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Things and some products dont have close substitutes but a lot of them do and in the end its empirical question, which is dominating, i dont think uyou can say the tariffs caused this. its not in the aggregate data. >> clearly white house strategy to down play what will be a consumer effect of these tariffs. walmart is not the only retailer warning tariffs will hit customers. macys wednesday said it will raise prices on some merchandise because of the trade war. stanley black & decker announced ...

Weeks. its interesting that the president has thrown himself so fully into the design of the border wall, causing them to scramble and go back and forth based on his personal whims. hes heavily involved. >> sort of different than designing a golf course or a hotel lobby. he seems to have the micro management. >> this is indeed a crisis. lets turn back to the story this morning, the confrontation with iran, and miscommunication seems to sum it all up, both sides misreading one another and congres...

Behind if the 5 g technology race. >> there are rural networks that have components of huawei in use, in operation. later today the white house plans to release a broad outline of new immigration reforms, spearheaded by jared kushner. it will address increasing border barriers and a merit points system, a merit based system to enter this country. it does not deal with daca which democrats insist they want resolved. low skilled immigrants or the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the u.s. >> t...

Immigrant population that are here and guest worker programs. >> graham went on to say that things are so toxic around capitol hill, hes not sure if democrats will work with the president on immigration. democrats say theyre not sure in the republicans are welling to work with them. >> ed: we saw senator there with the president. talk about the details that are separate from what the president was talking about, legal immigration and what senator graham wants to do the crack down on illegal immi...

Our country through no fault of their own. >> bret: some people are here illegally. what happens if you find them in some enforcement action if today that happens, theres not comprehensive immigration reform. >> is correct. what i dont like about whats going on is that they seem to be targeting certain people that it may be even tried to apply for citizenship and on the right thing. the way you solve it is what we did in the senate, bipartisan with comprehensive immigration reform. >> bret: last...

To do evil, theyre trying to get a job and hear there might be a job in philly or chicago or whatever and theyre going for it. they get a word from a cousin, theres a job open here, you got to get up here. should we allow guest workers? >> thats the larger problem. is the legal immigration system is broken and under president trumps leadership, hes trying to block immigrants in every conceivable way. >> possible guest worker programs? >> absolutely. >> you say you would sue if the president of t...

Mexican border? >> no, illegal border crossings are at a historic low level. leland: do we have an immigration crisis? >> yeah, we have a broken immigration situation. leland: we dont have a crisis on the border? >> we need to fix the amnesty procedures. we need to fix the guest worker programs and we need to fix border security and fix a lot of stuff, unfortunately, again, we tried five years ago and couldnt get it done. we need to try it again. leland: good point. better luck this time, sir. w...

Control of the senate. steve: how is that working out? >> well, still needs 60 votes. but it should be a little bit easier for immigration issues on the senate side, perhaps. but the problem is the house of representatives and the republicans did not take this opportunity to deliver border security to the president when they had control and thats because house and senate leadership simply were more interested in passing things like increasing guest worker programs and tinkering with other parts ...

How do we talk about future immigration. thats a grown up conversation to have. how do we recognize that a lot of these undocumented immigrants pay $11 billion to our economy back in tacks evexes every sing. they pay more than the president of the united states. >> this should be a bipartisan conversation. there are lots of republicans with very, very sensible views of immigration. lots of states run by republicans where they realize we need guest worker programs and all sorts of things. our con...

Mexico said they wont do that. well have to see what the mexican government does. arthel: neil is a report for "roll call." lets talk about that interview. that gentleman is saying he wasnt seeking political asylum. he didnt say he was running from the bad guys. he wants to come here because he wants a job to send money back to his family. what do you say to that? >> the u.s. long has had some guest worker programs and legal ways through which people coming in as migrant farm workers and other l...