But do you really think that democrats are how do you think that democrats should talk about immigration . An Election Year so theres additional polling out yesterday that shows when democrats just simply point out what happened on the bipartisan border bill that it was the toughest bill if enacted in decades. And it was killed by donald trump that republicans political advantage on the issue of immigration disappears it literally disappears because people, you know, kind of have come to that conclusion that yeah, republicans talk a big game on immigration, but have they ever done anything . No, they havent. I think democrats should lead with a simple message. We believe in border security. We want to protect the border and we have a plan to get that done republicans have no plan to get that done. Now, i also think that we should talk about the importance of providing a pathway to citizenship for people that are here, we should maintain robust Legal Immigration, but we should not be af
center in new york. he joins us on the show. good to be here. the numbers went up a little bit. they say it wasn t statistically that significant. does it surprise you it didn t go down or this is where it s at? it s where it s at until 2014 assuming the health care reform legislation becomes intact, when people will be able to get insurance who don t have it today. sanj sanjay, think of it this way. while it only went up 1 million people, which is lower than expected, think of 12 football stadiums filled with people that lost their health insurance last year. the unemployment rate between 2009 to 2010 was already pretty bad, so it didn t grow as much. if you have a job and you have cobra, it lasts for 18 months afterwards. you find another job, you can get health insurance there. what if you don t have cobra or you can t afford the premium? that s a big problem. most employer health insurance is substance d is subsidized by the employer. if you re unemployed, you l
officer who was killed says she will never believe davis is innocent. it has been hell because i want like, i would like to have some peace. i would like to have this situation over with. we are the victims. and those people that recanted, why did they wait 17 years before they recanted? they should have done it if they felt that way earlier, not when the final time has come now. a clemency hearing for davis is set for monday. former u.s. senator charles pier percy. he served in the senate for nearly 0 years and became a chairman of the foreign relations committee. he was battling alzheimer s disease. he reportedly died today at a washington, d.c. hospice. he was 91 years old. a teacher strike in tacoma, washington has cancelled school on monday. that will be the fifth day of the walkout. teachers are defying a judge s order to return to the classroom. as a result the teacher s union could face fines. 28,000 school kids in tacoma wait for classes to resume. on the cam
that plane. cnn s dann simon it in reno, nevada for us. dan, the ntsb asked about those photos at a news conference today. the death toll is now up to nine from three. what did investigators have o to say? reporter: no question, don, investigators will be looking at the tail of that aircraft. we have seen those pictures and it s pretty certain that at least at one point during the flight what s called the elevator lift tab dislodged from the plane. aviation experts have told me it would be very difficult to control the plane if, in fact, that occurred. crews here have been at the scene today going through the wreckage. they actually went over the lapse if you will to see where exactly that plane went and they did find something on the ground. i want you to listen now to the national transportation board investigator. we re aware of that. in fact, a component has been recovered in the area where that was observed. but i think it s critical at this point to know that we hav
pushed the panic button probably several months ago, they just haven t telegraphed to us yet. you have to look no further than a poll out in virginia that shows president obama has a 62% disapproval rating with independents in that state. that is devastating to him. remember, virginia was one of the states that he flipped back in 2008 to win the presidency. not just virginia, north carolina is another state that they re concerned about. then go out west to colorado, another state that they flipped, as well, back in 2008. and then there s the two big states, kyra. there s ohio and there is florida, as well. these are all states that he needs to win in 2012 in order to win a second term. you know, kyra, a lot of people don t think the president has the fire in the belly any more. i was talking to a democratic strategist this morning and what he said to me was very simply, instead of when you re selling the whole idea of the jobs bill, don t say pass the bill, say, yes we can. w