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1980s. Thats how fox reports this january 27, 2018. Watters world starts right now. Jesse welcome to watters world. Im jesse watters. Building a safe, proud, strong america, thats the message in President Trumps state of the union address. Deputy press secretary roz shaw joins me now. The white house is putting this on the table giving amnesty to 1. 8 mill people and phasing in getting rid of the lottery and Chain Migration, how does that make sense . Thanks for having me on. I think the preside...

The essentials of delivering a well-run school system above all else. elections can be difficulties but the children are what matters. >> bill: i think a lot of people are surprised by that. >> dana: its the year of the parents. theyre roaring back. >> bill: we talked about the cultural issues affecting democrats and how the democratic congressional committee is worried about it. it is a good example of that. they wanted to take lincoln and washington off schools. >> dana: it is all caught up in...

Last month and i still think, ali, just in our -- as i travel the country back from texas, the biggest challenge businesses face is lack of workers. they will just tell you, we want to grow more, weve got projects, weve got customers, we just need labor, and thats where one of our focuses has to be >> but a lot of that has to be -- were sort of moving in the wrong direction, right whether its legal immigration or illegal immigration, you have a growth that would cut it in half in the united stat...

Representative gallego, i know, as relates, relationship to the wall that you had suggested, had co-sponsored a bill to get the president to stop diverting funds from the military to the wall. what is your response to the current trump immigration plan? put up details here. one of which is increased security at ports of entry. >> well, it doesnt actually do anything in terms kwh s of whate currently dealing with in this country. for example, it has nothing to do to fix problems with dreamers. we...

Right now. >> democrats take issue with the term merit-base, house speaker nancy pelosi call it condescending. president trumps own grandfather would not have made it to america. kristin. >> ellison barber, interesting point. leland. leland: back to the issue of trade and the deal with méxico and canada, we bring in former secretary of state republic diplomacy in george w. bush administration james, force today lay off hundreds of workers because of tariffs, went to visit them last summer. you ...

People here today, the heads of every company, so that you can hire people on a merit base. you know they coming in. theyre people who came on merit, not based on a lottery or not people that snuck across the border. they could be murderers and thieves and so much else. so we want a safe country. and it starts with the borders. and thats the way it is. now id like to -- [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you. again, we can do this very quickly if the democrats come together. everybody wants to do ...

Been trying to do for the last 25 years to structurally change the way we do immigration and make it more merit base rather than random and also get the border secure because the threats as i get briefed by the secretary and ice director, terrorists is real. heather: four pillars for immigration reform, path to citizenship for dreamers, a fully-funded border wall and end to visa lottery program and end to chain migration. >> in the meantime five illegal immigrants killed in a crash trying to out...

The people, grumen, all of the people here today, the heads of every company, so that you can hire people on a merit base. you know theyre coming in, theyre people that came on merit, not based on a lottery or people that snuck across the border. and they could be murderers and thieves, and so much else. so we want a safe country, and it starts with the boarders. and thats the way it is. now i would like to -- [ applause ] thank you. >> joining us now is jacob soberov. lets do a quick fact check...

Remember what we are dealing with here. we are on the verge of having a discharge petition that was going to turn the floor over to nancy pelosi to deal with immigration. brian: i hear you. >> we are in a very good place about moving forward. brian: did you talk to the president. did you talk to senate leadership to see if this thing is going to get through if you get it through? >> well, you know, in the senate have you schumer over there who needs 60 votes for everything. he is trying to stop ...

Resolution. >> >> i dont want to reduce it legally. >> the plan they put it out would reduce by 40% and not shift toward merit base. just reduce legal permanent residents and sponsor family members. >> i want them to sponsor their spouses and mine or children. but the idea that one immigrant gets here and by the way sometimes gets here because of lottery, which is insanity. one person gets here and suddenly the whole village is here. thats insanity. it doesnt make sense. it doesnt make sense for...