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Opposed a proposal to give the president enforcement "slush fund," as he called it? >> leader mcconnell proposed the bipartisan senate dhs bill, which has 1.6 billion for border security plus a 1 billion-dollar slush fund for the president to use for his radical immigration agenda. i called leader mcconnell and told him we would not accept their 1 billion-dollar slush fund, s and that our offers to fund the government remain. >> tucker: dont take those words the wrong way. the problem democrats ...

Thing, an open border. they want to continue to see massive child smuggling go on into the united states, and they have no interest in a real compromise. your reaction? >> well, i think there is always some on the left that are extremists of that nature. but the heart of the folks i work with want to solve this problem. thats why they have border security plus taking care of the dreamers and this family situation is something i think easily can be put together for a deal. i want to clarify somet...

Border security plus allowing the d.r.e.a.m.ers to stay. theyve got to stay. plus, a number of other minor changes in the immigration law. so i think it gets through the senate and goes to the house. at that point, wont democrats have to vote for it? how would they not give a path to citizenship to 1.8 million people in the country? >> heres what im hearing from house democrats. you know, one senior aide described this proposal as a bit of a trojan horse. a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million...

Lot. 22 mun mile wall is not necessary. quite frankly i dont think it makes a lot of border security sense. you need walls. you need fences but the president, if he said my border plan is good, most republicans would fall in behind him so the challenge for the president is to give us something to work with on border security that would be meaningful, that could get through the house and the senate, that woo secure the border and the challenge for a guy like me is to try to get democrat the on bo...

Its been so muddied up now over the last couple of years as congress has tried to, you know, in that broad immigration reform. after all, president bush was for t.president obama supported it, but i think the democrats need to have a coalition of republicans and democrats to move this legislation forward. remember, immigration reform is not just border security. its border security plus, and that is where the complication arises. >> theres three interests in this country that clearly are in favo...