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And i know john hoeven from the time we served as governors together. he's a very good man. i think this bill is necessary. we want the path to citizenship. the only way realistically we're going to get the path to citizenship is to agree to a tough border enforcement bill that's practical and workable, and i think we've got it. and listen, when it goes -- we need to get at least 75 votes i think in the senate. so when it goes over to the house, two things have been stripped away. number one, an incredibly tough border security provision. and, number two, the cbo's recent report, chris, that s...

Particularly early on unattainable or undocumentable. so i think that would have -- that was in the cornyn amendment and that was a poison pill. you took away that. this is almost overkill, senator corker said that himself, but senator cork ser a good man and i know john hoeven from the sim we served as governors together. he's a very good man. i think this bill is necessary. we want the path to citizenship. the only way realistically we're going to get the path to citizenship is to agree to a tough border enforcement bill that's practical and workable, and i think we've got it. and listen, wh...

And selling that will look like amnesty unless there is strong border security provision with metrics that are credible to measure it. that has been the sticking point for some years on this issue. it's what john mccain, presidential campaign had to recognize when he was running that you got to get border security up there first and everything else you want to do comes after that. the president's -- the ideas embodied in this leaked bill has border security measures in it but it doesn't put it up front and make that the premise after which everything else flows. that is the sticking point. >> ...

And selling that will look like amnesty unless there is strong border security provision with metrics that are credible to measure it. that has been the sticking point for some years on this issue. it's what john mccain, presidential campaign had to recognize when he was running that you got to get border security up there first and everything else you want to do comes after that. the president's -- the ideas embodied in this leaked bill has border security measures in it but it doesn't put it up front and make that the premise after which everything else flows. that is the sticking point. >> ...

And selling that will look like amnesty unless there is strong border security provision with metrics that are credible to measure it. that has been the sticking point for some years on this issue. it's what john mccain, presidential campaign had to recognize when he was running that you got to get border security up there first and everything else you want to do comes after that. the president's -- the ideas embodied in this leaked bill has border security measures in it but it doesn't put it up front and make that the premise after which everything else flows. that is the sticking point. >> ...