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The senate took another major step towards passing comprehensive immigration reform bill monday with 67 senators voting to allow debate on an amendment designed to pick up conservative support by adding billions of dollars to border control. north dakota senator john hoeven is a co-author of the border surge amendment and joins me now from capitol hill. senator, thanks for being with us. >> you bet. >> do you think that this now, having at least gotten past cloture and past phil bufilibus does this now make the immigration reform palatable to you? will you support it? >> we made major improvem...

First, before legalization. if the legalization happens first, the border security never will. martha: there you go, from ted cruz. chris wallace joins me now, good morning. >> morning to you, martha. martha: well, you know, you've got this attempt at republicans, including marco rubio, to hold this together, and they've tried to satisfy that need that ted cruz just talked about to insure that there will be border security before the rest of this process kicks in. how is it going for them? >> well, in the sense of getting votes, apparently pretty well. martha: yeah. >> bob corker and john hoev...

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