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West palm beach airport, following the president s First Physical exam as president. According to his doctor at walter reed, the exam went, quote, exceptionally well and further details on tuesday. Before leaving washington for this Martin Luther king holiday weekend, trump signed a proclamation expanding site, with questions from the president about remarks about haiti, el salvador the day before. And throughout the day, republican lawmakers in florida, including senator marco rubio and congres...

Let me begin with a confession. im a member of the meritocracy. i went to an elite college and graduate school on full scholarship. and later served on the board of my alma mater. i benefitted from the merit base system and seen it from the inside. and know that college admissions officers are decent and honorable people. actually trying hard to balance all the factors they are asked to consider when passing judgment on 18 year-olds. and yet, there is obviously a problem with the meritocracy. th...

Way, we want people to come into our country but we want them to come in for merit -- through merit, we want a merit-base system so they can help us. [cheers and applause] >> you know, we have tremendous numbers of companies coming in, we have 3.8 unemployment number which nobody thought was even possible. we need people to come in but they have to be people that love this country, can love our country and can really help us to make america great again which is what we are doing way ahead of sch...

Havent done it. >> no, heather, fascinating enough voters and in fact, the majority of folks in this poll over 60% feel that congress should be getting this done and in fact, 1 in 5 democrats feel that the democrats themselves are being obstructionists. theres broad support for every pillar of what the president represented, let the daca dreamers have path to citizenship and end chain migration and end the visa lottery, broad support. heather: chuck, let me ask you about the poll, the majority o...

>> we want people that come in through merit. we need merit. we need people to come into our country because we have so many companies moving because to have regulations and because of what we did with the massive tax cut. we are going to need people to take care of the company, so -- but we want people based on merit, not based on the fact that they are thrown into a bin and many of those people are not the people you want in the country, believe me. heather: well, president trump calling for a...

You cannot dismiss entire countries and continents whose entire populations who are not white therefore not welcome. chris: isnt that the definition of racism to say we dont want people from these black countries but we do want people from a very white country? >> i think what the president is saying he would like to move to merit base which is based on individual. so what individuals can come here can contribute to our society, help our economy, assimilateing communities and help america to be ...

Other word i can use but racist, you cannot dismiss entire countries and continents whose entire populations who are not white therefore not welcome. chris: isnt that the definition of racism to say we dont want people from these black countries but we do want people from a very white country? >> i think what the president is saying he would like to move to merit base which is based on individual. so what individuals can come here can contribute to our society, help our economy, assimilateing co...

You cannot dismiss entire countries and continents whose entire populations who are not white therefore not welcome. chris: isnt that the definition of racism to say we dont want people from these black countries but we do want people from a very white country? >> i think what the president is saying he would like to move to merit base which is based on individual. so what individuals can come here can contribute to our society, help our economy, assimilateing communities and help america to be ...

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...