i have a question on immigration deal that was passed by bipartisan that is setting on john boehner's desk. why wasn't that past? >> guest: that was passed in 2013 by the senate. republicans in the house were almost, 75, 80% were against it. the speaker never bought it to the floor. i think the more people look at that though, people who are open to it found problems with it. but no, this was an interesting case study were conventional wisdom was to have to pass it. and john boehner sort of wanted to and the house republican backbenchers have been elected in 2010 and 20 to send wait a second, this is not what our constituents sent us here to do. >> host: the front page of the "washington post" this morning. samore it may backfire. do you agree to should be at loyalty oath? that is everyone to run as republican you have to promise that you would support the nominee? >> guest: no. no. this is typical of what art is rubbish is doing the panic although they. it's going to backfire, infuriate every trump backer dr. roza been changed because one guy is running and happens to right now be do

not to john boehner or republicans on the hill. it's harder for them to make the case. that might be one of the reasons they're searching for answers. >> tell us about the reports coming out. it looks like some e-mails were clans fied since conception. they were like anchor e-mails.

john boehner, distinguished members of congress, my esteemed brothers of the first special service force, family members and guests, i would like to thank everyone who undertook this very important and noble assignment to honor and recognize a most versatile and effective world war ii fighting unit from the usa and canada. the first special service force was activated july 1942 under the able command of lieutenant robert t. frederick who became a brigadier general at age 36 and the youngest major general at 37. under his command and profound leadership the first special service force composed of 900 men from the usa, 900 men from canada plus a service battalion of 800 members who provided support to the combat troops. the fssf men captured between 30 to 35,000 enemy prisoners of war in a remarkable kill ratio of 25 enemies to one forceman. since the first shot was fired on april 19, 1775, the beginning of our quest for independence and freedom 1.3 million men and women have given their lives to safeguard america's freedom and to keep old glory waving high and proudly. one of the most imp

if he doesn't get what he wants from john boehner, he can't fire him. mr. speaker, you're fired!. mr. majority leader, you're fired!. you have to learn to work. i don't think it best utilizes his skills. >> great chat on the boardwalk with greta van susteren and chris christie. hopes to his his message to focus on his message and not donald trump. >>> former vice president gore is considering possible presidential run. he lost the 2000 race against george w. bush. he would compete against clinton's wife, hillary clinton, current democratic frontrunner. two individuals close to gore passing "inconvenient truth" to gore supporters, down playing rumors and calling them quote, groundless. catch republican presidential candidate carly fiorina, that is on "mornings with maria" 8:00 a.m. eastern time. do not miss night she is a great speaker. breaking this morning, nicole, u.s. officials tell the associated press that the two emails on hillary clinton's private server that an auditor dimed top secret included discussion of news article detailing a u.s. drone operation. the ap says there

john boehner, distinguished members of congress, my esteemed brothers of the first special service force, family members and guest i would like to thank everyone who undertook this very important and noble assignment to honor and recognize a most versatile and effective world war ii fighting unit from the usa and canada. the first special service force was activated july 1942 under the able command of lieutenant robert t. frederick who became a brigadier general at age 36 and the youngest major general at 37. under his command and profound leadership the first special service force composed of 900 men from the usa, 900 men from canada plus a service battalion of 800 members who provided support to the combat troops. the fssf men captured between 30 to 35,000 enemy prisoners of war in a remarkable kill ratio of 25 enemies to one forceman. since the first shot was fired on april 19, 1775, the beginning of our quest for independence and freedom 1.3 million men and women have given their lives to save america's freedom and to keep old glory waving high and proudly. one of the most important

on tuesday, republican congressman mark meadows launched a surprise bid to oust john boehner as the speaker of the house of representatives. mr. meadows claims speaker boehner has centralized power and failed to advance conservative interests, while the challenges largely symbolic, boehner has more than enough his to hold on to speakership, it illustrates the ahead when congress returns from itself summer retreat. votes on federal government funding, due to expire october 1 and raising the $18 .1 trillion federal debt ceiling before the treasury department's coffers run dry in november. are we in for capitol hill fireworks this fall? eleanor: this will be the fall from hell but not because speaker boehner is in any kind of jeopardy. this congressman meadows may have some people behind him but the speaker is not really as a rule nerbling. but they're going to bump up against the spending cliff. probably want to shut down the government over defunding planned parenthood and what in gentleman from north carolina represents is between 30 and 60 members of the republican congress who john boehne

