impossible to get out. remember everybody all of a sudden thought it was an amnesty bill. one of the things on that point was president bush got absolutely no help from the left either. >> bill: let's keep in it this. so president bush is watching this whole thing dissolve. okay, because commentators that oppose the mccain-kennedy bill -- i tried not to make it personal. i said many times if i were a poor man in mexico i would sneak across the border and try to make money to feed my family. but i didn't like the policy aspect of it because it didn't secure the border so i opposed the bill. but other people obviously made it very personal and obviously took the bill and said it was amnesty and a sellout. republican party didn't support it. so how hard did president bush