contributing to them, and grouped like a.l.e.c. which has had massive influence in state legislatures across the country is a 501-c-3, so you can give them a donation and get a tax write off. just simplify it. but mark, it s pretty easy for karl rove to go out and tell a multimillionaire, hey, look, give us a bunch of money. nobody is going to know who you are. we can work on stuff for you. people know, i don t want my name in the media. i m ready to give $10 million, but i don t want my name out there, the dynamic changes a bit. i want to talk about eric holder. mark, what about the contempt vote. is it warranted kn eed knowing republicans have testified? it s probably not warranted. i just don t think he s that confident, he s sloppy about
young women and men who want to serve in the military, who want to become the next scientists of america. rubio says, snore ruenator r said the president is circumventing the constitution, he s out of bounds on that. what do you say? i don t get it. the president is acting within his executive authority. he is doing what previous presidents have done. in fact, i m surprised that senator rubio of cuban american desent would say this because this is similar to the action that was taken on behalf of cuban americans in the 60s to allow them to stay in the u.s. so i m not sure. certainly, the constitution does not prohibit this. is this just a case where the republicans throw out anything that is going to stick for them? to point out the facts in 2010, the dream act passed the house and was filibustered by senate republicans. let s not forget that, and this
immigration reform from moving forward. it s very clear that this issue has caught the republicans flat footed on all fronts. mitch mcconnell doesn t know what to say about it. he s waiting for his candidate, leelder of the party now, mitt romney to say something. he doesn t know what to say about it. has this really hurt the republicans and really exposed them for not really having a plan and certainly being unwilling to adjust to anything the president wants? i certainly think you have to ask the question, does mitt romney look presidential when he s dodging a question on something very important to americans? i don t care where you stand on immigration, this is very important. for him to rope adope and try to avoid having to answer doesn t seem very presidential to me. and for senator rubio who for months was talking about the possibility of doing something for the dreamers, the dream is that all of a sudden, it comes. it makes no sense.
year, speaker john boehner of the house said that passing rubio s watered down version would be difficult at best, yet rubio claims this was an election year stunt. what do you make of it? we have been waiting for years to try to get somewhere. as you mentioned, in twen tent, under a democratic majority, the house passed a bipartisan dream act. the senate had the votes to pass it and send that bill to the president for his signature in 2010 if it wouldn t have been for the procedural maneuvers engaged by republicans in the senate to keep a 55-vote bill out of senate by using the filibuster. we could have done this. when mitt romney a few days ago said the president could have done this a long time ago, he s waited years, he either misspoke or was intentionally misrepresenting the facts. he had to know that the president tried it with republicans who stopped
year stunt. well, senator rubio, it s not about you. it was a leadership moment from the president of the united states when the time had reached a tipping point. that s why americans are in favor of this by a margin of 2 to 1. let s turn to javier becerra. great to have you with us. what is your reaction to senator rubio? he says the president is shoving this down our throats. what do you say to that and how would you characterize the republican reaction since this decision was made? ed, america had been waiting for solutions on immigration reform. everyone knows our system is broken, and desperately needs to have change. the president has been waiting to get change, and without congress willing to act, he decided it was time to do something. the president came up with a solution, and republicans so far are coming up with excuses. good for the president, good for america, and good for all of the