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Were saying it's a big reversal for the president. you would certainly never get that sense from having listened to the president today. >> reporter: no doubt about it. we have covered so many rallies that candidate trump has had, president trump has had, really for the last three years. anderson, i'm not sure that i can remember one where immigration was less of a focus than it was here tonight. yes, there was some talk about building the border wall. but really in passing. the president likes to tout his accomplishments, talking a lot about that singapore summit last week, talking a lot abou...

Melania goes down and now they're complaining about the jacket. you are never going to get a win on this issue. a normal issue like gas prices. healthcare jobs, those are the things that actually effect the lives of everyday americans. yes, migrant families will tug at your heart strings and makes you feel bad and want to find a solution. it's not going to be a driving issue for regular voters in the midterm elections. >> dana: greg, i had congressman burgess on the 2:00 show today. >> good for you. >> dana: i'm getting to a point. a texas congressman, he is a doctor. is he a conservative guy....

You see what the president said the other day, we won't be a migrant center refugee camp, that's very clearly coming from him. he is an ideological believer, he and jeff sessions, in, essentially, making sure that immigration, legal and unauthorized, into the country is choked off, and that the demographics of the country stay the way they are and don't shift in the direction they're shifting. this is a first order deeply held principle of stephen miller since he was a young man at santa monica high school. right? >> yeah, that is right. this is someone -- he had these views, as you said, in h...

Sound bite leading into this segment, this idea for paw to say if we fought this when barack obama did it, why are we suddenly okay with it when it's a republican president and a republican controlled congress saying let us continue to spend in this way regardless, he didn't win this argument tonight. he brought this back into the forefront for a party that is largely turned away from this as a driving issue under trump. at the end of the day, the vote was the same. this still passed the senate. did he force the conversation here a little bit. much to the bipartisan irritation of his colleague...

Look, conservatives will look at rand paul as somebody who has held the line on what was for a very long time conservative orthodoxy that the debt was a big problem and than spending against the deficit was something that republicans should fight back against. you played some of that in the sound bite leading into this segment, this idea for paw to say if we fought this when barack obama did it, why are we suddenly okay with it when it's a republican president and a republican controlled congress saying let us continue to spend in this way regardless, he didn't win this argument tonight. he br...