continently denying this. we should note in the contents of the hiv aides epidemic that it s something that is not just impacting african countries. and in fact pet far started during the republican bush administration several years ago reporting out just this week, that more than 85 million folks worldwide received hiv aides testing and more than 13 million folks through pet far received anti-retro viral therapy as a result to combat that epidemic. in terms of answering your questions, i ve talked to several senior officials on capitol hill before they headed out for the recess, and immigration is something they feel this administration has delivered on in terms of promises in the sense they ve been able to stop illegal activity at the u.s. mexico border. but to kelly s reporting, you know, look, there is no question that when lawmakers get back on capitol hill they are going to have to deal with the d.r.e.a.m. er issue with daca.
odds with the official white house story. so what makes this interesting is that it ties in to an issue that is central to the president s sort of campaign life and what he tried to accomplish in his first year in office, but had a real struggle with, and that is dealing with what s been called the travel ban, where the president wanted to set limitations on immigration into the united states bordered by different federal courts overtime. and this relates to system of the same subject matter. and the policy review that the president was sort of wrapping this meeting around came from one of his top advisers, steven miller, who authored a memo the president was reading. steven miller has a hard line approach to immigration, influence to the president in that way. so it does have political ramifications. at the same time the paper of course notes that its sources did not want to be quoted on the record because the meeting happened many months ago in june, we don t know because of
children program, meaning children were brought to the united states and they have been given some provisions to not be removed from the united states. they are the d.r.e.a.m.ers as they ve been commonly known. the president has shown willingness to come up with some sort of agreement to permit them to have permanent residency. not necessarily a path towards citizenship. that s part of the political debate. but that s a topic where there could be expectation soon. the president has shown a willingness to talk about that. we know from the president s political history that he s much harder on other issues relating to ramping up deportation, being willing to separate families in order to do that, wanting to end what s known as chain migration, where when one individual comes to the united states, other immediate family members are given access because of their proximity in family ties. the president says that is something he wants to see changed. so in the new year, look for some of thos
the turn over at the white house if those sources still are employed at the white house, or not, that would be interesting to know. and certainly the white house is saying it didn t happen. so it s left to the viewer to assess does it sound like the president to you, is it an issue that matters to you, do you trust that reporting. those kinds of things are really where people consuming this news today have to kind of factor it all in. white house it saying it didn t happen. the times is saying it did a lot of reporting to back up that story. david. let me ask you, we didn t get an end of the year news conference from the president. he did field a few questions from the reporters and laid out what some of his pry yortioriti for the new year. where can we expect the new year to go with immigration? reporter: one of the big news has to do with what s known as daca, deferred action on alien
they kicked the can down the road in one month in terms of the partial government funding bill, called continuing resolution, that will keep the government funded through january 20th. and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying at a press conference saying before leaving town that he feels that the d.r.e.a.m. er issue, daca issue they ll have enough time to address that sometime before march. kurt, let me ask you about this piece here, that is the press s frustration where immigration is, frustration with the policy making apparatus in washington d.c. how do you react to what you read in the times today? well, when you start off with the president saying something offensive and beneath the dignity of the office, it s sort of like, man, dog bites man. we are seeing this constantly. the rest of the piece i think is particularly important, because what you are seeing is, number one, significant chaos in the