that has got senator chuck grassley upset. he says it's unfair, because the people who got the information ahead of time got an unfair advantage and he was grilling today the head of medicare and medicaid. take a listen to the exchange. >> wrong and quite possibly illegal and i hope you agree that ultimately you're responsible. what are you going to do to hold somebody accountable for this

grassley. >> mr. chairman, i don't appreciate -- >> how will the boston bombings affect immigration reform? we'll discuss that, coming up next. >>> before the tragedy last week in boston, congress seemed to be getting its groove back. taking actual votes on actual bills with republicans and democrats coming together to craft actual bipartisan legislation. never mind actual passage. but boston may have stopped that rolling tide, specifically on subject of immigration reform. since the country found out that the two suspect in the bombing were legal immigrants, one of whom became a u.s. citizen in the past year, some opponents have tried to pull the stops on, put the stops on legislative action, last week, iowa senator chuck grassley immediately linked the boston events to the immigration debate. >> given the events of this week it's important for us to understand the gaps and loopholes in our immigration system. while we don't yet know the immigration status of people who have terrorized the communitie

senator grassley on that. a billion dollar gift of art, but how big is the tax writeoff, and why give now? before obama caps deductions. this, $700 million for gardening, what sequester pain? ha. ♪ stuart: can you hear the printing presses humming along? we don't stop because the jobless rate is high and will be for a long time to come. that's why the dow industrials are up 71 # point, ain't that right, charles? >> there's a school, there's a big pool of people in the market, a lot of professional traders, but i still believe in value, and that's why, you know what? here's why it's important, stuart. i'll be honest with you because when we tell investors the market's up because of printing and stock goes down, and they sell it, lufkin, a big winner, seven sold the stock. why? bay were scared. you know what the margins are going in? it's a worrying proposition. they missed 7,000 points, maybe they'll miss more. stuart: you agree with me, in part -- >> oh, absolutely. stuart: it's a paper driven rally; yes? >>

hoy por ejemplo el senador republicano por iowa chuck grassley comento que mientras trabaja en reformas, los terroristas que actuaron en mississippi tenian toda su documentacio n en regla... senalizacion injusta e ilogica que causo fuertes reacciones... siren personas inmigrantes no son una amenaza para este pais y creo que con una reforma migratoria tendriamos mas conocimiento de las personas que realmente quieren venir a este pais a contribuir abogados concuerdan que una reforma aumentaria los niveles de seguridad pues, tal y como ocurre ahora, inmigracion investiga el pasado criminal de todo inmigrante en proceso de documentacio n... patricia castorena investigan a la persona con el alguacil, la policia local, el fbi, y si ha vivido en otras ciudades hasta alli pueden hacer la investigacion pero hoy las objeciones en el comite continuaron. por ejemplo el presiente del comite judicial patrick leahy dijo que la propuesta no cumple con los deberes del pais... mientras la comision federal de derechos civiles indico que los inmigrantes sin papeles seran dura competencia para estadounidens

grassley: mr. president, thank you. by the way, we're the state that's got the first in the nation caucuses. the vice president: that's why i corrected myself, sir. mr. grassley: i strongly oppose this amendment. expanded background checks would not have prevented newtown. criminals do not submit to background checks now. they will not submit to expanded background checks. the deputy director of the national institute of justice has written that background checks will work only if they are universal and are combined with gun registration. this amendment would start us down that road of registration. it would open, not close loopholes. it would require background checks when people advertise a gun for sale in their church bulletins or farm bureau newsletter. it protects people to federal criminal liability, up to five years of violation of state or local law, which, of course, is unprecedented. and the program provisions would actually reduce existing protections for law-abiding gun owners. i urge my colleagues to reject

grassley took off phones to -- offense to that. expect more emotion today, bill. bill: speaker boehner told us yesterday here on "america's newsroom" perhaps it will throw it off the tracks for a day or two but not permanently. mike thank you. martha. martha: here is a little bit of context on immigration in the u.s. the number of undocumented immigrants here expected to be at 11.1 million. that is the most, that is according to the most recent data in 2011. that same year, u.s. immigration and customs enforcement removed more than 396,000 immigrants that were living here illegally. that is the most in the agency's history. our country spent about 18 billion on immigration enforcement in 2012. a lot of money spent on this issue here. in fact it is more than the combined budgets of fbi, atf, dea and secret service. bill: well, here's a bomb shell. about a week after saying obamacare is a train wreck, democratic senator max baucus making mention moments ago that he will not seek re-election in the year 2015. martha: how about that. bill: he will retire early. if you

