slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line allahu akbar i say until we have someone who knows what they re doing, i say let allah sort it out. red line. allahu akbar. former florida governor and potential 2016 contender jeb bush tried to use reason to make his case for republican action on immigration reform. is destiny. and if that s the case, if that s the case, then we re going to have fewer workers taking care of a larger number of people that have the country has a social contract with to be able to allow them to retire with dignity and purpose. we cannot do that with the fertility rates that we have in our country. we re below break even today. one way that we can rebuild the demographic pyramid is to fix a broken immigration system. immigrants create far more businesses than native born
let s let the people talk on this. let s hear senator graham, one of the architects of the gang of eight, the real effort to try to get immigration reform. he delivered a dire warning to republicans looking to block the program. this is really serious politics here. if we don t pass immigration reform, if we don t get it off the table in a reasonable practical way, it doesn t matter who you run in 2016. we re in a demographic death spiral as a party and the only way we can get back in good graces with the hispanic community in my view is pass comprehensive immigration reform. by the way, i think he s speaking not exactly but that s a lot what the john mccain thinks if you talk to him. absolutely. the problem is 2016 looks pretty far away, however, if you re facing reelection in 2014, as howard just said.
say they re facing on the issue of immigration reform. think about it. on the one hand, there s a demographic reality out there threatening the future of the party you could say. minorities populations including hispanics are skewing heavily in favor of democrats. immigrant populations are booming, of course. so is their share of the population. that s why some senators like lindsey graham of south carolina is urging the party to do something to curry favor to the political bloc. do nothing and they say you can basically kiss the white house good-bye in 2016 and well beyond. but doing something means a more immediate backlash from the conservative base, those supporting that bill one that can actually make it to the president s desk would likely result in a voter backlash from conservative republicans out there. so lose now in 2014 or lose later in 2016. that s a narrow look at it. which is it going to be? john brabender is a republican strategist and harold fineman from the huffington
consider. less than 50%. but the second thing to understand too is among the hispanic group, most people will say economics at least an equal amount to the immigration reform is why they would vote for a candidate. and what we think in this over simplistic washington world is if we just do some immigration reform all of a sudden we ll get the support from the hispanics and it s not going to happen that way. and the base very well may be turned off. howard, look at this politically. in many 2014, this is where i see there s a conundrum coming up this year. all those anglo districts. if you re not hispanic in this way we talk, then you re anglo. obviously not everybody is anglo. if you re in an anglo district which is 80% anglo and you re republican, why would you vote for immigration reform? i mean to be blunt about it in political terms. what is the plus? well, let s look at lindsey graham who is the human fault line of the republican party. senators now who have a big stake.
tiff between the united states and russia comes full circle. i heard this story from robert kraft. he talked about the time he let russian president vladimir putin try on his super bowl ring from 2005. i took out the ring and i showed to putin and he had put it on and he goes, i can kill someone with this ring. i put my hand out and he put the ring in his pocket. and three kgb guys got around him and they walked out. kraft later said even though he wanted the ring back, the bush administration asked him to let it stand as a gift and avoid controversy. i heard mr. kraft share that story myself at the suffolk university commencement address several weeks ago. what a story. i m sure putin is embarrassed. up next, the deep division amongst republicans over immigration reform. it s either going to kill or save the party some say, depending on which republican you re listening to. you re watching hardball, the place for politics.