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This program has led the president to charge that it's all about political correctness. a president jumping on the fact that as a house member, in 1990, now senate democratic leader chuck schumer introduced a bill that help create the program. president tweeting, "the terrorists came into our country through what is called the diversity visa lottery program, a chuck schumer beauty. i want merit-based." schumer said he tried and failed to shut it down, the program in 2013. he charged the president is politicizing this. >> we have to get much smarter and we have to get much less politically corr...

Campaign for him, both legal and illegal immigration. >> as a candidate, i campaigned on creating a merit based immigration system that protects u.s. workers and taxpayers and that is why we are here today. merit based. >> if you look at this, look, they -- so far, ineffective in getting the health care law through, we talked about how this president never really received a honeymoon. he won the electoral vote. president bush won the presidency in the disputed election of 2000. donald trump, should he travel the country? should he tell the american people? he can rightly claim, i know it's con...

Legislation. look at the spikes on the chart. cap and trade, dodd-frank, obamacare. coincidence? would you go so far to say as the administration was buying votes? >> well, it's difficult to look into the hearts and minds of the officials who were in charge of giving out these grants, but certainly the chart you just showed, it suggests a correlation that raises a number of pressing questions that i-are appropriate to ask the administration. >> actually those questions were asked of the administration. they were asked at a news conference today. and listen to his response about your report. >>...