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Slowing down or slacking of the economy and perhaps they'll lower interest rates. i'm not sure. >> neil: the other deal that we have on the table with mexico still stands. are you for nancy pelosi, has indicated enforcement that she doesn't like? if it had to be voted on right now, congressman, how do you think it would go? >> i couldn't support it unless i could see the enforcement standards. that's a widely held view around here in congress. there's some side agreements that might be hashed out as well. we haven't seen the text of those. so we're waiting to see all the texts. we're waiting t...

>> our law enforcement system is in a state of collapse. it's a deliberate plan by the president of the united states and it's wrong. >> reporter: if sessions' words seem harsh, the vice president appeared to give tacit approval to nonenforcement. >> 11 million people living in the shadows, i believe they're already american citizens. >> reporter: that suggests the administration is acting unilaterally to sat its own enforcement standards. this month the white house announced another tweak. >> jay johnson our new head of department of homeland security has been talking to everybody to do a tho...

Recommendation. is it your understanding that that means the recommendation is almost surely that you should be separated from the military? >> that is our understanding, rachel, because the way the regulation reads, if the personnel review board decided to retain me, then there'd be no reason for my case to be forwarded to the secretary of the air force. the only reason it would be forwarded to the secretary was for a recommendation of discharge so as you mentioned, he could agree with that action by signing off on it, let it happen on its own, dor the right thing and apply the new enforcemen...

What would you have wanted to say to them if they had give youn that chance to defend yourself and your record? >> just as drew alluded to, rachel, to present my record but then also again to stress to them that certain aspects of the law as it stood, you know, when i went to my review board, they were not followed by the air force, and certainly the new enforcement standards apply as well as the whit standard. you know, even before my first discharge board in april of 2009, we actually had a preliminary board hearing and we asked the air force to use the whit standard in my case, and they ref...

>> colonel fehrenbach, let me start with you. i know you received word last wednesday that your case had been sent to the secretary of the air force with a recommendation. is it your understanding that that means the recommendation is almost surely that you should be separated from the military? >> that is our understanding, rachel, because the way the regulation reads, if the personnel review board decided to retain me, then there'd be no reason for my case to be forwarded to the secretary of the air force. the only reason it would be forwarded to the secretary was if the recommendation was f...