obviously, that s not leading to any meaningful progress. what is your message to your own party? i would disagree with the obstruction idea. we have mostly in the democratic party now is we re going to solve the problem from washington with a big new health care plan. we have republicans not always united saying no, we can do this better by working with the states and the private sector to solve the problem. sometimes the federal government has to let go of things. it s a matter of the parties are polar rised. what i want to do with this book is unite the country around a core set of ideas that i m convinced we all support. i talk to people all the time that agree in principle, but they d never vote for a republican. the important larization in
a big part of the issue for the republicans is that those who are from more diverse states, those in higher ambition like marco rubio, they are worried about being beaten by democrats w are going to get more hispanic voters. then you have the house, it s very polar rised. you have people from red, red districts. their concern isn t democrats. their concern is getting challenges from the conservatives. i got to tell you, john boehner, the house speaker today, compared immigration reform to obamacare which is a kind of a four-letter word for republicans. that kind of says it all. all right, dana, thanks. up next, controversy over a decision sentenced a murderer to death because he may have been sen to the death row because he is an african-american. an incredible moment, a 3-year-old boy born deaf hears for the first time in his life from his death. we will talk to dr. sanjay gupta, the medical break through that made it all possible. hey linda!
rubio are much more interested in getting immigration reform done because they are worried about being beaten by democrats that get more hispanic voters and you have the house polar rised and people from red, red districts. their concern isn t democrats but getting primary challenges from conservatives so that s why they don t want to do this. john boehner, the house speaker compared it to obamacare which is a four letter word for republicans, that kind of says it all. dana, thanks, interesting. let s get caught up on other stories. susan hendrix has the bulletin. the worst day of the year for the dow joaning dropping more than 2%. investors are unnerved about the plan to phaseout the stimulus program. they pump billions of dollars dollars into the economy every month. a criminal investigation under weigh into usis, the private firm that checked snowden s
that s why they said we got to deal with immigration reform. the problem is not everybody in the party agrees. a lot of people on the base say it s amnesty no matter how you cut it. i talked to one of the leaders on this, marco rubio. i can tell you it s as much a negative as a positive. i respect it. i understand it. by the other token, though, this is about america. this should be helping the united states. if nothing passes, this disaster we have now, that s what will stay in place. a negative as much as a positive. is it a risk? there are people i agree with on every other issue who are mad at us having gotten involved in this issue. they re distrusting the government will do its part. a big part of the issue for the republicans is that those who are from more diverse states, those in higher ambition like marco rubio, they are worried about being beaten by democrats who are going to get more hispanic voters. then you have the house, it s very polar rised.
it s headed to 27 or 28%. we can t afford this explosion in the size of the government. it means you re going to have to make tough decisions on the spending side of the ledge erred not only in national defense but also and more importantly on the entitlement accounts which benefit a lot of people and which people are very sensitive about. shannon: i want to ask you about a couple of ideas that have been floated by various members of the deficit commission. the idea of a 6.7 national sales tax what do you think. really, really bad idea. that is punting the ball saying we simply raise taxes dramatically and go to a european social welfare system. you have the government and you try to pay for it with any tax you can think of. a national tax isn t solving this problem. it s saying we are going to accept a massive historic