if we do allow former director mueller who is honorable and good man to not only complete his investigation but to report to the nation all the findings and facts he s got. we re jumping out on things that congress sees or jumping out on things that the president said. let s let bob mueller do his job. thank you for weighing in on that. immigration. the give on the part of the president if he would allow that characterization is that there will be a pathway of citizenship for d.r.e.a.m.ers. that is something that s taken as a foregone conclusion, there s a big part of your party that doesn t like that. how much resistance is there today idea? let me say this, we ve been working for a number of years on the house side for this exact same issue. we looked at it differently. we looked at it in terms of daca. we understand these young people came to the united states not as legal adults.
of the union, it doesn t have much impact. it doesn t move public opinion much, especially less likely to be the case now in these polarizing times we live in. it doesn t lead to members of congress changing their opinions and moving toward legislation they had previously posed. in the moment, i think president trump gets what he wants. in addition to what jeff reported, i m tomd not toonly backward but forward looking and the tax reform to help toward everyone s successes. the white house tells democrats their immigration plan is as good as it s going to ge . while the music world stands up for d.r.e.a.m.ers. i m here on this stage tonight, because just like the
we use immigration to reunify families oss one of our great positives not as a challenge or weakness. we would like to find an appropriate balance between skill based immigration and family based immigration. some of the proposals put out by the white house are really extreme in terms of attacking both family-based migration and diversity as one of the goals of migration. there is an overall difference in our views. i think there is a shared compassion by the american people for the d.r.e.a.m.ers who were brought here through no fault of their own by their parents. our broader view as a democratic party is it s part of the strength of america. it brings the energy and the talent and skills around the world from different cultures to help strengthen america going forward. there is clearly folks on the other side of this debate from us who have an exact opposite view. and i think this should be looked at not as a zero sum game where we make concessions to our
of sexual abuse and local gold star families and local africans who are so we will be watching the state of the union but i will not enter the chamber. okay. on mission, you said recently the president in your words is holding d.r.e.a.m.ers hostage. now he pinned it on you guys over the weekend in a tweet we ll get to in a moment on democrats, but you know this white house proposal that officially comes out today does create a path for citizenship to 1.8 million not only d.r.e.a.m.ers but would be d.r.e.a.m.ers who just didn t apply to the program promptly enough. are you encouraged to see that from this white house? well, i have seen this president waffle back and forth on every promise he s made regarding d.r.e.a.m.ers. you don t buy it? i have a huge d.r.e.a.m.er supporter and i don t believe anything he says.
disunifying tweet, does that really matter? i think at this point in the trump presidency, he s got a lot to prove day in and day out by his behavior, lornts we can actually assess that there has been some sort of shift in his approach to the job. david, there are some democrats, a lot, a few, that are boycotting. we had wilson from florida on earlier. she s not going. she said she s going to watch with her constituents. do you think that s an effective play for democrats here when they re trying to hash out a deal for d.r.e.a.m.ers, an immigration deal? i think it s a pretty safe play for someone like congresswoman wilson who can just play to her base and that s really she s not in a district that she s got to try to auwoo the middle. for certain members it can work for them politically. i m a big believer of everybody should show up and hear what the president of the united states has to say. corey booker said the same thing. he doesn t see it as honoring