and senator charles grassley, graham's republican colleague in the senate, asked secretary janet napolitano from the department of homeland security about the discrepancy earlier this morning. here's bit of that exchange. >> was your department aware of his travels to russia, and if you weren't, the reason? >> the travel in 2012 that you're referring to? yes, the system pinged when he was leaving the united states. by the time he returned, all investigators -- the matter had been closed. >> is it true that his identity document did not match his airline ticket, and if so, why did tsa miss the discrepancy? >> there was a police match there. by the way, the bill will help with this because it requires that passports be electronically readable, as opposed to have being been manually input. it really does a good job of getting human error. >> so there you hear secretary napolitano answering that question from senator grassley. all of this is also important because senator graham said yesterday that tamerlan's trip to russia last year was undetected by the fbi. he say his was told that by a seni

chuck grassley was being deeply dishonest. he has enormous resources, one was naturalized and the other was denied because of the fbi concerns about him. this is plain politics. the republican party is stuck now. are we going to play to the base of fear, fearful white people, fearful other people who are really are unsure about the other or are we going to be a forward-looking party that says we cannot write off latino voters for the next 40, 50 years and -- stay a national party and that -- you know, the rubio approach was starting to say let's move forward and we might not win latino votes. even if we do this in the next ten years. but we -- we have to think about our children and grandchildren of republicans and -- that they are -- they are going to want to have a fighting chance with this new american population. there was that forward-looking approach and then there's just -- i'm sorry, that knee-jerk fear is the republican magic -- >> i -- >> it is not fear -- >> bob -- >> fear of national security concern. >> a little b

first up chuck grassley. here is how he reacted today. >> i say that particular those that are pointing to what happened, the terrible tragedy in boston as i would say an excuse for not doing a bill or delaying it many months or years. >> i never said that! >> wow, the alien doth protest too much. then tom foreman, he thought the best use of the news apparatus is to drop backpack. >> if you look at the outline of the backpack this is a fairly substantial pack here. that's a fairly substantial backpack. >> yeah tom, we on earth call those backpacks, and that's what they are shaped like. now do you want to say something useful? and finally we would like to tip our hat to the fbi agent who cracked the whole case. richard deloriay because -- there has got to be at least two brains in that head. i'm done talking now. >> michael: thank you for joining us here in "the war room." before we go, we have to say a sad good-bye to folk singer richie habens. he is best known for his spiring performance of motherless child

>> bill: yeah chuck grassley could probably try to make a link. these kids came here. their family pleading the persecution in chechnya and moved on to wherever and finally came here as an 15 year old, and 8 year old, they came here legally, through the system, one of them became an american citizen, the other one had not yet because he had been questioned by the government at the question of the russian government. but do you know from there to saying, we can't do anything and we shouldn't do anything again about this festering problem of 12 million people here in this country illegally and about our border as porous as it is we didn't do anything because of the bombing up in boston? no, come on. let's get serious. more calls coming up 866-55-press. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪ to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting m

grassley has been denying that he knew anything about this. a very concerned about this. your quick comments. >> i do believe that he did not know anything about this. this was a former aide of his to became a lobbyist, went your door rolfing door. grassley has very seriously championed this political intelligence disclosure requirements. i am expecting this to really motivate him to pushing even harder. i really want to add, the repeal that congress just did of the disclosure includes all congressional staff. and those are the key sources of the political intelligence industry. gerri: here is the thing, greg and tim, they think you are not looking. so there will do whatever they can to make themselves look better. it is astonishing to me how these people in congress and the president who signed it, frankly, think they can get away with this stuff. unbelievable. you did a great job debating this. thank you for coming out tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. gerri: here is another story that has me ticked off. listen to this. homeowners who allegedly or wrongly foreclosed

now that led to a testy exchange between democrat charles schumer and republican chuck grassley during a senate committee hearing yesterday. >> those who are pointing to what happened, the terrible tragedy in boston, as an excuse for not doing a bill or delaying it many months or years. >> i never said that. >> i didn't say you did. >> i didn't say that. >> i didn't say you did, sir. >> mr. chairman, i don't appreciate the senator demeanoring the witnesses that come here. >> reporter: on friday grassley cited the attack as a reason for caution in moving ahead with the immigration bill. while that hearing was going on, two other gop senators weighed in. now, rand paul and marco rubio issued separate statements suggesting lawmakers take their time with immigration reform. today homeland security secretary janet napolitano testifies on immigration herself. her original testimony was canceled friday so she could monitor the manhunt for suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. anne-marie? >> tara mergener in washington. thank you very much, tara. >>> overseas now a car bomb exploded outside the french em

