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Legally and illegally. if you charge each 50 grand that, comes to $50 billion. that sure would help go a long way to help the budget problems, no? >> i think this is a terrible idea because it really does -- it produce this economic bias that wealthier people or people who can afford to pay $50,000 are worth something more to this country. i think it send has terrible message and the senator is right. our citizenship is not for sale. immigrants, even those who are here illegally, pay tax and they contribute to our system. $80,000 over the course of their lifetime. so no, we should not be charg...

>> eric: here are the numbers, million come here per year and $50,000 would be $50 billion that would help our budget problems, no? >> i think its terrible idea because it produces economic bias that wealthier people are can afford to pay $50,000 are worth something more to this country. it sends a terrible message. the senator is right. our citizenship is not for sale. immigrants, even those that are here illegally pay taxes and contributed to our system. $48,000 over the course of their lifetime. we shouldn't be charging them. >> eric: and 50 grand, it's not 50 grand up in front. you can wor...

Dinner was fairly friendly. i want to play what he said. looks like i don't have that, my apologies but he did say it wasn't contentious, i was kind of sort of joking with him it could have potential considering how nasty some of these discussions have gotten, it had the potential to be contentious and unpleasant and he said no it was very civil but of course as you point out, it's the first step so what's the second step? what makes this go beyond a really nice, friendly dinner? >> the second step is i think we have to come to grips with the fact that if you're going to solve the fiscal probl...

We were talking about the nay yorral race, bitterly fought, and it looks like it will head to a runoff. >> that's right. >> how much did sequestration come into the race is it? >> the big debate, there's nothing else to talk about in los angeles other than how they're going to deal with the budget problems, so it did come up a lot, because all of the candidates are trying to figure out where they're going to make the cuts, whether or not they can promise police hiring in the future. when there's no money, they don't have a lot to promise the voters, so -- but none of the candidates have given ...

State of financial emergency on friday and announced a manager to take control of the stays finances. says the budget problems have taken a significant toll on everyday life for citizens. he also says detroiters deserve to feel safe to have the streetlights on to have the bus show up and take them to work. he believes an emergency manager is the best way to get that done. he must wait until march 11th before making an appointment to allow the city to appeal the emergency demonstration. the appeal is definitely coming. he should look beyond the contract to balance the budget because organized l...