okay, because you re 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. i m going to have to rely on you. you may complicate it and you may delay daca somewhat. i don t 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 and important things together on border security. comprehensi comprehensive, though. i worked on it for six months with michael bennett and a number bob menendez and schumer and mccain and jeff flake and it took us six months to put it together. we don t have six months for the daca look at the bill on the well, you mention add number of factors that are going to be controversial, as steny mentioned.
conservatives. kacie hunt just talked to mark meadows who said we re not doing this as a two-pronged approach. you can t split daca and border security. even if you don t split that, it was fascinating to listen to the president negotiate in real time there and arguably negotiate away some of his own priorities. in that 55 minutes, you did not hear a lot of talk about the wall. you heard it mention there at the very end. this has been a big sticking point for democrats. there you heard the president say doesn t actually have to be 2000 miles. doesn t have to go sea to shining sea. there are some parts of it that maybe just need to be fixed. almost negotiating away the position that the wall has to be a huge part of this. he said several times earlier in this that i made note of, which ill sign what you agree to. this is a president who wants to hear and see a deal get closed, that he can put his stamp on. if i m a legislator in either party, that s a big opportunity. so you heard him s
without additional wall. you would not support what senator feinstein no, i think a clean daca bill to me is the daca bill where we take care of the 800,000 people, they re actually not necessarily young people. everybody talks about young. they could be 40 years old. but they re also 16 years old. but i think to me a clean bill is a bill of daca. we take care of them. and we also take care of security. that s a very important and i think the democrats want security too. i mean, we started off with steny saying we want security also. everybody wants security. and then we can go to comprehensive later on and maybe that is a longer subject and a bigger subject and i think we can get that done too. but we ll get it done at a later date. yes, ma am, go ahead. mr. president, as the only immigrant serving in the united states senate right now, i would like nothing better than for us to get to comprehensive immigration reform, but what i m hearing around the table right
on the radio. to my democratic friends, thanks for coming. the resist movement hates this guy. you turn on fox news and i can hear the drum beat coming. are going to beat the crap out of us because it s going to be amnesty all over again. i don t know if the republican party can define love but i think what we can do is do what the american people want us to do. 62% of the trump voters support a pathway to citizenship for the daca kids if you have strong borders. you have created an opportunity here, mr. president, and you need to close the deal. thank you, lindsey. you know, it s very interesting, because i do have people that are let s just use a very common term, very far right and very far left. they re very unhappy about what we re doing. but i really don t believe they have to be. i really think this sells itself. when you talk about comprehensive immigration
but we give the money to other nations. that we have to stop. instead of playing defense on the 1 yard line, if you look this is your material. we know where the stash houses are at. we know where the hotels are at. we know where they cross the river. why stop why play defense on the 1 yard line we re going after them like never before hopeless on daca, we can work on the other thing separately on sensible border security, listen to the folks that are from the border you folks are going to have to hear one voice. you folks are going to have to come up with a solution. if you do, i m going to sign that solution. we have a lot of smart people in this room. really smart people. a lot of people who are good people, big hearts, they want to get it done. i think almost everybody i can think of one or two i don t particularly like but that s okay. no, i think everybody everybody wants i m trying to figure that out. everybody wants a solution.