president has initially tried to own up. we have to get more asylum judges, frankly transfer administrative law judges and get them out there to process claims, in the medium term we need to pass ultimately pass some immigration legislation, the president has put it forward, frankly the democrats ought to take yes for answer, put daca numbers, 144,000, that s a city the size of british port, connecticut, savannah, georgia, big number and coming in every month. if you added the daca kids into the immigration bill, that s half the number. get it done, get it done now. finally, you have to go back into the countries and realize that without rule of law and we worked in a lot of the countries, without rule of law and incentive to stay there we will keep having problems, we have to work on that too. tremendously interesting to see how changes that méxico says they are going to make now because they are word about the tariffs, do i think i do
supported that would have built the president s security fence, the the border wall and structure. would have reformed the broken immigration system that we have right now. that cost too much and takes too long for people going through the legal system. we would have had a path to legal status for daca kids and dremers and stopped kids from being separated from parents. but it got caught up in politics. no democrat voted for it. not enough republicans voted for it. and it s a clear lack of leadership on both sides. okay. and despite this, though, the tariffs on mexico which is the president s response. so you know, we can move aside from the moment of the blame on why we are suddenly having the crisis, right now. to the issue of a solution. his solution now is i m going to go around congress and put on tariffs. they re going on i m not blufrg process starting at 5%. going up to 25%. you don t agree with that, why? no, i don t agree with that approach. i certainly hope that the pres
will do merit based, certain who you will do familial, and he won t break everything. it won t make it a bit happy, but i don t think we can at this point anyway. the question is still there. i want to know the answer to this. if you deport people, that particular situation has to be equal. lisa: we ve got a little bit of time but i want to get you in on this as well, jessica. jessica: there is a big element to our conversation in the proposal, which is the daca kids. the dreamer s prayer that s where chuck pelosi and nancy chuck schumer in nancy pelosi the given interview where they said it s a complicated agreement for there is an agreement about the daca kids and letting them stay. keeping them in america, it also didn t address the 11 million who are already here. maybe according to harvard it s 11 million or 13 million. there s millions who enter illegally. this plan doesn t address them.
issues we are facing, doesn t address the d aca kids or the 11 million undocumented folks in the united states. it doesn t even get the president s signature plan of building the wall and having mexico pay for it. there is nothing in this plan for anybody. take it from and coulter to lindsey graham, republicans aren t for it. how is the president going to pass it when nobody republican or democratic party s for it? you know it is a bad plan when you can t get anybody on board. rob: the start of a negotiation. he wants to do a merit-based immigration plan. what do you think? the president and some of the republicans, the only ones concerned about getting something done and not just spewing out rhetoric but getting something done and i believe in
here, the daca kids. any chance that that can be addressed? in order for us to address the issue of immigration, we have to solve the problem at the southern border. you ll see willingness on the side of the administration that we ve seen in the last couple years. the president was willing to have the conversation about daca, the visa system. so it seems that the president has a strong desire as i do to address the issues of the legal immigration system to make sure that we have the work force of the future here in america. that has to happen after the prerequisite of dealing with the southern border is solved. tim scott, an honor and pleasure. thanks, charles. president trump s former attorney michael cohen testifying on capitol hill earlier. he said he would make a statement. if he speaks, we ll bring that to you live. democratic congress woman ilhan omar refusing to answer questions about what critics are calling her anti-semitic remarks. you know who is talking?