but that leaves us in a con undrum and some of that great conversation of the american people, real concerns about shrinking civil liberties and domestic surveillance and particularly the undue influence of money forces on politics is a conversation we should be having more in congress. can t just be on the sidelines. to that point, are you going to do something differently in the way you raise money? it s a grass roots campaign. that s absolutely for sure. obviously some of the when i talk about the overdo influence of corporate interest, they won t be sending me pac money. my average don t is 53, $54. what do you need to do as a independent, why do you think there is some running room, if you will, for an independent? i m a lifelong democrat and everybody knows that. but if you look at the history
immigration reform. house republican leaders calling for a path to legal status for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants. pushing back on amnesty claims and boehner says it is overdo. i said it is time for the congress and president to deal with this in 2012. this problem has been around for the last 15 years. it has been turned into a political football. i think it is unfair. i think it is time to deal with it. tucker carlson is here. good to see you. what would a gop immigration reform look like versus the
going back to the big discussions about how we deal with long-term debt, but he s not going to do it with a ticking time bomb, sitting on the table. the real question is, will john boehner walk into his caucus at some point here and say guys, this is nuts and we i m not going to do this? and you guys can go and find yourself another speaker if you want. i m not going to take the american economy over the side to make rush limbaugh and the tea party happy. the tradeoff is not equal. not for the country, not for the republican party. and i think if he does that, then it opens up the possibility of negotiations around the budget that are long overdo. but you can t do it at the point of a gun. he s never done he s done that before, david, you know. we ve seen that with a number of pieces of legislation this year, but he s never done it with an issue that s this volatile and important to the republican base. for him to go back and say hey, guys, you know, we re going to give up on the
rights movement, the way movements move forward is a willingness to have conversation, to listen to one another and you, of all people, have written so eloquently about, you know, the lessons you were told as a young black man about how to conduct yourself. and it strikes me sharing that kind of experience. there might have been a way in this case to share that kind of experience, what it is like to be pro filed. but also sharing, you know, across the racial divide. that s part of the way we have to have this conversation. yes. in that courtroom, i just don t think there was room to do it. you don t think that mark o mara and don west would have gone whole hog on the racial area if they could, overdo it? i think they would. but outside of the courtroom p the court of public opinion and in living rooms and restaurants and dining room tables across the country, if people could
that this speaks to something very deep in the human spirit. the yearning for justice and dignity that transcends boundaries of race and class and faith. and country. that was president obama today in a press conference in south africa. he also met privately with the mandela family. in deference to the family, he said he will not be meeting with nelson mandela himself. the president is in south africa for more than sentimental reasons. it is part business trip and it may be overdo. as the president pointed out at the press conference, six of the ten fastest growing economies in the world during this past decade are in africa. presumably that s why the chinese president already went to africa in march and why african leaders have been visiting china since. obama may find inspiration in africa but he is also following the moyer. joining me are congresswoman karen bass from the subcommittee on africa, global health, global