley. Josh, what more can you tell us about this developing story . It seems that the strategy as u. S. Airstrikes are becoming more effective on the ground a couple weeks travel the front line dialing with fighters from the iraqi side and the kurdish side. They completely changed the momentum on the ground so the Islamic State is clearly looking for new strategies. So, new strategies like what . Are we talking about more suicidebombings . More i. E. D. Attacks are we talking more killings, targeting journalists and other iraqis in the country . The core group of Islamic State, the foreign fighters are extremely media savvy. And theyre based mostly in syria. They realize the powerful effect of these videos. There might be an unintended consequence, and thats
Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for special report. Fair, balanced and unafraid. Greta goes on the record right now. This is a fox news alert. A busy night of primaries from coast to coast. Voters in six states going to the polls and right this minute the polls closing in georgia and kentucky. And in Kentucky Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is facing Tea Party Challenger matt and in georgia a crowded Republican Senate primary, seven candidates battling for the seat left vacant by retiring senator Saxby Chambliss Senior National correspondent john roberts is live in atlanta. John . Greta, good evening to you. You would think that replacing Saxby Chambliss with another republican would be a no brainer here in georgia. The democrats are fielding a very strong candidate in michelle nun. The daughter of the former popular senator sam nunn it looks like she will put on a
real fight. Republican leaders are urging voters to vote for the right candidate or throw a
Obama has gotten 300 of his judicial nominees confirmed. 300. At the same point in his presidency, george w. Bush got through 35 fewer confirmations than obama to this point. Progress is being made to clear that. We know what to thank for that, right . In november of last year, harry reid triggered the socalled Nuclear Option. He did away with filibusters on most nominations and made it impossible for members of the Minority Party to block the nominations. No more 60 votes. Thats the idea, anyway. But the Nuclear Option didnt fix everything, either. Theres still something called the blue slip. For a nominee to get a confirmation, both senators from that nominee state must sign off on it. They have to submit a blue slip consenting to the nominee getting a hearing. If they dont, the nomination dies. The blue slip is an old Senate Tradition but the rules of it have changed over the years. When republicans controlled the white house under george w. Bush, they did away with it and democrats