also like to recognize chairman leahy, ranking member grassley and the members of this committee for giving me the opportunity to testify today in support of s. 744, the border security economic opportunity and immigration modernization act of 2013. my name is gabby pacheco and i'm aand undocumented american. i was born in 1985. in 1983 at the age of eight i moved to the united states with my parents and three siblings. out of everyone who was here testifying today, i am the only one that comes to you as one of the 11 million undocumented people in this country. my family reflects the diversity and beauty of america. we are part of a strong working class, a mixed status family, neighbors, classmates, fellow parishioners, consumers and are part of the fabric of this nation. my father is an ordained southern baptist preacher who currently works as a window washer. my mom a licensed nurse's aide, but with health conditions she hasn't been able to work for the last couple of years. their hope is to continue to support their family while at the same time contributing to the country's econ

i think that's sort of the impulse behind chuck grassley. it's the impulse behind rand paul, who is one of the renegades who says let's stop immigration reform. but rand paul doesn't have the interest of the republican party at heart. its republicans who want immigration reform for the most part. >> off their back. >> people like rand paul are not interested in the future of the republican party. >> i don't think he has a macro view of the party. some republicans who don't like immigration reform are using the boston marathon bombing as an excuse to stall it. in a letter to harry reid, tea party senator rand paul of kentucky said, quote, the facts emerging in the boston marathon bombing have exposed a weakness in our current system. we should not proceed until we understand the specific failures of our immigration system. joy, i'm not sure what weaknesses, or maybe the visa the russians gave him was probably more of a problem. but back and forth, i would say i still think we ought to know more about what happened. he warned, went over and ca

i don't know how senator grassley or anybody else would be able to pry into the very core of a human being when they are 15 years old to find out they would be part of a horrible act like this ten years later. the fact remains that we're going to play another $5 billion on top of $18 billion for security along the border. that $5 billion should be targeted. it should go after the terrorism question we're talking about. go after the organized crime that brings people and drugs into this country and sends drugs out of this country. it should go after supportive services that integrate the new immigrants and the new americans in society, civic and language. those are the kind of questions that strengthen america. community policing. people being willing to come to the local police and be assets in crime prevention. we can't overlook that. we should tread lightly. >> real quickly. we're only as strong as our weaknesses and it would be not correct to think there are going to be weaknesses that are examined through the reform procedure and senator rand paul sent this letter to harry reid s

with senator chuck grassley of iowa. --n, a look at bipartisanship in congress. >> good morning on this wednesday, april 10, 2013. wall street journal reporting the senate gang of eight is working on immigration. setting a path to citizenship hinging on 100% surveillance of the border. crossing90% of those illegally. meanwhile, president obama rolls out his budget proposal today. "washington times" noting it is late. the senate will vote on a gun control bill, we will begin there. send us a tweet if you go to -- and we will post your comments. let's begin with the front page of the washington times. their headline on the senate setting this vote on thursday reset the stage for a showdown. it bears the gop to filibuster. the piece says this -- he goes on to write this -- democratic senators max baucus and mark pryor from arkansas said -- texas, republican caller up first. what do you make of this vote is set in the senate on thursday challenging a gop filibuster? i think the gop should kill a buster obama is doing everyth

today things got hot when chuck schumer independently called out grassley. >> offer an amendment when we start markup in may and let's vote on it. i say that particularly to those who point to what happened, the terrible tragedy in boston as i would say an excuse for not doing a bill or delaying it many months or years. >> i never said that. i never said that. >> i didn't say you did, sir. >> i didn't say -- >> i didn't say you did. >> all right. director of the huffington post media group and joy-ann reid. howard first and then joy. we all predicted this, there was going to be an overlay, a bleeding into immigration because it's about foreign people coming here. >> there's no doubt about it. right now the polls show that people in the united states have generally -- although only modestly favorable view of immigration overall, they are in favor of immigration reform and they are for the notion of continuing immigration. but there have been times in our history in recent years when people have been very much against the idea of immigration altogether. >> yeah. >> and what proponents o

here the suspect who's been charged with nine years old and then you get senator saying like senator grassley saying we need to be tougher on immigration what are you going to do ask a nine year old if they have a propensity for terrorism and the younger brother seemed kind of to be following the older brother if anyone was more radicalized like perhaps the older brother would you consider this a case of domestic terrorism because they've been living in the u.s. for a long time. i would in terms of oklahoma city bombing by timothy mcveigh was domestic terrorism but i don't think he was actually charged with anything like weapons of mass destruction even though he improvised filling a truck with fertilizer and create causing far more deaths by an order of magnitude compared to the three people that unfortunately died in this incident so you could call it domestic terrorism but the charges for a mic they certainly didn't sound almost like war and war like charges that the u.s. since nine eleven beefed up its spending on security. yet something as big as the boston bombings happen what has the u

