george, the washington post obtained elizabeth warren s 1986 registration card for the texas bar where she identifies as american indian. why is this important? why is this story not going away, george will? well, it s important first of all because she s not an american indian in any meaningful sense. second, she has denied using the identification as an american indian to game the diversity system in american academia and elsewhere. this seems to go against it. third, it s not going away because they keep finding documents like that card for the texas bar association. there might be more for all we know. it seems to me in politics, you can withstand being criticized. you can withstand people being mad at you. very hard to withstand people laughing at you. this is approaching the laughter stage. the race, she says american
too often. i think he s telling the democrats and republicans, come with a bipartisan solution for immigration. let s work together. dana: i think they would say that they did that though and it wasn t enough money for the president. why didn t he counter? they did not do that. when you re talking about two very different, i would say, moderate to liberal senators who have their proposal months ago and coming in saying this is a great deal. when you look at the deal, it s a weak deal because it decreases illegal immigration. it doesn t end the diversity system. they didn t close the loopholes. it didn t empower our i.c.e. agents. for the president is asking for is for real immigration reform so we stop the cycle of illegal immigrants coming into the country. we have a legal system, and that is what we want to ensure that we enforce and that we are able to fix our broken immigration system for something, as you know, has been a very difficult
about this merit-based system as opposed to the diversity system, kind of an open lottery. wouldn t it be better to get people who have certain skills that we know would help our economy? you bet, david. we should have a merit system. a point scale with points awarded for being willing to work really, really hard or having advanced degrees and under my points system, people from mexico and china would get high scores. and rich, we know that this merit-based system works in other countries, we ve seen it in australia and elsewhere. yeah, and canada. by the way, donald trump, before he was president, debated steve bannon on this issue on bannon s radio show and trump made the strong persuasive case for me t merit-based immigration and trump needs to go back, he won that debate. david: john, you re a nay sayer. you haven t convinced me the federal government wouldn t know what we should import and