4. 5 billion dollars in humanitarian aid. How come . Go far enough not addressing the crisis at the border. All this bill does is continue to fund the ongoing are not only changes to what is going on on the ground with regards to Border Security, but also funding for overtime for those on the board. We need judges able to hear the cases. We need changes to our asylum laws to make sure children are not removed from their parents custody. We need to make sure this system works rather than continuing the broken system we have got. Republicansd house did a News Conference where you talked about the crisis. If it is a crisis, why not at least pass the immediate money needed to handle those humanitarian needs . Guest what the house did was pass money with Strings Attached that will slow the process from being addressed. The senate bill, which passed 301 could be passed in the house before we leave this week if we can get it done and get aid to these people who need it. Families coming across the border and children in need of assistance. This is a real crisis we have been talking about for many months and the president submitted his request may 1 and thisis is the first time the hoe has even begun to address the problem and they have done so, founately, in a partisan way. Host freshman congressman then klein, you got ben cline, you got the seat from robert lighthizer. Guest in ative office as a legislative correspondent addressing mail to constituents all the way to chief of staff before i left to go back to my district and start a law career in 2002. Host 2027488001 for republicans. Democrats, it is 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. We have a separate line for undocumented immigrants, it is 2027488003. What has it been like watching this issue of immigration and border and now humanitarian ncns when you are not a member versus when you are a member . What has the difference been in terms of calculations and what you are seeing and thinking . Guest it has always been an issue that affected my community. In my district, the shenandoah manyy of tenure, we have of virginia, we have many legal and illegal immigrants. Domesticecutor of violence, whether as a defense attorney or congressman, these to presentcontinuing themselves and it has been a top issue for my constituents. Border security has been a key issue and one that i have been pressing for many months since i first took office. We had a press Conference Last Week where we talked about the need to address this border crisis. We have a Record Number of individuals coming over, 60 higher than previous years. We have 60,000 unaccompanied minors coming over the border. We need to make changes to the stem to accommodate these individuals. Host democrats are angry over the trump administrations treatment of these Migrant Children at the border. Is this a legitimate issue, in your view . Guest we need to make sure children and adults are treated with respect and care at the border. We need to provide the resources necessary to make sure individuals get to a judge quickly and have the basic health and medical care they need. That there is food, water, and medical available. We need more asylum judges to hear the cases within two years of the date of a arrival. That is the length of time it takes to get to a judge. About 600 plus days and that is unacceptable. Host is something going to be worked out this week beforore yu go on break . Guest i would like to see the senate bill move to the floor of the house, but the speaker has other ideas. She wants to force this bill into a conference which will delay this aid getting to the border. Host lets get to calls for ben cline of virginia. Good morning, paul. Caller good morning, cspan. What i wanted to say is i have been watching this with these kids coming from across the border. It seems like the media seems to just keep pounding this drum with trump. Why didnt they cover this like this when bombs were dropping on ,he kids in syria, mosul afghanistan, iraq . Nobody covered it and all of a sudden these kids are dying, some of them. When large crowds of people move, that stuff happens. It happens when the military moves large crowds of soldiers to another country, soldiers die. All these hypocrites keep calling about these people dying, these kids, they were dying in all these countries when bombs were dropping on their heads. Billion you agree 4. 5 or more is needed to help the folks at the border . Caller do i think now what is that . Host 4. 5 billion dollars was approved in the house last night. Is that money worth spending on the border, in your view . Caller i think it is. I think they need the money to do what they have got to do. They need money for that wall, which nobody wants to give. Host lets hear from the congressman. Guest this is an issue we have been talking about for many, many months. Theas taken 6 weeks for speaker to find the time on the house calendar to bring it up for a vote. The senate has moved in a bipartisan way 301 to move a bill forward. The fastest way to get aid to the people at the border is take the senate bill and pass it and get it signed into law. Host lets go to eugene in michigan. Caller thanks for taking my call. I am old enough i can remember when they had german prisoners of war here and they were treated better than the people brought up north to work in the farms from the south and the mexicans they brought here to work on the farms, they were treated much better than german prisoners of war were. The mexican kids, they worked in the fields as young as eight years old and got . 12 an hour. This problem they are talking about wanting to bring them here so they can vote, i am sponsoring a stepdaughter from mexico now and she has to be in this country five years before she can apply for citizenship and if she receives any benefit from welfare, medical care, anything like that, that makes it more difficult, if not impossible to gain citizenship and my wife is from mexico and she came here in 1985 and i herled immigration to get citizenship here. It is costing 4000 for an attorney to get the stepdaughters citizenship. They cannot vote i get there citizenship and they cannot apply for citizenship until they have been here five years and republicans are using this for an excuse. Most republicans are old white people and they are scared to death that once they are in a therity when they are in majority, they weathe white people like the white people are treating them. Host lets get a response from our guest. Guest we want to be a welcoming country and reform our Legal Immigration system so we can be that welcoming nation. For the world, we are a shining he can of