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Workers do you think will be able to get into this country under this bill with this new amendment? do you have any sort of number? >> so i think the border will be secure. there will be always -- i mean, i think in any country, jake, you have people who make it in through the country. there's all kinds of ways who are have done it. this is focused on the southern border, not on the northern border. but one of the key elements is to improve our legal immigration component. that's one of the reasons we have so many undocumented workers today. people have come here, they want to be here to work ...

That the senate gang of eight, and i will continue to call them gang members, that they stuck together. they were actually able to defeat the worst amendments that had been offered, many amendments actually weren't offered up for a vote and, in fact, we were able to get many affirmative positive amendments through, so i think at the end of the markup, the bill has been mostly unscathed, slightly improved. that said, there are actually a lot of problems in the base bill, as felipe mentioned, for example, the fact that the sibling category has been eliminated, the fact that diversity visas were ...

Flying loose in our society. why wouldn't you want -- i mean, putting mental health aside, we should do it together but we can't apparently in washington. why wouldn't you want a better background check system, a more complete one, or one at least that is better than the one we have? why wouldn't you vote for that? >> the one that we have now they are not implementing and not enforcing. what makes you think they will enforce one that does more checks on more people? i mean, that's my question. and in terms of actually the bipartisan mental health proponent, lamar alexander, conservative. tom h...

2014. arkansas's mark pryor and alaska's mark begich. they voted against moving the vote for. begich explained his vote to nbc. >> i vote what's important for alaska. it's not a party decision, it's not a conservative versus liberal. my issue is that the base bill that's in front of us right now does not show, it has a lot of issues with it. >> gun ownership is highest in rural america, in red america, and in the south. take a look at mark pryor. he represents all three. meanwhile, take a look at a kirk or even pennsylvania's pat toomey, the republicans who have signed on to the background che...

What we would do is we would change that. >> with me now, candy crowley, "state of the union" and our chief political correspondent. both the senators, it also explicitly bans a national firearms registry. a lot of people were fearful that could be created. do you think that's enough to allay the fire fears, to get a for those opposed to gun legislation? >> not all of them, but the nature of a compromise is to pull as many people in from both sides as you can. and i don't think that this compromise would have been put out there with the kind of details that it has in it unless they were pretty...