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Script. the democrats had begun with the compassion agenda. and it hasn't worked. if there's disorder at the border, and there is, there's chaos at the border, and there is, people won't be open to your compassionate message until you bring order to the border. so, i looked it up. customs and border patrol the southwest, i'm from texas, my part of the country, u.s. mexico border, peaks in 2013 under barack obama. it actually dropped, personnel at the border dropped and percentage under donald trump, democrats never called him on. why not? finally, i think biden has the ordering right. we have ...

Here to work to make up for jobs that are going wanted and unfilled. will he talk about that today as part of this plan? that's not necessarily skill based. >> right. i think for the temporary worker, because that's not what we are focused on right now. we are looking at that internally, coming up with administrative solutions. those temporary visas aren't focused on the green cards. 1.1 million green cards right now that as we know is a bit of a random selection. again, you have to have a family tie. here we're opening up and providing broader access across the world and being able to attract...

Many critic the called it that. >> that is why i say we need the border security first, and then when you talk about, you know, some type of permanent status, you make sure people go to the back of the line so you don't have amnesty and people will support the package, the border security and the solution because they don't believe it is amnesty. >> could you support the gang of eight bill today, politically? >> i think we have to have a bill that follows the president's four principals, and those are that we have to have border security, which includes some type of barrier. we address daca, a...

This. does this get bigger? does it start to look like gang of eight? >> well, right now we're focused on the border security package and getting the remaining appropriations bills through for the first word. we have a lot of bipartisan agreement on those bills. for the package we could stay more narrowly focused. the pthd says he is willing to have weekly bipartisan meetings at the white house and the republicans have always said if we can get border security done first we will have those decisio discussions. >> i always heard that, border security first, border security first. who decides wh...

You would pay for that? >> there's fencing -- well, there's fencing now at the border. >> yes. >> there's always been fencing at the border. so, some kind of fencing is always part of the equation. the question is whether it's part of a larger common sense approach that is putting border security first. >> but it's like we make jokes about this. are you -- are you -- i mean, i understand there is a lot down there, more than 700 miles of fence and wall and whatever down there, but it sounds like what you're saying is that if i call a wall a fence, you might vote for some. >> well, you have to s...