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The motive if you have someone arguing simultaneously that technology is making lowth wage jobs disappear and thats true, and at the sameme time, arguing we need millions more low wage workers in this country? what is the actual motive here? >> right. you cant have it both ways, tucker. you are exactly right. by the way, i say this as an hispanic and immigrants son. no one suffers more from illegal immigration than hispanic americans. whether they be native born or legal immigrants. and legal im...

>> when they had super majorities in the house and senate and barack obama was president. they didnt do anything on immigration. they werent serious about it back then. were serious about working to get a solution to this problem. if there is a plan that can be reached if the democrats are serious about getting an agreement. >> sandra: he is saying that ahead of a big meeting happening on capitol hill today. >> right. the key point is there hasnt been anything done on this. you have to go back t...

Simultaneously that technology is making low wage jobs disappear and thats true, and at the same time, arguing we need millions more low wage workers in this country? what is the actual motive here? >> right. you cant have both ways, tucker. you are exactly right. by the way i say this as an hispanic and immigrants son. no one suffers more from illegal immigration than hispanic americans. whether they be native born or legal immigrants. and legal immigrants go through a difficult, long process t...

Page as the wall and funding for that because you do have some republicans in the southwest in particular who arent really crazy about the border wall. yeah, but i think on border security, you can see them bending on that, but as brian said, if they start funding the wall, theyre going to hear from their base and hispanic activists -- remember how angry they were during president obamas term about what they saw as not enough attention to their issues. if democrats cave on some of these things t...

Branches of government, both houses of congress and the white house, you will be held responsible for the government shuts down. democrats face a lot of pressure on this, too. the president is correct there are a lot of hispanic leaders very disappointed when nothing happened to fix and extend the daca program before the end of last year. if democrats fail to deliver on that again, think thats a political problem for them. >> they didnt insist it be part of the government funding program. >> the...

Deal without a fully funded border wall, do you think that conservatives are going to start to call for speaker ryan and leader mcconnell to go? >> oh, i think absolutely. that would be the swamp at its very worse. again, i want daca people protected. it has to be part of a compromise. if they were to cave and protect daca people without the border and chain migration and lottery system, so me, that would be a capitulation. by the way, too i would say this about the democrat. they try to pretend...

Unemployment is down at 4%. hispanic and black unemployment are at lows going back many, many years. you have 1.5 trillion dollars being kept in the economy over the next ten years because of a tax bill, which, by the way, 500,000 people are now getting 500 million dollars because of it and then lets throw in the mandate, that stupid, silly mandate that hurt the people that make $50,000 or less most. thats going by the wayside. and im a happy camper with all of this and i hope it continues. my o...

2,000-mile long concrete wall. in fact congressman will herd, republican from texas, is working with the hispanic caucus on some language right now to help create a smart wall, so to speak, as well as a helping the d.r.e.a.m.ers. many of us wanti to see this agreement. its not going to be a wall per se but enhanced border security measures. >> i was going to ask you to talk for us about your decision to retire but im out of time. do you feel liberated at all or what does it feel like? >> it feel...

To constituencies for our party. the under 50 crowd, as i like to say, we have to do a better job with. >> does anything tell you thats happen stphg are y happen? are you seeing that? >> at the moment, no. reince priebus, when he was rnc chair he made a lot of good recommendations at the time about reaching out to hispanics in particular, and we have gone in the wrong direction on that score. the presidents campaign was directed more as solidifying the base, and appealing more to older white vot...

Democrats with a commanding lead in the run-up to next years midterm elections. a new poll released today shows democrats with an eight-point lead over republicans in the general congressional ballot. the polls shows democrats with wide leads in the northeast, the midwest and the west. while republicans cling to a narrow lead in the south. democrats also win big among all income groups, especially those at the bottom and the top of the income scale. democrats also win all age groups with the exc...