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As an issue particularly ahead of the 2018 election. weve seen him doing it today joking i think joking with sherrod brown at the trade meeting today saying its the republicans that want to fix daca, not the democrats. >> does he want it fixed or does he want the issue to use against immigration. >> i think he wants the issue to use against immigration. of the days ago where he tweeted republicans want to solve immigration. its the democrats that are stalling this process. remember, this is a we...

Scrutiny from his own party. deficit reduction be damned seems to be the motto for trump and conservatives are blasting the spending binge which is expected to add trillions of dollars to the deficit. the president is up and tweeting saying this is the last chance to fix daca. that after march 5, it is over. the question is, will brinksmanship work? that deadline is an artificial one. the senate cleared the way to begin open debate on immigration. republican leaders could force democrats to show...

Been working on this particular idea for over a year. many people here have been working for 30 years trying to fix this. what im saying is over two-thirds of americans want to see border security, want daca fixed and want to end this linkage chain migration system and the diversity lottery. both sides want to end that pernicious problem. >> so then whats the problem? why isnt this going to go sailing through congress? >> well see. im not sure its not going to get bipartisan support. both sides ...

Republicans want to make a deal but democrats say they want to make a deal. wouldnt it be great after so many years we can finally solve the daca puzzle. this will be our last chance. there will never be an opportunity. march 5th. david purdue is a co-sponsor of the republican proposal. senator, thanks so much for being here. >> good morning. >> let me put up on the screen what we know to be this senators idea for this immigration plan, this bill. a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million immig...

Board. they want to do bills with the majority of the majority. youre not going to get infrastructure and youre not going to spend money again the government doesnt have. what is the rest of the agenda for 2018? cultural wars that donald trump likes to stoke thinking it will galvanize his base to turn out for republicans in the fall. >> this morning hes talking about ill grags. here is what he just tweeted in the past hour, negotiations on daca have begun. republicans want to make a deal and dem...

Hes going to have to fix it. not yet this morning. another thing he has the to deal with. the president put out a $4.4 trillion budget and getting a lot of scrutiny within his own party. conservatives are blasting the deal because its projected to add trillions of dollars to the deficit on top of the trillions of dollars that the tax cuts are going to put on over the next decade. this morning, the president is focusing on immigration. hes tweeting that this is the last chance to fix daca. so wil...

Regularization for daca because they would have nonimmigrant visa. they wouldnt have chain migration. part of daca, they were offered this, all they did is sign the forms the government offered them. that provision recognizes the reliance interest but is doing it in a way that wont fuel future ways. >> thats -- >> you had people sending unacompanied minors across the border. we dont want to incentivize that. some were being trafficked and abused. it was bad. even on our borders we were having a ...

Well for the dreamers but you have to e verify on balance, do you think the democrats will go for it. >> im not sure the republicans would go for it. republicans only have a one-vote majority in the senate. you have folks that im not sure would vote for the bill. mcconnell kept his cards close to his vest in what he wants to see in a senate bill. this is a test for trump. he said he wanted to fix it and put a compromise on the table. democrats were surprised he might. could this brings the parti...

>> i think the reason they didnt do it when they had a majority is because it is unpopular. if youre looking at the states that trump did well in in the midwest thats not something that a lot of folks think is good for their wages and jobs. thats the issue. >> daca is pretty popular comparatively speaking. >> it is popular on both sides because people want to protect. children who were brought here at young ages from being deported to countries they may have come from but they dont have homes th...

Requested. it would have a security wall and the visa lottery. the president wrote, republicans want to fix daca. all three branches of government decided not to do anything about daca. in the weekly address trump said get it done. >> time to act and protect americans. every senator should choose the side of the american people. >> can a leading house conservative said, congress must deliver what the american people want. >> what they want is border security first. build a wall. this the chain m...