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Between house leadership, moderates and conservatives featuring four pillars approach outlined by donald trump including protections for dreamers or children brought to the us illegally by their parents, increased border security including $25 billion for the border wall, new limits on family migration and a end to the diversity visa program. house speaker paul ryan is hopeful he can get it to donald trumps desk. >> we now have a bill that represents a compromise brought to the floor so members ...

Children being separated from their parents at the border. robert gray joins us with those details. >> the draft bill is the product of weeks of closed-door negotiations between house leadership, moderates and conservatives. it features four pillars outlined by donald trump including protections for dreamers and children brought by their parents can increase border security including $25 billion for the border wall, new limits on family migration and the end to the diversity visa program. paul r...

Very quickly if you can, a lot of democrats on this issue the past couple days always bring up the fact that democrats offered the president $25 billion in border security spending including $18 billion for walls or fences but rejected it because its and go far enough in terms of limiting family-based immigration and ending the diversity visa program, do you think that was a mistake or the right thing for the president to do? >> that was absolutely the right thing to do so he needs to stand by t...

In new york, one where the man drove a truck and killed people, he instantly called for the end of what he calls chain migration, way call family unification, a law since 1965. after a man that did an attempted bombing on the subway here, he found out the man was in the diversity visa program and called quickly for scrapping a program thats been in place since 1990. theres no doubt in my mind, and i think no one watching doubts if this gunman was muslim or was an immigrant, an undocumented immig...

The dock aside -- daca side, there is an agreement on chain migration. what the senate is saying is lets not address chain migration but focus on the agreement and try to get something passed. they are close to seeing something on that front today. >> this would not end the diversity visa program. >> no and it wont handle chain migration except they will try to focus with the daca recipients, what chain migration will come from that but not much to address on that front. heather: we talk about s...

>> senators john mccain and chris coons offered a bipartisan immigration plan. the white house was quick to reject it because it does not provide money for the border wall and does not end chain migration or the diversity visa program. >> these two programs risk exploitation from those who do not share our values and actively work to undermine them. >> senator coons called it a good starting proposal for a debate. >> lays out a plan halfway toward securing control of the border by 2020. >> repub...

Family-based immigration would end and reallocates the diversity visa program. they see it as surnd. >> youve given them, on the numbers side, more than they could have ever expected pr barack obama. you started at 1.8 million for amnesty? why would you start with 1.8 million? why would you start with people who never even applied for daca? 1 million people over the 700,000 to 800,000 who never even applied for daca. why would you do that. and its going to be spun that this is absolute genius. n...

About all of the other aspects of what a cr means. and then we failed to fix the broken immigration system, the health care system, and the budget process is still a mess. >> so you seem to think, congressman, and correct me if im wrong, that your fellow democrats in the senate caved. how long would you have been willing to keep the government shut down? >> well, im not necessarily saying they caved. i think i disagree with the ultimate conclusion of where we are, which is allowing that bill to ...

Votes advances. thats the way out. >> lets talk a little about the details of the problem solvers bill you mentioned. you are a member of the problem solvers caucus. what is in that bill thats different, for example, from graham/durbin? >> the differences are fair lynn negligible. they really are. i think they have more to do with the family migration piece as well as the diversity visa program. i think thats where thes ar differences are. >> you use the the phrase family migration. the white ho...

Miller. but at the same time, i think whats happened is the conversation on immigration, especially right now has become narrow. it almost becomes that this is all about d.r.e.a.m.ers and daca recipients. you and i both know, 800,000 daca recipients are part of the larger 11 million undocumented population. >> franky, i want to go to you on this. this week started out with donald trump talking about shit hole countries, referring to all 54 countries in africa, essentially haiti and any country w...