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The amnesty memo from the immigration services agency. the staff memo from within the homeland security department sparking outrage by outlining ways to change immigration policy, without congressional approval. republicans accusing the white house of trying to push through its immigration agenda. what about all of this? james rosen live with more, in d.c. >> reporter: the department of homeland security official said the internal document at the heart of the controversy was a draft memo not to be equated with actual administration policy but senate republicans are not satisfied by the answer,...

What topic to discuss on friday, and the winner is the fallout over ruling of the arizona immigration law. and we will bring back the panel and specifically, steve, i want to talk about the story today that was first in the "washington times" and a memo leaked from the u.s. citizenship and immigration services that seemed to indicate that there could be an effort at a back door amnesty plan. it is just a memo. >> a memo and a draft memo. if we were to catalog the stupid things that have appeared in government drafts it would be a long list. having said that, it is truly frightening to see fede...

Action and adopting significant process improvement. as to the memo the agency told us internal memoranduma help us do the thinking with regard to certain changes, they should not be equated with official action of the policy or department and concluded by saying we will not comment on notional predecisional memos. one month ago senator grassley and six others wrote to president obama to express concern the administration was considering exactly the kinds of steps proposed in this draft memo. appearing on fox & friends this morning, white house press secretary robert gibbs said he hadn't seen ...

Thank you for that. >> a new memo on illegal immigration and amnesty. some republicans are demanding an explanation. >> believed four months ago this draft memo was first onned by republican senator grassley of iowa, written by staffers and legal counsel in the u.s. customs services branch of the department of homeland security and addressed but never sent to the agency's director. the author said they were not advocating making a non-legislate of version of amnesty widely available to hundreds of thousands, but, rather, proposing relief options to reduce threat removal for certain present in ...

What topic to discuss on friday, and the winner is the fallout over ruling of the arizona immigration law. and we will bring back the panel and specifically, steve, i want to talk about the story today that was first in the "washington times" and a memo leaked from the u.s. citizenship and immigration services that seemed to indicate that there could be an effort at a back door amnesty plan. it is just a memo. >> a memo and a draft memo. if we were to catalog the stupid things that have appeared in government drafts it would be a long list. having said that, it is truly frightening to see fede...