i am thomas robbeerts. republicans are warning the white house to back off after the plan b was leaked. this draft bill which was obtained by usa today over the weekend allows for an eight year path to residency for the undocument already inside u.s. borders and within hours of that plan s release florida senator marco rubio fired back saying if proposed the bill will be dead on arrival in congress leaving us with unsecured borders and a broken legal situation for years to come. the chief of staff defended the white house choice to be ready to go it alone. we re doing exactly what the president said we would do last month in las vegas which is we re preparing. we re going to be ready. let s make sure it doesn t have to be proposed. let s make sure the group up there, the gang of eight, makes the good progress on these efforts as much as they say they want to. republicans on the hill are upping the ante and accusing the administration of political games man ship that will
now, that s no way to get it done. with both parties agreeing now is the moment to make this reform happen, will congress be open to obama s backup if the efforts fall short? it is a threat from the white house by saying, hey, if you don t do it, the politics get really bad for you very quickly, so hurry up and get something done. say good morning to our president s day political power panel, contributor jonathan caphart and an opinion writer for the washington post and angela reid, principle of impact strategies and msnbc contributor susan dellpurseo. you come in on president a days. let s dive in and get to work talking about this leaked proposal that came out. angela, i want to start with you. we have the timeline here and if we look at it, the president was scheduled to go to las vegas on january 29th and give his first policy speech of the second administration but we see that on the 28th the bipartisan group of senators, they came out with their plan trying to
Look, i want marco to stand that way. i think the work that senator schumer and bob menendez are doing on the senate side is key and hopefully they will continue on that path and senator rubio will focus in on his new found commitment for immigrants and help us move this forward. joe garcia, thanks for your time. i appreciate it. pleasure to be here. coming up, new york city mayor michael bloomberg s $2 million gamble on gun control. will the big bet on a special election in chicago playoff. and a tragic ending for troubled music singer mindy mcc rene adie, and the white house immigration plan, tweaked or a political ploy? all right that s a fifth-floor problem. ok. not in my house! ha ha ha! ha ha ha!