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>> chris: gentlemen, lets turn to what we brought you to talk about today, and thats immigration. after house republicans met this week, speaker boehner said he wont bring the senate bill up for a vote. he wants to deal with this with bite size chunks. on the enforcement issue only, nothing on legalization until the border is secure. congressman king, you say its a mistake for the republicans and the house to even do that. why? >> well, first, its a mistake for republicans to believe the electio...

But -- so lets agree on what we agree on and do what we want to do and find a way to get our haps around this problem. and then the enforcement issue. does that make any sense at all? >> first of all, we saw people running the border. border patrol statements contradict napolitano. just about any official of this administration is contradicted by reality and the truth. at this point the arrests areç up. the encounters are increasing because more people are running for the border -- >> neil: wh...

Its being done with assault weapons and illegal. they are drive by shootings being done not with the ar-15, which is the pep of choice for mass murders. in a lot of cases with ak-47s. there was an issue in miami where people had gold plated aks. its a sign of a gang. people who can pass the background check themselves and turn around and sell them to people who couldnt. its an enforcement issue. a lot of day-to-day violence is handguns, people with handguns in the home. theres no way to regulate...

At the time. no hunters stopped hunting. and it wasnt really any threat to the second amendment. it isnt any more today than it was then. >> go ahead. robert, your thoughts. was he too optimistic for gun control? >> i was down in williamsburg, virginia for that house republican retreat. sandy hook was such a big tragedy, what are republicans going to do to respond to this legislatively? is there anything republicans can do? and they said background checks and enforcement. so though senator feins...

Clinton passed in 1994, and nobody in america was outraged at the time. no hunters stopped hunting. and it wasnt really any threat to the second amendment. it isnt any more today than it was then. >> go ahead. robert, your thoughts. was he too optimistic for gun control? >> i was down in williamsburg, virginia for that house republican retreat. sandy hook was such a big tragedy, what are republicans going to do to respond to this legislatively? is there anything republicans can do? and they said...

Such a big tragedy. is there anything republicans can do? they said background checks and enforcement. so though senator finestein got a lot of attention today, what im really watching is senator leahy. >> i agree, hes the star. what is his role? >> he has another piece of legislation but its different i. its all about enforce. . this enforcement issue of making the laws tougher, of helping out cops to enforce the gun laws, this is something republicans behind the scenes are already working with...

>> well, it puts the agency -- the i.c.e. agents in a tough position. first of all, they are sworn to uphold the laws of the united states. that is their oath. the law is very clear. what president obama has done through executive fiat is try to basically put the dream act into effect, but the congress has never passed it. the agents have criteria that they have been operating under. the president coming in basically suspended the law. the agents are told, we dont want you to remove these people...

That would be a big enforcement issue. if you get past that, its a give-way to the manufacturing sector. you think its a good idea or you dont. whats funny about it, its a blunt policy tool normally supported with democrats, in fact, with liberals, that you wipe out tax liabilities and pick one giant winner in the entire economy. >> arent you trusting these corporations when they repatriate their money that thats exactly what theyre going to do with it instead of lining their pockets? theyre goi...

At least in theory they pay quite lot lower. hed wipe it out to zero. a lot of people who arent necessarily manufacturers would try to become manufacturers, incorporate under what definition the legislature brings forward in that. that would be a big enforcement issue. if you get past that, its a give-way to the manufacturing sector. you think its a good idea or you dont. whats funny about it, its a blunt policy tool normally supported with democrats, in fact, with liberals, that you wipe out ta...

A lot of people who arent necessarily manufacturers would try to become manufacturers, incorporate under what definition the legislature brings forward in that. that would be a big enforcement issue. if you get past that, its a give-way to the manufacturing sector. you think its a good idea or you dont. whats funny about it, its a blunt policy tool normally supported with democrats, in fact, with liberals, that you wipe out tax liabilities and pick one giant winner in the entire economy. >> aren...