there s nobody at white house in charge of han choing this. there s no bill drafted. i think arizona caught them by surprise and democrats are very cautious about wanting to jump into this thing. and are republicans cautious too? because senator mccain and former congressman tancredo, tancredo remark, i want to give him the benefit of the doubt that he really does worry people will be pulled over because they look like they should be pulled over, so i ll give him the benefit of the doubt until i hear otherwise. but even when these guys are hedging their bets, it seechl there s is some perception on that side of the equation this is another proverbial third rail even for the republicans. i don t think there s any question about it. the question for republicans is, do they dare try to take advantage of this in the short term, in the 48 house districts that are occupied by democrats that voted for john mccain in 2008. okay? those are the vulnerable democrats.
law. as we mentioned, new york city city mayor bloomberg using the immigration law to encourage travelers to come to the big apple instead. major league baseball scheduled to play next year s all-star game in phoenix, arizona s capital city also on the short list to host the 2012 republican national convention, and/or its democratic counterpart. at the moment. meanwhile, i was never the maverick mccain with a hat trick of fuzzy logic on this one simultaneously questioning the constitutionality of his state s new immigration law, while defending the governor s signature on it and seemingly supporting it at least in theory. i agree with the thrust of it. i have not read the details of it, and i agree with her frustration and anger over the fact that there s not been any significant and meaningful effort to secure our border. even ultra right republican tom tancredo saying while he
the nation s largest spanish language newspaper telling calling for a boycott of all goods and services from arizona and pledge to avoid tourism in the state as well. some truckers responsible for hauling mexican-grown produce to los angeles also agreeing to avoid arizona to protest the new law. as we mentioned, new york city city mayor bloomberg using the immigration law to encourage travelers to come to the big apple instead. major league baseball scheduled to play next year s all-star game in phoenix, arizona s capitol city also on the short list to host the 2012 republican national convention, and/or its democratic counterpart. at the moment. meanwhile, i was never the maverick mccain with a hat trick of fuzzy logic on this one simultaneously questioning the constitutionality of the state s new law while defending the governor s signature on it and supporting it at least in theory. i agree with the thrust of it. i have not read the details of it, and i agree with her frustratio
12 hours later the dust is starting to settle on the latest, possibly most dramatic who saw that coming moment so far. we re just now coming up for air, so in case you were a normal human being asleep at 1:30 a.m., let s recap. a measure that would roll back some of the key provisions of obamacare. republicans could only afford two no votes from the party. senators susan collins and lisa murkowski filled those two slots early on. then with everything on the line it was john the maverick mccain s turn to vote. he made a dramatic return to washington on tuesday. rpgs counted on his all-important vote. why don t we try the old way of legislating in the senate? the way our rules and customs enl courage us to act. if this process ends in failure, which seems likely, then let s return to regular order. okay. fast-forward to last night.
extremist elements individuals joined in that in that effort. ambassador rice reported exactly what she was told by the cia. and testifying behind closed doors on capitol hill today, general david petraeus backed her up. looks like maverick mccain s flying solo with his fake talk express. joining me now is congressman gary ackerman, democrat from the new york, and senior member house foreign affairs committee and ryan grim, washington bureau chief of the huffington post. he s writing about john mccain s call for a committee to investigate the benghazi attacks today. thank you both for being here tonight. thank you, rempbtd. congressman, let me start with you. in your view, what happened today? is that significant in the mccain smear of ambassador rice? yeah, i think it s very