feat. at this point he s going to try to play it down the middle. meeks doesn t play it down the middle. i would suspect he will draw more votes away from rubio than from meeks. greta: is it safe to say, maybe it is not true, once you leave your party in such a big splashy way having been currently the governor running for senate, that you won t be welcomed back into the fold later? there s not going to be post election oh yeah i m back to being a democrat or is there? i think charlie has burned a bridge. maybe this is the last time he runs. he s been governor, he s obviously not running for election. he wasn t going to win a republican primary. rubio is a terrific candidate. he came from nowhere and no popular sitting governor. simply because of charlie crist s own behavior he opened up an opportunity for marco who proved to be a terrific candidate.
but i need you. i need you, the people, more than ever. the other big political event today was a reminder that on many big issues these days, the middle is hard to find. senate democrats unveiled an outline of a plan for national immigration reform. what we have in mind is not amnesty. it s a tough and fair path forward. we will talk to one of the plan s aughters in just a moment. but first two observations that underscore our changing and more testy political environment. this outline, authors call it a conceptual proposal is 26 pages long and begins with promise after promise of beefing up border security. you have to go 23 pages in before there is any talk of granting legal status to millions of immigrants already here illegally. in journalism, that s called burying the lead. in politics, maybe it s burying the controversy. two, some pictures are worth 1,000 words. look at this one from 2006. four of the nine senators in that picture are republican. and here s thi
citizenship who is already in the country and meets certain criteria. of course we need to secure the border. we need to have an employment verification system with an card to identify who is here legally and not legally. i will make it a top priority in my first year as president not only because we have an obligation to secure our borders and get control of who comes in and out our country. not only because we have to crackdown on employers abusing undocumented immigrants instead of hiring citizens. because we have to bring undocumented immigrants out of the shadows. greta: arizona governor jan brewer joins us now. i don t know if you her the mayor and governor, secretary of state when she was running for office, and president obama when he was run you go. does arizona feel abandoned by the national leaders on this issue of immigration? we do greta. we have been fighting this issue, this problem that is facing arizona for the last 15 years. now since i ve been gover
citizenship who is already in the country and meets certain criteria. of course we need to secure the border. we need to have an employment verification system with an card to identify who is here legally and not legally. i will make it a top priority in my first year as president not only because we have an obligation to secure our borders and get control of who comes in and out our country. not only because we have to crackdown on employers abusing undocumented immigrants instead of hiring citizens. because we have to bring undocumented immigrants out of the shadows. greta: arizona governor jan brewer joins us now. i don t know if you her the mayor and governor, secretary of state when she was running for office, and president obama when he was run you go. does arizona feel abandoned by the national leaders on this issue of immigration? we do greta. we have been fighting this issue, this problem that is facing arizona for the last 15 years. now since i ve been gover
reform plan and offer republicans incentives to support it. but even the president wonders if it can pass this year. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. under a state of emergency as a giant oil slick triggered by that massive rig explosion is about to hit the coast. president obama says his administration will use every available resource to combat the spill, which is growing by about 5,000 barrels of oil every day. federal officials expect the slick to reach the louisiana coast tonight, within the next few hours. by this time tomorrow, it s expected to spread closer to mississippi, moving to just 20 miles off that coast by saturday. cnn s brian todd is standing by live. chris lawrence is over at the pentagon. ed henry is at the white house. let s go to brian first. what s going on? reporter: wolf, officials here have just told us about the scenario that so many people are worried about, that this 120-mile long slick is about to reach the mouth of the missi