i would say to my friend and colleague senator grassley, yes it was grassley-durbin, durban- grassley for a long time. i did not add my name to it this time and i felt i really needed to be open-minded trkwas a comi. do not sue me for any alienation of affection. here's what it gets down to, mr. smith. when microsoft and other companies come and tell me we're going to put our research facility in british columbia if you do not give us an opportunity in the united states of america to bring in the talent we need to build the product we need to prosper, i get it. theve also been commencement speaker at the illinois institute of technology and watch graduates coming across the stage for multiple advanced degrees thinking we are handing them a diploma and a map and how to get on the kennedy expressway out to o'hare at the same time, which i think is a mistake. to,'s what it comes down mr. smith. there are some specific abuses of h1b. mr. gupta has pointed them out. ,hese outsourcing firms americans would be shked to knt the h1b are not going to microsoft. they're going to these firms, lar

senator grassley actually rought this up, again, how tightened up security. 's clear that tamerlan tsarnaev, they had no record of him going to russia or coming back because his name was misspelled. by a place where we don't have regulations, a foreign airline. under our bill, everything would have to be pass -- passport or machine-read that so type of mistake could not occur. if our bill were law, isn't it a pretty safe guess that the authorities would have known that tsarnaev went to russia and came back? >> if i might, there are redundancies now in the system so there was a ping on the outbound to customs. this is my understanding, this has been kind of changing picture, but even regardless of that, anything that makes a requirement for machine-readable gets manual inputting out of the system, imprombings security. >> all right. ok. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. >> thank you. it was a revelation to go down on the border. we actually watched and illegal border crossing while we were there. >> and an apprehension. >> as you hear. and an apprehension

grassley: i come to the floor to speak about the nomination of jane kelly. i compliment the chairman for speaking now on immigration. i am not going 0 speak on immigration today probably, but i hope to be able to speak several times before the bill actually gets to the floor of the united states senate to inform my colleagues about my point of view on the whole issue of immigration, but i can say generally that we all know the immigration system is broken and legislation has to pass, and i hope we can get something that has broad, bipartisan agreement. already the product before us is a product of bipartisanship because four democrats and four republicans have submitted a proposal for our committee to consider. i rise today, as i've said, in support of the monopoly nation of jane kelly tock u.s. circuit judge for the eighth circuit. the nominee before us today, ms. kelly, prisonsl presently ss an assistant public defender for the public federal defendingers's office for the northern district of iowa and she does that work in the cedar rapids office. she is w

grassley. >> those remarks were not aimed at anyone on this committee or the three witnesses. there are people out there; you've read it in the newspapers; they've said it. >> brown: there were also questions about the f.b.i.'s investigation last year of tamerlan tsarnaev, after he spent six months in russia. senator diane feinstein, chairing the intelligence committee, said senior f.b.i. may testify tomorrow about why they did not pursue the matter further. i misspoke in that set-up piece. tsarnaev was read his miranda rights in his hospital room today. we're joined by a reporter who has been following developments closely. dina temple raston is npr as anti-terrorism correspondent. welcome to you. do we know how much or what investigators are learning from tsarnaev in the hospital so far? >> well, there's been very little that they've learnd because he can't really understand that he can't speak. he has a tube in his throat. he has some sort of a wound on his neck and his hand. apparently to his jaw. there's some question as to whether or not it was a self-inflicted wound. so

maybe grassley didn't but rand paul said this means we've got to put a hole in everything. wrote a letter to harry reid saying we can't proceed with immigration reform until we straighten out what happened up in boston. >> it is remarkable to me -- >> bill: they'll stop at nothing. >> they'll stop at nothing. but the fact that you could use the killings in boston to stop immigration reform but god forbid, you use a mass shooting to talk about gun safety laws. that's the no-no. that's exploitation. here we can talk about maybe changes to the fbi right away. maybe we should, of course. we can talk about stopping immigration reform. it is really remarkable. and now do you have this growing course of conservatives saying let's load this down. leadership however, is hanging on. boehner yesterday on fox news said it may slow down by a couple of days but immigration reform is something we have to do because they know if they don't do it, they're in trouble demographically. they're going to keep this train rology but you do have those conservatives using it as an opportunity. >> bi