i want to show you awe clip from a video that house speaker john boehner, republican house speaker john boehner put out about the investigation. >> if hillary clinton wants the benghazi committee to finish their work, she could help them by turning over all of her e-mails, sooner rather than later. >> we're not going away until we get it, it's really important. >> congressman gowdy, it looks, it sure looks like a negative campaign commercial. >> well, i haven't seen it. i can tell you this, chris, we have interviewed three dozen witnesses, not a single one has been named clinton, she hasn't been called before the committee yet. once she comes before the committee, i suspect people's interest in talking to me is going to dissipate down to being nonexistent. we've gotten tens of thousands of pages from other executive branch entities that no other committee of congress has gotten. again,ly just tell you this, had it not been for this unusual e-mail arrangement she had with herself, you and i would not be talking this morning. you don't know the name of a single other person we've intervie

it's hard for john boehner. even worse because the tea party is so entrenched in the house caucus, the republican caucus even more so than in the senate. that's a problem. our politics have gotten striated. rbd, easy to discern outlets for affirmation, not information. both sides doing that. nobody calls by phone and asked me to compromise. the people who are the loudest are the people who are most first to compromise. i make the jokes about 35% of my state watches fox news and they think i'm sitting on a horse, 30% with msnbc and think i can do no wrong. the rest are watching "dancing with the stars" and think we're all great -- crazy. >> host: do you see that as being a reversible trend? if the parties are going to go away the question is are we living in a sort of referendum donald trump democracy? >> guest: i think time will tell. if someone like donald trump were to get elected i think it would be a backlash and you would see big changes. i don't think he will be elected, but the money thing is also a big p

i want to show you awe clip from a video that house speaker john boehner, republican house speaker john boehner put out about your investigation. >> if hillary clinton wants the benghazi committee to finish their work, she could help them by turning over all of her e-mails, sooner rather than later. >> we're not going away until we get it, it's really important. >> congressman gowdy, it looks, it sure looks like a negative campaign commercial. >> well, i haven't seen it. i can tell you this, chris, we have interviewed three dozen witnesses, not a single one has been named clinton, she hasn't been called before the committee yet. once she comes before the committee, i suspect people's interest in talking to me is going to dissipate down to being nonexistent. we've gotten tens of thousands of pages from other executive branch entities that no other committee of congress has gotten. again, i will just tell you this, had it not been for this unusual e-mail arrangement she had with herself, you and i would not be talking this morning. you don't know the name of a single other person we've in

it was known as the boehner-posey deal because john boehner and nancy pelosi where the drivers behind this deal which created the doc fix -- it has been an issue for years, a payment system for doctors who treat medicare patients. it bedeviled congress for years, every year they pass a patch with said they would take care of this year, but to fix the whole, it would have taken hundreds of billions of dollars and they never have hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on it, so they always put it off, this year john boehner and nancy pelosi came up with a way to pay for part of it and a deal for future potential changes to medicare, they agreed on it and it passed the house overwhelmingly and a drop it on the senate and said, we struck the deal, take it or leave it and the senate was forced to take it or leave it. i cannot think of the last time there was a bipartisan deal out of the house that was dropped on the senate in a take it or leave it manner and the senate was forced to take it. the senate usually dries the conversation, the house is driving the conversation. if you had aske

john boehner from ohio. on president in obama's legacy. good morning, stephen. caller: i think it is great he is talking about it as much as he is. extinction.of human if we do not do something very ss of habitat for humans is in great peril. deal is about rising temperatures -- it is about rising temperatures. host: do you think this will be an issue he gets remembered for, or overshadowed by other issues in his eight years in office. caller: it depends if the next president is a climate denier. in the next president continues to do stuff about climate change, he will be remembered as the first president to do something about it. host: steve, good morning. you are on the "washington journal" ." caller: i believe in man-made global warming since i heard it. have been working on offshore wind. decidedi electricity cannot be shipped. i came up with a hydrogen and compressed-air system to store the energy. i think president obama is missing the boat. is is not looking hard -- he not looking hard enough for the long-term systems. broadband,utilities, natural gal, co

