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That dhs is giving daca recipients. >> well, i mean, that was the case before any of this ever happened. were in a situation now where i see great potential for -- >> no, but sir, it wasnt. before president obama guaranteed -- you know, certainly warranted the criticism over how he went about this, but once he did put this in place, and it has been put in place, that wasnt the concern. >> well, i can tell you now that i believe, and my viewpoint on it and what ive -- myself and the other ministe...

Now has conceived of. >> its not surprising because it seems that president trump cut a deal with the democrats and undermined the republican leaders on this. you just heard in that sound byte, paul ryan called this notion of a three-month extension ridiculous. thats what the speaker of the house, the leader of the republicans in the house called it. donald trump emerged from the meeting saying, weve got a deal with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. so that is one part thats surprising is that don...

Several state attorneys general who threaten to tax on this daca issue to an existing lawsuit right now by september 5th, thus giving the president some impetus to act on this in some fashion. today the entire design of trying to punt the football forward so to speak for the next sigs months is -- six months is to give the legislature some type of chance to remedy this with a fix that republicans think from a constitutional standpoint should be done in the congress to begin with. whether theyre ...

Solution. because if you do look at the polling on this issue, dana is absolutely right, this is a part of a facet of immigration reform that does have broad bipartisan support, ask children who are left in this situation are very sympathetic figures to many people. >> the one thing to keep in mind is the difference between kind of the debate before president obama put daca in place and now is that these people came out of the shadows. they gave all their information to the united states governm...

Im gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. former president barack obama rolled back daca registrations for 800,000 undocumented children. president trump is stopping it hoping congress can change the move. jeff zeleny, you learned how much the president has struggled with this issue himself over these past many months. i want to play for our viewers how he described the dilemma back in february.

>> is that okay with you? >> well, its the rule of law. its not a matter of what i think. im one member of 135 members. what we have to do is be a nation of laws, and we look to th that. do i want necessarily that to happen? my mind goes to a person i just spoke to. we had someone who was really concerned about this issue, yet what happens is our interaction creates a crisis. so its time we move and we work on immigration. there are a lot of level-headed people trying to do that. and as we see t...

Administration. >> what would it take for you, one member of congress. i have a pathway for citizenship. if there is funding for the wall in mexico, would that be enough? >> ronald reagan said you never get in trouble by not answering a hypothetical, wolf, so what i am going to say is this. we have to start with border security and the wall. if we have a kprecomprehensive program that not only deals with our southern border, it also looks in terms of e-verify. other areas where we have this situ...

So this president has said its the duty of congress to pass those laws so we get rid of any k inconsistency. its now incumbent on members of congress in the house and the senate to act and deal with this to make sure we have secure borders but that we treat people with compassion as well. >> your leader, the speaker paul ryan, he said at the heart of this issue, our young who are impacted. when all is said and done, do you want law that has allowed these 800,000 young people who are now working ...

Including the diversity council. >> i am resigning right now from that council. i see no point in trying to work with people that clearly dont see this issue the way i do. >> to former president obama who said in a statement, to target these young people is wrong because they have done nothing wrong. it is self-defeating because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs and perform in the country we love. do they have time to fix this? >> calculation six months is to march 5, so we have ...

President has behaved so far vis-a-vie the various investigations? >> i think this is just another example as your previous segment on daca, where the branches of government are not working well together. yes, we believe in the theory of controlling tyrannical government by dividing responsibility among the three branches. but the three branches still must have a level of respect for each other and for themselves. and i dont think thats been very apparent in the way in which the daca issue has b...