chris. 55 a votes. but republican filibuster sto stopped it. what we have seen is all the complaints about we need immigration reform from the likes of jan brewer it is being stopped at the national level by a small group of republicans who distorted the marketplace on this idea. the steps the president took is something i think he should have take and long time ago. chris: let s turn to the politics because hispanics are big voting block in key states like florida and colorado and nevada. you can see the percentage of the voters that are hispanic in those states. they were upset with president obama because he had not enac enacted as much of their agenda as they wanted. does this action win him the enthusiastic support of hispanic voters in november? i think he he already has a big lead here but this helps solidify it. i think this is a big step for the administration and the campaign in the sense that it makes it articulates moving forward. this is a policy where the president
today because he will rubber stamp the congressional aagai . give huge tax cuts for the wealthy. they believe the economy works best from the top down. governor romney wouldn t reduce the deficit. every independent economist that looked at his plan says he would add to the diving for cover sit and allow infrastructure to deer toor rate more. this is not a recipe for growing the economy. that is the stark choice. chris: is the president s agenda because i did not hear anything new in ohio. is the president s agenda for the next four years more of the same? what is is what this country needs to do which is reduce the deficit in the right way. fair and balanced way. chris: i like the fact that you keep saying fair and balanceed. it is the right way. this president signed into law by the way almost $2 trillion in spending cuts. we have to focus on what is g going to grow the economy for the middle class and that is o going to be continuing to focus on the manufacturing. chris: bu
that is up 80% by the way. we need to focus on the real threat here. people endangering our communities, not people study studying in school working ha d hard. you have people who are here, brought here many cases very young ages by parents studying in our schools and working in our businesses and want to serve our military. this allows them to apply just for a two year period for work authorization. there is one way to fix this permanently only one way and that is for congress to pass the dream act which is something that unfortunately governor romney said he he would veto if he becomes president. this is very, very important that this is a two year period. so that people can apply. it allows our enforcement officials to focus on criminals those that really pose a threat that ought to be the focus he e here. but the only about permanent way to fix the immigration system and provide relief for dream act eligible populations is for congress to act. chris: you mentioned governor romney
and that is why the justice department ought to get to the bottom of this. chris: let me follow with you on this general hayden because you have been in the situation room. how closely held is this kind of information? we are talking about sources and methods and talking about agents that we had in those countries. we are talking about major campaign against iran. how closely held is the information and do people just leave the room and go out on their own and leak this kind of information? well, they shouldn t certa n certainly. and this is very closely held information. without commenting on whether the stories are true or false if you follow the story line that david lays out this would have been a covert action. covert action requires the personal involvement of the president. his percent that will approval. there are few things in the american government as closely protected as covert actions a e are. after all the word covert has some meaning or at least it is supposed to.
long. the attack in 2010 the attack just gone back to the bush policies didn t work because people wanted the republican house to stop barack obama from doing any more damage. you can t elect mitt romney entirely to stop barack obama from doing more damage. one good effect would be to stop barack obama from doing more damage. i think mitt romney has to have a forward looking vision. otherwise i m nervous about how the race plays out. chris: juan? all the they say he has to put more meat on the bone. the president framing the alternative and saying clearly if you ask mitt romney about what are your ideas for making this economy take off, mr. mr. romney, he says more tax cuts, personal tax cuts, corporate tax cuts, oil drailining and gas exploration, especially the xl pipeline which produces 6,000 jobs for two years. that is not going to turn