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We are now three days away from a record-length government shutdown. the president seems intent on focusing only on the border security side of the problem. this is not problem-solving, it is political posturing. his re-election campaign pushed out a fund-raising pitch off the alleged crisis of the heart and soul. we shouldnt focus on specific falsehoods without addressing the big lie behind the speech. i dont believe we have ever heard a modern american president demonize a group of people the ...

Worse. politics do stack up nicely for the republicans on this. >> dana: theres the politics of it and then the policy. do you think democrats need to figure out a way to maybe meet the president more on the border security side? i know weve got this deal $5 billion that the president wants and $1.6 billion the democrats have agreed to. is there another way to get these people together with this new congress? >> this is obviously a complicated political question as well as a policy question so l...

Targeted on border security and the visa lottery. >> thats a very important question. thats the debate about the debate. do we go small. barebones build a start with it and offer people an opportunity to change it on the senate floor. or opportunity to go bigger and permanent. both on the daca side as well as border security side. >> do you have a preference on what happens? >> i would like to see permanent solution for these young people who through no fault of their own find themselves in a di...

I want the children growing up in the united states to be d.r.e.a.m.ers also. >> we dont know where he is. he basically just put out an ad saying people who come in here illegally are all bound to be terrorists. what do you think? will you have to break off? theres plenty there, and this will be a second bill? >> no. i think what you have to so is in good faith work through the issues of immigration, and that includes border security. and if you can make headway on that and i think if the dems r...

Something that the other two presidents couldnt achieve. but then he can still push for the border security side of this. if he gives daca without border security, then hes in trouble. >> so i didnt mean to throw water on your fire there, simone. i know youre upset. you say thats why democrats need to -- >> she should be upset. >> yeah, i mean -- >> matt tweeted, democrats have managed to accede to republican demands, demoralize their energized base, give a disengaged president a win, and look l...

Rational to the point of zen phobia. which is how he got who are. they were working towards something. the stephen millers of the world got a hold of trump. and the base will be upset with me. well get something. youll get daca. but after that, im not so as confident. >> dont you think the base would be upset? the base doesnt like daca. they dont want dreamers to be legal. >> overwhelming majority of the american people see this needs to get done. and trump can look like a hero. where he does so...

And the irony of that is that that was the whole predicate. arizona had to do this simply because the federal government wasnt doing it. >> and, governor, the federal government has not, i think you would agree, stepped up to the plate on this particular issue dealing with illegal immigration? >> well, the reality is that the congress has failed to act on comprehensive immigration reform. >> well, thats the same thing, right? >> no. but candy, look, arizona, new mexico, california, texas, in the...

Doing it. >> i think the federal government has not stepped up to the plate on this issue dealing with illegal immigration? >> well, the reality is the congress failed to act on the immigration reform. >> thats the same thing. >> no, candy, arizona, new mexico, california, and texas, in the last two weeks we have gotten substantial more of national guard troops. arizona getting the most. border security has dramatically improved in my judgment. its still not sufficient. violence on the border ha...

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