complicated? building a building that s 95 stories tall. okay. it s going to be made of hardened concrete and made out of rebarr and steel. year going to win at the border and build this butdful, beautiful powerful big wall and mexico s going to pay for that wall. mexico s going to pay. big, beautiful rebar, concrete, mexico s going to pay. after mexico told trump what he could do to his wall, he came back with a new plan w the republican party in complete control, he said he would hold dozens of d.a.c.a. eligible fol folks hostage in exchange for wall money. the negotiator didn t fraul it. he says no to the 25 billion and managed to negotiate himself into the amazing position of
leadership in on that conversation. i have not been in on conversations like that but i assume those it dialogue, happening. obviously, daca and protected undocumented, and hopefully there is a future debate on immigration during this time. daca doesn t have to be part of it as a requirement. hopefully it will be a requirement, but it doesn t have to be, because it pushed off past the president s election. your take on this idea of amnesty? the president tweeted when people suggested this was amnesty like ann coulter, no, amnesty is not part of my offer and amnesty will be used only on a much bigger deal whether immigration or something else. what do you make of that? the president the president s willingness to embrace amnesty in a bigger deal? i need clarification with the president how he defines it as that. i ve been outspoken for daca and daca eligible, we should have a
votes. i point you to what speaker paul ryan has said, he says even if this doesn t pass, this will sow the seeds for a future solution. when the supreme court weighs in on daca, which it is expected to by the end of the year, that will force a deadline. maybe you see the components of this bill be in that endgame there. but at the moment, there is no clear end game. you mentioned the president s tweet. had that come a week ago, maybe it would have had an effect. i m not doubting it could swing one or two votes. but nobody has known where he has been on this bill. a lot of conservatives are very uncomfortable how they treat daca individuals in this bill. so the final number might tick up a little bit. i will note according to one republican aide, the all caps in the president s tweet, that was not the direct request of leadership. the tweet was, not the all caps. phil mattingly up on capitol
that from the president who last week said congress is wasting their t phil, what s going to happen? reporter: that will vote and the vote will fail. i think the interesting element of this, you think about the house republican conference in years of going at one another on this extremely divisive issue that it is immigration, they re going to have a vote on the floor, on a bill that ovs the u.s. immigration system, one that includes a solution and a pathway to citizenship for daca eligible, one that cuts the diversity visa program, one that cuts family visas down, like the president requested. yet it is on path to fail rather miserably according to several aides that i ve spoken to. there is no real what i ve been told many times unicorn when it comes to immigration inside the republican party. this is something that has to be done in the house in a bipartisan manner if it isng to get the number of requisite
should get to daca until we ve taken care of the promises that we made in the republican agenda when we ran and got elected on that agenda. kelly: but, congressman, the president has made this an agenda for you, you members of congress, saying something needs to be done to address this program, and it needs to be done within the six months. that s what the president has issued. will republicans get behind the president and up with a way of working this out which would include the border security and, again, getting to the point the president s talking about this is not about amnesty, it s about helping people who are already here, young people who came here no will of their own no fault of their own. well, there s a couple of points to be made about that. kelly: sure. number one is we re not just talking about young people, we re talking people up to age 35. these are self-reported coming here, so there s some internal problems. there s reports of fraud there. we know about 20% o