group, brit hume, robert costa of the washington post, kimberly strassel from the washington street journal and walt whit. on one hand, we have the civil liberties folks and the intelligence folks. i think the intelligence folks should be happy. he trimmed the program at the edges, he did not dismaple it or propose to dismaple it. he does have the idea of moving all this metadata to some other site. it s not clear he can pull that off because nobody knows where to put it, the phone companies don t want it, but the program remains intact and the president believes in the program and i think what he did was as little as he thought he could get away with politically. he felt he had to do something because the objections par
compromise immigration proposal. word coming this weekend that an agreement is near. we ll ask senators schumer and flake about that. first, i want to go around quickly with our first of two political roundtables to frame what s at stake in these debates. joining us the former senior adviser to president barack obama, david axelrod. former congressman and chairman of the national republican campaign committee, former virginia james davis, peggy noonan of the washington street journal. welcome all. we ll talk about two hours of show into one hour. david axelrod on immigration, a lot of republicans don t believe the president wants to sign immigration bill this year. they believe he wants the politics, he wants the political issue because it s been so successful for democrats. i understand their paranoia because it was a terribly difficult issue for them and continues to be. he wants this accomplishment. this is a legacy item for him. there is no doubt in my mind he wants to pass compr
we have two key members of the so-called bipartisan gang of eight, senators working on a compromise immigration proposal. word coming this weekend that an agreement is near. we ll ask senators schumer and flake about has in just a moment. first, i want to go around quickly with our first of two political roundtables to frame what s at stake in these debates. joining us the former senior adviser to president barack obama, david axelrod. former congressman and chair of the national republican campaign committee, former virginia james davis, peggy noonan of the washington street journal. jeanne, welcome to all. we ll talk about two hours of show into one hour. david axelrod, on immigration, a lot of republicans don t believe the president wants to sign immigration bill this year. they believe that he wants the politics, he wants the political issue, because it s been so successful for democrats. i understand their paranoia because it was a terribly difficult issue for them and continues
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the buck stops with the people who make the laws in the country. the president seems defiant amid the backlash punched back earlier today. deebating from prepared remarks, he delivered a campaign style speech. people that come in, violate the law, endanger their children in the process. and frankly, they endanger all of our children. when you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally, which should happen, you have to take the children away. according to west now, the president sees immigration as a winning issue for him politically. complaining repeatedly in recent months he looks weak on border enforcement and has been concerned that his base could turn on him for not being tougher. west wing sources now tell axios president trump has shown il indication they ll climb down from the zero tolerance border policy. the board of the washington