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Proposes no changes to family-based legal migration and no changes to the visa lottery programs, two things the white house definitely wants. the president is not happy with this, a deal without a wall is a total waste of time. joining the panel here is managing director of hamilton play strategies and former senior adviser, and nick and nancy here as well. the white house is telling our unit, our team here at nbc, this is a non-starter, worse than the graham-durbin plan. this is going nowhere. ...

All groups of people if it comes out. the reaction is over the top. he wasnt saying vile racist things repeatedly. he was talking about the visa lottery programs. the proposal on the table was to continue that program at least in part in a different form. and the presidents position, tom cottons position, the position of immigration restrict igs is that we should move away on countries of origin and go to merit of system. what matters is your educational attainment and your skills. >> the exampl...

States hold two-thirds of the land of the border. heather: overwhelming people do agree that something needs to be done about immigration, so democrats and republicans. >> well, donald trump made a deal with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi in september and excluded a wall and now turned around and said, actually, that was a bad deal, i want to make this deal instead. so, you know, the president may get golf course but you dont get do-over on a deal like this >> clearly, an element is protecting o...

System to that of canada. he was basically saying, shep, that we dont know who were letting into this country through these visa lottery programs, particularly the diversity visa lottery program and that that needs to be tightened up. its basically just, you know, an underpinning for the presidents claims that we need to reform the system of legal immigration and change it from a family-based system to merit based. >> shepard: that -- they can do that if they want to do that, but this suggestion...

Security and ending visa lottery programs saying the democrats face a stark choice. listen. >> president trump: the democrats choose to filibuster a framework that includes a generous path to citizenship or something that is not fair, we are not going to approve it. we are not going to approve it. well either have something that is fair and equitable and good and secure or we will have nothing at all. >> that same speech the president accusing democrats of doing nothing to move the ball down the...