4 00 in the morning campaigning. He said loretta, im going to sleep the day after i leave the presidency. I dont know if thats president obama though. There was work to be done. I still think, when i look at Immigration Reform which i believe well see something happen this year, at least an effort to try to move it forward on the floor, weve got small things, the debt ceiling weve got to get past right now, weve got tax reform. I know my michigan colleague, the chair of the ways and means, david camp, is anxious to do this, bacchus is anxious to do this. Let me interject. Pure politics here. This is also a chance for him to say this is what democrats are for, you know, income inequality raising the minimum wage. Were much different than the republicans. Hes going to be thinking about helping democrats. Absolutely. Hes thinking about the Senate Midterms which the outcome of those races is far more important than the speech. But just to take issue with the idea, the question is whether d
collect all the phone records of every person living in the 312 area code. that s just unacceptable. the government shouldn t hold that information. the president has challenged congress and the attorney general to come up with an alternative to keep us safe but to not create an opportunity for the government to overreach. accountability time for president obama. tough year in 2013 at the state of the union last year, what were the big issues? it was gun control, immigration, raising the minimum wage. didn t get any of those. what s different in this year? well, i hope that what we saw with the budget agreement at the end of last year and the beginning of this year is an indication of a new bipartisan spirit. we certainly need it on capitol hill. paul ryan, republican from wisconsin, patty murray, democratic senate budget committee chair, sat down and hammered out a budget and then barbra mikulski and congressman rogers put together the spending bill, an amazing break through. we hav
terrorism, we don t need to collect all the phone records of every person living in the 312 area code. that s just unacceptable. the government shouldn t hold that information. the president has challenged congress and the attorney general to come up with an alternative to keep us safe but to not create an opportunity for the government to overreach. accountability time for president obama. tough year in 2013 at the state of the union last year, what were the big issues? it was gun control, immigration, raising the minimum wage. didn t get any of those. what s different in this year? well, i hope that what we saw with the budget agreement at the end of last year and the beginning of this year is an indication of a new bipartisan spirit. we certainly need it on capitol hill. paul ryan, republican from wisconsin, patty murray, democratic senate budget committee chair, sat down and hammered out a budget and then barbra mikulski and congressman rogers put together the spending bill, an a
there s a new provocative new york times magazine article out this morning asking whether hillary clinton can be seen as the candidate of the future and not the past. first, the latest on that deadly shooting at a shopping mall near baltimore. police are still trying to determine the motive as a man carrying a shotgun opened fire at a mall in columbia, maryland, yesterday, killed two employees of a skate shop then himself. panicked shoppers ran for cover. police say the gunman was also carrying explosives. the roundtable is here with me this morning. chuck todd, former head of the communications commission under president bush, michael powell, our friend from the west, mike murphy, california democratic congresswoman loretta sanchez, and for the first time washington bureau cheech carolyn rank. great to have you here. thank you. installed in november, covering politics for a long time. chuck todd, what a difference a year makes. awful incident in columbia. a year ago