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Will herd teamed up with pete aguilar of southern california. it has 54 cosponsors in the house. so senator mccain, a great friend and someone i deeply admire was willing to partner up with me and introduce it. it only focuses on dreamer and border. that's it. >> but if it doesn't have a chance of passing, why put it on the floor for a vote? >> the whole idea of having an open debate is we put out a bill that is the trump agenda that grassley introduced that's very broad and touches on a very wide range of issues. we put out something that's just border, just dreamers. have a debate, take a vo...

Things because of the rivers and mountains. on the other hand, you're not willing to go for the $25 billion but are you willing to go for more than what's included in your proposal? >> absolutely. i think we could and should support several billion in appropriations and come up with a pathway where a ten-year plan presented to us by dhs gets annual appropriations with a trigger. i'm working with a common sense coalition, a group of about two dozen senators, republicans and democrats to come up with a consensus proposal that would allow us to invest in border security while still maintaining a ...

I do think the mccain-coons bill with some commitment to border funding would be an excellent base bill. it meets the two core issues we agree on. the president and others have tried to bring in other issues. think we should turn to those broader issues in phase two of comprehensive immigration reform, clear out the underbrush of all the key unresolved issues that have been held up for months now, appropriations for the department of defense and our domestic priorities, responding to disasters that we still haven't funded, authorizing community health centers and take these two issues on, drea...

Some broader deal is, of course, getting a deal for dreamers, addressing daca, which many senate democrats are pushing for. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said he intends to bring immigration to a floor debate next week as long as the government stays open and funded past the thursday deadline. but what form that is, what is the base of that bill, right now it is very much an open question. lawmakers are throwing up their hands saying we don't even know what that base bill is. so certainly a lot to iron out, very short amount of time. >> sunlen serfaty, thank you. joining me now,...

Democratic co-sponsors, 54 co-sponsors. it's our hope it can be a promising base bill for further discussion in the senate. as you referenced, it calls for the department of homeland security to present a detailed plan for how to achieve operational control of the border by 2020. as an appropriator, i would support the appropriations necessary to accomplish that, but i don't support what president trump is calling for, for us to hand over $25 billion without any on going oversight by congress. >> you would give -- and you know this is a negotiation, he gets something, you get something. you ar...