trying to solve the dreamer issue, alex, i ll hold you to it. they re hard issues. for some on the right, they don t believe no. this is it s disingenuous to say the democrats are not focused on the issue. this is a pet peeve of mine. president obama didn t take care of it. he played politics, including democrat. rather than reaching across the aisle to marco rubio, he signed an executive amnesty which has been caught up in the courts and the next president easily revoked. jon: we have to dave it up. dave and alex, good discussion. thank you. melissa: kim jong-un makes a secret trip to china. what we re learning about the latest meeting ahead of a highly anticipated summit with president trump. hello, aloe.
i give credit to the trump administration for enforcing laws that the obama administration simply ignored and for the trump administration sending national guard troops to the border, doing what they can to put pressure to fix our broken legal immigration system, to fix our border security problems. however, at the end of the day, it requires congressional action. i hope president trump puts more pressure on congress to act and tries to make a deal, this is a real opportunity for president trump since reagan to fix our immigration system. democrats had the white house, house and the senate in the early years of the obama administration and didn t do anything then. why not? come on, jon. i was with alex in the senate in 2013 when the senate passed bipartisan immigration reform. you ll recall paul ryan and john boehner and others in the house wouldn t move it. you had control of all three bodies. again, when we focused on
interdiction, the types of issues that should be a prosecutorial priority for the administration, properly on the i-5 corridor. so again, i think i disagree with alex and much of what he said. what is sad about this debate, it s about politics for the president. he s not interested in finding a bipartisan solution to immigration. it s politics ahead of the mid terms and trying to rally his base. there is terrible gang violence in honduras and also in venezuela, brazil. you can t open your doors to the entire world is the argument. alex, your take. there s always room in america for asylum seekers. there s people that are legitimate troubled that under the current administration we re talking far fewer refugees than we have in the past. the fundamental issue here is that our legal immigration system is broken. that puts pressure on all aspects of america s immigration system.
children from their parents. he didn t say it would happen. alex, give us your take on these policies as announced by the attorney general. some people assume that jeff sessions is doing this because he doesn t want trump to fire him. obviously president trump has been very critical of the justice department and the attorney general. i worked for marco rubio for 2013 when we tried to fix the immigration system. jeff sessions was the top proponent on that. he s a hardliner on the immigration issue. my hope is he s measures by the president and this administration will put pressure on congress to finally fix the problem. we have a broken immigration system. the reason people keep pouring in is because we need to do more on border security. we have to modernize the system and deal with the undocumented people currently in the united states including dreamers. it s the congress responsibility.
consulate in seattle. joining us now for political perspective, richard fowler and alex conan, partner at firehouse strategies. thanks for being here. morning. good to be here, jon. jon: alex, last week the president was being escoriated and now he s expelling diplomats. how do you explain? his thoughts on russia are far more than what the critics say. he congratulated him on winning a fake election despite what his advisers reportedly recommended him to do. he turns around and has the tough actions today in concert with our european allies, this