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Rule apply to any bill that comes out of conference? >> yes, i absolutely would. i think the speaker of the house has said the same that he would as well. that is not going to happen. as we proceed into the discussions about the immigration issues, there's one thing all of us agree on, i think for the most part, and that is, we don't support the senate bill. you know, i think it's interesting, sean, if you ask the senators who voted on that bill, how many of them have read the bill, how many of them really know what it doeses. i think one of the most defensive parts of the bill is the border s...

Matter to be the fulcrum as lindsey graham suggests. martha: some would argue that it's growing and their influence is growing and to ignore them would be a tpaoupblg error. huge arrest or. i don't think anybody represents this better than marco rubio. he has withheld the answer as to whether he would support legislation that he helped create at this point. >> there is a reason for that, martha. the reason is that the border security provisions in the senate bill will be hard for republicans to swallow. the belief is that it's not strong enough, and the measurement by which you determine when ...

>> i'm sure there's a lot of argument from the south. there is a lot of argument from the south that it's the american appetite for drugs that fuels the drug war, richard to the notion of kind of hypocritical or complicated situations, the border security piece is something that americans are rallying around, vis-a-vis the immigration reform bill. we know that the u.s. spent nearly $18 billion in immigration enforcement agencies in the last fiscal year. which is more than all of our other law enforcement agencies combined. $3 billion of that $18 billion is spent on patrolling the border and ye...

Immigration laws at an advantage over those who chose to do things the right way. explain that to me. >> the feeling among republicans is that in previous conversations about immigration reform and trying to move things forward that border security piece and making sure that it is tied to whatever occurs with the pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants has been neglected. republicans have felt that in the past and they have been serious in suggesting that now whatever emerges in the form of some bipartisan legislation has to be seriously focus on border enforcement mechanisms and dealing...

Citizenship. >> janet napolitano was on the board stressing the border security piece of this, which the coalition and the senate, the bipartisan group says has to be hand in hand and if not preceding what is done on path to citizenship. >> i agree you cannot secure the border until we have somehow have a system in the united states to check people that are being employed here and have an id check for people that are already here in the united states and allow them to come out of the shadows. let me just share this with you, andrea. one of the first bills then senator barack obama and i introd...