Delay on taking any action on Immigration Reform. Lets go to the white house and luke russert. What have you learned about this . Reporter a white house official told us the reason the president is delaying this decision is due to midterm politics. The reality is the president has had to weigh in the midst of the political season and because of the republicans extreme politicalization of this issue the president believes it would be harmful to the policy itself and the longterm prospects of comprehensive Immigration Reform to announce administrative action before the elections. Its rare you have the president , much less any politician, admit that their action is a direct it is directly being changed because of elections. But in this case, the white house is up front. I spoke to one aide and i said the words red state democrat, is that what this is about . They sort of acknowledge yes. This is about those races in louisiana. Its about those races in North Carolina. Arkansas. Alaska. Wh
Gop primary. For democrats, none, washingtons Democratic Party relies instead on the outcome of the caucuses held in march, which Bernie Sanders won. Sanders is fired up because Hillary Clinton has broken her agreement to debate him one last time before california votes on june 7th. She declined fox news invitation last night in order to compote compete hard in the remaining primary states. Fox news issued a statement quote, were disappointed, especially given that the race is still contested she had previously agreed to a debate. Bernie sanders says her refusal is insulting. I was disturbed but not surprised to hear a few hours ago that secretary clinton has backed out of the debate. I think it is a little bit insulting to the people of california, our largest state. She is not prepared to have a discussion with me about how she will help the californias address the issues. In 2008, Hillary Clinton was outraged when thensenator obama wouldnt debate her a final time. Listen closely to
Welcome back. Im joy reid here at msnbc World Headquarters in new york. The Democratic Caucus will begin in wyoming soon. We expect to have some initial results around 3 00 p. M. Eastern time. Theres been no polling so far in the cowboy state. But western caucus states have been very good to senator Bernie Sanders. In colorado, meanwhile, the states Republican Assembly is under way to select the delegates in july. Delegate selection is proving to be as important in the primary elections process as the caucuses and primaries themselves. As a contested convention becomes increasingly likely. But if donald trump plays his cards right, he could still reach that magic number. Our own Steve Kornacki has more on the math. All right, joy, thanks. This comes down to delegates, obviously. Lets look at the republican side first. A lot of talk after Donald Trumps loss in wisconsin that thats it, we have an open convention. He wont get to 1,237. Not so fast in that one. There is still a scenario fo
We got some news about members of the Conyers Family. Melanie sloan joins us tonight. You are one of the reasons this story has come to light. Tell us how it happened. E after i told my story to the Washington Post and appeared in the news, Courtney Morse reached out to me, wanted to talk about what happened to her. She was considering whether or not to come forward and i encouraged her to publicly telll her story. Tucker one of the reasons i want to talk about this, there are a lot of allegations were flying around and some of them seem true, some you dont really know. This seems to be in a different category because she is suggesting he was implying something very dark by invoking the name of a murdered intern during their exchange. Are we mistreating this . She thought he was implying something horrible. She thought it was possible. She was clearly very nervous by it and scared by the entire experience. Tucker here you have a member of congress, one of the most famous, now literally
His resignation this week. We got some news about members of conyers families. Melanie sloan joins us tonight. You are one of the reasons this story has come to light, tell us how it happened. After i told my story to the Washington Post and appeared in the news, Courtney Morris reached out to me, wanted to talk about what happened to her. She was considering whether or not to come forward and i encouraged her to publicly tell her story. Tucker one of the reasons i want to talk about this, there are a lot of allegations were flying around and some of them seem true, some you dont really know. This seems to be in a different category because she is suggesting he was implying something very dark by invoking the name of a murdered intern during their exchange. Are we mistreating this . She thought he was implying something horrible. She thought it was possible. She was clearly very nervous by it and scared by the entire experience. Tucker here you have a member of congress, one of the mos