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A diversity visa program going. >> this president called this out last year. i give him high marcus. he talked about it today. we want to go to a merit based immigration system. this diversity lottery is a fraud. it has social security fraud. worse 30% go to countries that harbor and promote terrorism. the largest recipient country for these visas, the third larger is iran. >> laura: who are the big champions? >> the left, they want diversity. >> laura: the businesses? >> no, this is all about a...

Lottery program on terminating it, getting rid of it. >> the president calling for an end to the diversity visa lottery program, a program that allowed the new york city terror suspect to gain entry into the u.s. in 2010, and demanding congress get tougher on vetting for immigrants coming to the u.s., shifting it away from a family-based toward a merit-based. >> we have to get much less politically correct. we are so politically correct we are afraid to do anything. >> and the president blaming ...

Because if thats who they are, and they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of new york. thats not who new yorkers are. >> sean: wait a minute, im pro-life, i believe in the second amendment, its clear what our founders and framers want and governor cuomo, im the one that is saying that maybe if you come from a country that kills people for who they are, being gay and lesbian.ar they are being thrown off buildings, people with those values want to come here to america....

Axe for public diplomacy, his attack from the vetsing program. start from the beginning, what exactly was he talking about? >> well this visa lottery program that was passed in i believe 1990, signed by george bush, a bipartisan program to bring in visa holders from countries that traditionally didnt get a lot of immigration into the united states. it was meant for fairness, it came from this idea we are a country of immigrants and that there ought to be a fairness and balance where people come ...

About? >> i got to look to see exactly what mr. schumer is talking about. what does need to happen, and the president talked about this, senator cotton and purdue have this bill. we need to change this lottery visa program which is how this terrorist got in our country. that leads to change. thats one of the key elments of senator cottons legislation. the presidents endorsed that. i feel like its the right kind of legislation to pass. i think its good legislation. the american people agree with ...

Now the president vowing hes going to finish the job. >> sandra: thank you. ed henry at the white house coming here with moore, bill bennett is host of the bill bennett podcast and a fox news contributor. thank you for joining us tonight. what about that? jeff flake coming to chuck schumers defense if there after the presidents tweet: chuck schumer beauty, and the diversity visa program that this terrorist was allowed to enter this program back in 2010 on. he was saying the gang of eight includi...

Schumer? >> what would you have liked to see the president do after the tweet about schumer? >> express some solidarity for those of us who are trying to fix the situation. we shouldnt look for blame one day after something like this. >> how is the senate likely to respond? >> reporter: well, andrea, this is something that -- you mentioned, i think, earlier in your read that is something both parties agreed to end in the immigration overhaul in 2013. that was a compromise. that, of course, did n...

Bush. important note back in 2013 as part of the gang of eight reform measure, senator schumer sponsored a bill to eliminate the program. a fact pointed out by arizona senator jeff flake who tweeted this. the gang of eight including senator schumer did away with the diversity visa program as part of broader reforms. i know i was there. he added this. "in fact, had the senate gang of eight bill passed the house, it would have ended the visa lottery program and increased merit based visas." the bi...

States from a visa program. heres the program just moments ago from the cabinet room. >>in am today, starting the process of terminating the diversity lottery program. i am going to ask congress to immediately initiate work to get rid of this program. we want a merit base program. where people come in based on merit. and we want to get rid of chain migration. we are stopped by democrats because they are obstructionist and honestly dont want to do what is right for the country. >> harris: the pre...

Send him to gitmo. i would certainly consider that, yes. >> it was a similar tone to the one the president struck this morning on twitter. there he used the attack as a bludgeon against this countrys immigration laws as well as new yorks chuck schumer, democratic leader in the senate. well have more on what senator schumer said was the presidents decision to, quote, politicize a tragedy. first, eight people dead, 12 hurt. investigators now trying to piece together the background of the 29-year-o...