Page 488 - Schumer News Today

Discussion that happened yesterday on daca. >> shepard: great momentum. >> schumer is talking positively about it, the republicans talking positively about it, a lot depends on it. the spending bill is in sort of in sort of temporary hold because they want to make traction on daca first. traction was shown yesterday. at least positives that the president can convey. >> shepard: he was doing great with dianne feinstein of california yesterday, the democrat of california, back and forth. give and ...

Schumer. >> i think thats right. all of the attention and the thumb sucking stuff from washington over the last ten years has all been about how the right has moved too far to the right on immigration. and i think if youre talking about places like bright bart, you can make that case. but what always gets left out is the democrats have moved so far to the left on immigration that it really is a two party problem in a lot of ways in terms of finding common ground. remember in 2008, hillary clinto...

Dockca or include comprehensive immigration reform. suggesting to do both is too big a lift. listen here. >> we have a deadline looming and a lot of lives hanging. we can agree on some very fundamental and important things together on border security. on chain. on the future of diversity visas. comprehensive, though, i worked on it for six months. with michael bennett and a number of, bob menendez and schumer and cain and jeff lake. took us six months to put it together. we dont have six months ...

Okay, because youre not that far away. >> many of the things mentioned ought to be a part of the negotiations regarding comprehensive immigration reform. >> if you want to take it a step further. >> im going to have to rely on you. >> you may complicate it and you may delay daca somewhat. >> i dont want to do that. >> no. >> you said at the outette set, need to phase this. i think the first step, we have a deadline at the moment and a lot of lives hanging. we can agree on some very fundamental a...

Reform. >> if you want to take it a step further, ill have to rely on you, you may complicate it, and you may delay daca somewhat. >> i dont want to do that. you said at the outset we need to phase this. i think the first phase is we have a deadline looming and a lot of lives hanging. we can agree on some very fundamental and important things together on border security, on chain, on future of diversity visa, comprehensive though i worked on it for six months, with michael bennett and a number o...

Important things on border security on the future of diversity visas. comprehensive though, i worked on it for six months with michael bennett and bob menendez and schumer and mccain and jeff flake. it took us six months to put it together. we dont have six months for daca. >> we are not talking about that. >> you mentioned a number of factors that will be controversial as was mentioned. >> you are going to negotiate. maybe we will agree and maybe we wont. its possible we are not going to agree ...

Wyoming, we think tremendous, positive impacts this presidents policies. revenues with oil and gas leases on public lands, across the board. whether you are talking about energy or ag production, a president who understands fundamentally that people need to make their own decisions. the government needs to get out of the way. weve already felt in wyoming certainly the impact of the regulatory reform of this administration and we are beginning to see the impact of the tax cuts. weve got to deal w...

Refer to at chain migrations. if you have a family here, easier processes to come and live here in the united states. the white house wants to end that. a huge red flag for many in the democratic base. many latino advocacy groups. i ask mr. schumer if that was a line in the sand. >> look, im not going to negotiate against ourselves, but bottom line is, we believe there should be border security, real border security, and help for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> so as you can see, he wasnt willing to say h...

Democrats leverage. we leverage because they need votes to pass anything. >> thats why schumer is talking about daca now, not waiting till march. theres another meeting going on with lawmakers talking about legislative priorities, shep. >> shepard: and now a key conservative leaders calling for the attorney general to get out. >> thats right. many were furious were the attorney general. mark meadows of north carolina, jim jordan of ohio who have written an op-ed in the washington examiner. they ...

Over this bad drug steve bannon. >> like euphoria after throwing up. feel good for a little while. the nausea comes back. >> the detox will be painful but theyll be better off for this. what we learned today is bannon views himself as bigger than the trump family, bigger than the president and bigger than the office. he viewed trump as a vessel. but when the vessel got out to sea, it got its own mind. it became more like what you would expect a republican vessel to do which bannon hated. why? be...