but if he wants a physical wall like we ve all heard about during the course of the campaign, quote, that is ridiculous, and they re not going to go for that. and i think at the end of the day this is going to come down to will democrats vote for a wall on the border. and i don t know if they re there yet, anderson. and also the president talked about today comprehensive immigration reform. i m not clear he s using that phrase in the way it is normally used. because that s used in talking about a pathway to citizenship or talking about the 11 million people who are undocumented here. that s been an issue for the past few years. the president was throwing around this phrase comprehensive immigration reform as part of this phase two. you do daca first, border security first and these other issues later like a pathway to
work on the backlog. the border security component which is essential to people who want reform because they ve been promised before as long as you give us border security first, then will implement amnesty. we haven t seen any results from that. the third thing is a new system that is merit-based rather than just bringing anyone and everyone in the based on work ethics, with the economy needs based on a system of points. we will see how that goes. in terms of the politics here, the white house is actually on top of this because the majority of the country believes that daca should stay in if democrats want to oppose this bill based on that, they re going to be against the dreamers who are part of their base. sandra: based on the fact that there s so much laid out by the resident, certainly there is room for negotiation. kennedy: absolutely nothing of the point of the meeting that he had with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. they all emerged from the meeting claiming victory, but th
and if he makes a tough decision to get rid of daca, then he is showing leadership. real leadership for the president would be to go up against hit base and say, my wisdom, my sense of american values tells me that this is wrong. that would be leadership. what would be leadership is the president enforcing the law instead of the president seeing himself above the law. we have a president in the past, the last president, to do that on a routine basis. this president hopefully will obey the law. if the president wants to put forward an option to go to the congress to fix this, as i will remind my democratic colleagues here, president obama had a democratic congress my democratic colleagues that president obama had two years, we had complete control of the house and senate and didn t move any daca, didn t move anything. the idea there is now this outrage that republicans are not cooperating, you know what the deal has always been. border security first. republicans have said that from
president would be to go up against his base and says my sense of american values says this is wrong, this is would be leadership. what about the president enforcing the law instead of seeing himself as above the law. this president hopefully will obey the law, if the president wants to aford an option to go to the congress to fix this. president obama had a democratic congress and my democratic colleagues, president obama had two years, we had complete control of the house and senate. and don t move any daca. so the idea that there s this outrage that the republicans are not cooperating. border security first, republicans have said that from the beginning. both democrats and republicans have tried to get the daca through. when the president had control and when democrats
stand-alone immigration reform. people want to add other things to it and people in the gop in charge really don t want to give up this idea of border security first. of course, daca is down the line to craz to address. to change in a-of-that and the emergency situation and the defense fund. an easy way kicking it down the road, and also i just, i don t see how you can come up with even a combination bill that is that pristine and not doesn t get fatter and gummed up. one of the things to trust, driving people around the country crazy. have to deal with challenges every day. including surprises in washington. only a few legislative days left. can only deal with one or two things kn s not five. more on harvey s path. new tropical storms gathering perhaps out at sea and the week that was in the houston area. t! save 10 to 70% off on all clothing and shoes. and up to 70% off on outdoor life