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>> nothing screams in touch like a hollywood millionaire elitist talking about things. this guy gun control, capitalism and now immigration. is he completely out of touch. steve: dan, after yesterday, those two bills went down in flames. >> yes. steve: nancy pelosi so far even though she cancelled the state of the union, she has not presented a plan to get us off the mark. the president says i'm willing to negotiate with anybody just come with a plan, nobody from the democrat side has done that. i don't think that that's what democrats voted for in november when they wanted people to stand up ...

Barrier, dirt mount, everybody will resist it. jillian: seems like in part the president is compromising a little bit by saying, okay, you don't want full-on concrete wall, we will make a steel barrier, a little bit different, i guess, you can see through it. >> it is, we went from 2,000-mile wall to like 5 billion-dollar, now steel barrier, a lot of compromise going on. rob: yeah, it kind of -- the argument kind of went from being totally immoral and, you know, we should be building bridges instead of walls and then went to democrats want border defense, now back with pelosi at least big immo...

Proving churchill at least half right, we have foolishly ignored immigration reform for years, but today finally we found a coalition of senate democrats and 14 senate republicans who have courageously compromised on a bill, though not perfect, it still spends too much on border defense, opens more opportunity for the high and low-skilled immigrants we need to thrive and give those already here illegally a legitimate pathway to citizenship. yet it appears that brain dead house republicans and their -- margaret? >> pusilanimous. >> thank you. are not looking to do the right thing and pass a sim...

The next vote will be very interesting. the house puts in add-ones in there regarding education and border defense. there's a possibility he could lose a significant amount of democrats on the next war funding bill. remember secretary gates says they need this legislation passed before august or else the military will have to start taking financials out of its day-to-day operations and put it toward the war effort. at the end of the day, i will say if you talk to democrats privately, the patience is wearing thing in regards to the afghanistan war. a throat of folks thought that president obama...

Problematic. there's long standing rules and laws that restrict reprogramming of federally appropriated dollars by a president. what does that mean? the congress sets aside $700 billion for the military. you can't just take part of that and use it for something else that's not military related. others have argued this. the president is the commander in chief. that means well, border defense is part of national security. that falls outside of congress's purview, he can do with the money what he like. i should pass this along here, you remember that tweet back on 25th when he suggested that the ...