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>> senators john mccain and chris coons offered a bipartisan immigration plan. the white house was quick to reject it because it does not provide money for the border wall and does not end chain migration or the diversity visa program. >> these two programs risk exploitation from those who do not share our values and actively work to undermine them. >> senator coons called it a good starting proposal for a debate. >> lays out a plan halfway toward securing control of the border by 2020. >> republicans note president trump made a serious offer including a path to citizenship for 1.8 million peo...

Family-based immigration would end and reallocates the diversity visa program. they see it as surnd. >> you've given them, on the numbers side, more than they could have ever expected pr barack obama. you started at 1.8 million for amnesty? why would you start with 1.8 million? why would you start with people who never even applied for daca? 1 million people over the 700,000 to 800,000 who never even applied for daca. why would you do that. and it's going to be spun that this is absolute genius. no, it's not. this is absolutely pathetic. >> republicans have said we'd like to hear from the pres...

About all of the other aspects of what a cr means. and then we failed to fix the broken immigration system, the health care system, and the budget process is still a mess. >> so you seem to think, congressman, and correct me if i'm wrong, that your fellow democrats in the senate caved. how long would you have been willing to keep the government shut down? >> well, i'm not necessarily saying they caved. i think i disagree with the ultimate conclusion of where we are, which is allowing that bill to come over here and be passed out of the house. and we still don't have funding for all of those ar...

Votes advances. that's the way out. >> let's talk a little about the details of the problem solvers bill you mentioned. you are a member of the problem solvers caucus. what is in that bill that's different, for example, from graham/durbin? >> the differences are fair lynn negligible. they really are. i think they have more to do with the family migration piece as well as the diversity visa program. i think that's where thes ar differences are. >> you use the the phrase family migration. the white house keeps saying chain migration. it's a sticking point in this debate. would you urge republica...

Miller. but at the same time, i think what's happened is the conversation on immigration, especially right now has become narrow. it almost becomes that this is all about d.r.e.a.m.ers and daca recipients. you and i both know, 800,000 daca recipients are part of the larger 11 million undocumented population. >> franky, i want to go to you on this. this week started out with donald trump talking about shit hole countries, referring to all 54 countries in africa, essentially haiti and any country where it's a majority non-white population. and also saying he wants to end the diversity visa progr...