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Statistics that a number of women are saying they're being assaulted. a number of people are saying they're being assaulted. the number of children and family units that our customs and border patrol are being asked to absorb is overwhelming the system. we have a congress that failed to close a loophole. they could close the loophole and not close the border. sandra: it sounds like there's room for compromise on the part of president trump. when i hear language from you, rather than talking about a fence or other border measures, john kellly was interviewed by the l.a. times and made a bit of ...

U.s.-mexico border. what makes her position so tenuous at this point. >> the president is one happy that she's not moving aggressively enough to institute his draconian figures of shutting down the border. the problem is there are these things called laws she has to follow. she's been trying to explain that to him. she's by no means a moderate on border issues. these guys have been enacted some of the toughest border measures in our history. it's not enough for president trump. this is an issue with john kelley. john kelley brought her in a and she was his deputy. if she goes it looks like kel...

>> i don't believe it has. this whole notion of accommodating the doo.r.e.a.m.e along with responsible border measures cleaning up the visa rot loath ri program and dealing with some of the family migration issues, it's part of the graham durbin bill. it goes further than i thought many democrats would be willing to go. i think has republicans we ought to seize this opportunity and deal with it as part of either as a stand alone measure or as part of a budget agreement. i'm not saying it's part of the continuing resolution at the end of this week, but it's part of a broader budget agreement we...

And so what democrats are doing is that they are doing this in as much of a good faith as they can. they have always supported increased border security measures. yes, they supported billions of dollars in the past getting an immigration bill because it did have increased border security measures. it was not a wall. but here is my -- here is my -- >> they did vote for a wall it was a separate piece of legislation. >> here is my -- >> hold on, jack! >> here is my recommendation to the democrats if jack did zip it for a moment. is that they -- is that they accept -- increase border measures. let...

Senate and you've got a deal. now it's incredible to me that out of 49 democrats, that there aren't 9 of them that will compromise enough to say, here is a good proposal. the president will sign it. i can tell you equal branch of government, if the house and the senate, democrats and republicans, get together and agree on something, i would predict -- i would bet -- give you odds 10-1 the president will sign them. >> maria, finish it up. >> democrats have said time and again that they are willing to accept increased border measures. so let's do that. but, jack, you brought up something that th...