With Lieutenant Governor kevin bryant discusses key Public Policy issues in South Carolina. Washington journal is live now. Host good morning. President trump arrived in this, switzerland Early Morning the before he left washington, president made plenty of news during an. Promptu press gaggle the president said that he appeared at bolster the efforts lookingartisan group for a tough stance against ilLegal Immigration. This morning on the washington journal, we want to know what you think. Democrats, 202 7488000, republicans 202 7488001, independents 202 7488003, and a , andendents 202 7488002 for recent immigrants legal or. Therwise 202 7488003 here is the headline in the washington journal, President Trump blocks passway for immigrants. Backs citizens for passway. Here is the president s comments during that impromptu press gaggle. [video clip] we want to do a great job with daca. It is going to happen at some point. Of 10 to 12 years. Whether they have a Little Company on whether they work, if they do a great job it is a nice thing to have an incentive years of becoming a citizen. Are you going to protect them and expand the deadline . Yeah. Chain migration, we are working on creating a standard that not everybody you ever met can come into the country and you will wives and husbands, and , and parentshters from tricky situations because they came earlier. Continuing with the washington journal, the comments marked the latest of shifting statements and they prompted Immediate Reaction on capitol hill. One from congressman steve king who is taken a hard line on immigration, even legalizing is amnestycipients because they are granting them a pardon for the immigrationlaw violations it is problematic. Go , heres other tweets republican senator tom cotton from arkansas talking about the headline in reuters about President Trump, President Trump and i and most republicans have said for months, its must be done responsibly, guaranteeing a secure and lawful border and ending chain migration, to mitigate the negative side effects of codifying daca. This statement represents president ial leadership on immigration that will allow us to solve a difficult problem. I truly appreciate President Trump making it clear that he supports a path to citizenship for daca citizenship. We are on to say that working to modernize a broken immigration system. I have never felt better about our chances of finding a solution to immigration. President obama tried and could not fix immigration, i believe the President Trump can. Statement, with the here on track we are on track to solving the immigration problem which is the political heat to rebuilding our military. Here is a democrat from minnesota saying, the headline should read, today trump says he supports a path to citizenship for dreamers. Will take you through more reaction from capitol hill and at thepromptu gaggle white house. We want to hear from you. Democrats 202 7488000, republicans 202 7488001, andendents 202 7488002 that recent line for immigrants legal or otherwise 202 7488003. Mike is up from houston, texas, and independent. Caller well have to do some modification otherwise we will never get immigration. Would be toion allow the governors to have a say so to break a filibuster. If you get 30 governors to say, ore filibuster host what should that immigration legislation be . Caller if you let the governors have say over the senators which originally they had at the beginning of our country, the governors would put an end to it. Host give up stan do you you have a stance on pathway to citizenship . Caller that is our system. , go ahead. Caller anybody that is not white and blue eyed can stay in this country. Nts the el salvador ian el salvadorians to go. We have a doctor in the midwest who has been here for 30 years, and he is trying to the po deport him. Again,s time and time trump wants United States blueeyed and white. Just like he said yesterday, i the day dacas and then before yesterday, they have got to go. Host jean, texas. The lines for republican. Are you with us . Were going to patrick in florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. Passave to define the word because he set up the 10 to 12 years. I have simple ways to cut down on ilLegal Immigration. Cspan it never mentions we are the last country that you can still buy those untraceable cell phones who do you think is using those . You think illegal aliens walking into walmart and buying a cell phone . All checks are electronically transferred into a bank account so you cannot to work illegally and take your check and go to the checkcashing store. Hereillegal aliens come and overstay their visa make all of the people who get a visa , you think they are going to walk away from 1 million . No more International Money transfer is. Bank account to bring account. You basically have to be bank. Count to bank account you basically have to be legal. Winners going to bring out your god squad when are you going to bring out your god squad. We talking about President Trump making a pathway for dreamers in the next 10 to 12 months. Plenty to talk about including later, we are continuing our 50 capital tour. Is in columbia, South Carolina. Will be speaking with Lieutenant Governor bryant there. That is happening at 9 30 so stick around for that discussion. This discussion on President Trumps comments are happening. Mabel in louisiana. Line for democrats. Thank you for taking my call. , they should be allowed to stay. Determine ifws to they are going to be a part of that program anyway. They are not criminals and they could not have committed felonies and they are part of our military, our business community, they educate children , firemen,sponders policemen they