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Briefing room yesterday, again saying congress needs to get going on an immigration bill. this is a national crisis. well have the secretary here on "morning joe" a little later. the white house, yes, theyd love to talk about this, but they dont really anticipate it going anywhere. theres not even with these scenes at the border, theres not a real sense that this is the moment for immigration reform. in fact, i think, instead, most of the anticipation is republicans will simply use this as fodde...

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Immigration issues and how the border works and how immigration law works in general. so this is not surprising at all. he said some pretty bad things, in my opinion, to members of the congressional hispanic caucus that were tone deaf so this does not surprise me whatsoever and doesnt surprise me why the white house cant get anything done on daca they cant do anything internally because they cant figure out what the hell is going on -- heck is going on. i apologize. >> the white house trying to ...

Of poison pills. the way regular order works, the way our constitution sees congress working is, the house passes a bill. the senate passes a bill. and they work together. theres no moral relativism here. the house continues to pass budgets. the senate bill not pass a budget. and when the senate doesnt pass a budget, david, what happens is you take the budgetiers out of it, all of the appropriators out of it, you force a crisis, which harry reids senate has forced, and you have three or four of ...

But it was a heck of a lot easier if they could get him because some of the democrats were this fairly safe seats. some of these guys have held their seats longer, so by getting them onboard, because they liked a lot of the other policies, that allowed pelosi to let a few others walk. >> does this executive order -- a lot of people on the left, democrats in the house, especially pro-choice women are saying this is meaningless, its a fig leaf, it does nothing. >> well, well see if theres a court ...