thousand than they were three days ago. laura: larry, let s go to you on this. i see this as something totally wild. the president always talks about the need for bipartisanship. this is one of those rare instances where you have real bipartisan agreement overwhelming in the country a.m.d. and any think in the house of representatives going. where do you sigh this going now high stakes game at play. he said he would bring us together and now he has. so there is some bipartisanship here. and, look, laura, it s actually a good thing to have a scrambling of the lines. laura: finally great to see democrats and republicans working together or against. let me make a key point for you laura that people are overlooking. the reason why the senate is likely to approve the resolution is because two thirds of the senators aren t up until 2016 or 2018. whereas 100% of the house
from virginia. guess how many he has carried with him so far. zero in his own state. laura: michael, if indeed the house votes this down as it looks like today they would. where does president go from here? we have big issues, immigration, debt ceiling, how does this plead into that and as our friends over at politico wrote this week this could be draining his credibility. if he gets this it could help him. if it doesn t it s not like it s going to hurt him that much. there are not republicans going to hate him more. if he gets it, then he may get a vote in which boehner is going to break the rule and republicans will vote against something house. good press debt for the president going into immigration and debt ceiling. the city is so divided that the chances of him really losing political capital going forward beyond what he has already last is
the first amendment gives everyone the right to be an utter fool if he wants to be. he can do that in the public square. the government is not in the business of punishing people for free speech. the difference is in the university context, you have a right to apoint. years ago there was a case where a professor was doing exactly the thing you were talking about. making terribly derogatory statements about jews. another professor was making derogatory statements about african-americans. they were ultimately fired because the courts finally said, look, at some point it becomes so against the whole academic process that students can no longer focus on the subject at hand. exactly. but here we re blasting republicans. i mean, i don t know what his context was. we don t know, part of the class involved culture. and cultural identities and things of that nature.
thousand than they were three days ago. laura: larry, let s go to you on this. i see this as something totally wild. the president always talks about the need for bipartisanship. this is one of those rare instances where you have real bipartisan agreement overwhelming in the country a.m.d. and any think in the house of representatives going. where do you sigh this going now high stakes game at play. he said he would bring us together and now he has. so there is some bipartisanship here. and, look, laura, it s actually a good thing to have a scrambling of the lines. laura: finally great to see democrats and republicans working together or against. let me make a key point for you laura that people are overlooking. the reason why the senate is likely to approve the resolution is because two thirds of the senators aren t up until 2016 or 2018. whereas 100% of the house
the first amendment gives everyone the right to be an utter fool if he wants to be. he can do that in the public square. the government is not in the business of punishing people for free speech. the difference is in the university context, you have a right to apoint. years ago there was a case where a professor was doing exactly the thing you were talking about. making terribly derogatory statements about jews. another professor was making derogatory statements about african-americans. they were ultimately fired because the courts finally said, look, at some point it becomes so against the whole academic process that students can no longer focus on the subject at hand. exactly. but here we re blasting republicans. i mean, i don t know what his context was. we don t know, part of the class involved culture. and cultural identities and things of that nature.