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Chuck schumer, are essentially claiming that there is a deal, while republicans, including senator marco rubio, are urging caution and saying, not so fast. this needs to be open to public opinion and we dont have a deal until all the is are dotted, all the ts are crossed. so that is why the discussions stand right now, but all sides do agree that there was major progress that occurred in the past few days, with business and labor agreeing to a plan for the guest worker program. essentially worke...

Now there were times we -- it was important to him that we never lose faith in the greatness of the country. we heard some disturbing comments from the congressman. we accept his apology and hope that he goes further now in making amends by working on a comprehensive immigration reform. >> talking about comprehensive immigration reform, the current deal with labor and business according to "the new york times," 200,000 guest workers is the number that is being discussed at the moment, though som...

Now business and labor leaders agreed on a plan to create a new visa for guest workers. lets look at who stopped by the first elite eight game in the ncaa basketball tournament. who is that guy? oh, its president barack obama. he saw syracuse knock off marquette. the orange men are the first to qualify for the final four and the president was joined by reggie love who was on the duke team that won the tournament in 2001. how are my brackets doing? dont ask. president ronald reagan was shot 3...

Republicans are probably more comfortable with a comprehensive approach to a path to citizenship. the critical question, will john boehner bring a bill to the floor that has a majority of support in the house overall but not majority republican support? >> the big sticking point is going to be this question of guest workers. that pits unions against the chamber of commerce. its a very hot button issue. can you bring in these guest workers for low wages, and republicans on one side of that, democ...

>> so you think immigration reform is possible? >> in some way, i believe that we can work together to do something on this matter. >> but the number one obstacle to a deal isnt border security, but rather a dispute between the business community and organized labor over a temporary worker program. at issue, immigrant wages. bloombergs margaret carlson sums up the dispute, writing democrats are willing to accept guest workers, theyre asking that foreign, low-skilled workers be paid wages above t...

Look at the folks actually working on this issue, theyre the same folks that in 2007 were ardent, you know, they were ardently against a comprehensive approach. now theyre sitting in a room together with democrat colleagues trying to hammer out the details of a bill. so i believe there is a path forward. both sides are pretty optimistic. there are also challenges. theres hope in washington, d.c., theres some legislative procedure or theres some vocal minority thats trying to stop it. and i ti th...

First duties when you initially became president and nothing had happened. it will be interesting to see thousand goes now. >> brian: i dont know why the president is factoring himself in. the lawmakers are getting along, working this out. if his tone is too to the left or right, it could blow up. lets see what emerges. >> steve: something else could be the unions because the unions want a cap on the number of guest workers. they want to keep it low. they want to give them a high minimum wage an...

Not. those are two. border security is another one. and what do you do with guest workers? how do you make sure for instance our agricultural community has the workers needed. >> you ticked off some of the reasons that there has been disagreement. we know today four senators from the gang of eight will tour the border, mccain, schumer, flake, bennett. and at a town hall meeting on monday, mccain basically said to the crowd i cant guarantee anything. let me play that. >> i dont know if we can ach...

John mccain says there are bumps in the road every five minutes, but hes ultimately optimistic. the gang of eight there, is agreement, largely around border security, and agreement there should be a pathway to citizenship, the sticky part comes in around the guest worker program, so you have on the one hand, unions and on the other hand, you have the chamber of commerce and there are lagger heads not speaking at this point in terms of what they want to see from guest workers and the ability to c...

The gang of eight there, is agreement, largely around border security, and agreement there should be a pathway to citizenship, the sticky part comes in around the guest worker program, so you have on the one hand, unions and on the other hand, you have the chamber of commerce and there are lagger heads not speaking at this point in terms of what they want to see from guest workers and the ability to come into this country and for companies to hire immigrants at low wages. also, thats a real stic...