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The cbo says the economy will be larger, deficit smolder, benefits from temporary worker programs, investor immigrants and moving our immigration system towards merit and away from family reunification. thats a fundamental sea change in the way we think about immigration in the u.s., and its very important and needs to be balanced against other objectives, those senators might have, and we go to the house. the security issues will arise. people will talk about whether the internal security issue...

>> reporter: we keep hearing about the path to citizenship being a big sticking point and border security has to come ahead of that. the border security provisions in the senate bill actually do have to be in place before a path to citizenship can be undertaken. that is not the problem, though. the problem is not the path to citizenship, which is quite popular in the country, as is border security. the problem is the immediate legalization on a provisional basis of all these immigrants who are n...

>> hes not even sort of going, this was a gigantic mistake. he still to the end. >> all the way. and another thing i think that it proves is while everybody said he is the younger brother, he was influenced by tamerlan, his older brother. i think this proves that that wasnt the case, where he was very much involved in the mindset of this is what we want to do, this is our mission and this is the way that were going to carry it out. >> good point. all right, there has been a giant step forward ...

Going, this was a gigantic mistake. hes still to the end -- >> all the way. and another thing i think that it proves is while everybody said he is the younger brother, he was influenced by his older brother. i think this proves that that wasnt the case, where he was very much involved in the mindset of this is what we want to do, this is our mission and this is the way that were going to carry it out. >> good point. all right, there has been a giant step forward toward an historic vote to refo...

They paid in like everyone else. its now ours and they dont get it back. and if you didnt know about this detail, i bet you some of the people voting for this bill didnt know about it, either. because everyone was all excited about getting close to 70 votes, about winning republican support and we shook hands before they spent much time looking at the details. which also included doubling the number of border patrol agents from 20,000 to 40,000. that means an agent for every 1,000 feet of the so...

Doesnt matter. they paid in like everyone else. its now ours and they dont get it back. and if you didnt know about this detail, i bet you some of the people voting for this bill didnt know about it, either. because everyone was all excited about getting close to 70 votes, about winning republican support and we shook hands before they spent much time looking at the details. which also included doubling the number of border patrol agents from 20,000 to 40,000. that means an agent for every 1,000...

Doesnt matter. they paid in like everyone else. its now ours and they dont get it back. and if you didnt know about this detail, i bet you some of the people voting for this bill didnt know about it, either. because everyone was all excited about getting close to 70 votes, about winning republican support and we shook hands before they spent much time looking at the details. which also included doubling the number of border patrol agents from 20,000 to 40,000. that means an agent for every 1,000...

Congressional budget office said your gang of eight bill would only reduce illegal immigration by 25 percent. >> guest: they are talking about the entry and exit problem. 40 percent here illegal overstayed their visas. as to the border we militarized the border. i have been heard, regain our sovereignty and secure the border. we have secured the border in a way i could not have imagined four or five years ago. the border security amendment is the most aggressive attempt to control the southern b...

Karl rove is a former senior advisor to president bush. karl, good to have you here. what do you make of this? it look like its got some momentum in the senate. some people are saying its too much of a rush. they want more time to read the additional 100-pages from the corker amendment. >> there will never be enough time for some members and his amendment is 119 paimgs. its -- 119 pages. its easy to read. its part after larger bill thats been laid out since may. it has five provisions. 20,000 mo...

Congressional budget office said your gang of eight bill would only reduce illegal immigration by 25 percent. >> guest: they are talking about the entry and exit problem. 40 percent here illegal overstayed their visas. as to the border we militarized the border. i have been heard, regain our sovereignty and secure the border. we have secured the border in a way i could not have imagined four or five years ago. the border security amendment is the most aggressive attempt to control the southern b...