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Tell, it set me off, because i thought it was so appallingly insensitive, so appallingly egotistical and so not what a president should do. and so i wrote about actually the three ways in which this president has engaged in dereliction of duty. we're in nation under attack. we have no commander in chief or -- nation is grieving and we have no consoler in chief. and our nation is trying to figure out a way to fix a dreamer problem that is a significant part of the president's own nation and we have no negotiator in chief so -- >> jonathan? >> ruth's being worked up over that tweet is reminiscen...

About, they made vows to reducing family chain migration, that you couldn't bring across parents, for example, couldn't sponsor parents and even current residents couldn't bring in adult siblings. >> i think the lesson here when you go back to bush administration or obama administration is you need to go small on immigration. when you try to bring in too much diversity visa lottery, employer security, e-verify, gets too big and complicated. i think you need to go small and the hardliners are asking -- they want to do too much at once. paul:i don't get the politics from the president's side he ...

Disorganized and well meaning but not effective. >> we're on the heels of big losses electorally. we're getting our act together. i think we're focussed on being against the president in a lot of what he's putting forward. because we don't think his ra racist sexist agenda is good for the country. we're fighting that. i would like us to be a little bolder. i wish the whole debate with immigration that started from our side as a path way to citizens and negotiate down to daca as opposed to start at daca. i think we could have been bolder talking about pensions and these things. again, this is a...

Dockca or include comprehensive immigration reform. suggesting to do both is too big a lift. listen here. >> we have a deadline looming and a lot of lives hanging. we can agree on some very fundamental and important things together on border security. on chain. on the future of diversity visas. comprehensive, though, i worked on it for six months. with michael bennett and a number of, bob menendez and schumer and cain and jeff lake. took us six months to put it together. we don't have six months for daca. >> after that, senator dianne feinstein came out and said, well, why don't we just do a c...

Stay. if you are going to fix the dreamer problem, i think congress absolutely showed, it's the right thing to do and i think president trump is made that clear, to pair that legislative action with some form of enforcement, immigration enforcement, border security, it makes sense, it is a reasonable trade, it should be a lay up for to get this done but we are living in a very polarized time into very dysfunctional setting. >> jon: sometimes doing what makes sense in washington isn't necessarily easy. >> 12 legislative days before the end of the fiscal year on december 30th congress has to com...