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ledge lay tiflegislative relief0 daca recipients brought here unlawfully by their pairn parena young age, a three-year protection of temporary protected status, texas ps. >> that for exchange of $5.7 billion in the border wall. democrats showing disinterest in it. joininit. joining us to react, a daca recipient himself. you've seen where the debate ask. the pat president makes a good h proposal. your reaction rvelings i wan. >> i want to thank the president for embracing the daca community. thank you so much. i think at the end of the day could the president have asked for a permanent solution, absolutely. it's in his heart.
ledge lay choor sgislature legislatures. the gop, ultraconservatives have a hard nose position on that. now as a result of what happened in charleston i think it was so you know, earth shattering so cataclysmic to some we're now beginning to see even some conservatives say, well, maybe it is time to revisit and even look at maybe we need to again,checks or take a more balanced view of gun control. i think that's going to be the next area of great concern and i think a battleground, too, that will be revisited. >> earl, jody, thank you so much. do appreciate your time on this friday. you can see on the top right corner of your screen, hundreds of folks are lining calhoun street here in downtown charleston, awaiting president obama's motorcade to make his way to td arena behind me where some 5,000 folks have been inside. funeral service has been going on now for more than an hour and a half.
>> that man has been in the led ledge lay tur longer than anybody in the country. they werevillified. fox news put them on a wanted poster as if they were criminals. the republicans sent state troopers to the senators homes trying to intimidate them. your wife is at hope, cops at the door, call your husband, those conversations took play. the wisconsin 14 used peaceful, civil disobedience while their governor joked about beating them with a prank caller. >> if they want to yell at me for an hour, i'm used to that, i can deal with that but i'm not negotiating. >> bring a baseball bat. >> i have one in my office. i got a slugger with my name on it. >> oh, the infamous conversation with the kocher.
of ledge lay fairs when we passed the 1986 immigration reform and control act that was supposed to solve the problem. control the border have employer sanctions to prevent hiring illegals and find a path to citizenship. the same things we are talking about now. that '86 act was supposed to fix the problem, it did little or nothing. >> greta:? >> because the draw of the -- the draw of the united states for economic immigrants is so huge there was no control over the border, employer sanctions failed. we can debate the same things over again. first get control of the border then decide what to do next. this idea of trying to put everything together in one grand bargain it didn't work in 1986, it is not going to solve the problem this time. >> greta: i want to ask about the g-20. your thoughts on what is going on vis-a-vis europe and the united states, the effort to
spill over. make no mistake we've had intelligence reports that terrorist groups like hezbollah, like al-qaeda have looked at the ability of our southern border and concluded they might be able to smuggle themselves and possibly weapons of mass says -- mass destruction through. i think is potentially much more significant. >> greta: it is deeply disturbing when this has gone on for 20 plus years. it is so -- politics, politics are supposed -- you are not supposed to make a decision about war colored by politics this this is war because it is a very dangerous situation on our border. i understand people want to fleet environment and come to our country and i don't want to see people suffer. but politics is so poisoned any progress in resolving this? >> i was in the justice department in 1986 in charge of ledge lay fairs when we
>> i've been calling legislators throughout the country, talked to several lt. governors and mailed letters out to the vast majority of ledge lay throughout the united states asking them to join us. would it take 34 states to have a constitutional convention, 38 states to ratify it if we move forward in doing so. >> greta: has any state or any other lt. governor or governor or even attorney general said sign me up? >> i talked to david dewhurst in texas yesterday he was excited. peter kinder two days ago in missouri he was excited. the more people i talk to about it they are going to talk to their legislature as well. we only started work on this the end of last week getting our legislative council to start drafting the convention. we are moving forward. the momentum is growing. >> greta: what is the likelihood you get your state's legislature to go along with this? >> i think people know in
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