. >> reporter: republicans, including house speaker john boehner, welcomed clinton's decision. in a statement, boehner said, quote: john henry smith, al jazeera. >>> for the first time a poll indicates clinton, hillary clinton may be in trouble in a key early primary state. a poll from franklin pierce university shows bernie sanders leading clinton by seven points among likely democratic primary voters in new hampshire. this is the first time that sanders has registered a lead over clinton in any state or national poll. jeb bush used the first major foreign policy speech of his campaign to call for greater involvement in the fight against isil. >> we do not need and our friends don't ask for a major commitment of forces. but we do need to convey that we're serious. that we're determined to help local forces take back their country. we know it's not enough to dispense advice and training, and then send them on their way. >> reporter: bush says the u.s. may need to send more ground troops in iraq. he blamed president obama for isil's rise. >>> the head of a group that has publicl

. >> reporter: republicans, including house speaker john boehner welcomed clinton's decision. in a statement, boehner said, quote: john henry smith, al jazeera. >>> republican presidential candidate jeb bush delivered a major foreign policy address that calls for greater u.s. involvement in the fight against isil. michael shure reports. >> reporter: in a campaign that has been dominated by bluster and distraction, former florida governor, jeb bush tried to bring some serious conversation to the race in a speech at the ronald reagan presidential library. >> good things happen when america is engaged with friends and allies, alert to danger, resolved to deal with threats before they become catastrophes. >> reporter: that was a hallmark of his speech, calm, yet resolved, delivered in building dedicated to a president who embodied those straights. but he also took a page from a successful republican play book. >> the reality is that radical islam has been spreading across the middle east, throughout africa, and parts of asia. even in the nations in the west. >> reporter: some of t

john: john boehner disapproves and he says don't change mckinley. mckinley was a great man. has a book on mckinley. karl rove is a -- upset about it. it's apparently going to be very strong. olore is a little bit of a y quality. i'm only going to be president for a few months. i will start changing the names of stuff. one point, the president of the united states told mark, i am careless. he has nothing to fear because he will not be on the ballot. ill soon name a car after you. john: i am looking forward to seeing that. next, with the u.s. open getting underway, my interview with tennis legend elite jean king. and -- billie jean king. we will go inside the mind of joe biden when we come back. ♪ john: the u.s. open kicks off today. serena williams goes for that coveted grand slam. i sat down with multiple grand slammer billie jean king. we began by talking about what she thought was the state of women's tennis today. it is in i would say fantastic shape. we are playing for $130 million of wide. when nine of us signed a $1 million contract in 1970, we were living our dream.

. >> i would simply say a lot of people sending you e-mails are angry at mitch mcconnell and john boehner and they should be angry at james madison. the problem is we sent all of these republicans to washington and they still can't work their will from congress. the fact is the separation of powers, which is there for a reason and served us well over time, is an impediment to getting things done in washington. get over it. >> all right, panel. we have to take a break. we'll see you later in the program. >>> up next, hillary clinton's e-mail scandal. now the feds have her private server. senator trey gowdy joins us to discuss what happens next. life's the food that brings us together. and kitchens where every meal is the most important of the day. life's the food that brings us together. and kitchens where every meal is the most important of the day. >> it began as an investigation into benghazi but this week it has morphed into something bigger. hillary clinton was forced to turn her private e-mail server over to the fbi amid revelations at least two of the e-mails in her private account

