Friday Flashback: Border bill fail, Obama impeachment, CIA spying and more

U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) leaves after a House Republican Conference meeting August 1, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The House came back on Friday, a day after its scheduled summer recess, trying to finish up a border supplemental spending bill that was pulled from the floor the day before because of a shortage of votes.

The border bill falls into a sinkhole bigger than the one on Sunset Boulevard, impeaching the president and the love letters of...Warren G. Harding?

The border bill falls into a sinkhole bigger than the one on Sunset Boulevard, impeaching the president and the love letters of...Warren G. Harding? These are just some of the topics we're tackling today in the Friday Flashback with Robin Abcarian of the Los Angeles Times and Jamelle Bouie of Slate.

The border bill is dead. What happened? What are your thoughts on the revolt of conservative Republicans? What does this tell you about the role of John Boehner? What happens next?

The GOP has a plan to court Latino voters, but it's not going so well. What are the more liberal factions of the Republican party pushing for with regard to the Latino vote?

It seems like courting Latinos has been a priority for years now. Why can't the GOP agree on a strategy?

There's currently an effort to impeach President Obama. A party using this to try to gain some political advantage, but it's not the Republicans.

Democrats are making a big deal of the impeachment efforts, using it in fund raising efforts. Is it working? Is there a chance that the Democrats might shoot themselves in the foot?

At first the CIA said they didn't spy on the Senate committee, but now they admit to it. What's going on with the CIA and the Senate? What does this mean for John Brennan, the head of the CIA?

Before Clinton and Lewinsky, there was another politician behaving badly in the White House: Warren G. Harding?