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President's wall. by the way, happy birthday, mr. president, we have got to get you that $25 billion for the wall. but then close the loopholes. there are so many interior loopholes where secretary nielsen of homeland security can't deport somebody who committed a felony in america when they get out of jail. they have to get permission from the country they came from. those are the things we have got to fix. fix daca but get rid of chain migration and these visa lotteries. there is a way we can do it. we are trying to get that done. steve: okay. i know some on the political right go we don't l...

The deadline and nothing has happened. >> what my good friend jim is ignoring here is we're not even two weeks removed from the white house, president trump releasing a pretty critical step in bringing together two sides here with a proposal that not only provides protections for daca recipients and their immediate family but also provides border security funding and much-needed reforms to the chain migration system. this is not only a reasonable deal but one anybody following this topic for any period of time knows that's where it has to land in order to get it done. i think the president is ...

February 8th potentially has this in it. >> the president has said consistently for some time now that he wants a solution that's compassionate and make sense for daca recipients, a permanent one and not one that's temporary but he also believes if you give legal status to people here illegally, you can encourage more illegal immigration. the only way to stop that is to have a solution that makes sense that is border security and our southern border wall, an end to the visa lottery system, that seriously reforms the chain migration system so we fix the problem rather than make it worse. the pr...

Through the same drill again? >> we want to move forward and we're welcoming a debate about immigration reform. that's what the democrats want and the white house and republicans want. we want a bill that deals with the daca population and also deals with the issues we talked about. ending the visa lottery, reforming the extended family chain migration system and border security with a southern border wall. if we can get those things in a package. forget february 8th. we'd love to get it tomorrow. we would have a deal. we want to move forward on that. we think shutting down the government for ...

Debate. they bring great ideas. if you look at john kelly, he was the general in charge of the southern command before becoming secretary of homeland security. of course the president is going to listen to his views and he's going to inform the debate, but the terms we're setting in the views and the president is endorsing are his and his alone. >> just to wrap it up, the president does want the d.r.e.a.m.ers, the daca recipients, to stay here in the united states, to have legal status and eventually some pathway to citizenship, is that right? >> well, that will be part of ongoing negotiations...