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I dont think their bank account thought it was a pass. >> letting them operate in this country given their record raises questions. if thats why you have the pushback from congress. i think you see statement after statement by the president which was really a half-truth or the context you need to do it evenhanded assessment of whether or not his policies make sense such as his trade policy. >> melissa: went to get to trade in a second because some of the things he said were very revealing but le...

Legislation thats in the house to this an interesting exercise, the president really covered a lot of ground there. and someone in the administration said recently, the present and provides what they call broad guidance on these iues. but when the rubber hits the road, you have to have a piece of legislation that has, b, c, d specific language and thats what theyre struggling with in the house right now. what will the president commit to or what will he wont? and as he himself said, we have to c...

House right now. >> melissa: why is that a dichotomy? with the dreamers, they saved and get on the end of the line after a period of time and with e-verify, theyre saying you got to know who everybody is is coming to work. >> up until now, the most conservative members of the house have not wanted to include the dreamers in the bill and the moderates have a problem with the e-verify. but theyre not going to get anything done in less all of those elements are in a final bill. >> melissa: we are g...

Scrambling. its good that he is flexible because thats the only way this is going to get done but i still question whether or not theyre going to be able to come up with about the needs to get this through. >> melissa: are not going to get any democratic votes. theyre only going to go to the right from what darrell issa said was i said what changes you think you need to make in order to get more people on board? and he was talking about is that language about getting those other people into the ...

Facing the house do you support and what specific items do you support? >> i was a co-sponsor of the goodlatte bill. that was one we actually voted on. it gave the president the tools and resources to secure the bored and enforce the laws. by theway, both bills do that sufficiently. i can even argue the moderate bill does a better job of that. but where it breaks down is where you dont eliminate chain migration in the moderate bill. but you do that in the goodlatte bill. and you turn the magnet ...

Authorities continue to deal with thousands of migrants and separated children. a houseboat on the compromise immigration bill is now expected next week and it does face several potential hurdles. garrett tenney now live in washington with more and what we can expect. the first question everyone is asking this week, the compromise bill, how much support does actually have? >> it did not have enough support to pass on friday. that is why they reschedule the vote for next week. a lot of conservati...

Emotions have gotten-- rightfully show emotions are high. but its time for us as a majority to come together and pass just the basics, as in funding the wall. leland: see, you bring up a great point, congressman. the republicans have the majority in the wall and anything, even the basics have been elusive. who is to blame for that inside your own party? >> bear in mind, leland, we dont have any support from democrats. 193 voted against tax reform. 193 voted against the goodlatte bill. now what w...

Ehi e-verify and agriculture. the goal being if you solve those issues, perhaps you can get the votes needed to actually pass a broad overhaul. a couple of points here to remember. whatever the house republicans do, if they do get the votes to pass, doesnt technically have a future. senate democrats made clear they wont support anything the house is working on. that said, republicans are willing to keep giving this a shot and trying to get past where they currently are which is nothing. will the...

We have cnns phil mattingly with the latest. >> reporter: michelle and dave, the house republican effort to overhaul the immigration system which was teetering on the brink of failure will live for another two days. after the behind closed doors briefing, members working on a second immigration bill which the first failed thursday afternoon, they decided to keep working on two issues. e-verify and agriculture. they are trying to work that out over the next couple days. the goal being if you solv...

Overstays. e-verify would do something about it. its not in the compromise bill. >> but this morning your feeling is that as you and i speak today, this is dead in the water? >> thats what i would say based on the presidents comments. >> and where does that leave you, congressman? where does that leave congress? how are you going to solve whats going on at the border and all these kids who have been separated from their parents? >> all you could possibly hope for is maybe congress going back and...