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American immigration system we are proud of? >> you know, on daca i think the kind of compromise you saw between dig d-- dick durbin and lindsey graham is the humanitarian having security. and i think that thats where there is the sweet-spot. youre not getting much traction on it. >> why not? why isnt that the sweet-spot for lawmakers? >> its because the loudest voices at the end of the bar are driving this debate. they are prisoners of their bases. but again, you look at the whole gang of eight...

And i would think claire mccaskill, a long-time incumbent, targeting her. sergeant is still up and strong in her state. are they going to try to pick them off by saying theyre pro illegal immigrants? i want to talk about crime. certainly some people make crime into the country illegally. the daca people have a clean record because if they dont have a clean record theyre not daca, isnt that a fact, charles? >> yeah, donald, that is a fact. thats why it is sort of concerning that theyve decided ba...

Illegal hiring. stop splitting cheap labor. the hardest working people i know, its not about a moral issue. its about regulation. id throw it in. nobody seems to want to do the reasonable middle of the road decision. >> i think its because were so partisan and theres not a lot of conversation between both sides of the aisle. >> isnt that the presidents job? >> he said that it was his job. a year ago today he said he wanted to be a great uniter and were not seeing that right now, but when you tal...

Back down, again, their bases are going to energyize and this could last for a while. >> i want to talk about the statements of mcconnell and schumer. can we get the white houses statements up. you are saying theyre playing politics and calling them losers. this is from sarah sanders. >> tonight they put politics above our national families and vulnerable children of our country and ability to serve our americans. this is a behavior of obstructionist losers, not le e

Republican from louisiana, and senator, i dont know how much sleep you had, sir, but i need to read back this quote that you said yesterday that has been gaining quite a bit of traction. so the quote, our country was founded by geniuses, but it is being run by idiots, senator kennedy, just to clarify, who specifically are the idiots in your scenario? >> i think that most americans right now feel like we are all responsible. what i watched up fold last night in my judgment was bone deep down to t...

It? hes the president. >> he is the president. we found out a little nugget in terms of who is effected by the government shutdown. i know this may be minor, but there are serious football fans out there. if youre a member of the u.s. -- if youre essentially a deployed troop, and a lot of men and women around the world, they really lean on tv, and specifically the armed services network to stay connected. we have learned because of the shutdown, they actually will not be able to watch the nfl pl...

Next 20 minutes. >> and what do you tell the folks back home? >> if youre a republican, and this is true. ive been in a situation where ive had to swallow the medicine and vote with democrats even though i lost fights. if youre saying the democrats didnt have anything to object to in the bill, they were upset about what it didnt include, if youre democrats you say this was our only leverage. we had to play hardball because republicans keep breaking their promises on daca. and for each one of the...

Were at a shutdown. theres no way the house could actually pass anything thats different than what they sent to the senate. the only thing that might save them is if schumer and mcconnell are working on flipping ten votes. i think both bases have been served through this, and the party leaders know they have catered to their base in going up to this brink. the question is what does history hold? because these shutdowns, ive been through 20 years of them, they do not take a linear jump. we rememb...

His shutdown politics -- im sorry, the shutdown politics were distracting from that. so i think he has benefit in keeping it down. the president of the united states its hard for him during a shutdown to not take a significant amount of blame. the president campaigns all of our recent presidents have campaigned on ending recent dysfunction in washington and theyve all gotten here and been subjected to dysfunction and created some. i think when you look at this you have to say where are the bases...

Watch us bases. todd: "fox and friends" going to jacksonville for breakfast with friends. going to jacksonville, going to be 80, not so much, cold in the south, janice dean. >> today but the warm-up is on the way. that is the good news. here it is, temperature change, those pretty oranges on the map. a warm-up on the eastern half of the country. it will feel like springtime. right now it is a only 26 in new york city, 31 in new orleans, 31 in dallas, it is coming. the past 12 hours, eastern half...