believe the victims would have wanted as well. every time i think of my wife and the other eight people i can t think of a better thing happening than the flag coming down because it separated us really. it was a sign of separation. again, ron allen, back with me live here. you were in charleston. in the aftermath of the shooting. you have been here since the debate started. personally, what has this been like for you to cover as a journalist? craig, i think it s just been a fascinating sequence of events no one would have predicted. obviously, a church massacre. as you pointed out, before mother emanuel, this flag wasn t an issue. it wasn t like every day people had been disputing it. it had been settled by moving it to the flag pole behind the memorial. around the country, people were looking at south carolina and wondering, okay and it became something that s accepted. okay, that s the south. that happens in south carolina and places like that i think, would have been a northe
chance at succeeding in a lawsuit against the president for any kind of executive action because they believe that he absolutely had no grounds to do that without congressional approval. having said that as you know, it doesn t take a rocket scientist to note that obamacare is the number one issue that riles the republican base and i talked to several republicans on capitol hill today who didn t deny that. you know, obviously, they didn t care that there was a delay for businesses. that wasn t an issue. but i want to the real big question i think is with this pressing immigration crisis going on, president obama took executive action in 2012 the baby d.r.e.a.m. act where he let some people who came to this country as children opened the doors to a path to citizenship. a lot of people think that helped encourage this crisis on the border. there s a lot of different theories, of course. wouldn t that also be a good thing to include in this lawsuit considering it s so pressing and
moving? i mean, it was we were moving at like 20, 30 miles per hour. it wasn t any different than many other storms the speed of it. that really wasn t an issue. that was kind of nonsense. you predicted it was going to move quickly. if anyone wants to be outraged, they got the kids to school and already there, at least 40% that showed up in the teachers. then they said, okay, everybody go home. we are going to release school early. it was 35 degrees. it was raining. the crews were out there. the roads were dramatically improving and parents had already brought their kids to school the ones that did and all of a sudden the people have to leave their jobs, their hourly wages to go get their kids for the afternoon. if anything, it didn t make sense, that was the dumbest thing they did yesterday. yeah. thank you, bill. we greatly appreciate it. harold ford, let me bring you in. you re a new york city resident. boy, what a rocky, rocky start for this new mayor. two botched efforts
we re talking people in states where there s extraordinarily high unemployment. we re also talking about states, well, one in particular, north carolina, where they changed the statement unemployment level to much lower than it was before. so these are people who aren t going to get anything. kay hagan is trying to fix this. but it s going to be rough sledding. and also, john, to me, what s such a study in the way that washington works is that the unemployment extension was an issue, okay? it was an issue. it was pro and against, and it s polarized. the doc fix, okay, which is making sure the doctors get paid what they want to be paid, right, that wasn t an issue. that wasn t on the front pages. that wasn t being debated. that was just, oh, very quietly, we all agree, the doctors so get paid. it s called a fix. why don t we call about the work fix. the poverty fix or the unemployment. the doc fix, it s like there s a thing that s broken that of course we have to come in and fix.
right, that wasn t an issue. that wasn t on the front pages. that wasn t being debated. that was just, oh, very quietly, we all agree, the doctors so get paid. it s called a fix. why don t we call about the work fix. the poverty fix or the unemployment. the doc fix, it s like there s a thing that s broken that of course we have to come in and fix. but there is no unemployment fix. and there s no unemployment lobbyists, either. thank you. and also, the doc fix, the ironic thing about this, they ve been doing this as long as i ve been a reporter, for 15 years. every once in a while they have to come in and give them more money and they sort of figure out a way to do it. but if you re poor, the unemployed, they don t have a really loud voice in congress. we should make the point, on the merits about the doc fix, a sudden massive catastrophe ic drop in the payments to doctors would be bad policy and screw up a lot of providers. it s not a question of whether that s good on the