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With an executive order. now how ridiculous, were the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the united states for 85 years with all of those benefits. its ridiculous. its ridiculous. and it has to end. >> theres a lot of what the president said there that is not true. we will go to nbc news road warrior mariana atencio. shes in houston, texas, talking with voters. what are they saying about all of this, and whats the ethnic makeup...

Doesnt own any dark suits. so in walks sean spicer with a dark suit for the the first time. is this how the president communicates with his national spokesman? why didnt he call him and say wear a dark suit tomorrow. >> either way sean certainly got the message. you could see he changed the color, the cut -- >> flashy tie. >> he looked a lot better in donald trumps eyes, i think. >> hes leaking the fact he doesnt like the guys looks. this is like hes casting miss universe again. >> what about th...

Wrote, sam, ive seen some great work trying to get at where trump voters come from, and the wing of the gop they represent. this was the year whites became an interest group and not the overwhelming group by default and it is the details of polls that told us about it. what does that mean? >> if you look at white voters. you can start seeing divisions even among white voters so its something like white nationalists, which have always been to some extent, pretty quick, and have come to the forefr...

Wait ones turn? >> weve seen this a million times. its not the best thing in the world, but its happened a mill i dont know times. you can handle it with decidedly more grace. so i think tonights exchange is going to work out really well for him. >> it all depends on tonights perspective. if you read what people are saying about it, he should have waited his turn. hes out of line. but his panic voters might have seen it differently. >> weve seen a lot of aggressive voters who dont wait their tur...

Citizens, they are likely to vote democratic and thats going to be a bad thing for the republican party. >> clearly this is how they think. he brought that whole idea up. no one on the left was saying this. he came up with this idea its all about voting so you get a lens into how hes seeing the issue. right after 2012 when mitt romney lost, the republican party knew they had a problem. they lost the hispanic vote by 40 points. we all know theres this autopsy report that said, what did we do wron...

A bill even on border security in the house. thats what republicans are saying. well, we need to do that first. well, theyre not doing it first. they could bring up a separate bill. so there has to just be will on the part of the house republican leadership to even do things their way and see what happens. so i dont think its going to happen any time soon. >> the president, beth, is set to travel to mexico this wednesday. hes going there for an economic summit. at a time that his own immigration...

On the ground, and i believe theres definitely a lot of movement on the ground and also in the congress. i think that theres some hope that something will come out. we dont know exactly what it will look like. we dont know how difficult its going to be for people to be able to get the citizenship, but we know that something is definitely happening. >> whats so striking to me about those images is if you compare to the fight of affordable care act or mccain/kennedy, there was a massive countermob...

Strong midterm force. so when the incumbent party does tend to lose, it may be the right short-term positioning. but that goes to your point, which is if the long-term concern is that they run these nominees, and they cant put together a winning coalition and then all they do is turn around and sort of covet the support and the short-term strategy of the tea party and a couple districts, then they are not thinking long-term. >> if theres one ray of hope on what is increasingly a dark cloud, its ...

And candidate romney and the primary dug the hole deeper. >> a death spiral with his panic voters. i dont think they can undersell the gravity of the problem they have with hispanics. but how do you reconcile the principles that will continue to move the party forward and a comprehensive immigration policy? >> i think its going to be tough to do. lindsey graham has been someone who has been pushing immigration reform within the republican party. but to your point, when i was running for congress...

Holder was right. its because he was a surrogate, a proxy for barack obama. an argument that hes fighting for all americans is real. joe biden touched on that in his remarks. id point out that romney ignored it entirely. >> this is aimed much more at his panic voters than african-americans. >> absolutely. >> and in florida they make it very clear this is a resonating issue and they need to minimize the turnout of minority voters. >> in texas, for instance, there have been 70 vote fraud cases sin...