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Position on this issue. and thats something that when he was trying to win in wisconsin, its the political geography of the place is different than the republican nominating fight. hes saying you know what my the republican nomination fight, and hes saying my position is different now than it was then. however, this isnt something somebody like scott walker wants to be focused on solely in the context of this fight. hes certainly willing to say, we need to deal with border security first. with s...

I think when you hear in the days after the last election going into the next congress. defunding homeland security. defunding the government, how is that protecting anybody? you dont see the republicans offering an immigration reform bill or economic package. no doubt democrats came up short on the economy. >> republicans have offered legislation. marco rubio said two weeks ago the house should take up a piecemeal pieces of legislation. border security first, then we can talk about the immigrat...

Some of the bills would add 20,000 workers. but there is no way they will pass the immigration reform with the current crisis showing them we have to do something about border security first. >> senator mccain has an idea. what is his chance? >> he is talking about sending plane loads of kids back to central america because otherwise you will keep having more kids coming in. if you pass the $3.7 billion in two-three months there is going to be more children and we will be writing another check. ...

The house hasnt even take ten up. here was the president speaking about congress. >> but i would emphasize to the governor the problem here is not a major disagreement around the actions that could be helpful in dealing with the problem. the challenge is, is congress prepared to act to put the resources in place to get this done? >> so what is going to happen to his supplemental request for $3.7 billion? a lot of it for border control? >> you know, actually theres a very small percentage in his ...

For immigration reform, i am for immigration reform, but i insist you secure the border first because if you have a beacon of some kind of forgiveness without a secure border -- >> is a pathway to citizenship amnesty in your book? >> thats the whole problem with this, what is amnesty? ill give you an example. the platform in one state i was in recently says no deportation and no amnesty. well, if youre not going to deport people, you are somehow changing the current law because the current law s...

We need to get beyond status quo because the status quo is not acceptable. im for pushing across the country, we need some form of immigration reform. border security first. we should have something that allows people who work in our country, who are here, we will find a place to work and we link it to work. >> and path to citizenship. >> well, the path to citizenship is a longer, more difficult goal. >> you dont rule it out as an end game. >> i dont think any immigration reform will get out of ...

Record. should i win a second term, this is the president, a big reason i will win a second term because the republican nominee and the republican party have so alienated the fastest growing demographic group in the country, the latino community. >> well, that was mitt romney, not a favorite of the tea party. george allen, the republican senate nominee lost badly in virginia. >> is that going alienate latino community from the republican party? >> no. i think republicans can do a better job with...

Look at 2016, so, republicans should move now on that particular voting group. >> well, i think that we need to address the political reality. speaker boehner has been realistic in terms of where the house conference is now, and in terms of the appetite for the immigration reform. lets be very clear so that no one misunderstands, everybody knows that the immigration system is broken and everybody knows that there are a lot of individuals living in the shadows and everybody knows that we have to ...

Conservative and anchor at theblaze.com and tea party express chairwoman amy cramer. michele bachmann proposing a wall even when some of of her fellow republicans on the hill admit a more nuanced solution. does this resonate with the conservative base still? >> well, you know, i know that youve covered cpac for many years. and what the media often overlooks is that cpac is full of young people. a lot of those attendees are college activists and they are there for red meat. this is rally. this is...

Border lobby left. when those conspire to weaken the will of house leaders, we need to raise our voices more, make surie its dlb rah ty and transparent. >> the only consensus on border security first. john boehner did in conference say any bill that comes out of the senate conference that hastert rule applies, a majority of republicans would support it. that to me is a very good thing. i want to get your reaction. >> once again, i have to have a corrective here. in washington, if people are real...