housing speaker john boehner issued this statement, testament to this great legacy, i'm deeply disappointed in this decision. the arctic is warming faster than the rest of the plan he. no one knows that better than a crew on a boat that samples melting sea ice. "techknow"'s phil torres recently joined them. >> it's summer high up in the arctic circle and this is what you expect to see. ice as far as the horizon. the only way through it is on this ship. the coast guard cutter healy. it is only one of two ice breakers in the united states built to handle polar ice. the ride can get a little rough. that noise there, that's the sound of being in the bow of an ice breaker. but there's trouble in this frozen paradise. the arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe and that's causing a sea change in this frontier. summer sea ice has receded close to 25% since 1980. on land we saw it. birch trees are sprouting on the tundra and melting per ma frost is causing land and structures to sink . captain jason hamilton is the healy's commanding officers. he's also a veteran of both poles. >>

. >> i would simply say a lot of people sending you e-mails are angry at mitch mcconnell and john boehner and they should be angry at james madison. the problem is we sent all of these republicans to washington and they still can't work their will from congress. the fact is the separation of powers, which is there for a reason and served us well over time, is an impediment to getting things done in washington. get over it. >> all right, panel. we have to take a break. we'll see you later in the program. >>> up next, hillary clinton's e-mail scandal. now the feds have her private server. senator trey gowdy joins us to discuss what happens next. >> it began as an investigation into benghazi but this week it has morphed into something bigger. hillary clinton was forced to turn her private e-mail server over to the fbi amid revelations at least two of the e-mails in her private account contain top secret information. in the latest fox news poll, 58% of registered voters think clinton knowingly lied when she said last march there was no classified information on her private server. joining us

. >> i would simply say a lot of people sending you e-mails are angry at mitch mcconnell and john boehner and they should be angry at james madison. the problem is we sent all of these republicans to washington and they still can't work their will from congress. the fact is the separation of powers, which is there for a reason and served us well over time, is an impediment to getting things done in washington. get over it. >> all right, panel. we have to take a break. we'll see you later in the program. >>> up next, hillary clinton's e-mail scandal. now the feds have her private server. senator trey gowdy joins us t >> it began as an investigation into benghazi but this week it has morphed into something bigger. hillary clinton was forced to turn her private e-mail server over to the fbi amid revelations at least two of the e-mails in her private account contain top secret information. in the latest fox news poll, 58% of registered voters think clinton knowingly lied when she said last march there was no classified information on her private server. joining us now to discuss the investiga

and we called that the john boehner is bad at his job hypothesis. the republican presidential campaign has now, unexpectedly, but i think, unavoidably, given birth to the jeb bush is bad at his job hypothesis. and nobody would have expected this, from a guy who's the third presidential candidate from the same nuclear family that includes two other presidents. but jeb bush really is, unexpectedly, bad at running for president. and i say that with no malice. i say that as an observer of his political skills. and i think it's becoming increasingly important, for an increasingly wide circle of people. today, his latest bowl of confusion happened on the issue of immigration. republicans following donald trump's lead this year, they have decided that people born in the united states should not be citizens anymore. which is really quite a radical position. but donald trump put that out there this year as his immigration position. and a great majority of all the other republican candidates have fallen right in line behind him on that. jeb bush has tried to

let's not forget that our house speaker john boehner called this plan an expensive insult to americans who are struggling to make ends meet. now, the plan calls for 32% emissions cut by the year 2030 as compared to the levels from 2005. states say it's simply not possible and bottom line is the electronic bills for many people across the country will go up as a result of this cut back in carbon emissions and of course another death nail for the industry. so states hitting back where you expect more suits to be filed, melissa, and david, in the coming days and weeks. >> ashley, thank you so much for that report. >> meanwhile back to politics. hillary clinton's e-mail server is in the hands of authorities and now we are learning the top secret mar markings on some of those e-mails may have been altered. counterintelligence officer and democratic strategist julian epstein. good to see you all. john, first to you, you're the expert in secrets. so i want to ask you specifically about whether classified information actually passed through hillary's server, do you know if it did? >> that's th

