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Us and fix this problem. >> look, it's time for congress to come to the table. >> it's time for them to come to the table and work with us. >> it seems like a talk point. but after today, what are they supposed to do to actually work on? that isn't even clear. earlier tonight i asked democratic congresswoman kathleen rice who is a member of the homeland security committee what she thought of the president's plan. congresswoman rice, i wonder what do you make of the president's speech today? is there anything in there that you could get behind? >> not likely, anderson. i come from a district in...

10,000 daca recipients and tps holders. so it doesn't even address that issue. so i think it's going to be a non-starter for someone like me. that's just in my district. but looking at the larger issue, if you're going to really try to address the issue of immigration, you need input from both republicans and democrats. i don't think they got input from anyone. certainly not anyone on the democratic side, and not even any republicans. this was a plan that was hatched by the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, who to my knowledge, has no background expertise on immigration, and by stephen mi...

Looking forward to it. >> it would also be interesting to hear if he's asked or if quotes the president has said about him, about his team are read to him, if he actually chooses to respond to things the president has said about him. >> yeah, and i would imagine that he won't. i would imagine that we would see him if pressed, make a strong defense of the justice department. its independence, it's integrity, and the nonpartisan apolitical nature of the way that it carries out prosecutions. you know, i think you could imagine him saying comments very similar to what fbi director wray said in tak...

We came very close on the floor with coming up with our own resolution on the daca issue. he's got to deal with the far right members of his party who have said no way under no circumstances can we allow a path to citizenship for daca recipients. and i think that's crazy. you know, these are people who have been here, who were brought here when they were children who are contributing to their society, their community. and these are the kind of people we want to keep here. so i think it's going to be a very different sell, not just for democrats to get democrats on board, but also there are a l...

Everything he can to help our border patrol agents. as we know, we need a legislative fix. >> dana: exactly. he can't do this all on his own by executive action. can i just ask one last question? as i understand it, the whole daca issue, dreamers, noted going to be addressed in this particular rollout. why is that? >> i think we're starting this off to unify the republican party. this was a conversation of what we all can come to agreement with and what we are for. obviously, the president in the past, on various occasions, has tried to work with democrats on a daca deal, but democrats have re...