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Along with that -- and part of the discussion we had was -- you have to have your laws in some fashion so that you don't invite illegal immigration so you can get back to legal immigration. we may not get all the way tlul that discussion but we have to take care of the daca issue and the border security side of it and we don't have a lot of time in which to get it done. >> senator king, what would be the stumbling blocks for you in whatever comes to the floor of the senate. sounds like you just had senator rounds, we had tom cole on saying this is about border security for d.r.e.a.m.ers. what ...

The issue. if we can do a combination of those where we can answer with one of the president's requests with regards to his campaign promises and at the same time take care of these individuals who are in the country right now, get them into the work force and give stability in their lives i think we've got a win-win situation and maybe along the way we can do something about the h 2b visa issues as well. >> so border security is a catch all issue. what do you mean? is that a physical wall on the board? >> we had real discussions about that. if we're talking about border security systems, ther...

Important things happened. number one, he committed to bringing a bill to the floor on a date certain, number two, he talked about a neutral level playing field, a neutral bill in order to give us an even chance to get at this issue and finally, if you recall earlier last week and for the prior couple weeks, mitch mcconnell said i won't deal with this issue because the president hasn't told us what he's for and we'd only be spinning our wheels. as of yesterday morning, mitch mcconnell said we're not waiting for the president anymore, we're bringing a bill to the floor on february 8. if we can'...

Going forward but he did what he needed to do and he walked out the winner not the loser. >> yeah. i think that it included the comments where he called certain countries horrible names. i don't know -- >> well, i wouldn't ever excuse those kinds of comments. on the other hand, when you take them out and start spreading them around and exacerbate the situation, you have to ask yourself whether you're being helpful or not but the issue there was in my view you should haven't tried to end run the process. we had senators coming in with what they thought was a deal but it wasn't an acceptable dea...

Taking your milk out for your seria cereal. this isn't the thing we should celebrate. look, shoes tied, wow! on daca, on the d.r.e.a.m.ers, democrats had said they were not going to vote for any funding bill for the government unless it settled the daca matter and protected the 700,000 young people. in the end the democrats in the senate did for the most part vote for a funding bill without those protections. but the democrats did make the republican senate leader mitch mcconnell agree for the first time that he will hold a vote on the daca issue. that means they will work out the d.r.e.a.m.er...