the republican party chairman, pat brady, who announced his support for this, and then republicans more conservative than he tried to oust brady from his role. that failed, correct? right. correct. pat brady is the party chairman who suggested that republicans should get on board with the gay marriage issue. that brought the upheaval that you see a lot of times across the country in the conservative versus the more moderate wing of the party. so in illinois, we saw the more conservative elements of the party trying to oust brady. brady is still in midterm. he survived that. it did not amount to a major coup or anything. so he s back in there. republicans are now trying to figure out how they can best pull together themselves into this debate over gay marriage and try to look like a more moderate party. and ray, last but not least, the fact that just like in
and what he said the word stupid is pretty subjective but they have had problems with candidates who don t have the mechanics down to win a general election. and they ve seen a lot of senate seats slip out of their hands that way. talking about delaware in 2010. you talk about nevada you saw that happen in missouri with todd akin. they have a lost candidates getting to the nomination and unable to pull it off. so i think these two guys are talking past each other. if you re iowa governor branstatistic, you re sitting in a place where your own constituents, your own republican voters, will support a steve king candidate, and therefore you want to be in a position of it s more than that. cancel out. i m sorry to jump in. but, john, it s a lot more than just mechanics and who is a good candidate. it s about ideology, positioning. mr. aiken was somebody who believed there are examples of
the process. it s not what s in the content. but i think the legislative body is just a little jealous of making sure that the that congress works this first instead of the president moving on this. but if you look at it, at the end of the day, we do pass an immigration reform. a lot of the concepts are going to be very similar, both in the house and the senate. and what the president has been thinking about doing. when we look at what the white house immigration plan is specifically calling for, it is applying for a lawful perspective immigrant visa, permanent residency in an eight-year time frame. more border security funding, requiring businesses to check immigration statuses. sir, since you are a representative in texas, explain if you feel that it s necessary for border security to be tied in as a caveat to immigration reform for the 11 million-plus currently in the country. keep in mind, and i m actually just a few miles outside of the border, really, about a mile away from
hispanic. mostly mexicans. for decades, they ve been drawn here by jobs in the town meat packing plant. mayor chad thomas moved here 13 years ago. we like the fact that there was a fair amount of diversity in the community, which is not something you normally get in iowa. reporter: in a town with fewer than 4,000 residents, the biggest melting pot is the school system. [ speaking in spanish ]. reporter: where students in grades k-12 voluntary to take part in a dual language program. for half a day, all their classes are taught in spanish. they re sprouting. reporter: for the other half, everything is in english. so they re going to be able to go just about anywhere and be able to be, you know, employed and successful. reporter: for fifth grader haley lehman and her friend ashley, whose parents are from mexico, the dual-language program opens up doors. i m meeting a lot of people that i never thought i would meet, because i ve been speaking spanish. reporter: in the bu
scoop over the weekend about the immigration leak. but let s take a listen to congressman castro of texas talking specifically about the leak, and the white house s reaction as well. remember, this was leaked. so it s not something that the white house rolled down. and it s also clear, it s incomplete. there is a silver lining, which is that there are a lot of commonalities between the two plans, including a path to citizenship, so there is a lot to work with. looking for the silver lining, as we try to do. the fact that there is a path to citizenship. however, the biggest contrast is the time line, where as we learned from president obama, the white house s leaked version, within eight years, 96 months, someone could think they could be here legally. and the other plan, there is not a drafted time frame. right. so far, marco rubio has been somewhat vague. he is definitely pushing for a longer time line. but he has been vague about what