speaker john boehner calmed an expensive arrogant insult to americans struggling to make ends meet. senate majority leader felt it meant new jobs, shattered plants and higher electricity costs. it was branded irresponsible and over-reaching. we are back with the panelists. let talk about the politics of all of this. how do you see the issue playing out on the campaign trail. >> if you take 40% of electricity made by coal, which is cheap energy, off the table and you replace it with solar and wind which is more expensive, it will be a big campaign issue, and republicans will campaign successfully on the grounds that they would be able to role it back if they got elected. you cited someone saying you're responsible. to put all the burden on the kids, just like the debt argument we have, or should be able to put a huge burden on the kids. i'd like to see the candidate saying i'm from no limits on carbon pollution. clean energy polls. the plan is two-thirds supporting the american people. it will be a winner for someone grabbing it plan. >> there's nothing to stop. i mentioned the next

john: ok, house of cards. congressman mark meadows launched a surprise bid to oust the house of representatives. mr. meadows claims speaker boehner has centralized power and failed to advance conservative interests, while the challenges largely symbolic, boehner has more than enough votes to hold on to his speakership, it illustrates the bumpy road ahead when congress returns from itself summer -- its august recess. on the horizon are potentially contentious tax and spending votes on federal highway spending, federal government funding, due to expire october 1 and raising the $18 .1 trillion federal debt ceiling before the treasury department's coffers run dry in november. question -- are we in for capitol hill fireworks this fall? eleanor: this will be the fall from hell but not because speaker boehner is in any kind of jeopardy. this congressman meadows may have some people behind him but the speaker is not really as a -- vulnerable. but they're going to bump up against the spending cliff. they're probably w

if hillary clinton is president, john boehner will likely be speaker of the house, and to be paid for by unspecified taxes, i do not think it will give her a mandate. john: she seems to be suggesting it'll be paid for by capping itemized deductions of rich people. all right, on "morning joe," donald trump again said he would not apologize to megyn kelly. mr. trump: i do not understand it, myself. i have double-digit leads, and georgia came out -- 34. a lot of good things are happening, so maybe i should leave it the way it is. the fact is, she asked me a really inappropriate question, and she really should be apologizing to me, if you want to know the truth. john: we get asked this question almost every day, but where is donald trump's political standing right now? mark: there is no live call poll. all of the polls that have been put out so far with different methodologies suggest that donald trump is doing just fine. he has not been hurt by this. the establishment thinks donald trump is dead, but i think if anything, if he turns back to policy, which his campaign says he is going to

the charter expired about a month ago and ever since then john boehner and house republicans have been under enormous pressure to pass the senate bill. instead they passed thash own version of a highway bill this week and then they left town. and so the bank remains dead at least for the next couple of months hopefully forever. >> okay. >> this is a big miss to the international olympic committee which recently awarded the 2022 winter olympics to beijing. it's a pity they decided to go for another dictatorship to host the olympics. we just had the 2014 olympics in sochi. china, one of the most polluted countries in the world host the winter olympics. i wond if people will be able to see the top or the bottom of the hill as the skiers come down the hill. >> dan? >> happy birthday to you, to the host popular song in history. problem is if you sing it in public you have to pay money to do that because it's got a copyright holder. now because of a lawsuit they've discovered there may be a cop. out f back in the early 1920s which suggests that the song is in the public domain. pretty soon e

mckinley was from boehner's home state of ohio and ohio governor and 2016 presidential candidate john kasich tweeting quote, potus once again over steps his bounds. asked about it today he said he doesn't want the name changed. >> mount mckinley, you know, i just think it ought to stay that and i don't know what they are doing on this. in ohio we felt it was appropriate. a guy saw that mountain when he was one of the first up there and named it after the president. in reason to change it. >> the trip comes as the land and sea of alaska are threatened by claimant change. alaska warmed twice as fast as the rest of the country and sea ice is shedding and glaciers shrinking leading to wild pyres and rising ocean temperatures are altering pitching in the state. joining me now is nbc news senior white house correspondent chris jansing. chris, let me start with the continue rers controversy over the name. i get it, john boehner from ohio, kasich from ohio, this is their guy mckinley, they want to see him honored but i didn't know until today mckinley never went to alaska and the mountain was

