own to do right what their parents did wrong. martha: including a path to citizenship. your bill, which you hope will come out at the end of the summer, right? the path to citizenship that ours would provide is a regular system not a special one. that is the difference between our approach and a the d.r.e.a.m. act. the d.r.e.a.m. act would create a separate path to citizenship. ours says after you have our nonimmigrant resident if you want to be a resident you ll have the right to do that but you have to do it like anybody else who has a nonimmigrant visa. we wouldn t have a special path for them. and that gets around the idea of encouraging people to do that in the future. martha: mitt romney says he s studying the bill that has been brought up. he stopped short of backing the g.o.p. version of the so-called d.r.e.a.m. act. is that good politics? is that where he should stand on this or would you like to see him come out more forcefully, and say, yes, students who were
and engrained into your culture and sew eyety and we spent public dollars to educate them. the case of a young girl here in florida who is the valedictorian of her high school and accepted to dartmouth and yet has a deportation order. i think most americans would sea that is crazy to deport someone like that. we give them a nonimmigrant visa we which we do that would allow them to stay here legally and studty and work and if they decide they want to stay here permanently they will be able to do so but have to veil themselves of the existing visas not a special one like the dream act. chris: senator, if it is such a good idea and some are saying you are helping to throw a life line to mitt romney that he could use to win back hispanic voters after the strong illegal positions he took all he will say is he is
and engrained into your culture and sew eyety and we spent public dollars to educate them. the case of a young girl here in florida who is the valedictorian of her high school and accepted to dartmouth and yet has a deportation order. i think most americans would sea that is crazy to deport someone like that. we give them a nonimmigrant visa we which we do that would allow them to stay here legally and studty and work and if they decide they want to stay here permanently they will be able to do so but have to veil themselves of the existing visas not a special one like the dream act. chris: senator, if it is such a good idea and some are saying you are helping to throw a life line to mitt romney that he could use to win back hispanic voters after the strong illegal positions he took all he will say is he is
senator marco rubio. and elijah cummings, ranking democrat on the house oversight and reform committee. plus, dana bash and jeff zellny of the new york times. i m candy crowley, and this is staft of the union. the economic headlines were ominous. retail and car sales are strong. but initial jobless claims falling since last year have jumped about 6% in the last three weeks. march sales of existing homes fell 2.6% and factory output slipped in march. then there was this iffy forecast for europe from the managing director of the international monetary fund. we are seeing light recovery blowing in a spring mind, bwind we re seeing some dark clouds on the horizon. if, as the economy goes so goes the election, then it was a worrisome week for the president s re-election team. joining me now president obama s senior re-election strategist david axelrod. good to see you. good to be here again. let me show you and our viewers the nbc news/ wall street journal survey
falling since last year have jumped about 6% in the last three weeks. march sales of existing homes fell 2.6% and factory output slipped in march after rising in february. then there was this iffy forecast for europe from the managing director of the international monetary fund. we are seeing light recovery blowing in a spring wind, but we re seeing some dark clouds on the horizon. if, as the economy goes so goes the election, then it was a worrisome week for the president s re-election team. joining me now president obama s senior re-election strategist david axelrod. good to see you. good to be here again. let me show you and our viewers the nbc news/ wall street journal survey this week on who has good ideas to help the economy. and it said president obama 34%, romney, 40%. how do you account for that? i account for it by the fact that people don t know mitt romney very well yet. they see businessman. they hope he has new ideas. but, candy, i think here is the p