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Peters, lon hi chen, kasie hunt, and joining us, a visiting fellow at the american enterprise institute, tim kearny. >> that's a long title. >> wait, there's more, peter baker and national political reporter for nbc news, carol lee. >> there's like 900,000 stars in the morning. who's the trap paez artist. >> the white house is cutting number of legal immigrants into the united states in half and reshape how people come to live in this country. the bill introduced by republican senators tom cotton and david perdue have replaced the current lottery system for issuing green cards with a merit-bas...

History to watch this presidency and the lies just spilling out every day. and that's on the record. everyone can corroborate it back to themselves, but loft in the conversation yesterday was the policy. it got so personal and emotional on both sides. who learned anything about the policy during this conversation? >> by the way, that was the problem, tim. peter baker, i wanted to hear the policy. i never get a chance to hear the policy because we were hearing speeches. >> and tim, do you think that if, perhaps, general kelly was explaining the policy yesterday, perhaps more people would have l...

So insulting. >> the president claims that the bill is going to reduce poverty and increase wages. what was your take away, tim, from what happened yesterday other than saying why don't we get cameras out of the press room? >> it was a very spirited debate between two very spirited people on the issue of immigration. and one of them happened to be a supposedly objective news reporter for cnn. i thought both of them were too rude and too personal, but this is how we got trump. this is why people hate the press. acosta going in and saying there because of a poem it's un-american to require immig...

In power accountable. that's the function of the briefing. >> it's a credibility issue. >> yeah. >> go ahead, peter, finish up. >> as a reporter in the briefing room, it's our job to challenge, pester, in fact, to ask tough questions. it's not our job to argue or get into a debate. that's not helpful, i don't think, and it is only about getting air time on cable news, not really about helping viewers of readers understand things better. somehow we have to get into the rhythm where we ask tough questions and get reasonable answers or at least answers that defend the policy without making it per...

Learn english in six months. >> acosta should meet someone from jamaica. >> 1 .5 billion people on earth, it's said speak english. >> and they're not mostly in the uk. >> where things seemed to really melt down was when jim acosta talked. we're certainly not putting this on jim acosta. you can watch the clip and choose sides. or just say as tim said after, maybe we shouldn't have tvs in the press room after all. but then jim acosta used the language of it seems like your policies are trying to engineer racial and ethnic percentages, or something, it sure sounded like something that you would r...