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Simultaneously thats where the two are at war is that how see the issue on a national level? >> absolutely. lets be practical. if your house is burning down you put out the fire then call the architect to see how you are going to rebuild. weve been down this path for decades in regards to the border security issue. weve had president after president, even my favorite star, my idol, ronald reagan, back in 19896, tried to secure the border. -- 1986, tried secure the board and afforded amnesty. amn...

Continuing stimulus programs. some business people say due to the downturn in americas economy and the turn to less expensive goods in china. analysts say chinas economic growth will slow slightly this year as the stimulus programs run out. those are your headlines. >> all right. lets talk about the big story that everyone is talking about this morning which is the immigration speech that president obama gave yesterday and a lot of people on both sides of the aisle coming out criticizing the pre...

Simultaneously thats where the two are at war is that how see the issue on a national level? >> absolutely. lets be practical. if your house is burning down you put out the fire then call the architect to see how you are going to rebuild. weve been down this path for decades in regards to the border security issue. weve had president after president, even my favorite star, my idol, ronald reagan, back in 19896, tried to secure the border. -- 1986, tried secure the board and afforded amnesty. amn...

Issues like immigration when you stop people coming into the united states illegally. thats a border security issue. >> so how did we get here, to the point of one state deciding that it needed its own legislation? well, wee going to talk about that through the course of the show. we are going to -- im asking my executive producer where were going right now. lets talk about oil. this is another big story were working on. oil is spilling into the gulf of mexico at a rate of 42,000 gallons a day...

Immigration for a long time, a very important subject. what prompted this tough new law to pass the state legislature there? >> reporter: a lot of folks say it is just absolute frustration. they have had several successive administrations that refused or failed to do something about the nations illegal immigration situation. whether it is a guest worker program, some sort of a path to citizenship for those who are here illegally, whether it is solving the border security issue, all of those issu...

Sign them even if lawmakers vote in favor of them. >> as we go through this discharge process, theres a marker in that process that opens up the door thats not actually in legislative text as we speak. the negotiations are occurring, and with regards to a sweet pot that i think can be found on this issue that addresses a walsh, a border security issue. at the same time, these kids that are in limbo need to be addressed, and we clearly have to deal with them. and i just want to be a part of the e...

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Texas congressional delegation to pass this nearly $4 million mesh tower hes proposing to address the crisis. first, what do you think about the proposal? and second, are you prepared or at least encourage the members of the texas delegation to vote for it? >> i appreciate the time the president gave me. i think it was important for him to take time and listen to what is going on on the border. i do think he should go to the border himself and take a look, just like some of these democrat collea...

You are prepared to encourage the members of the texas delegation to vote for it? >> i appreciate the time that president gave me. it was important for him to take time and to listen to what is really going on. i think he should go to the border himself and take a look at this like some of his democrat colleagues and a number of us on the republican side want him to. as i look at that legislation it is a very large amount of money. as you analyze it, very little of it is for border security. unt...

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