The Heritage Foundation talks about ongoing efforts in the house to update voting update Voting Rights and relation. Your comments by phone, twitter, and facebook. It is live at 70 m eastern on cspan. Steve phillips who cofounded a number of critical committees that support democratic candidates. Month inearlier this cleveland. Good afternoon and welcome. My name is paul harrison, i am president of the City Club Board of directors. Steveleased to introduce phillips, president and one of the first 50 founders. Of power pac. It is a Political Organization established in 2004 to champion democracy and social justice in states and communities across the country. Pacs i wantment on, to say a few words on his background. He grew up in Cleveland Heights so he is back home today and he has a lot of friends in the audience. Stanforded Standard University and was very active in student organizations. In sanhis law degree francisco. He worked for four years with a Public Interest law firm public
Adopt the democrat. The good news is that america is not divided into two. We are divided in three. There are those of us who get it. Right and wrong. Good and evil. Better and worse. Conserve those things that are beautiful, that are , and especially the exceptional United States of america. [applause] this. K to conserve that is why we call it conservatives. On the other side are people like my friend rosie odonnell. Theres nothing you can do anything about. She is a liberal. She is an idiot. She is troubled. This is how she gets out her anger. People tell her how smart she is. Just one story about bill marr, if i may. Cspan, you have enough battery life . The two questions i get the most liberal . Did you vote and the other is, what happened to bill marr . Back when i was writing the show, he was a bit of a libertarian. He was not this radical left wing nut job he is now. Whit. As not changed one he was never libertarian. He is not a moderate liberal. Narcissist. Needs strangers to
Im chuck todd. Pac show for you, i promise. My first reads of the morning, nearly two years ago, president obama gave a speech in el paso calling for Immigration Reform, stronger Board Security and a path to citizenship. El paso, the question is whether those in congress who previously walked away in the name of enforcement are now ready to come back to the table and finish the work that weve started. Well, now that a Bipartisan Group of senators have come back to the table, the president today will praise the principles this group of eight laid out calling for the country to get behind in senate plan. As white house Senior Advisor dan pfeiffer just tweeted, today, potus will applaud the Bipartisan Senate agreement consistent with his longheld view and lay out his vision for Immigration Reform. The Washington Post is the reporting the white house has develop the its own Immigration Reform plan more liberal than the senate outline. Yes, there is a plan that the white house has. But for
Compromising. But how far will the gop go . Candidate republican senator pat roberts fresh off his reelection win on that with me now. Senator, good to have you. Congratulations. Thank you, neil. I appreciate that very much. Right now, what do you make of what the likes of rush and other conservatives are saying dont negotiate, dont blink, do not budge. You say what . I say its up to the president to indicate certainly a lot more than hes indicated today. He seems to think the election well, he seems to think he won the election with the people who didnt vote. And then of all things comes out of the shoot saying basically hes got a pass by execive order. He had another executive order, amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. I think thats just, as our leader said some days ago, thats like waiving a red flag in front of a bull. But there are those of white house think that we can there are a lot of things we can do. We can open up the pipeline. We can repeal the medical device tax. We c
Up before anyone in the audience had time to sit down. Refusing to rule out a third party candidacy. Listen to this exchange with fox news moderator brett baier. You are standing on the stage, the place where the Republican National convention will give the nominee the nod. I fully understand. And experts say an independent run would hand the race over to democrats and likely another clinton. You cant say tonight that you can make that pledge. I cannot say. I have to respect the person if it is not me, the person that wins, if i do win and im leading by quite a bit, thats what i want to do. I can make that pledge. If im the nominee, i will not run as an independent. I am discussing with it everybody. Im talking about a lot of leverage. We want to win. We will win. I want to win as the republican. I want to run as the republican nominee. Trump didnt stop there. He targeted the media for treating him unfairly and being stupid on immigration and iran. He took time out to call out rosie od