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Because we want that? >> also its important to understand the context. syria and iraq, in syria that christians are down about two-thirds now according to church reports. in iraq its over 80% that they have plummeted since the beginning of the century because of isis and because of conflict. >> tucker: i assume we are letting a lot of syrian christians into this country? >> wrong. obama along with the expanded refugee program, the u.n. hcr let in or referred to us 1% of the refugees for christia...

Because we want that? >> also its important to understand the context. syria and iraq, in syria that christians are down about two-thirds now according to church reports. in iraq its over 80% that they have plummeted since the beginning of the century because of isis and because of conflict. >> tucker: i assume we are letting a lot of syrian christians into this country? >> wrong. obama along with the expanded refugee program, the u.n. hcr let in or referred to us 1% of the refugees for christia...

Action taking place, he acts and this is the second time hes done that. paul, youll know this quite well, we can look back at president clinton and how he horribly botched -- not even botched, just didnt intercede when it came to the genocide going on in rwanda and it came back to haunt him terribly, forcing him to apologize for it. president trump, i believe, does not want to look at humanitarian things like this happening, chemical weapons on these children, seeing those images, and looking at...

Try to find a bill that dick durbin would be happy with in the senate but the other thing that hes been consistent on is bringing in merit based immigration. when you look at merit based immigration, it doesnt have any particular threshold for a country here or there, its all about making sure that we get the brightest and best coming here in addition to our normal refugee program that would reach out for humanitarian purposes. so hes been very consistent on the merit base side of things which w...

President has been very vocal. i actually have been dealing with him on immigration for several weeks, actually several months as weve done that and met with him in the oval office multiple times. one of the things that i find really interesting and its an interesting dichotomy as we look at this particular issue, hes continued to come back to me and asked me to do two things. try to find a bill that dick durbin would be happy with in the senate but the other thing that hes been consistent on is...

Line for them, theyre going to have to pay for it. >> let me play devils advocate, bill. the democrats dont control the house, the senate and the white house, why not offer border wall funding? i mean, who care? >> i think they will. this is a case where the president is somewhat hard to understand tweet, slightly garbled, but there is a deal to be done here and people are talking about it. senator cotton, a pretty hardline guy on immigration and durbin have had conversations about could they pu...

Authorized immigrants. you know, many mixed status families dont feel fully safe in the u.s. and, you know, in the case of haitian immigrants, 59,000 of them have been told by the trump administration that they, you know, have to go back to haiti over, after more than a decade living in the united states. so the feeling of kind of that youre being in the u.s. is conditional has become basically a condition of living as an immigrant in the u.s. >> theres also the refugee program, which they have ...

Close to the u.s., are refugees. so theyve made it very -- theyve kind of conveniently isolated themselves from any of the problems that have given rise to the refugee crisis. and thus said, well, you know, it shouldnt be our job to take people just because theyre suffering elsewhere, which is not what the u.s. has done for the literal, since world war ii history of the global refugee program. >> all right, dara lind, thank you for making time tonight. how a russian troll army infiltrated the ...

Theyve kind of conveniently isolated themselves from any of the problems that have given rise to the refugee crisis. and thus said, well, you know, it shouldnt be our job to take people just because theyre suffering elsewhere, which is not what the u.s. has done for the literal, since world war ii history of the global refugee program. >> all right, dara lind, thank you for making time tonight. how a russian troll army infiltrated the election, but first, thing one and thing two, next.

You know, many mixed status families dont feel fully safe in the u.s. and, you know, in the case of haitian immigrants, 59,000 of them have been told by the trump administration that they, you know, have to go back to haiti over, after more than a decade living in the united states. so the feeling of kind of that youre being in the u.s. is conditional has become basically a condition of living as an immigrant in the u.s. >> theres also the refugee program, which they have effectively reduced to ...