backed them. even if the republicans don t go ahead and force a shut-down of the government, marco rubio, rand paul, ted cruz have still managed to appeal to those who backed them. at least they get to make the statement. it s not always about the end game. we talked about the president visiting jay leno. one interesting topic is president side stepped the question about hillary clinton. they had lunch. there is a lot of buzz about 2016. when asked if she was measuring the drapes the president said, she s been there before. she doesn t need to measure. there is no benefit for him to jump into presidential politics. joe biden is his vice president and hillary clinton is a friend. did you ever have two friends running for student council and the anguish of who you would support for secretary of the student council. it s like that on steroids.
pelosi had to say in recent days? she basically said if you want to win the white house again you ll pass it. reporter: i ve heard that. i ve read all kinds of analysis of this. i ve been fascinated by what happened on election day 2012. i almost absolutely convinced, that if thing of if the republicans don t go for immigration reform much as the senate has done, they ll never win another presidential election. baloney. if you look at the statistics there was one significant block of voters who turned out in smaller numbers this time and in a major way, way below expectations, below even their 08 turn out and that was white voters. it doesn t mean if they turned out that romney would have gotten then all. it shows you that this hispanic which is 8.5 of the election threat or something like that is not nearly as important still as the white vote, which is above 70%. so if you look at it from an
endorse their own proposals and this is a heritage foundation proposal and the republicans don t go along with their own side because barack obama is in favor of it. the idea that he needs to compromise to go down in history is baloney. i never said he needed to compromise. what i said is he ought to pick a signature issue. think about health think about health care. there is something he could have done and he could have pulled olympia snow and some of these very, very centrist republicans with him and let me give you a let me give you a second let s talk about immigration or something like that. i think immigration is absolutely one way he can work with republicans. i think there is a significant number for republicans and the senator who will give our response on tuesday who is becoming the leader of our party and i think there is good will not by the majority of the party to get the
for something, and democrats, and what they stand for is jobs and wages, but nevertheless, that is not going to take place and to me that is the that is just absurd. the president does need to come up with a big bold jobs plan, and rally the public. mobilize the public. i mean, he has got the bully pulpit and energize the public and campaign on it if the republicans don t go along with it. robert reich, thank you so much for joining us. thank you, ezra. and up next, the latest on the deadly stage collapse at the indiana state fair. one log in lets you monitor all of your balances and transfer between accounts, so your money can move as fast as you do. check out your portfolio, track the market with live updates. and execute trades anywhere and anytime the inspiration hits you. even deposit checks right from your phone. just take a picture, hit deposit and you re done. open an account today and put schwab mobile to work for you.
demographic. i think what he did not do and what s telling is say, so what will you do to get those different groups into the party? so we all know and we ve heard for years about the republican big tent. well, he hasn t told exactly how you fill it. he just said we need one. alex, i would actually turn that a little bit on its head and say he s doing something by showing up. and by showing up and delivering the same message he delivers elsewhere on the theory that there actually are people in places where republicans don t go that agree with him. he spoke at howard university here in washington. he went to a high school in washington and talked about school choice. he went out to berkeley. he was never booed out of these places. he shared his libertarian messages. if you read the reports. people say i appreciate him showing up and there are things he said. take the republican message as he sees it to these places, talk to people, score some points for showing up and maybe people beg