2012 to let young immigrants stay here in the united states. The dreamers. Whose parents brought them to the nation. According to white house the president is calling for accountability, not amnesty. The feds will focus on deporting criminals and people who recently crossed the boarder. He will use his Lawful Authority to deall of this. Republican leaders claim he is going too far and they are promising to take steps to stop the president. Mitch mcconnell says the president will regret taking the executive action. Tonight according to those remarks the president is to say to lawmakers who question his actions he has one answer, pass a bill. Something that they have done in the senate but have not been able to do in the house. This is a political football no doubt and no matter what the particulars of what is said tonight you can expect republicans to take this all the way to capitol hill. Tonight i would like to talk to you about immigration. For 200 years of rudition of wellcock tradi
Order. Amendment number 1 by mr. Lowenthal of california. Amendment number 2 by mr. Cartwright of pennsylvania. The chair will reduce to two minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote after the first vote in the series. The Unfinished Business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 1 printed in part b of house report 113 inion 374 by 113374 by the gentleman from california, mr. Lowenthal, on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The clerk amendment number 1 printed in part bs before b of house report 113374 offered by mr. Lowenthal of california. The chair a recorded vote has been requested. Those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This will be a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the cl
To hash this out. Im told behind closed doors the president made the calculation republican also attack him if he waits a month. Lets do it now. Go on offense and define the terms of this debate. He will try to justify this move tonight by saying republicans failed to act on the last four years. What he will not mention tonight is democrats failed to act when they had control of the house, senate, and white house in 2009, 2010. And by the way, even before this speech has been given, two senate democrats, not one but two donley of indiana and manchin of West Virginia come out and said its a mistake and end run around congress. Bill . The president ial will go it las vegas tomorrow. Thats where he will sign the executive action, i understand. You will be with him, correct . No. Im going to stay here and anchoring special report, filling in for bret baier, i think the bottom line is he is going do that because is he going to sell it they know its a tough policy so here is he. Here is the
White house and we should not gloss over the fact that this was something that was genuinely brought about by grassroots activism. By some very, very aggressive very canny grassroots activism. The president yes it is really theres an old adage in politics, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. And this is its very similar to dont ask, dont tell. Where we saw activists chain themselves to the white house. They werent quiet. They didnt just kind of allow, you know, get in line. They were very loud. And they didnt just attack the people who they were most diametrically opposed to. I talked with one of the founders of united we dream last night and well talk to her again after the speech but she talked about this decision that they came to when they realized that they were banging their head against a brick wall when it came to talking to republicans like john boehner and the other House Republicans who, inarguably, were the most responsible for their plight and so they decided, listen, we wa
Now, though, i want to bring in my friend and colleague, wolf blitzer. A huge night for the president of the United States, a huge night potentially for 5 Million People living here in the United States right now living here illegally. The president will take this unilateral action to encourage them to come out of the shadows, to go ahead and register themselves and at least be allowed to stay temporarily here in the United States. The president as you know is coming under enormous criticism from so many reapians. Part of the president s speech tonight will be to declare that he does have the Legal Authority to go ahead and do what he is about it to do. Were about to see the president walking in. Thats the cross hall over at the white house. The president will go into the east room. He will deliver this speech. We expect it to be about ten minutes or so, maybe 12 minutes, around that time. No audience. He will look into the camera. He will address the American People. My fellow america