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>> throughout the weekend, the president kept out of view except for a few official white house photographs. >> what the president did clearly worked. >> when will we see him? >> well keep you posted. well make sure youre aware when the time comes. >> now comes the hard part. while the deal funds the government for the next three months, it comes with a nonbinding agreement to find a solution for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. in exchange for protecting the d.r.e.a.m.ers, the white house says it wands to bu...

Plan, you know, essentially it would shift, it would do away with the diversity lottery which is a random lottery program and it would shift some of those 50,000 slots over to the tps program which is the countries like haiti, el salvador. temporary protective status, and the president said, well, lets not deal with those countries, why cant we make this all about merit and, remember, these were comments that he made two days earlier in the televised meeting in the white house who said who would...

Follow that. rick said hes going to gut him like a fish. >> he meant intellectually. >> thats not hard. >> i dont buy the economic argument at all. i do believe -- >> actually, the studies show its not about economics. the whole thing during the lerks even the election of this president was not about economics. it was about race. >> it is cultural anxiety built around race and immigration. but in addition to that the idea that john seems to my ear to be conflating the lottery program that both d...

About this lottery, the diversity lottery. and so what happens in that lottery is the u.s. government can determine that there are certain countries that are underrepresented in terms of the immigrant flow into the united states, legal immigrant flow. and in order to make sure that people from these less represented countries had an opportunity, they then started this lottery program. at that point, the president trump was saying he wants to cut that program, he really wants to eliminate it but ...

We lead into you with that story. this appears to be the presidents priority in the new year. will there be a deal on daca? >> i think what the president wants to do is make sure we have a wall on the southern border. we will end chain migration and end the lottery program and revamp the immigration system so the people coming here are the right ones, not just because they have a family member or relative coming. but the problem that we have is because of the arcane rules of the u.s. senate in o...

For citizenship. the lottery program goes away but the temporary protection status folks would get priority. what ive outlined is that something you could vote for? >> i dont know. you know, theres a more comprehensive bill just introduced that sort of are hot off the press. i would be more in that camp. its a little bit more robust, if you will. >> fair enough. >> i probably would be more in that camp. >> but what i described, is that feasible, just your way of reading that that can get through...

>> harris: we come with a fox news alert. the white house is responding to a federal judges decision to temporarily block the presidents push to end obama era protections for illegal immigrants who came to the united states as children. the so-called dreamers. the white house is calling this move by this judge outrageous. the judges ruling coming after the president led a nearly hour-long bipartisan meeting on camera on immigration and we got to see all of it. >> >> were here to advance bipartis...

Not doing us a ride. and i think a lot of people in the room, im not sure i can speak for everybody, but i think a lot of people in this room want to see chain migration ended, and we have a recent case along the west side highway having to do with chain migration, where a man ran over, killed eight people, and many people injured badly, loss of arms, loss of legs, horrible thing happened. thenpl you look at the chain and all the people that came in because of him, terrible situation. and the ot...

And as we wait for dick durbin and the others to come out, lets listen to the president from the top of this meeting talking about immigration. >> when it doesnt work out very well, many of those people arent doing us right. i think a lot of the people in the room, and i cant speak for everybody, but i think a lot of people in this room want to see chain migration ended. we have a recent case along the west side highway having to do with chain migration where a man ran over, killed eight people ...

Theyre taking them out of a bowl. im probably watching the hand of the worst of the worst. they pull people they dont want into a lottery and the people. and, again, going back to that same person, he came in through the lottery program. what they visited, this neighborhood, and the people in the neighborhood said oh, my god, we suffered with this man, the rudeness, the horrible way he treated us right from the beginning. so we dont want the lottery system or the visa lottery system. we want it ...