grassley is right about one thing. he is not the one who said there should be a delay as a result of what happened in boston but others have said that. dan coates, a republican from indiana on the sunday shows yesterday on one of them saying it should be a delay for months while we look at this. rand paul, obviously a very influential voice amongert semifinals here in the senate saying before we move forward on immigration reform, we need to understand the specific failures of our current immigration system that led to these two and their families being granted asylum. the country has seen so many strife and activism. the white house for its part is defending the immigration reform efforts that it needs to go forward. doing so will help us become a more secure nation. make it less likely the boston incidents, the boston attacks could happen again. meanwhile lindsey graham, also on that judiciary committee, will have a press conference in a few minutes. he is very disappointed. as are john mccain and peter king on the h

and again, hinckley -- i meant grassley. now i'm mixing up my villains. got that news busters? but it is interesting, they have been here ten years, and it's interesting to bring this into the immigration debate. >> yeah, i was asked to go on and talk about alex jones on cnn last night. about his whole thing about the new world order, and this is them coming to get your guns. alex jones doesn't believe it is a false flag operation, he wants to believe it. and chuck grassley or steve king who spoke about having to revis have it student visas, he doesn't believe that he wanted to believe it. this is all people wanting to believe the worst about the people they already disespisedespise. and if you want to believe in something this week believe in the first responders the runners who gave blood and putting other people's needs above their own. we need to have a defeat button to filter out all of the garbage we hear. >> stephanie: yeah. >> we can late alex jones later. >> stephanie: and john it raises a good point at the end of a horrible week let's highlight the heros. this is the

host: that was senator chuck grassley. who else has jumped on this issue and since the boston bombing? guest: you obscene commentators in the newspapers with others, chrysler has taken the lead on this in suggesting a slowdown. i would not say and huge , butdswell by any stretch conservative commentary you've seen from chuck grassley. texas.ongressman from but we will see how it plays out. i don't see a huge movemt the immigration debate after the 2001 terror attacks, about the parallel that uc. guest: we are in a completely different world in terms of immigration controls. the linking of this immigration would be the argument that somehow u.s. immigration authorities, whether it be overseas or over here, should have been able to see signals that these gunmen were of concern and keep them out of the country. they came with their families when they were quite young. the younger brother was a child at the time and the older one was 14. time's not clear at the there's anything could have been done on immigration front. let's

. -- senatorator grassley knows, i even offered some extra time on this. keep on. we will have the debate. i suspect we will have a lot of debate. >> i thank you. i was not intending -- those remarks were not aimed at anyone on the committee or the three witnesses. there were people out there, you read it in the newspapers, who said it. what i am saying is, if there are things that come up as a result of what happened in boston that require improvement, let's add that to the bill. because certainly our bill tightens up things in a way that would make a boston less likely. changes in the exit-entry sent -- the system of visas, requiring the 11 million people here to register. all of that make it a tighter bill. maybe it should be made tighter still. we are open to that. that is all i am saying. i heard lots of calls on people out in the country saying delay it. what our bill does, very simply, is add billions of additional dollars toward border security and border fencing, tracking immigrants who overstay their visas so they can be apprehended, and reforming our imm

grassley: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. brass grass i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: madam president, earlier today i met with families from newtown, connecticut, to discuss the legislation that we're currently debating. obviously, for these families that come in that lost these children and also some -- just a minute. madam president, i want to start over again. the presiding officer: certainly. the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: earlier today i met with families from newtown, connecticut, to discuss legislation we're currently debating. and it's obviously very emotional, and it isn't an easy meeting to have, but it is a very necessary meeting to have, when the parents of children that were murdered or when -- i think somebody from a family that teachers were murdered, it is difficult for. i want to thank them for sharing their stories of loved ones and their concerns with me. and i hope many of my colleagues would consider meeting with these famil

. >> can't spell grassley without ass. >> stephanie: right. this has nothing to do with the immigration debate. the family came here what ten years ago or something. i don't know if it is asylum technically, but they were fleeing what was going on -- yeah. and he -- i don't even know not even eight -- how old was he? >> nine, something. >> stephanie: yeah. anyway. jay carney yesterday. >> we will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice, under u.s. law, united states citizens cannot be tried in military commissions. >> and i think peter king and lindsey graham seem to have forgotten that we are a nation of laws. >> stephanie: what is it just to seem tougher? >> i think lindsey graham was getting more information about his ties to al-qaeda. and on his hospital bed yesterday he said they are religious, but they don't have ties to any larger network. >> stephanie: yeah. exactly. that's what the fbi was saying initially. can i just say one of my favorite things is -- is the description -- because, you know, he was mad initia

