dialogue that the republicans are trying to soften, if you will. >> i think a lot of rhetoric is very incendiary. it makes a lot of hispanic-americans, many of whom are first or second or third generation americans, feel like they're not part of america, they're not accepted as part of the american family. and so i don't think they've done themselves any favors in that way. i also think that what you see is republicans trying to attack the president from the right in saying that he hasn't secured the border when we know that he has, but also trying to attack him from the left by saying that he he's deported more people than any president. so they're essentially trying to have it both ways. think all of that gets jumbled up and their message gets lost. >> paul ryan yesterday was talking about irish immigration in the 1850s and talking about the american idea of the melting pot, and then at the same time the house is passing a measure to block president obama@executive order to allow dreamers, the children of ill --