you ve been seeing even over the course of the last few months it s been bubbling under the surface. a continued push to bring this to the forefront. it s coming from the white house. it s coming from democrats in the senate. democrats are looking to put this also on state ballots as well in an attempt to kind of cast their party as those who will help those less fortunate. so reid has signaled he s going to be pretty aggressive about this. seems all signs are pointing toward heading for a vote. i think the question is going to be how aggressively are republicans going to be willing to put their foot down and say they don t want to back this bill. all right. so if we shift to another big issue, kasie, that s likely to take center stage in 2014, we have john boehner signaling he may back immigration legislation. he even hired rebecca talent, who to many is known as the long-time john mccain adviser who backed broad immigration changes. we have the new york times reporting on it, p
that you are capable of, why aren t you more excellent? and as he was pushing, the president continued to say, well, it s the republicans fault. and and finally, in a moment of almost exasperation, the president said, look, nothing good or important happens really in the united states government until you have one party control. well, come on. that s a copout. and the president making that copout works if you trust him. if you believe that he is honest and you believe he is trustworthy, you are likely to believe him when he says i m doing everything i can to deliver comprehensive immigration changes, everything i can to help you out. then when you don t trust him, people aren t going to listen. martha: all right. nice nuzzling with you all. [laughter] ooh! a thrill ran up my leg! thank you. [laughter] martha: all right. visit the politics page, chris daily political newsletter, go to foxnews.com/fox news first, you ll see tucker on the weekend
speech. he says immigration changes should be, quote, on a bipartisan basis and include ideas from both sides of the aisle. you have house republicans such as texas congressman lamar smith, he said in a statement, quote, by granting amnesty the senate proposal actually compounds the problem by encouraging more illegal immigration. smith also says legalizing illegals, quote, costs taxpayers millions of dollars and costs american workers thousands of jobs. jon? jon: molly henneberg at the white house for us. molly, thank you. another member of president obama s cabinet is heading for the door. transportation secretary ray lahood announcing he will step down. he s the only republican left in the president s first-term cabinet. lahood says he will stay at the department until his successor is confirmed. sources tell fox news the leading candidate to replace lahood including former senator blanche lincoln, mayor antonio villaraigosa from los angeles and former congressman jim oberstar,
again not just furious but went after the president himself on immigration changes. so it s an amazing thing to see a court that is, a, says it wants to be out of the spotlight, and b, suffering from the lowest poll ratings this court has seen in a long, long time. doing things that seem to deliberately promote the idea that the partisan rift at the court is worse than it s ever been. on the issue of the campaign finance stuff, i realize citizens united has been famous since it was decided. it s getting more and more famous with each passing day in american politics as we see its impact. it s interesting to see the montana attorney general put out a statement in response to this ruling. montana law, their state law is getting overthrown by virtue of this decision. he seemed to signal he does not think this fight is over yet. he said, despite this disappointing decision the last word has not been spoken on the issue of how we preserve a viable democracy in which everyday people have a
headlines, they re continually putting out these very, very, very consequential decisions that have big partisan implications. do you see that elevated the supreme court into playing a more prominent role in election year politics and does the supreme court care? it s a very, very strange set of events that leads the court to say continuously and i think across all idealogical lines, rachel, that they re not partisan, this is not junior varsity politics. they are umpires, they try to apply the law, and then they turn around and do things like, you know, we saw the argument in march in the health care cases and we heard those broccoli sound bites again today we heard as you said very, very angry, quite personal dissent by samuel alito. a dissent read from the bench also in the arizona case by justice antonin scalia that was again not just furious but went after the president himself on immigration changes. so it s an amazing thing to see