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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...

Now, the media hasnt really reported that. certainly not the liberal media. but that happened. in the meantime, they agreed to provide money for fencing but they didnt -- they were not willing to negotiate with the president on daca and on tps. and we could have gotten a temporary fix for it daca or piece recipients and tps beneficiaries. >> harris: i want to lean on your expertise. and your culture perspective on this as well. is this an emergency or not? >> it is an emergency. look -- has bord...

For a while. ive seen three government shutdowns. we have to for once and for all say, you cant get petulant as a president, as a senator or congressman and say if you dont repeal the affordable care act im shutting down the government, if you dont give me my wall, im shutting down the government. there will be democrats who if the president succeeds some day, maybe soon, say, well, that looks like a pretty good weapon. im going to use it too and thats just not the way we should run a government...

>> give me one fundamental thing, is it daca, whats the fundamental thing that must be in a bill? >> the best way we could go and hope that the president would agree to is comprehensive immigration reform, where we address the whole package of reforms. we have always said, all of us together will go -- the daca situation, the dreamers that became such an urgent matter and still is, that we separated that out and that would be a part of it. but if you have comprehensive immigration reform where y...

And every new generation of immigrants is a revitalization of america. making america more america. >> give me one fundamental thing, is it daca, whats the fundamental thing that must be in a bill? >> the best way we could go and hope that the president would agree to is comprehensive immigration reform, where we address the whole package of reforms. we have always said, all of us together will go -- the daca situation, the dreamers that became such an urgent matter and still is, that we separat...

In this administration. as a result of a lot of factors, id say weve never seen a republican majority on capitol hill less free pair prepared to the shadow of donald trump either. >> thats a key point. we cant do anything. you mentioned daca quite correctly. theres a congress that could legislate about this. trad trade. 232 of the trade act. congress passed. congress can revise this, congress can say no. >> why dont they do anything. >> theyd have to have the appetite to wrestle back control. >>...

Real-world implications. look what we hid it daca, comes out and said were going to protect these dreamers, gets a deal, back tracks on it. there are 800,000 young people whose lives hang in the balance. its one thing to talk about chaos behind the doors of the whou white house, whats happening there, another thing to talk about the fact there are real people hurting because of this chaos. >> to underscore that, there are real people behind all -- thats my point on russia. there are real people ...

Basically slashes our current immigration levels in half and brings us back closer to levels of the 1920s. what we need is a smart policy to recognize what is it the future immigration flows, what is the mixed skill labors that this country needs and not trying to pit daca recipients here legally because they came out of the shadows, have them pit themselves against the rest of the immigrants in, some cases their own parents. >> the line that will get pored over most in the speech is when trump ...

Numbers of distant relatives. under our plan, we focus on the immediate family by limiting sponsorships to spouses and minor children. >> some democrats took to twitter to criticize the president including arizona congressman ruben gallego who obviously tweeted trump blata blatantly lies. he has zero understanding how this works. joining us now senator jeff merkley from oregon and leonardo reyes a daca recipient. he also attended the state of the union as senator merkleys guest. thanks to you bo...

What hes doing with the lgbtq community, the muslim ban, what hes doing with repealing tps and daca. all of those things actually play and affect his approval numbers. if we go back to even november, if you look at virginia and alabama and some of the other races that we saw last year, there was -- there was an energy there that we were all shocked that was there. it was like that resistance was electrolized and very much a referendum on trump that we saw in alabama in many particular and in vir...