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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...

But i will say that weve got to get a system that actually works, kasie. you know that for decades under republican and democrat administrations we failed to deal with this. i feel were like at the threshold of finally being able to address it. if we can get a bipartisan agreement before the president im sure hell sign it. >> up mentioned this bipartisan agreement. the president tweeted earlier today daca is probably dead because democrats dont really want it they just want to talk and take desp...

They are asking for an explanation from the president, right? >> thats right. this controversy of the presidents remarks on africans, haitians and others has conditioned to steam roll in the african continent. this is a huge headache. the government is hauling in the head of the embassy here in south africa for what can only be seen as a dressing down to explain the statements of the president in light of the outrage that spread throughout the continent. just ordinary citizens online and on the ...

Best here with high tax rates, a lot of rules and regulations and as you pull that away and make businesses feel better about what they are doing you will see a lot more businesses stay here and a lot of businesses come back here that used to be here and we are starting to see that right now. eric: finally, the petrie asian overseas has lowered the threshold in the have not made a lot of announcements as far as i know about that. you expect theyll bring the money back? >> i suspect there will be...

What is happening if the president decides to pull out? do you think that he will? >> i talked to a high government official today, who is clearly in the know. and he said, if the president is trying to get congress to make some changes to the deal. and here is what they are really focused on. number one, the so-called sunset clause, which permits iran to have a nuclear threshold capability short of a weapon in ten years and in 15 years and actual nuclear weapon. the deal permits that. stop that...

Together. what is happening if the president decides to pull out? do you think that he will? >> i talked to a high government official today, who is clearly in the know. and he said, if the president is trying to get congress to make some changes to the deal. and here is what they are really focused on. number one, the so-called sunset clause, which permits iran to have a nuclear threshold capability short of a weapon in ten years and in 15 years and actual nuclear weapon. the deal permits that....

The floor after the procedural vote it doesnt constitute a filibuster but a really long speech. >> this has been a bipartisan bill. republican and democrats out of the house supported it. i imagine they would have the 60 vote threshold with both parties to pass the bill. >> sandra: there is no evidence that officials have abused section 702 and there is multi-laird oversight that includes top officials congress and fisa judges. the danger is that a left/right -- that led to the failure to detect...

Collusion. there is no collusion. they have no collusion. nobodys found any collusion. >> ending with the arms folded in front of him. he sure is protesting. >> yeah. look, i think he is. and i think that what were not hearing him talking about is other things. were not hearing thhim say and there was no obstruction. and there was, and so we dont know, we dont know what mueller is saying. maybe mueller will say theres no collusion. we have no idea. what we dont know and i think this is really im...

Negotiations as to the parameters, the nature of the questions, the form that they testify in. bill clinton for example worked out a deal rather than go to the courthouse. he did his grand jury in front of the, without counsel. no, excuse me, he got counsel. but he did it on a closed circuit. nixon later appeared in front of a grand jury after he left office and that was done as a deposition. it was read to the grand jury. so there are all kinds of options and i think thats what hes playing for....