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In this administration. as a result of a lot of factors, i'd say we've never seen a republican majority on capitol hill less free pair prepared to the shadow of donald trump either. >> that's a key point. we can't do anything. you mentioned daca quite correctly. there's a congress that could legislate about this. trad trade. 232 of the trade act. congress passed. congress can revise this, congress can say no. >> why don't they do anything. >> they'd have to have the appetite to wrestle back control. >> they are the people who can do it. we should be a little more indignant, in my opinion. >> i...

Real-world implications. look what we hid it daca, comes out and said we're going to protect these dreamers, gets a deal, back tracks on it. there are 800,000 young people whose lives hang in the balance. it's one thing to talk about chaos behind the doors of the whou white house, what's happening there, another thing to talk about the fact there are real people hurting because of this chaos. >> to underscore that, there are real people behind all -- that's my point on russia. there are real people who work for him who testified under oath in front of congress. christopher wray told he's never...

Basically slashes our current immigration levels in half and brings us back closer to levels of the 1920s. what we need is a smart policy to recognize what is it the future immigration flows, what is the mixed skill labors that this country needs and not trying to pit daca recipients here legally because they came out of the shadows, have them pit themselves against the rest of the immigrants in, some cases their own parents. >> the line that will get pored over most in the speech is when trump said americans are dreamers, too. and i imagine that's going to be subject to a lot of various inter...

Numbers of distant relatives. under our plan, we focus on the immediate family by limiting sponsorships to spouses and minor children. >> some democrats took to twitter to criticize the president including arizona congressman ruben gallego who obviously tweeted trump blata blatantly lies. he has zero understanding how this works. joining us now senator jeff merkley from oregon and leonardo reyes a daca recipient. he also attended the state of the union as senator merkley's guest. thanks to you both for joining us. leonardo, your status is in limbo here. the president addressed this issue of da...

What he's doing with the lgbtq community, the muslim ban, what he's doing with repealing tps and daca. all of those things actually play and affect his approval numbers. if we go back to even november, if you look at virginia and alabama and some of the other races that we saw last year, there was -- there was an energy there that we were all shocked that was there. it was like that resistance was electrolized and very much a referendum on trump that we saw in alabama in many particular and in virginia, one of the morning issues that came out of virginia was the health care and trump and repub...