. >> republicans, including house speaker john boehner welcomed clinton's decision. in a statement, he said" it's about time, secretary clinton's previous statement that she possessed no classified information were patently untrue. her mishandling of classified information must be full will i investigated. al jazeera. >> republican presidential candidate jeb bush delivered what was build as a major foreign policy speech last night, speaking at the reagan presidential library, he called for greater involvement in the fight against isil. it was meant to be a bold and unique policy vision, but bush echoed other former republican presidents instead. >> in a campaign that has been dominated by bruster and distraction, former florida governor jeb bush tried to bring some serious conversation to the race in a speech at the ronald reagan presidential library. >> good things happen when america's engaged with friends and allies, alert to danger, resolve to deal with threats before they become catastrophes. >> that tone was the hallmark of his speech, couple by resolved. bush

and we called that the john boehner is bad at his job hypothesis. the republican presidential campaign has now, unexpectedly, but i think, unavoidably, given birth to the jeb bush is bad at his job hypothesis. and nobody would have expected this, from a guy who's the third presidential candidate from the same nuclear family that includes two other presidents. but jeb bush really is, unexpectedly, bad at running for president. and i say that with no malice. i say that as an observer of his political skills. and i think it's becoming increasingly important, for an increasingly wide circle of people. today, his latest bowl of confusion happened on the issue of immigration. republicans following donald trump's lead this year, they have decided that people born in the united states should not be citizens anymore. which is really quite a radical position. but donald trump put that out there this year as his immigration position. and a great majority of all the other republican kacandidates he fallen right in line behind him on that. jeb bush has tried to

if hillary clinton is president, john boehner will likely be speaker of the house, and to be paid for by unspecified taxes, i do not think it will give her a mandate. john: she seems to be suggesting it will be paid for by capping itemized deductions by rich people. mark: i will encourage you to specify the if you want to spend that much money. john: all right, on "morning joe," donald trump again said he would not apologize for megyn kelly. he says everyone has this twisted around backwards. mr. trump: i do not understand it, myself. i have double-digit leads, and georgia just came out. i am at 34. a lot of good things are happening, so maybe i should leave it the way it is. the fact is, she asked me a really inappropriate question, and she really should be apologizing to me, if you want to know the truth. john: we are a few days past the debate. we get asked this question almost every day, but where is donald trump's political standing right now? mark: there is no live call bowl. poll.e call all of the polls that have been put out so far but different methodologies suggest that dona

in some ways you have an establishment leadership, mitch mcconnell and john boehner who are managing the parties. they don't want to inflame the right but they don't want to appease them. gwen: they've been -- >> the establishment tried to knock me back. i'm a fighter. gwen: exactly. on capitol hill we're approaching the time of year when big things hang in the balance as the house and the senate begin to think summer vacation. yesterday the senate agreed to a stop gap extension of a major transportation bill guaranteeing another fight in three months. >> once again we're facing another deadline. it's a deadline here. a deadline there. always deadlines. management by crisis. gwen: meanwhile the 60-day clock is running on the congressional review of the iran deal. where does that stand tonight, sue? >> well, it's interesting because we go into the august recess and normally when congress leaves the party in power likes to do a big hoorah. it's a very consequencetial october. the iran debate they have until september 17th to take some action to try to weigh in on the iran nuclear deal.

boehner. the change came on the eve of mr. obama's visit to alaska today and bill plante is there. >> reporter: alaska's vast, awe-inspiring natural beauty is the backdrop for president obama's call for action on climate change. secretary of state john kerry set the tone today. >> but what we discuss here today is important not just for the arctic. it is important for the rest of this planet. >> reporter: climate change is impacting fish and wildlife in the arctic. like these walruses who gathered on land in northwest alaska because the ice they prefer had melted. the president will see evidence of that melting when he tours a glacier like this one called portage. 100 years ago the portage glacier came to the end of this lake. 30 years ago, you could still see from here. but now due in part to a warming earth, it's no longer visible from here. to see the portage glacier today you take a boat ride three miles down the rake. nick racine, the forest service rain jeer washed the glacier sink. >> t