grassley: i've got 15 seconds left. is that okay? mr. reid: of course. mr. grassley: thank you. yet thee actions should have been taken years ago. so it is very disappointing that we have this report now. it needs to be newt in effect. i think the government accountability office did gooded, and i'll put the rest of the statement in the record. i yield the floor. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask that th the senator's statement not appear interrupted in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on s. 743 occur this evening at 5:35 p.m. further, that if cloture is invoked, all postcloture time be considered expired at 5:00 p.m. monday, may 6, that the durbin amendment 745 then be withdrawn and no other decade amendments be the senate will come to order, that the senate then proceed to vote in relation to the enzi-durbin amendment 741. upon disposition of the amendment, the senate proceed to vote on passage of the bill, as amended, if ame

senator grassley, good to have you here today. >> thank you very much, martha. martha: we took a look at that back and forth and your question about why tsa would not have been picked up, would not have picked up on this young man. what troubles to you about the answer here? >> well we may have a 9/11 situation all over. and i heard you use, the term, maybe the dots are not being connected. martha: yee. >> is homeland security talking to fbi? now, this person left the united states january 2012. the older brother did, to go back to russia and the fbi didn't know that. we're told by the department of homeland security that there was, they used word ping. let's say there was an alert about his leaving. well then how come the fbi didn't know it? they brag about the technology that is spelled into this bill to help in the future. there is no amount of technology that is going to work if the department of homeland security is not talking to the fbi. so we have a real, we have a real problem here. martha: yeah. you know, i'm troubled by the fact that janet napolitano

i think with the exception of coates, grassley and rand paul, whom you had on your screen there as you were doing your intro, i would say that most republicans that i've heard have actually been pretty reasonable about this and have kind of said that there is nothing in immigration law that would have prevented us letting these guys in the united states when they were 9 and 16 years old and buying able to tell that they were going to grow up to go terrorists. >> cenk: isis senator mccain correct saying that this should only accelerate the process? >> i'm not sure about that. what immigration change could we make that would stop something like this? i don't think there is one. i don't think that's a good argument against passing immigration. as i wrote about gun control many times it's obviously not the case that background checks would have necessarily have prevented newtown or a new massacre but that's not an argument for not doing anything. similarly, you know, the fact that this happened in boston and was done by immigrants is not an argument for not changing our immigration law. i'

chuck grassley, iowa senator, kept pushing to get this part of the bill, you've got on eat the dog food too, congress. they fought on that every turn. i would think this is going to continue unless republicans continue. >> paul: the broader contours of obamacare, rolling out starting in october, that is not going too well either? >> no. hss run out of money for implementation. they have another affordable care act slush fund to exchange implementation. you are seeing rates are starting to be filed much higher 20-30% for younger consumers. even a hundred percent, 200%. in maryland which price controls are in effect already. you are not seeing the smooth, well-oiled machine the president promised. >> paul: it could be a political liability for the president if people begin to see the promises haven't been kept. we have to take one more break. when we come back, hits and misses of the week. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into o

i appreciate senator grassley's comments. but i want him and others to know that we tried to figure what you were aiming at and compensate in terms of making the kinds of changes that would have a stable work force throughout for farmers. any staff is prepared, comments from each state that have come in with respect to the need. we have 100 copies and we make it available to anyone that would to provide additional information. i think every state is in here. it is as close to coming to a national crisis with respect to retaining this country's agricultural as anything. farms cannot farm because they do not have a consistent supply of workers. they cannot get the contractors, they don't know what to pay them, i mean, i sat next to a woman who operated turkey farm in california between the wage rates and the high price of corn because of ethanol had to shut down her business. that should not be the case in the united states. we think we have a solution to that. now let me go to the question. and whoever would like to answer thi

host: that was senator chuck grassley. who else has jumped on this issue and since the boston bombing? guest: you obscene commentators in the newspapers with others, chrysler has taken the lead on this in suggesting a slowdown. i would not say and huge groundswell by any stretch, but conservative commentary you've seen from chuck grassley. and a congressman from texas. but we will see how it plays out. i don't see a huge movement calling for delay. host: the immigration debate after the 2001 terror attacks, about the parallel that uc. guest: we are in a completely different world in terms of immigration controls. the linking of this immigration would be the argument that somehow u.s. immigration authorities, whether it be overseas or over here, should have been able to see signals that these gunmen were of concern and keep them out of the country. they came with their families when they were quite young. the younger brother was a child at the time and the older one was 14. so it's not clear at the time there's anything cou