are a part of our fabric that make up this country. America is about an idea. We tell people, you work hard, you do things, you follow the law they have done this. A part ofy cannot be this country when they have been a part of this country for all the these years since they were brought over as children and ,heyd know no other country and we think to put ourselves in a position, we should be more understanding. All of us the only people who did not come over here were the native americans. For us to feel like we should pathwayw them to have a to full citizenship, that is unthinkable to me. Host to adam, one for republicans from pennsylvania. i would like to respond to the previous caller. For her to suggest that because we inherited this land from native americans and the atrocities that we should not and have anders open border policy is absolutely ridiculous. I wanted to respond to your article they started off the , and acted like this is the first time that trump acted like he was for daca. He said that on the campaign trail, even though people did not want to see that on both sides. He repeated it again at the meeting with leadership last week. He has tweeted it out about it other times. People are upset about with the s the wall street journal reporting that this is the first time him saying publicly that he supports a pathway to citizenship for those dreamers as president. Caller i think he has tweeted about it since president elect any talked about on the campaign trail. Take that for what it is that is fake news, both sides can scream. Assume the democrats appear not to get this. 1986. Y happened in is, hey,blicans want these kids went to our schools to their took one step country and maybe have a pathway here but what do they want . They want security. They want the wall appropriated. That is the important part. Trump laid out more clearly, he is willing. He wants the wall. Is a tradeoff and he wants to end chain migration. He is even willing to bend on that and say immediate family units can come in but not this never ending tree branch of a chain but the family unit can come here. It is not this whacked out thing. Host all cspan viewers can go and listen to the president s statements at that gaggle of reporters that gathered in his chief of staffs office at cspan. Org. Comments onts dreamers are not the only news that he made in that impromptu press gathering. Story ande lead Washington Post, President Trump offering to talk to Robert Mueller willing to give sworn testimony in his Ongoing Investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. Here is President Trump from that press gaggle on Robert Mueller. [video clip] pres. Trump no collusion whatsoever. There is no instruction whatsoever. I do worry about all of the things that you report about with what is happening. Five months worth of missing texts. That is a lot of texts. You look at that and say what is going on. I would love it to do that and do it as soon as possible. I would story love to do it. Say, would you do it under oath, mr. President . Pres. Trump you mean like hillary did under oath . I think you have an idea. Do you not have an idea . An idea she did not do it under oath. I would do it. And you know she did not do it under oath. You did not know about everything. You will do it under oath . Pres. Trump i will do it under oath. Talking are going to be more about the Mueller Investigation and are 8 00 hour and we are going to be joined by a National Political reporter from the Associated Press. Aboutl talk more political bias in the Justice Department. Join us for that discussion at 8 00. We are going to stay to this topic of the president backing a to citizenship for dreamers for the next 45 minutes here on the washington journal. Phone lines for democrats, republicans, independents, and , legal or otherwise 202 7488003. Gina, go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. All of this reminds me of watching the xmen movies with my grandchildren. Treat the aliens on those movies just because they are different, and aliens end up s. Ing the heroe what are we saying to the younger kids that enjoy aliens . I do not understand. We are going to get through this together. Trump is going to do his worst and we will survive. Host jean, texas. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am very disappointed and trumpet that he caved into the democrats and let them blackmail him into this. I am very disappointed in caved into the democrats and let them blackmail him into this. I may be wrong, but i thought there was a proposal that the republicans had that they could stay but not good citizenship. The democrats had their little hissy fit and had to have their way, so i am disappointed. Do you think that is a fair way of dealing with this but not u. S. Citizenship for those illegal immigrant dreamers . Caller yes. I think there is a fairer way. Citizens or dom not make them citizens and people are up in arms over that. That would be a way to get them to stay and not have to go back to the country they do not know. They would also have a way to work here and live here and not have to be in fear all the time. One tweet, enough is enough. Lets stop the daca program and marge. That in march. There are thousands upon thousands here and now and we have enough. On , it isrump protecting some 690,000 dreamers. That contradicts his Justice Department and Homeland Security secretary who have told congress and the federal courts that daca is illegal and cannot be maintained or extended. Mr. Trumps argument could undercut the just apartment. The Justice Department. Arthur, go ahead. Dacar the only way to fix is to impeach trump because he is nothing but a big liar. Host to joe