. >> what does john boehner think about that? >> paul is shaking -- the two pauls are going at it. >> i mean, i think what's amazing about monterey is that up until monterey it was common in california for politicians to push for more offshore drill, right? we've had gubernatorial candidates like dan lundgren pushing for more drilling. basically, it has since become the third rail of california environmental politics. nobody argues anymore for more offshore drilling. it's something where you had this political coalition of tourism leaders, fishing leaders, enviros, silicon valley types. basically, there aren't enough people on the other side. when you're talking about texas and louisiana where the oil industry has a lot more power, it's a different equation. >> this is really a bails ick question. but what does the sanctuary do? what does it prohibit? what does it limit, restrict? >> so we deal with all those things that aren't fisheries related. we deal with discharges to disturbing the sea floor. you cannot disturb the sea floo

but he should be playing with john boehner and people who are going to help him close the deal as opposed to playing with friends. he might enjoy that even more but you can use golf as a tool. and he should have used it as a tool. he would have signed far fewer, in my opinion. executive orders. >> and finally, vice president. >> well, just too soon. >> i know, but as you look at the field, the other 16 or 17, is there anyone in that field as they start to build you up amazingly and agreeing with you, whether it's jindal or walker, everybody is kind of coming to your side of things. do you think potential among the candidates? >> look, there are people i have great respect for on that stage that we just left. where they gave me number one rating. that was very good. that made me feel good. but frankly there are people i have great respect for. there and elsewhere. i have people who i have great respect for. >> are you going to focus on the swing states? >> you know what i'm going to focus on? i'm going to focus on the whole country, making our country great. that is what we have to do. i a

here's john boehner. [audience murmurs] i don't know if you can see it, but afterwards, you can look at it. do you realize what it does to a politician to present him as something like this? huh? these are the interest groups who own him. sallie mae. he was a main opponent for student loan reform for years, and a very powerful one. look at it. it's on the sleeve. sallie mae. now you got 300 people here, 300 people there in the district, the district has 650,000 people, and pretty soon, you've got the numbers to select for a thousand serious members of a congress watchdog group, and this happens all over the country, 435 districts. every district has talent, every district has a community college, 4-year college, lot of talent. the thousand people put themselves behind an agreed agenda. i mentioned some of these: the living wage and full insurance and so on, war and peace. they agree from the beginning, so they don't have to bicker so much. they agree to devote 200 hours a year, volunteer 200 hours a year,

this includes people like mitch mcconnell and john boehner and john mccain and recent newcomers like tom cotton and dump truck. that is -- dump truck. the group of people supporting the agreements are people like the president of the united states opposed the iraq war from civicginning or who had knowledge the congressional vote in support of that march to war was a mistake. and i mentioned to some of their names already. senator gillibrand and baldwin are two of the newcomers. there are people like nancy pelosi and dick durbin who have strong records on these matters. anyone, markedly in this category. anybody covering politics would recognize the default lines of this political argument area it is not new. difference of opinion that president obama and senator schumer have had dating back to 2003. that all said, that is why i would describe this as an announcement that was not particularly surprising to anybody here is the white house. even if it was disappointing. it does not change our confidence we will be up to mobilize substantial majority of democrats in both the house and se

it is an issue of morality instead of going on vacation white house did last week, i think john boehner should have told congress there to deal with this because i can only for myself do not want one single penny of my attacks monday to rule supports human harvesting their alleged to be a part of. lou: i don't think anyone would. it is beyond the pale despite the ideology of partisan politics but it is also disturbing the republican party that is in control busyness does not have the judgment or energy to figure out which legislation or laws will expire to find a the highway transportation and other short-term measure they are beginning to look as if they literally do not know what they're doing. >> you are absolutely right depots is a very intimate -- interesting scenario in the fall with the possible government shutdown not just rand paul issue but dozens. lou: 92 interject i think rand paul or cruz were dismissive of the day braised dish o that should have been paid attention to. >> i say that on behalf of a mainstream media and a the liberals. but i say that because we have a large