well chuck schumer wanted to point that out, a democrat from new york, but chuck grassley, it did not set well with him why? he was one of the guys doing it when he says he's not. first let's watch. >> i say particularly those who are pointing to what happened, the tesh tragedy in boston, as a, i would say as an excuse for not doing a bill or delaying it many months or years. >> i never said that. >> i never did say that, sir. >> mr. chairman, i don't appropriate demeaning some of the witness who is have come here. >> those remarks were not aimed at anyone on this committee or the three witnesses. there were people out there. you read it in the newspapers who have said it. >> cenk: now but wait chuck grassley certainly did imapply that earlier but he's saying it's chuck on chuck violence. you want to know what said it? rand paul. let me read you the quote: >> cenk: now kevin bring back the panel here, kevin cirilli beth fouhy and joe williams. isn't that rand paul saying whoa, let's put the brakes on the immigration bill because of boston? >> it's rand paul. and we were just talking a

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guns came up -- >> let me just you about that, senator grassley was raising all sorts of issues with in a follow tanno yet. is there any concern that boston will be a setback, slowing it down? >> clear it's it's been raised by senator grassley and others, but i think it's interesting what's happened. we've seen boston come together, one terrorist killed, the other arrested. we've also seen a number of other voices. yesterday speaker boehner and congressman ryan came out and said this is not a reason to delay the immigration bill in going forward. this is actually a reason to speed it up and have it go forward. we all know the sim has been broken, there's security issues. look what happened with the terrorists. they had visas that overstayed, and this bill, allowing some of these high-skilled engineers and doctors to stay? our country, it also creates better security in terms of not just the border, but watching the visas. right now they're all hiding from view in the shadows, this will be a better system and i think it was quite inspiring that a number of people have stood above the

senator grassley? want to avoid partisanship, i would say let's be very deliberate. and i think you have been very deliver it so far. if you continue in that deliberation i do not think you have any partisanship. no of the to take fact that when ppod gun legislation i did not accuse you of using the morristown killings as an excuse. and i do not hear any criticism of people when there are 14 people killed in a west texas -- in west texas, a man taking a vantage of that tragedy to warn tout more government action make sure that fertilizer are safe. i think we are taking advantage of an opportunity when once in 25 years we deal with immigration to make sure that every base is covered. today we continue our discussion on the immigration bill that was unveiled last wednesday. work by a bipartisan group of senators. asy tly stated, a starting point in a process that is going to have to be very deliver live. because we were very deliver live in 1986 and you can see that we screwed up bau a th p we only had three people crossing the border unlawfully. now there are 12 milli

grassley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: today the senate will consider the 10th judicial nomination this year with today's expected -- this year. with today's expected action, we will have confirmed four district -- no, four circuit and six district nominees. at this point in 2005 -- and that was the beginning of president bush's second term, comparable to what we're talking about for president obama -- the senate had confirmed zero judicial nominees. let me repeat. at this point in 2005, the senate had confirmed not ten, not four, not even one judicial nominee so that comes out to be zero. the quick pace of this year comes on top of a very productive 112th congress in which 111 judges were confirmed. last congress, we confirmed more judges than any other congress going back to 20 years to the 103rd congress. despite this progress, and our continued cooperation, both with the president and senate democrats, we continue to hear unfounded criticism. for example, last week the white house spokesperson criticized the

senator grassley has a bill. lindsay graham has a bill. the lindsay graham's bill does two things. first, it sort of any state can automatically get you if they think that you're a danger to yourself or someone else. that's legal in all 50 states, woe narrow that down in the case of gun control. if you were quote an imminent danger if you will. not only is he restricting the gene pool of quote crazy people from buying guns. he's taking it too a much, much more stricter level for the courts to have to prove. secondly, once they get out, they under his bill, under his legislation, as currently proposed, they could go buy guns once they're out of the looney bin per se. i'm not sure that's a smart thing. so while we have these neat things happening on expanded background checks, human trafficking, et cetera, et cetera, the republicans are working behind the scenes, guess who wrote the lindsay graham bill? the nra. i know everyone is shocked by that. >> that's the issue, ron, the nra wants no bill. >> the nation has an editorial. wayne lapierre is winning, the gro group's strategy has b

