democrats chose not to have a tough vote to protect themselves. so i go back to the point, i ll criticize democrats and republicans. yeah. it is true. they were in charge of the house, senate and the white house, and they purposely chose to punt on immigration issues including daca. that s a fact. here s problem sure. maria, to ben s point, with the six-month delay yeah. is that showing do you see compassion in that? no. he has the power to just say it s over, i lidon t like it, i done. he s saying do your job, congress. if there was real compassion, what he would do is say, congress, do your job as soon as you pass something and put it on my desk, i will sign it then daca will essentially be irreleva irrelevant. why not do that? that s what he s saying with six months to pass no, he s not, he s ending it with a six-month delay, ben. no, he s saying congress, do your job because i m not going have a why do you want to instill fear in 800,000 im
he sign it, will he sign it? or will he kowtow to his anti-immigrant again, listen to what the president said about these dreamers and about those in the daca program. he has said we need to have compassion. there s a lot of republicans that say the same thing. i agree. so will he sign it? you know this. you know this. congress this is what i think congress should do. they should have a very simple bill. a very simple vote on this. and make it very clear without putting in all the other crap that congress loves to put in bills to screw things up or to make it where it doesn t actually get to the president. and the president said, you ve got six months to do it, do your job in the next six months and i think that s the right play for the president. it shows compassion to these individuals. right. and it doesn t keep them wondering what s going to happen in their future. will he sign it? i m only laughing because here s one thing that i know with almost certainty is tha
congress job is to pass laws. the president s job is to sign those laws or veto them. there s been no indication from this president that i agree with that. he s not going to be compassionate or somehow veto. a lot of indication of that. you got six months to get your act together because i m not going to keep this insanity going. do your job, get the legislation passed, and let s give some clarity to these young people that were brought here by their parents against their will or without their knowledge, they were too young to understand what was going on. let s be compassionate. i m in favor, by the way, of giving them a pathway. that s great, ben. here s a critical question for you. so, are you saying that if tomorrow, congress, let s say they pass the bill in the senate, they pass the bill in the house and they put a bill on the president s desk on thursday, that gives a pathway to citizenship to these 800 million or 1.5 million, actually, how many dreamers there are
a threat to the united states or our allies to act then inform congress like he did in syria then if there was a broader, you know, war that lasted way beyond that, of course, congress would need to step in. so, congress is headed back to work. you re all getting back to work tomorrow. the president is also planning a big announcement tomorrow on so-called dreamers. the latest word is that he s going to end the obama-era program which, of course, protects young people who are brought to the united states illegally as children. but with a six-month delay to awe l allow congress time to act, do you have confidence that congress will? you know, i do. i m not as pessimistic as a lot of people i ve heard talk about it. let any just say this, i wish he wouldn t end it. i voted to support daca. i think people that are brought here as children and know no other country should actually be given an opportunity to be here legally. that said, there s a lot of republican support for a program l
i m not as pessimistic as some people. i think we can actually get this done in the next six months. depends what tone the president takes. if he says i m ending this because it was an illegal executive order and congress needs to handle this through the law, i think we can get it done. if he says it s a terrible program, it needs to go away, it will be more difficult in our party to get the votes but there s plenty of us that would support something like this. do you think he s punting or shirking responsibility? do i think who s shirking? the president with this decision if this is what he announces tomorrow? not necessarily. i think, look, i think his position, he s obviously very strong on imfwramigration enforcement, immigration control. which i am, too. i believe we need border security. but i think it depends what he says tomorrow. i m looking towa ining forward statement, says, i want congress to act on this, i think the executive order is the wrong way to do it, that s