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Position on this issue. and that's something that when he was trying to win in wisconsin, it's the political geography of the place is different than the republican nominating fight. he's saying you know what my the republican nomination fight, and he's saying my position is different now than it was then. however, this isn't something somebody like scott walker wants to be focused on solely in the context of this fight. he's certainly willing to say, we need to deal with border security first. with someone like donald trump bringing this so far into the forefront, it's just not somewhere peop...

I think when you hear in the days after the last election going into the next congress. defunding homeland security. defunding the government, how is that protecting anybody? you don't see the republicans offering an immigration reform bill or economic package. no doubt democrats came up short on the economy. >> republicans have offered legislation. marco rubio said two weeks ago the house should take up a piecemeal pieces of legislation. border security first, then we can talk about the immigration reform package. obamacare is an example of that. we need good bills which the government is tal...

Some of the bills would add 20,000 workers. but there is no way they will pass the immigration reform with the current crisis showing them we have to do something about border security first. >> senator mccain has an idea. what is his chance? >> he is talking about sending plane loads of kids back to central america because otherwise you will keep having more kids coming in. if you pass the $3.7 billion in two-three months there is going to be more children and we will be writing another check. the white house is cold to the idea of putting kids on plane. but in august, if they don't get the $...

The house hasn't even take ten up. here was the president speaking about congress. >> but i would emphasize to the governor the problem here is not a major disagreement around the actions that could be helpful in dealing with the problem. the challenge is, is congress prepared to act to put the resources in place to get this done? >> so what is going to happen to his supplemental request for $3.7 billion? a lot of it for border control? >> you know, actually there's a very small percentage in his request that is for border control. we expect that we will see an appropriations bill. we want to ...

For immigration reform, i am for immigration reform, but i insist you secure the border first because if you have a beacon of some kind of forgiveness without a secure border -- >> is a pathway to citizenship amnesty in your book? >> that's the whole problem with this, what is amnesty? i'll give you an example. the platform in one state i was in recently says no deportation and no amnesty. well, if you're not going to deport people, you are somehow changing the current law because the current law says everybody must go. >> you said, the parties should give up -- >> i think we need to get beyon...