senator chuck grassley, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >>> a poisoned letter addressed to president obama. now the man who was accused of sending it is set free. we've got the latest in the ricin case. that's next. a new ride comes along and changes everything. the 2013 lexus gs. this is the pursuit of perfection. would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. i'm really glad that girl stayed at home. vo: expedia helps 30 million travelers a month find what they're looking for. one traveler at a time. expedia. find yours. >>> breaking news on a shocking turn in the investigation into ricin laced letters sent to the white house and to a mississippi senator. we learned a few hours ago the man accused of sending those letters has been released from federal custody as that was unfolding we also learned that another suspicious letter has turned up, this time at an airforce base not far from washington, d.c. first, the latest on the ricin case. paul kevin kurtis was supposed to appear in court today on charges he sent threatening letters to president obama and othe

grassley: i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: i ask permission to speak in morning business for about five or six minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: i'd like to take a moment to pay tribute to former british prime minister margaret thatcher. obviously we all know that she passed away this monday. in the 1970's, britain was mired in debt and even had to go to the international monetary fund for a bailout. britain was known then in the 1970's as the sixth man of europe, much like we think of greece today. governments of both political parties had tried to stimulate the economy through keynesian spending policies and government intervention into the economy was widespread. britain faced massive strikes in the winter of 1978 to 1979 when she became prominent. that period of time was known as the winter of disconnect. there was talk that britain had become unmanageable and ungovernable. then margaret thatcher came on to the scene big time. her polici

iowa senator chuck grassley already skeptical of the group's immigration proposal join calls that suggest boston has changed things. >> how can individuals evade authority and plan such attacks on our soil? how can we beef up security checks on people who wish to enter the united states? how do we ensure that people who wish to do us harm are not eligible for benefits under the immigration laws including this new bill before us? >> two authors of that immigration bill, chuck schumer and lindsey graham are next. aaah! aaaaah! theres a guy on the window! do something, dad! aaaah! aaaah! what is happening? they're rate suckers. their bad driving makes car insurance more expensive for the rest of us. good thing there's snapshot from progressive. snap it in and get a discount based on your good driving. stop paying for rate suckers. try snapshot free at progressive.com. i'm just red carpets and big spectacles. but that's only the beginning. i have more than one red carpet. i like all sorts of spectacles. from the grandiose to the impromptu... to the completely unexpected. and the most epic thr

senator grassley. >> thank you for the work you were involved with in boston as well. we welcome you, madam secretary. herepreciate you being today to discuss the immigration bill. the bill before us is a starting point. the bill is not perfect. i am encouraged to see that one co-sponsor of the bill is taking suggestions on how to improve the legislation. we hope to have the opportunity to do just that. that are 92 other senators must have their chance to improve the bill. we have a duty to protect the borders. i'm concerned the bill will not secure the border and stop the flow of illegal migration. yesterday i brought up the language in the bill. legalization begins with the southern border security and fencing. the undocumented become legal. once the secretary certifies that the fencing plans are deployed and completed, green cards are allocated to those here illegally. agricultural workers are put on a different path. if enacted today, the bill would put no pressure on this secretary to secure the borders. you have stated the border is stronger than ever before. you

grassley, the senator from iowa says before we reform the system we have to focus more on who we let in the country. your response? >> well, first, i don't think it should have severe impact on the immigration debate. we should focus whether it should be refined and if people are coming from a country that has terrorist background. strong terrorist element that that country there should be extra vetting from that country. i'm grandson of immigrants. i have some concern with security aspect of immigration reform i don't think we should use it as an excuse to stop the debate. i do believe if someone is coming from country, which has strong al-qaeda any other type of terrorist element in it, we should not be afraid to ask extra questions or research and to vetting to make sure that people coming in here have no affiliation at all to the terrorist groups. >> we want to thank you for a spirited discussion. we will stay on top of the developments. >> thank you. >> up next, we will get another perspective on the terror threat from two men on the front lines. how vulnerable is the country >>

and so that's why you see folks, chuck grassley and others jumping on the boston marathon and saying maybe we should slow down. even rand paul a week ago being touted at the anti-ted cruz on this issue because he saw the need for reform came out yesterday and said, i may have to rethink this. if they could find a way out of doing this, a lot of republicans would take that and run to the border. >> karen, robert costa thinks that the death knell for immigration reform is time. the longer this drags out, the less chance, the less of a chance it has at being passed. i think that the fact that paul ryan is out there speaking specifically to national security and how immigration reform is tied to national security and the wake of the boston bombings, is almost marching orders for the rest of the gop establishment to say we got to do something on this, we can't be derailed. >> you can tell in their talking points, they know, they've known this for a few weeks now, they have to talk about order at the border and national security implications. because that's going to be the way they're goin