hope and we want to be that. Reforming our Legal Immigration system is important. We also want to secure our borders so people take advantage of the Legal Immigration process. That is when you get the dangerous trip or the situation at the border, more than a Million People estimated to be coming across the border illegally this year. Some of them will be declaring asylum. Many of them are not eligible for asylum. For those that are, we want the judges and resources to be available when they gete. That is not happening and the house bill does not provide Additional Resources for tha kind of asylum request for the judges for the military. Only the humanitarian aid and we need more than that for this crisis at the border. Host what is your reaction to the news the head of customs and Border Patrol resigned, leaving as the border is in crisis . What is your reaction . Guest it is in crisis d has been in crisis. The failure of Speaker Pelosi and the house of representatives to address this crisis is something we can correct if we take up the senate bill. Host how about this part of it that talks about john sanders. He sent his resignation to the acting Homeland Security secretary, did not give a specific reason, but people familiar said he had been overwhelmed by thecaca of the crisis and frequent changes in personnel and policy direction inside the trump administration. Guest i cannot speak to his decisionmaking, but it is unprecedented. We have moved from single individualal adults coming acros the border illegally to whole family units and because of certain decisions, the florez decision with the Supreme Court and the way our laws work, these miners have to be released after 20 days and when they are released, they have to go into health and Human Services custody and that makes it difficult to reunify. We have to change the laws. The speaker is only about continuing the ongoing crisis and we need to make changes to the laws to make sure we can solve it. Host lets go to bob in philadelphia. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I also wanted to thank representative klein for his represent if cline for his vote and his courage. Certainly appreciate that. I wanted to point out how the democrats refuse to debate what the real issues are regarding this invasion, that is what it is. It is an invasion. What they do and what a true coward does is hide behind children. Only a coward would hide behind children. They muddy the water. They will not debate what the real issues are, so they cannot get to the root cause and the root problem. What they will do for their own political benefit is hide behind children. It is so reprehensible. Sobody in some gegenteel manner on the house floor or wherever has to point out that is what they do. They literally hide behind children. It is an act of cowardice. Until they get to the real root problem of why these people are abusing the system, invading our country at a time when we cannot even pay our own bills. We really need a wall or something. Massive Border Protection help from the mexicans or whatever. Maybe parts of all of that. Until we get to that real solution, they are going to continue to hide behind children. Again, representative cline, i think. You are a true patriot. Keep up the good work. Great job. Guest this is an issue we all should get behind. Republican, democrat, this is not a partisan issue when it comes to the health and wellbeing of children comining across our border. There is time to debate Border Security and the wall, there is time to debate Legal Immigration reform. We need resoururces for the military at the border, resources for asylum judges at the border, resources for all kinds of people working at the border over time for our cpb agents working at the border, not just humanitarian assistance that, quite frankly, continues to exacerbate the problem changesany fundamental to the system and Additional Resources for the people on the ground. Host are you in favor of a wall at the border as President Trump like it to be . Guest i am and i do believe we need to continue pressing for a while at the border and increased Border Security in addition to technological improvements, drones, Forcible Entry improvements. There are Different Solutions that need to be applieied, but this is unprecedented. We need to focus on it as a congress and a nation and make sure we can solve this problem as a country. Host this headline says hundreds of tsa workers are being diverted from airports to the southern border. Good idea . Guest right and it is. That is being done without Additional Resources under the house bill. The senate bill would provide resources to provide assistance to the border without jeopardizing security at our airports. We are robbing peter to pay paul and we need to provide those resources to make sure we can get the job done at our airports and the border. Host moving on to west virginia, david on the independent line. Caller we have hundreds of thousands of american citizens, adults and children living in cities inonditionons in west virginia, virginia, and throughout the nation. Can they declare asylum and get funding to get out of the horrible conditions they are in and ththese people are leaving their countries which have no sewage, no plumbing and living in horrible conditions and like i said, citizens in our country, hundreds of thousands are living in worse conditions than they left their countries and they cannot get any funding to get out of the horrible conditions they are in. The media is not covering that, congress is not doing funding for that, but they are covering all of this. Are these people going to move into the samame situations, the horrible conditions our citizens are living in and nobody is paying any interest to . Wh is going on here . They keep complaining for political reasons. Those people are being taken care of a whole lot better than they are in their own countries. Go back and trace these people to their countries, what they are leaving. No sewage, no indoor plumbing and no people at the border, they are staying in the holiday inn hilton compared to what they are leaving. Thisrats could have fixed problem the first two years of obama when they were king if they wanted to. Host lets get a reaction from our guest. This we need to remember is a bipartisan issue and we need to address it as a unified government. The senate bill is a unified bill. Wewe should take it up in the house. The reforms to our asylum laws, asylum is for people escaping war, people under immediate threat to their life, drug, and violence. Many of those coming across the border illegally declaring asylum are looking for a better life and we encourage people to go through the Legal Immigration process to pursue a better life, but the asylum process is not for those people simply seeking an improvement in their economic situation. Host just under 10 minutes left with our guest, republican congressman ben cline. Where is this topic of immigration on the list and hierarchy of issues you hear about at town halls and other places . Guest it is an issue i here at the town halls i have been having. 