let s hope we can improve. tonight. all right. but first, we ar are now on nighthouse three of the battle for the house speaker and we begin tonight with some good news. i can confirn m major negociate vote been going on all day behind the scenes while these votes were taking place todayhe with kevin mccarthy and many of the republican holdouts. thi and i can report that at this hour, a documented being put together that will go a long way to settling differences. 28 will it get kevin to two hundred and eighteen? we won twe won know until probay sometime tomorrow, maybe monday. if anything, it would justle ofo probably be a couple of votes short, but certainly progress. itht a is realt th tonight at ts hour, no doubt the american people are being patient, butop that patience is wearingle thin the vote totals remain as of now unchanged. three straightotals re days. we have two hundred republicans supporting mccarthy 20 supportin g somebody else. and the past twenty four hours,
legalizes them as actually,, if sean, if you look at my record, i introduced comprehensivehensi immigration reform with john mccain in the congress. it was the first bipartisamccai bicameral introduction of immigration reform in two thousand four. st and again, one of my biggest the allies in the congress ofe wa the united states was paul ryan . and he was an ally of right. we were allies on immigrationimi reform. he because of his catholicgratio faith. right.in and i becaus faie i believrne it fairness and justice and thatt p we shouldn t have an underclass of exploited in americaenited and that ia and we should take the undocumented, legalize them, fingerprint them, put them through a background, have them pay taxes, learn english and become upstanding, ens. outstanding american citizens. well, let mhad to give ase ie had to give up in orderpublic to become speaker because the republican caucus saysan c, well, we ll make you speaker,nee but you have to promise never b to bring up i
the world would come here. if t we re going to give outo h citizenship, i really don tk care where you come from. what i would ask forroun is a background check. rad so you don t have radical a e associations in the middle of a a health check. and i would also add to that we have 30 trillion dollars in debt. you ve gote to to show that youe able to take care of yourself. if you re here reall, then i dot really care where you come from . but we agree country.the pr the problem is you re talkinobg about giving those highlyons to coveted positions to people that dide that not do it legal. i support legal immigration, legaation,l. ere s a big difference and not rewarding illegal. okay, but but sean, what we ret trying to do is break a broken system. that s why john mccain and i join together with republicans and democrats when we could ine 2013, the senate passed immigration reform with 67 votes, 11 republicans.s, we would have tripled the enforcement on the border. but what was the p
the problem was in the house of representatives, they said bye to john mccain because i m sorry to to boehner. r right. they said, come on , paul ryan, but you can t bring up immigration reform, so we can t have a conversation about it. but look, butbout tha i readi you and i would agree with this. the conversationth thi would ine rewarding people that did not respect our laws that are ingalt the country illegally. they would get the basically basically the benefit of n, amnesty while the people that are going through the process legally, they get pu thet the bk of the line. that seems morally wrong to me. i ll give you the last. okay, you know what? you re right in our immigration proposal, could you stay put to the end of the line if i think this is in our immigration reform? no, but, john , please listen, please. ippf yoortuu give mnie an opportunity, i am if you look at the bill, all of the things that you say, a background check, paying your taxes, making sure you have a c