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Thanks leaders reid and pelosi and senators schumer and mccaskill. it adds permanent resources that continues to bolster security along the southwest border, supporting our efforts to crackdown on transnational criminal organizations and reduce the trafficking of people, drugs, currency and weapons. the bill is important in two respects. first, it adds new resources to the border. second, it makes permanent many of the assets that this administration has surged along the border during the past 18 months. now let me pause there for a moment i have worked on border issues as a public servant for...

Thatç he is any worse for that. what are your concerns and whether you join senators schumer and gillibrand and the others and melendez in wanting an investigation of this? >> i absolutely do join my colleagues in wanting an investigation of this. it is -- it has been out for a while, but it's not too late for an investigation. two points. the first obvious one is what role did bp play in convincing the british government to agree to this and the release of megrahi. the second thing is, even if you assume that he was ill, this man was convicted of being a murderer, and the reality is that co...

Of power right now from the latino caucus really wanting to get comprehensive immigration reform through. senators schumer and graham have been working on a bill. there's a blueprint in place. there's no set timeline as to when that bill will see the light of day. congressman gutierrez says the president should not be in new york today talking to wall street bankers. he should be working on comprehensive immigration reform. quite remarkable. new concerns about an ash cloud from the iceland volcano now making its way toward europe. we'll head live to the area. new plans to remember the king...

Senator schumer and by senator lindsay graham, republican of south carolina, would require everyone who is employed anywhere in the united states which includes us and almost everbody watching us now to carry this card. it's not just immigrant who's are lawfully here and not yet citizens or even persons who are unlawfully here. but everybody would have to carry this card. so we go from a society which for 230 years was open and free. you can move wherever you want. the police just can't stop you and say, where are your papers? where are you coming from? where are you going to? i don't know if ...

Surprised that democrats and republicans have combined on one theme that khalid sheik muhammad and his four cohorts will not be tried in new york city, the administration all but admits it's not going to be there. >> i am not at all surprised. i'm a little bit disappointed in myself in that i planned to write the piece that we talked about this weekend back before christmas because i had come to the conclusion in just talking to a lot of people that i never believed that khalid sheik muhammad would ever step foot in new york city for that trial that they had designed and it's amazing to me tha...