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The republicans' point of view is it should be extended but it should be paid for. republicans, back in the bush days, earlier here as well, have passed unemployment benefits extensions without paying for it. there's also been some wars that have been waged without it being paid for. prescription drug benefits have been passed by republican congresss that are not paid for. lease a lot of talk in washington about balancing the budget and cutting the deficit. but a lot of money has been spent before and that's how we got -- >> it's going to recur every month. it's going to be an election point. ...

Congress, do not act and remember how often the president said it is the democrats' fault. >> if you notice when i came over, they were all saying about separating the families and that's a democrat bill. that's democrats wanting to do that and they could solve it very easily by getting together. they think it is a good election point. i think it is a horrible election point for them. >> but now with don't waste your time until we elect more republicans, who is playing politics now? well, do not ask jeff sessions because he's having a go of it himself today. >> the american people don't like t...

They were all saying about separating the families. and that's a democrat bill. that's democrats wanting to do that, and they could solve it very easily by getting together. but they think it's a good election point, i think it's a horrible election point for them. jon: garrett tenney is at the white house for us. garrett, the white house blames democrats for the policy that separates children and parents at the border, but it was this administration that enacted the policy. >> reporter: yeah, jon. this goes back to the zero tolerance policy that the justice department introduced last month st...

That and they could solve it very easily by getting together. they think it is a good election point. i think it is a horrible election point for them. >> he says democrats were to blame for not having a deal, but then he also said he will not sign this deal. so who is holding this up? >> i think the democrats had 60 votes in the senate, big majority in the house in the first year of president obama's term and did nothing about immigration. >> talk about now. talk about now. now there is a real -- >> plenty of blame to go around. president trump could stop this policy with a phone call. >> he ...

They were all saying about separating the families. and that's a democrat bill. that's democrats wanting to do that, and they could solve it very easily by getting together. but they think it's a good election point, i think it's a horrible election point for them. jon: garrett tenney ist the white house for us. garrett, the white house blames democrats for the policy that separates children and parents at the border, but it was this administration that enacted the policy. >> reporter: yeah, jon. this goes back to the zero tolerance policy that the justice department introduced last month stat...