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Here to weigh in jim jordan head of the government reform committee and house freedom caucus and he wants to be the next speaker. jim, are you disappointed you are not in on this meeting today? >> no, i mean that's a meeting for house leadership. senate leadership and the white house. that's fine. all i'm saying is we should do what we said. what was probably the single biggest promise republicans made to the voters in 2016? it was the border security wall. so let's get that done here before the end of the fiscal year. let's do what we said and head into the election and keep the majority. bri...

Committee. nice of you to be our headliner, sir. we have a lot of stuff to talk about. vote next week, what can pass if anything? >> right now nothing can pass but i will tell you this 193 votes for the conservative bill. if our leaders had whipped that bill like they've done other pieces of legislation, only 19 votes short. story yesterday was the fact we were so close with the conservative bill. the reason the other bill wasn't being brought up today is because it would get less votes than the conservative bill got yesterday. the focus should be on that conservative bill. let's find those 19...

Determine whether they leg legitimately receive asylum or not but the ones that are separated, we're not going to bring back together? you think that's the case? >> that's what we were told by an hhs -- i'll have someone hand it to me -- >> there was legislation. let's pass it. >> do you think it was a mistake in retrospect to decide to separate children from their parents? >> i think what the president is trying to do what the american people elected us to do, keep families together certainly but do it in a way that is consistent with the rule of law. that's what they were trying to do. that'...

To move on at the ministration. phil,hank you so muchthat. back around the table, just taking it up maybe to 5,000 fe also want to introduce katherine lucie from the associated press who is joining our panel. this question about whether congress is going to act, the house in particular, house republicans even more specifically are going to act on immigrationhis week, the fact that we have these competing republican bills and they don't know where the president stands. it seems to me that if the president puts his weight behind anything, it will bed what they're calling the compromises bill whi...

Community, followed the executive order under obama should have the opportunity. shannon: nancy pelosi, that is causing gop leaders to sound the alarm, that this could -- jim jordan, a member of the freedom caucus, made a good move today. the farm bill is a huge deal. you don't want to vote on that, something related to immigration and very specific. >> at the start, it is consistent with what the mandate of the 2016 election was about on immigration. it does things in the right order, build the border security wall. all the way down the list and it also says after we do it in that prioritizin...