19 cities and counties and we have had town halls in more than half of them. Immigration is one of the top issues i hear every time. We have a lot of communities with increases of immigration. Harrisonburg and roanoke, lynchburg. We want to be welcoming and we want to make sure there are jobs available, education facilities available for them. It is an important issue for us. Host lets go to jerry in new jersey. Good morning. Caller good morning, evybody. I have one question and a comment. I dont understand why anybody is not asking this. They keep talking about how poor these people are and coming over for economical reason. 8,000s the 5,000, coming from to pay the cartels to bring them over . 5,000, 8,000 per person. If you asked me, i would be stuck in the mud because i would not be able do it. How poor are these people that they are coming up with this money . My comment is please stand behind the president. I am a registered democrat. I cannot even describe that whole thing. Hey have gone nuts i voted for trump and i will vote for him again. Please stand behind him. He is right with this situation and write about iran. Right with just about everything he is doing. Thereanother policy out sort of on a two weekek delay, these massive deportations we have been reading about that were supposed to happen this past sunday, giving democrats in congress two weeks to come up with a solution. Is that a good idea right now . Guest the president understands we need to enforce our laws. For those designated by a judge as here illegally and eligible for deportation, the laws need to be followed in this country. He is sympathetic because he understands there is a humanitarian crisis at the border. He proposed may 1 for a funding bill to address the order crisis. We need to get it done. In the senate bill is the fastest way to g get it done. Calling on the line for undocumented immigigrants. Caller good morning. Longtime watcher, first time caller. I apologize if i feel nervous on the line. Dreamer. I qualify under the dream act. I am able to stay in this country for the time being. My concern happens to be with the children in these Detention Centers being separated from their families. If they were to be released and integrated into american society. For many of these kids who from this point on will only know america as their home and grow up essentially american knowing this american lifestyle, the one i, myself, have lived pretty much my entire life, what will congress do to ensure that these children and other dreamers like to be welcomed into an american society. In my opinion, the president is not doing the duty he is doing to represent americans, documented and undocumented. Guest there is a need to address the issue of those who are coming to this country legally and illegally as children and adults. Unfortunately, what the house has passed is a bill to not just but also provide mass amnesty to those who came across illegally who are adults in this country and that is an unacceptable situation and encourages additional ilLegal Immigration. We need reforms to the Legal Immigration system and the ilLegal Immigration system and most notably, we need to provide resources to the border right now to address this crisis. Host you are on the Judiciary Committee in the house. Robert mueller expected to testify next month. Necessary at this point for mueller to testify and what would you like to learn from him that you may be have not learned from reading the report . Guest i think what we hear from mueller is his testimony is his report. I have a feeling when he is put in the witness chair, that is what we are going to hear a lot of, please look to my report for my answer to this question. We have additional questions. We have additional questions related to how the investigation of the president came about. Ongoing investigations into the irs. We have an inspector generals investigation going on right now. We have a u. S. Attorney investigating the launch of the investigation into the president prior to the Mueller Investigation even occurring and these things need to be asked about and frankly be answered by robert mueller. Host we have a couple more calllls and i want to ask you about something, completely different topic, something called the term act and it has to do with prices of drugs, correct . Talk about this legislation. Guest one of the other issues i am asked about in town Hall Meetings is how we will address the rising cost of prescription drugs. One of the issues we are facing is namebrand Drug Companies all too often hang onto the on their drugs beyond the term of the patent. As they are nearing the end of the term, they will tweak something related to dosage or Something Like that that is peripheral and get a whole new patent that extends the life of the drug, extends the term of the drug and does not allow it w shift the burden of proof to the Drug Companies, force the Drug Companies to come in and explain why this is new and novel, why should it not go generic . If the bden of proof is shifted, hopefully we will have more generics and lower cost for consumers. Comments. Uple the first question i had is understanding the environment these individuals are coming from from various countries, not just mexico. My question is in these Detention Centers, what health care screenings are being done because the diseases that are endemic in this countries these countries run the gamut of not tuberculosis, it was that long ago that the headlines and mosquitous abatement programs in florida and the puerto rican numbers of zika virus and that this virus can carry for prolonged periods of time with advisories to males sexfemales to abstain from because it could transmit to their partner and these children are born with severe abnormalities. This a concern that possibility of a massive demand on our medical systems where these individuals are bei transported to. And arare they being followed . Placed somewhere, is there any medical or Health Department follow upup on these individuals to ensure we are not alonging a medical crisis with individuals that are coming here washington journal live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. You can