committee, chris christie, the next great big hope of the republican party, and they were sneaking in and out of back doors. you were turning this around on republicans and not answering my question but you just prove midmy point. if it s a problem for christie why is that not a problem for democrats. i think you re going to see the president, the vice president, the first lady, dr. biden out there campaigning for democrats proudly across the country in a whole host of different ways. i suspect you re going to see a lot more of them than you will see john boehner out there considering that health me be clear about this. remember that when it died to have the speaker come into their district. that can be said about democrats hoping that john boehner the republicans that don t want him to show up in their state. isn t that delusional. democrats. let me be very clear. something. 36% of republicans, of republicans. right. approve of the job
understand your delegates can change, but they have not shown interest in doing it any time soon. the republican party s current position is anti-marriage equality. the republican party s current position is anti-employment nondiscrimination in moving that legislation forward on issue after issue of equality. the republican party has been on the wrong side. we are moving in a direction as a nation. we are moving, history is moving us in a direction, and every time you are on the side throughout our nation s history, on the side of expand rights and giving rights to more people, you are on the winning side. when you are on the side of restricting rights for more people, you are on the losing side. so you congratulate my plea then. i think if more and more republicans are out there saying, let s have a conversation about marriage equality? i think we want to have that conversation. i certainly am. super. okay. stay here. that was a great segment. i wish we had more time. next,
happen. the numbers matter at the end. i think you re going to see us grow our numbers in the house and take back the senate. so if there s any problem, i would say if you re a democrat, how bad are your policies and how bad is the white house that you can t, if that s your if you look at the situation and say republicans have these problems and you re going to lose seats and probably lose the senate, you have really you re going to get that 80% number down the 80% of americans that like any any poll, when you look at any individual number, people look at washington and say i want to get things done, but when they look at the individual policies that republican members are passing, they re very proud. come on. when you look at republican numbers around the state, every single republican governor in this country, the unemployment rate went down last month. and the president of the united states saw the unemployment rate go down. let me point this out about your republi
that republicans are beginning to think about talking about this issue a little bit. in your summer meeting i think it was, not the most vent meeting, but last year s summer meeting the rnc met and talked about immigration reform and didn t talk about this are you going to answer the question or talk about republicans some more? i m going to talk about where are democrats willing to move on that pathway of exsici n citizenship. we will talk about it in a piecemeal approach but we want to see a pathway to citizenship. in control of the congress you didn t do anything. thank you. go to facebook or twitter to fireback on our question, do you think 2014 will be a year of action as president obama says? right now 45% of you say yes, 55% say no. the debate continues online at cnn.com/crossfire. as well as on facebook and twitter.
i watched the i get to ask you a question. no, no. get a show. then you can. no, i watched the republican responses to this state of the union last night. which one? i was struck by mike lee s response and in particular something he said that was music to my ears. here s what he had to say about inequality. take a listen. it s denying citizens their right to define marriage in their state as traditionally or as broadly as their diverse values dictate. mike lee just opened the door, gave permission to republicans to accept gay marriage if they want to. is the rnc with him or against him on that? at the rnc we follow a platform that our delegates pass every four years. we re a party of traditional marriage, we re a pro life party and we re going to continue to be one until our delegates change that. it s something our base feels very strongly about.