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Itself, given some of the authors, are not particularly credible. >> now, sir, not particularly credible. having a go at you. whats your response? >> i encourage him to read the report in question before making sweeping s about the credibility of the administrations critics. but again, im not surprised that he said that these were -- these grants were made on a merit-based -- they were merit-based grants. and again, im not trying to look into the hearts and minds of officials in question. i -- >...

The most before the vote on the healthcare bill. cap and trade was difficult for democrats because the president acknowledged it would cause energy price to say skyrocket. healthcare law is controversial today with a majority in polls continuing to oppose it. on the websites, lawmakers didnt advertise their votes but touted money they got for various local projects. >> as a way to counteract the negative sentiment these were attempts to make sure constituents knew they were bringing money home. ...

Its not class warfare in the sense that, you know, the occupy movements or anyone else is claiming everyone should have exactly the same income or drive exactly the same car or any of those kinds of scary notions that we hear the gop trying to push back on. its rather that the current inequality is so extreme and class mobility is -- is such a dream at this point, the idea that someone could work hard from poverty and move into the middle class or from the middle class and into wealth. that has ...

Already going to be this uphill battle even before president trump sent out the tweet yesterday telling them to stop wasting their time and to wait until november. let me play you what congresswoman claudia tennie said yesterday. >> im very conservative, but at the same time, i look at this, do we really want to have only a merit-based -- and i mean merit based on only bringing in engineers, lawyers, doctors, people with advanced degrees, or do we want to bring all kinds of people in, people who...

>> juan: maybe he is appeasing president trump and setting up for his visit next week because he feels like maybe a -- >> dana: you dont think jeff sessions believes that? >> juan: i think he is pushing the suit because its the news of the day. the second thing if maybe he doesnt want people to focus on why his wife got into the country on a so-called einstein exception. einstein, really? she is in einstein? >> greg: you dont think she is smart? >> juan: how did her parents get in? chain migrati...

This program has led the president to charge that its all about political correctness. a president jumping on the fact that as a house member, in 1990, now senate democratic leader chuck schumer introduced a bill that help create the program. president tweeting, "the terrorists came into our country through what is called the diversity visa lottery program, a chuck schumer beauty. i want merit-based." schumer said he tried and failed to shut it down, the program in 2013. he charged the president...

Campaign for him, both legal and illegal immigration. >> as a candidate, i campaigned on creating a merit based immigration system that protects u.s. workers and taxpayers and that is why we are here today. merit based. >> if you look at this, look, they -- so far, ineffective in getting the health care law through, we talked about how this president never really received a honeymoon. he won the electoral vote. president bush won the presidency in the disputed election of 2000. donald trump, sho...

Legislation. look at the spikes on the chart. cap and trade, dodd-frank, obamacare. coincidence? would you go so far to say as the administration was buying votes? >> well, its difficult to look into the hearts and minds of the officials who were in charge of giving out these grants, but certainly the chart you just showed, it suggests a correlation that raises a number of pressing questions that i-are appropriate to ask the administration. >> actually those questions were asked of the administr...