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Respond. >> well, it is happening. we had a down period really from the great recession from 2008 to 2007 until 2018. and you can see that in remittances back to mexico. there was a whole 10 year loss decade for illegal migrants and that's why they drifted out of the country. that ended last summer. remittances at new all-time high passing the 2007 level. there are a lot of jobs and beginning to come back. that's why we see these numbers building back now to actually prerecession levels. we think in 2019 we will be back at 2008 levels. so at levels before the obama administration. and they are...

Border wall, they say that's a non-negotiatable, too. again, they say it is wrong on the policy. they don't see it as a viable policy solution. they've also made the point all along that this wall that he want it is a physical representation of everything that they find so objectionable. the president's anti-immigrant, xenophobic campaign pitch. so even though the president is trying to kick start these negotiations that have dragged on now, the shutdown now having dragged on for 29 days, it appears this won't be enough, based on what we know, based on our own reporting of what we know the pre...

Already rejected this kind of thing out of hand and that taken together or taken separately it's a nonstarter. and because the president still wants this $5.7 billion for this border wall, they say that's a nonnegotiable too because they say it's wrong on the policy, they don't see it as a viable policy solution but they also have said, they made the point all along that this wall he wants is a physical representation of everything that they find so objectionable, the president's anti-immigrant campaign pitch. so even though the president is trying to kick start these negotiations that have dr...

Floated this sunday from senator graham. what's your thought on senator graham's idea from a policy perspective and number two, why might democrats not like that? why someone like matt gaetz support that idea? >> how can we get to a policy solution that say 75 or 80% of the american, republicans and democrats would agree on. i think the proposal probably gets us a good way there. it combines funding for border security with one way of temporarily dealing with the challenge created by expiration or president trump's revocation of the daca policy. the president has put himself in a difficult pol...

As you went through this and you're at the white house, you've seen from the l.a. times and the gaps that potentially are expressed in opinion yet this chief of staff saying i still had to work hard. it was my job. what did you take away from it? >> richard, to the poibt we'nt talking about now, it's not actually a wall. we have known that for months. you have dhs officials and border patrol officials who said along that what you need at the border is situational aswewaraw. you need to see what's on the other side. that's is why you've had people who have done this work their entire career say...