in maryland. Ler yes, good morning. The federal government is trying to treat the symptoms versus the problem. Why do the immigrants come to the country illegally . Host why do you think . Caller for a job, right . So why not increase the penalties are against employers that hire and make it so painful that it will not hire Illegal Immigrants. Large hotel chains, large golf course, the Service Industry make it so painful. Hotel faceda large criminal charges over illegal aliens, you may see a change. County, lineorange for democrats. Caller i entirely agree with the previous caller. We ignore the fact that employers hired these illegals. Are not illegals. Many of them, their parents came amnesty and these are the children who have grown up as american citizens except for the fact that they do not have citizenship. We have to separate that from the argument. There is nobody blackmailing anyone. The Justice Department says one thing and President Trump says another. A clear outline has to be the details by the senate, the house, and the president. They have to sit down and agree and hopefully, the better angle in all of us the better angel in all of us prevails. Until we stop with words like impeaching, nothing is ever going to get settled. Yes, go after employers. Immigrants, they should be deported. Is not any of these, they are unique and we need a unique solution. If they serve and are honorably discharged from our military, they should absolutely become full citizens. James writes and, without a border wall, we will have the same problem over and over. A few more reaction from capitol hill, jeff flake, republican of , stating the headline on saying,idents comments this is a good move, mr. President. From tennessee, to encouraging signs today, first president comments and his decision to send her commend asians to congress and then a bipartisan gathering to send and inision to congress a bipartisan gathering of senators and the Armed Services hearing room to ask senators to manage a process to help us get toward a solution before february 8. They have senators gathering Late Wednesday to see how the chamber will proceed on the immigration debate. The republicans and democrats serve as ators clearinghouse of sorts. Senator susan collins, joe they cochaired meetings in attempt to end of impasse and will continue posting meanings on the subject in the coming days. Landon, what do you make of the president s path to citizenship . Caller i agree with President Trump. Took me a long time to ag say President Trump. Of old peoplery and we need all the young people we can get. These young people are very good said,ns because some guy they came here illegally. They are not criminals, they were just kids when they got here. They had the decency enough to join the daca program. If they were doing something wrong, they would have not even gotten with the program. He said that mexico would pay for the wall. I have come to the conclusion that mexico itself is losing very young people. Mexico is not a bad place, they have Many American companies down there. Mexico has a southern border that leads down to the panama canal and south america. In south america are trying to get through mexico and get to america. Mexico is losing to their young people and we are a country of old men and old women. A few years ago, there was a policy of one child per family china a few years ago had a policy of one child per family. China is struggling because they are a country of old people. Sandra, go ahead. Caller good morning. I hope you do not to hang up ive called him twice and they hang up on me right away. I have got a few statements. I watched the spanish news. Thee more protected th dacas are more protected by a lot of other organizations and american citizens, we cannot even get our point of view. We cannot be out there marching. We would be mowed down. Host by who . Caller by the ones who are for daca. If we went out and tried to march and say no, we do not want daca. If you areinst more liberal, you could shout it out. You are afraid to say anything. They have got a of people fighting for them. Senators, religious people, people like the aclu. A lot of charities and people fighting for them and all we have is our is our senators. Flake. Tor csucks mccain and flake are more for daca then american citizens. They can go to Freedom College in alabama. It is only for undocumented i saw this on the spanish news. Host what do you make of the president s comments yesterday, sandra . Caller i do not agree with him. They should not get citizenship. I believe they can get her minutes they can get permanent residents. Residence. They should wait at least 20 years. A lot of people have been waiting patiently in another country. Why 20 yearsars versus 10 to 12 like the president said . Caller i was getting to that point. People in the news their family members have been waiting 10 years to get here legally. The effort just to get here. Once they get here and you get permanent residence, you have to be permanent for five years before you can apply for citizenship. Already,y are here they say they are working, paying taxes good. American citizens already paid for their education. They should start giving back. Host that is sandra in arizona on this issue of Illegal Immigrants in the United States. Another story from yesterday, the Justice Department on wednesday escalated its attempt on jurisdictions. 23 states, cities, and other localities have policies the department suspects may be lawfully unlawfully interfering with immigration in those cities. Here is President Trump talking about an effort to cracking down on sanctuary cities. [video clip] President Trump as you know, the department of justice is h