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♪ . >> sean: funding a border wall and finding a solution for daca recipients are two of the most contentious issues in congress and in the country. senator jeff flake joins us right now from scottsdale. wait a second senator, youll pay for the wall? you have a way to pay for the wall and make daca, get these daca kids legalize did? >> let me take the daca portion first. what weve introduced will allow those kids who were brought here when they were children, to be able to stay, and over a ten...

Insidiary when you add the other pieces. youre going to piss off one part of the group and the whole deal will collapse. >> some of the more controversial aspects of this seem to be the cutting of legal immigration as well as this re-branded safe act, essentially. heres what senator flake had to say. >> i doubt that youll have enough time to do the kind of legislating, horse trading, whatever you want to call it to deal with legal immigration. i think that most likely saying it will have the dac...

Theyre going to bring additional people with them. were not looking up at 800,000 number. this has long been a contentious issue, not just for epub against, but for democrats as well. theres a reason why congress, both republican and democratic and administration have been grappling with things like the dream act for something like 16 years now. im not convinced this is going to get done even when democrats have both bodies of congress and president obama in the white house, they failed to get c...

Magnet of illegal jobs which is the reason people come here. how do you stop people from hiring people illegally, how do you do that, that is the reason that come here -- they get here and the person just gets here two days ago is the most desperate and works the hardest for the lowest money. how do you stop that pattern of exploitation? >> well, the best way to stop it is to secure the border and provide a path to legal status so folks can come out. >> now, this is what -- this the failure to b...

To stay and who has to go. it also included a border security element. rather than doing something like building a wall which is mostly symbolic, he ought to be doing real policy and working with the congress to really solve our immigration challenge. >> i call it bad policy, the border wall. but its one of the things that got him elected. elections have consequences. >> you wont get any disagreement from me about that. it also doesnt make it good policy. in fact 59% of americans disagree with b...

11 million are actually going to waited that long to become citizens. problem is overstated. republicans hud fight it out in the political marketplace over the next decade. they will not be voting for ten years. >> kim, what do you think the real prospects are? just -- thinking about it, in cold-blooded fashion. >> i think that -- from a very cold-blooded fashion, i think that the most likely thing that you see at least looking at things right now is that you see the house pass out a border secu...

It, theyd have to act. previously it was that theyve learned lessons from the 2012 elections, they realize they have to get in cahoots with the hispanic community. now are you at the point what are the pressure points to get john boehner to act? there may have been a misstep with the senate strategy. they added the big border security element prior to senate passage. they needed to give house republicans a reason to come on board. 2,000 boa 20,000 border agents. there has to be a reason for the ...

Corner with waning vote from lae la tee knows. is that the way to go? >> there is some speculation that democrats and the president dont really want immigration to pass, that they want to put republicans on the record for opposing comprehensive immigration reform so it would hurt them with latino voters. but looking at the border security element, its a big debate. there are some that say if you have instant legalization as this comprehensive bill proposes that you will never get the border secu...

Intelligence committee about what is at stake for the president. at this hour president trump meeting with democratic and republican lawmakers on a deal to protect dreamers. but hes demanding his $18 billion proposal for that wall. >> weve got to protect these kids, and obviously theres going to be a border security element of that. there are some things that we can do, but the list that was sent over from the white house suggests that were going to do a comprehensive reform bill, and theres j...

Enforce its immigration laws. in fact the united states today is the most generous country in the world on immigration. 1 million people a year come here illegally -- legally. theres no other country in the world that comes close to that. so your question goes to what do we do with the folks that are here -- >> all right, so whats the answer? >> the answer is three-fold. numb brer one, weve got to win the confidence of the american people. its a sequential approach. you cant just say were going ...