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Get its chance to solve the daca issue. >> molly: congressional republicans havent made progress on things they promised to do for years. this is a subject really difficult one, immigration, moving forward, what to do to protect these what paul ryan has said are kids that have known no other home. will he be able to do something on this within the timeline thats been set forward? >> this has always been a tough issue. the senate passed a big immigration reform bill in 2013 and it went nowhere in...

And doing immigration reform in a way that could actually protect these daca recipients legally through legislation? >> well both myself and the congressman from nevada, two formerly undocumented members of congress, sent a letter to the president and paul ryan asking him not to join the rescinding effort of the daca benefits for these 800,000 young people that are here in america. but i think we need a comprehensive immigration reform discussion. the congress in chicago led the american hope ac...

Over where the labor market and the aca intersect and then anything else you want to add about the other aca issue we just mentioned. >> well, the congressional budget office didnt say people would lose their jobs, they said going into the future there will be some people who will not go into the labor market. some people are in the labor market just to be able to get health insurance. they need to do that anymore, but what the cbo did not take into consideration is that well have lower deficits...

Separations immoral and were seeing republican lawmakers turn against the president and call for anened to this practice immediately. republican senator orrin hatch has now sent a letter to the justice department calling on it to pause the separation of families, saying, quote, we must do everything in our power to bring these children together with their parents. republicans, meeting right now, scrambling for a vote. lets go to the white house. abby phillip is there. good morning. it appears th...

Support in order to pass. democrats are putting their foot down on this issue and the president last week caused a lot of chaos. this week he didnt clear it up. there are separate issues of whether republicans will try to deal with family separation all on its own in order to get this out of the way. >> president trump yesterday said that he will look at cutting aide, trying to cut aide to some of these countries that he says are sending waves of immigrants to the united states and thats not how...

A lot of republicans senators still wondering where he stands on this issue. one lawmaker also added that the president didnt seem to acknowledge the humanitarian and moral issue behind the controversy of the family separations. this lawmakers said, the crying babies doesnt look good politically is what the president said to them and other lawmakers were questioning whether the president understood what he needed to do in order to get the ball moving on those bills. another said its always nice ...

I would just add people close to the president have said one of the reasons why hes attacking democrats on this daca issue is because he doesnt want the absence of a daca deal to be used against him and the republican party as we had to the 2018 midterms, richard. >> geoff bennett with the president at the white house. thank you so much for that great overview and summary. lets bring in fill leap reigns and jen kearns. is the president aiming his statements at california? clearly we have the iss...

Relationship. ryan? >> leyla santiago in mexico city, thank you for that update. lets go to boris sanchez live in west palm beach. boris, the president has largely been silent on the daca issue. where did this all come from today? >> reporter: ryan, it is not, perhaps surprisingly, simple. there was news about these caravans coming through central america to mexico, and the president commented on twitter. going back to 2015 when he attacked mexico for not sending their best, in his words. the pr...

Bill, thats what the house is voting on right now. we could be back in the exact same situation during the first week of february. we have fox team coverage. brit hume has a look at what this means. peter doocy on capitol hill on dissension among democrats. john roberts at the white house with the presidents role in all of this and we start with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel at the capitol to tell us where things stand. >> good evening. day three of the government shutdown, sena...

Who are in ongoing treatment for any kind of illness, they no longer have to worry that their kids health insurance is about to get yanked, even though nobody thinks it should. in terms of political accomplishments, celebrating this is the rough equivalent of throwing a huge congratulatory party because you remembered to close the fridge door after taking the milk out for your cereal this morning. this should not be something you have to celebrate. but its the kind of thing that we have to celeb...