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Well and mcconnell says that we should expect to see the beginnings of some sort of clarity about what the administration and what congress wants to do about people that came to this country illegally as children next month. >> we have a commitment on a bipartisan basis to address the daca issue. theres a working group with -- composed of people of widely diverse views on immigration. and ive said to them, if they can come up with an agreement the administration is comfortable with, including se...

>> its more than that. >> tucker: is there any economist you ever met the key to pros parity is importing a lot of poor people with low levels of education. >> thats quite different than the daca issue. the daca issue are usually young men and women who came here as children with their parents. many young children, five years, even younger than that so they grew up here. they are really american in every way except they dont have the papers. >> tucker: their educational levels are considerably l...

Its this moment in our culture that everybodys kind of examining what is appropriate, what is -- you know, what is not going to be tolerated anymore. >> you mentioned the al franken allegations out this morning. this is from politico. another woman saying the senator forcibly tried to kiss her after a radio show in 2006 and told her it was his right to do so as an entertainer. his office saying this allegation is cat gorly not true and the idea i would claim this as my right as an entertainer is...

>> reporter: so on the house side -- you have conservatives who say, we want this stopgap bill to go a little longer. we want to make sure we get taxes done. they are not particularly interested in keeping any of the promises that mitch mcconnell made to his senators on the senate side. but hallie, they are actively negotiating literally as we speak. i just watched mark meadows walk into speaker ryans office just before we got on the air right now, so that is going on on the house side. on the s...

Make the ultimate deal and hes just really shot himself in the foot on this question. >> but so what is the impact of this then? short-term, long-term, you see the president has shot himself in the foot. do you see that position continuing to hold for the next three to four years? >> well, it really depends on what happens next. if, in fact, the administration recovers from this by reaching out to palestinians and trying to meet some of their concerns and reasserts itself as an honest broker, th...

Polarization in the parties. no question about that. and the tightness of the majorities, but the other part is that even within the party, they believe they have leverage, in this instance, the freedom caucus, but also the defense hawks, the deficit hawks, will all find a certain amount of leverage to hold their vote on the shutdown. if they dont act as a team, their majority is in peril. >> i want to talk on what garrett brought up relating to democrats in the relationship to daca. we expect t...

Holding their vote because of defense spending. holding their vote because of immigration reform. holding their vote believing that they can basically hold the government hostage and the function of that issue. because of this brinksman ship allowed to occur because of the budget process that makes this possible. >> if the government does shut down, if it feasibly stands up, they believe this is not their fault? >> they own the house and the senate and the administration. its the reason the demo...

Economy and our immigration program but ending these lottery programs. its important to president trump and he is calling on congress to take action and take action this year to bring an end to that program even as we are calling on them to address the daca issue. the president said hes willing to in the midst of ending chain migration providing resources to build the wall and dividing all new funding for the kind of security that will make sure from our border to internal and force meant we hav...

>> right. and we have done nothing but kiss up to chi. >> laura: he was most passionate today about the daca issue. he wants this chain migration done and there is traction. >> there is a good possibility. people on the opposing side want things done. there are so many problems in what we learned this week with the visa lottery system. it needs to be taken care of. chain migration. our policy has been left to chance. it make sense to have a policy that makes sense. bring people in based on their...

>> right. and we have done nothing but kiss up to chi. >> laura: he was most passionate today about the daca issue. he wants this chain migration done and there is traction. >> there is a good possibility. people on the opposing side want things done. there are so many problems in what we learned this week with the visa lottery system. it needs to be taken care of. chain migration. our policy has been left to chance. it make sense to have a policy that makes sense. bring people in based on their...