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Dont defend our borders? what is the cost of drugs coming into this country and killing people and ruining lives and causing us to have to put people in prison at the tune of such an amount that in all 50 states it takes more money to put a person in prison for drug dealing per year than it would to put them in a college, university, pay full tuition and give them spending money. is there a cost to put the guard on the border? you bet there is. there is a bigger cost to having an open border whi...

To politics in washington, marco rubio leading the charge for immigration reform but not, he says, amnesty. so what could a potential deal look like? well learn tomorrow. heres athena jones. >> reporter: republican senator marco rubio blanketed the sunday talk shows, appearing on seven networks to begin selling what would be the biggest immigration overhaul in a generation. rubio defended a portion of the plan that would allow the nations 11 million undocumented immigrants to apply for legal sta...

Announce this week. candy crowley, anchor of state of the union is here. candy be you talked with two of those senators today, marco rubio and john mccain. lets listen to their plan. >> i think my other seven colleagues have done a great job. im guardedly optimistic that we will see finally the end of this long, long trek that a lot of us have been on for many years. >> youre going to have to be in the system at least ten years plus -- plus -- all these enforcement things happen before we give y...

Seven of the sunday talk shows. we heard him lay out details, so-called triggers. three things that have to happen before people here illegally can get legal status. i believe we have a graphic to put on the screen. the first is an e-verify system to allow workers to check the citizenship status of people they want to hire. another is a tracking system for immigrants to make sure that people who come here legally dont end up overstaying the visas. thats a big problem. and the last is what he cal...

Period is something were looking at. but heres what happens, if the department of homeland security does not secure the border, does not meet that met rix of 100% awareness and 90% apprehension in the first ten years, then it goes to an issue to a commission made up of people that have to live and deal with the border and they will take care of that problem and funded to ensure that happens. if you are legally in the u.s. and you cant apply for this until the plans are in place and they begin to...

>> right. how long does that take? thats what i mean. >> they have six months to create -- >> how long getting everything secure? >> obviously that whole ten-year period is something were looking at. but heres what happens, if the department of homeland security does not secure the border, does not meet that met rix of 100% awareness and 90% apprehension in the first ten years, then it goes to an issue to a commission made up of people that have to live and deal with the border and they will tak...

do. nobody can get the support to get one of those through. do we have to look for just the possible? >> i think mission number one is to raise the debt ceiling. they cannot get away without doing that. saying theyre going to downgrade you. but they left a bit of an out. if you raise the ceiling but give indication youre on the road to getting a deal, well keep you on credit watch negative but take you off and affirm your aaa rating if you get it done within a couple of months if we se...

jeanne, first question, is it time to simply say, lets go for the possible in washington? everybody has grand ideas about what they want to do. nobody, nobody can get the support to get one of those through. do we have to look for just the possible? >> i think the mission of everyone in congress is to absolutely raise the debt ceiling. they cannot get away without doing that. the s&p has been the strongest credit rating agency. they said, were going to downgrade you if you dont come up...