you couldn't even get mitch mcconnell and john boehner to agree on how to fund highways much less republicans and democrats. speaker boehner was pushing a three months extension and o'connell said no, no extension at all, and it's like, wait a minute, you guys are in charge. they are not even talking to each other. so that is much more frustrating because it seems to me that we are treading water and doing gotcha politics weigh more than we should be doing. and i think that's why so many voters are attracted to donald trump, he's all about how i can do different. and i would say on. but i would say in a different way because of the philosophy of bernie sanders, not because he's on the because he's committed and he feels like it's going to shake things up, that's lazy the voters attracted to those candidates because they want someone to grab the status quo by the lapels and shake it into submission. i get that feeling that i felt that way for decades. >> interestingly enough that aspect as a dysfunction that you are describing, the authority among the party leadership's, and parted that is als

>> just look at house of rel representatives -- house of representatives, john boehner will do everything he can to not defund planned parenthood, and increase our debt ceiling, to answer, no. the republican heede leaderships just as bad as everyone else. lou: all right david bossy thank you. >> thank you. lou: be sure to vote in our poll, question is, what do you believe is a better use of president obama's time? a, renaming mount mckinley? b, confronting global terrorism. c, dealing with a lagging economy. >> hurricane season is starts to get more active. forecasters are watching hurricane fred, strengt strengtg near the cape verde islands, and a rare weather event this weekend, three category 4 hurricanes, churning in the pacific ocean at the same time, hurricane ignacio, the closest to land but it is passing northeast of hawaii, residents of south florida breathing a sigh of relief after re realm ms of tropical storm erika failed to cause major damage, it broke up before it hit the sunshine state, causing minor flooding, worse fears not realized. lou: a terrifying moment in jacksonvil

boehner has been very critical of the epa since the breach and spill. here is a tweet -- epa toxic spill is very serious, just as 's slow response. and you respond to some of the criticism the epa has perceived? guest: when people woke up friday morning and saw the river running through the city looking the color of mustard, there is quite a bit of frustration, fear, and anger. i think a lot of the problem with the response is that it was 24 hours before the agency notify people of this bill. i think also, the frustration was driven by the inability to produce data on water quality, even acknowledging some of those heavy metal levels. there has been frustration, especially in that area, with epa. people fear the stigma of being a cleanup. all that said, i think it is the only agency with the resources to deal with this problem. people colorado know too well about the leaking old mines in the balance. there are 23,000 old mines in colorado. you are talking about a national environmental problem where it ha headwaters of the nation's rivers are contaminat

boehner and the republicans and negotiate seriously. the truth was from day one they were determined to obstruct everything that he did. >> right. >> and what he did do, which was such a mistake, is he kind of cut the ties with that grassroots movement that had elected him. and let me be very clear, no president, not barack obama, not bernie sanders, not hillary clinton, not anybody will ever be able to bring around the changes that working families need in this country unless we maintain a strong grassroots movement that says to corporate america, says to the big money interest -- >> right. >> -- our kids deserve a decent standard of living and you are not going to stop us. [applause]. >> now of course the first two years, senator, the first two years that the president was in office, he had a democratic majority in both houses. >> absolutely. >> so doesn't the democratic majority in congress and the democratic leadership at the time, leader reid and at that time speaker pelosi, don't they bear some of the responsibility for not having

john boehner wanted to. the house republican people on the back than had been elected in 20 oh said this is not what our constituents sent us here to do. host: this is from the front page of "the washington post" -- guest: this is typical of what party establishments do when they panic. it will backfire and infuriate every donald trump backer that the rules are being changed because one guy is running and he is doing pay well? we did not have one of these before and i am against it in principle. i would not vote for pat buchanan for president of united states but he got a lot of votes. i am not allowed to run what i want to do? i think that's wrong. host: let's move on to chris in illinois, independent. caller: good morning. comments about earlier, the immigration talk. i heard recently that immigration surmise are starting to be conducted in spanish. i am a 23-year-old independent and i'm pretty open-minded. cultures but it don't feel we should assimilate so much to foreign culture. it is america and i am p