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Against the president's actions. that said, shannon, you know the president has a solid 5-4 conservative majority at the supreme court. something missing during the start of the travel ban fight. >> shannon: we shall see where this goes. i feel the ninth circuit calling. leland, thank you. the president making a di tinks between legal and illegal immigrants arguing that not everyone who wants to come to the u.s. would embrace america. >> president trump: we also want people to come in on merit. we need people to help with us the companies moving back to the united states. we want people to com...

Merit. we want people that are going to help us. it's very important. we want them to come in on a merit basis. [ inaudible question ] >> look, as far as i'm concerned if it's an issue. to me, it's not tricky. you have to do the right thing. whether there's an election or not. i'm tough at the borders. we have been tough at the borders. people have to come had in the country legally -- come in to the country legally. not illegally. and i want them to come in on merit. if that's a bad policy, guess what, a lot of bad things are going to happen. a lot of people agree with me. i would say a vast ...

Help us. it's very important. we want them to come in on a merit basis. >> should we be campaigning on immigration as an issue -- >> look, as far as i'm concerned as to whether or not it's an issue, for those of you that didn't hear, immigration is always tricky. but to me it's not tricky. you have to do the right thing. whether there's an election or not. i'm very tough at the borders, we've been very tough at the borders. people have to come into a country legally, not illegally. legally. and i want them to come in on merit. if that's a bad policy, then guess what, a lot of bad things are go...

We need people coming in but we want them to come on a merit. we want people that are going to help us. it is very important. we want them to come in on a merit basis. >> mr. president! [inaudible question] >> as far as i am concerned as far as if it is an issue that for those that do not here, immigration is always tricky. to me it is not tricky, you have to do the right thing. whether there is an election or not. i'm very tough at the borders. we have been very tough at the borders. people have to come into the country legally. not in illegally. legally! and i wanted to come in on merit. if ...

And another part, so important for ohio, because i know you have a bigger problem than most is opioids and drugs. we got $6 billion that nobody talked about. $6 billion. $6 billion to fight the opioid problem and the drug problem. [ applause ] that's another thing. and we got the down payment, $1.6 billion on the wall. and we got a lot of other things. frankly, if we had more republican votes, we wouldn't have had to give away what we gave away, which many people in this room, this was a waste in many cases. but the democrats want things. they don't want to focus on crime and borders and peopl...