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Topic on capitol hill. >> we need to say we have to act. when that happens, we act. >> sandra: lets get into it with our headliner alberto gonzalez was attorney general under president george w. bush and is now dean at belmont university of law. thank you for your time this morning. you are also the author of "true faith and allegiance." the story of service and sacrifice in war and peace. ill ask you the big question of the morning and can these two sides come together? can we find common groun...

Mueller investigation. the president is trying to use it politically to do that which i think is a problem. >> sandra: we might hear from him soon from peter strzok himself. he says -- his lawyer says he is volunteering to testify. trey gowdy said next week. >> i think he should. >> bill: goodlatte and gowdy made it clear and sent a big message to strzok. listen to this. >> we want to have him before the committee. he has now indicated that he would come voluntarily but he has not pinned himself...

It was a meeting that lasted an hour. i was there the whole time. >> bill: give us a sense of the conversation. what was said? >> the president is absolutely -- feels as strongly as possible we have to pass immigration bill. talking about a bill which i think is the one that will pass if anyone does. a consensus bill that provides funding for the wall, will take care of daca and end chain migration and go toward a merit-based system and have funding in there to allow for the families to be kept ...

This investigation he promised the country that she would be treated like every other citizen. clearly she was not. she was cleared before she was even interviewed. comey started to write his clearance of hillary in advance of her own testimony, which was not under oath and which also included staff members. this is unheard of. and this is not america. richard should be outraged not only about donald trump but what happened to hillary clinton as a result of bias and prejudice. >> im outraged eve...

Longer than 20 days and per his reporting it would draw a lawsuit. >> im sure it would. lots of things that donald trump has done that invited lawsuits. again, to get on the policy side. in fairness to the trump administration this is a vexing problem. the flores decision just had minor in it. it creates legal problems. we now have more whole families or groups with kids. that wasnt the case when this consent decree was created or when the laws were created. it used to be single males. it is a p...

>> if the bill is unable to pass tomorrow night, what is plan b and also -- >> everybody asks that. this bill is plan b for us to begin with. so right now were focused on this legislation. it solves daca in a good solution for that. were focused getting this bill pass. the president asked members to support this bill. thats our focus. if other things happen well cross those bridges when we get to it. >> have you asked the president to put a pause on this policy? >> he asked us to pass this legis...

Pennsylvania, veronica escobar democratic candidate for texas 16th candidate. ryan, congressman, what did you hear about immigration news worthy tonight from the president. >> hes going to support the compromise bill which would solve the daca problem, would address border security and would address the family separation issue but i do want toke cothe comments that some of my colleagues on in the senate made and that is congress doesnt need to fix this. the administration can fix this itself. bu...

Within the conference on this issue, and i really do believe that there is a sweet spot here. i think the president was extremely productive when he put out his four pillars. theyre eordinarily reasonable. they attempt to actually fix the solution. remember, when we fixed daca, we want to fix it permanently so we dot have another daca problem down the road. we plan on having a conference wide conversation for two or three hours tomorrow, and that talking among ourselves so the majority can funct...

Within our conference on this issue. i do believe theres a sweet spot here. i think the president was extremely productive when he put t his four pillars. theyre extrily reasonable. they attempt to actually fix the solution. remember, when we -- when we fix daca we want to fix it permanently so we dont have another daca problem down the road. so were having productive conversations, we plan on having a conference wide conversation for two or three hours tomorrow and thatshat we should be doing. ...

Bills. there are members of more moderate republicans as well as members of the house freedom caucus, more conservative group in the house who are really trying to find a solution for the daca problem. that would maybe win over anybody who is considering signing on to the petition. there are other negotiations going on as well, but the petition is i think about five signatures away from moving on to vote at the end of june. ed: heres what one of the key players on this said about where things st...