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About the illegal immigration proposal the president has been offering. very racialized rhetoric. >> that plan is a campaign to make america white again. its a plan that says over 50% of the current immigration will be cut back, thats people will be sent out of the country. jesse: so according to the latest harvard poll, 75% of americans want restrictions on legal immigration. legal immigration. i dont see how thats racist. but how is the white house going to counter that kind of race baiting? >...

About the illegal immigration proposal the president has been offering. very racialized rhetoric. >> that plan is a campaign to make america white again. its a plan that says over 50% of the current immigration will be cut back, thats people will be sent out of the country. jesse: so according to the latest harvard poll, 75% of americans want restrictions on legal immigration. legal immigration. i dont see how thats racist. but how is the white house going to counter that kind of race baiting? >...

Advocates have wanted and is what is making his base mad. so is he putting this out there so his base puts the kibos hrh it? i dont know. >> the 1.8 will come out of the senate and the rest of the stuff wont. if youre nancy pelosi, youre worried if your progressives blink in the senate, you get some of that, this is serious changes to immigration policy, very serious changes to immigration policy. heres how nancy pelosi put it this morning. >> the plan is a campaign to make america white again. ...

For retail this year. experts point to three factors. first, good shopping weather across the country. a national low unemployment rate of just over 4%. that led to the third thing on the list, consumer confidence. >> they feel more secure they are going to be able to keep their jobs and now they are spending some of that money that they may have been holding back. i think a lot of people spent a little bit more this christmas. thats one of the reasons youre seen the numbers the way you are. >> ...

Sausage. some people like different spice and so forth. i think we will be a yes and get it across the goal line and we will start working with the house on a conference committee. one more opportunity to fine tune it. >> supporters say it will boost the economy and so many economists say that its not going to boost the economy all that much. we heard about triggers that will click in if the benefits are not reached. have those triggers, the so-called triggers meaning there could be a cut back i...

Dramatically on buying a new car, or building another house, or expanding. they are spending would have to be cut back, how was that good? >> one of the things it does is it doubles the standard deduction, or nearly doubles at $224,000 from the current level. that helps offset some of those losses. and lets remember, too, for the vast majority, about 80% of the people who benefit from the deductions of state and local income deductions, that might impact some folks in some high tax states and hi...

Find the sweet spot, trying to find the balance and take into consideration all the different perspectives and come up with a bill that we think we can get on the presidents desk, this thing gets rid of mandates, gets rid of taxes, and stabilizes the insurance markets, makes the coverage more affordable for more americans, that is a win. >> shannon: do you think that you can even proceed to the vote and then actually get to the bill, it just seems like an awful lot to get done, we hear about the...

Television it is somewhat nonsensical. many of the reporters use anonymous sources and right of things, and yet i can make an equal argument that that does not sound like news to me. we report very robustly. the briefing is one small part of what the extensive staff doe does. >> jon: well, it is a question. he used to get big ratings for his on camera briefings, white house press secretary sean spicer there. now they are being cut back, the televised versions at least. he will hold an on camera ...

And meals on wheels exists thanks to individual donations. >> 10% of the funding comes from the government. we privately raise the remaining 90%. >> every dollar donated goes to meals, not overhead. and the financial need is growing quickly. >> the senior population is the fastest growing population in this country. it will be doubled across the country by the year 2050. the program needs to grow. >> this is the presidents fy-2018 budget. >> there was outrage after the trump administration annou...

Average. this will be the presidents seventh weekend at his mar-a-lago resort costing taxpayers another $3 million for travel and security. as we reported, palm beach county where mar-a-lago is spends over $60,000 per day the president is in town. and while trump is aware of the strain, it is apparently not enough to influence a cut back in these weekend trips for a president who ran on a promise of stopping wasteful spending. that wraps things up for me this hour. i am katy tur. you can follow ...