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Just a week ago, jay carney was standing at the podium calling these plans substandard. bob was saying, they were terrible anyway, they shouldnt worry about keeping them. now they want people to keep them? arent these plans illegal? arent they in violation of his law? >> with the law that he created? by going around congress and then change and now wants to change back? im not sure where he is. he used the executive pen more than i do when i make my notes here. so he golfed through fast and furi...

Interpret it the narrowly tailored way that wouldnt give benefits? if thats the case why didnt chuck hagel stand up, go directly to the president and say i need your help fixing this? if im president barack obama i would go out there and say not just for pr purposes, because its the right thing to do, lets make this happen. you know what he did do this week. he allowed illegals to protest on the national mall. that needed white house approval. he gave funding to egypt with his executive pen, sig...

Administration choosing to interpret it the narrowly tailored way that wouldnt give benefits? if thats the case why didnt chuck hagel stand up, go directly to the president and say i need your help fixing this? if im president barack obama i would go out there and say not just for pr purposes, because its the right thing to do, lets make this happen. you know what he did do this week. he allowed illegals to protest on the national mall. that needed white house approval. he gave funding to egypt ...

Do what he did in his last -- the last two years of this term, which is act through executive order and circumvent the legislature. weve seen him pass a number of legislations through the epa and he uses that executive pen to do it. its very emperialist. the base will want him to put points on the board and he wont be able to get things through the house and senate. republicans taking the senate is very likely, lips after the nelson retirement we saw. they only need four seats so this is very, v...

Fission the dreamers but also have greater border security. so they are not putting their lives in danger. >> melissa: do you think either the goodlatte bill or the compromise bill become law if they make it through? or is that hopeless? >> i think the whip count on the goodlatte bill for quite some time and the reason its held up it does not have the votes. they want to read the recent version of the bill. but we are close. this is the best bipartisan way to get through the senate and have some...

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>> he tried. >> no. when are you going to do something about arranging a uniform, fair, progressive immigration system and hiring system in this country that you intend to enforce? if somebody comes here to get a job, shouldnt they have to do it legally and why does your party oppose true enforcement of that law? they have. >> i think george w. bush tried to get a comprehensive immigration bill through congress. theres no question that one of the reasons that this has totally broken down in this...