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Christine, what would you say is attributable to that number? >> that the numbers are down at crossing at the boarder? >> that's right. >> that's been a trend -- a long standing trend for now. it has to do with economics and how dangerous the border has gotten. i think the reality is that we know that having a legalization process that truly integrates people into the society and provides a path to citizenship is really what has been held back in congress despite the fact that the majority of the american people across all political party lines support that. so that -- i think it's both the da...

All-in lockstep confirmation that republicans will be behind this nominee. what we've seen repeatedly is no matter what democrats did, no matter what kind of levers they tried to pull procedurally to slow the process down, they simply could not break off enough republicans. now, there's a very good chance andy puzder ends up being confirmed, that's what senate republican leadership has continued to say. but over the course of the last 48 hours, particularly as it became clear, as you noted, that he had employed an undocumented immigrant for a number of years and then worked to help her move th...

>> they're creating a cartel. i mean, they've put together a ballot initiative that explicitly gives them control of the legal pot industry in the seventh largest state in america basically indefinitely. their oligopoly can't be challenged for the next four years, by which point it will be essentially impossible to challenge. so what they're doing is they're setting themselves up as a cartel. and this poses huge problems for the legalization movement, which has been largely organized around issues of social justice. and implicit in that concern is the disproportionate impact of the war on drug...

Explicitly gives them control of the legal pot industry in the seventh largest state in america basically indefinitely. their oligopoly can't be challenged for the next four years, by which point it will be essentially impossible to challenge. so what they're doing is they're setting themselves up as a cartel. and this poses huge problems for the legalization movement, which has been largely organized around issues of social justice. and implicit in that concern is the disproportionate impact of the war on drugs in poor communities. so to see the wealthy set up this kind of arrangement where t...

However many millions of illegal immigrants are living here now, they'll just say, i don't want to deal with that. no, that's why we're having this discussion. we actually, everybody should come to the table havand have a discussion, make it rational. but the surest way to get front page "new york times" coverage -- >> i spoke to marco rubio and he did have a plan for closing the border as a legalization process, he did take it away from dhs. he said, take it out of dhs' hands, and he had a plan for that as well. greg? >> well, i think for most americans, we're wondering, how hard can this be?...