both sides, which is a favorite phrase in the beltway. everyone says it. i'm not sure what it means at this point. >> sure. >> i want to read a little of an nbc news report. this is from february 15th, 2016. it is about the death of the gang of 8 bill. it opens as follows. marco rubio on monday insisted the immigration reform bill he helped spearhead through the senate was never intended to become law and that the authors of the bill expected conservatives in the house to, quote, make it even better. quote, the senate immigration law was not headed toward becoming law, he told a questioner at a town hall in rock hill, south dakota. ideally, it was headed for the house, where conservative members of the house were going to make it even better. rubio added the legislation he helped make was the best we could do, given the fact of who was running the senate at the time. noting democrats were in control, but it was never going to go from there to the president's desk. so he wrote a bill that he