why this notion that my fighting amnesty, made me a supporter of am nesty. jeff sessions voted with me on my amendment to eliminate citizenship. is anyone remotingly suggesting that jeff sessions supports amnesty? of course not. we were fighting side by side to defeat marco rubio s bill for amnesty. the problem is at the time you were telling people like byron york with the washington examiner that this was not a poisoned bill. you said my objective is not to kill immigration reform. my question to you is looking back at what you said then and what oar saying now, which one should people believe? what the amendments i introduced, i introduced five amendments, a whole series of amendments, they illustrated the hypocrisy of the democrats. they showed it was a partisan effort and they succeeded in defeating the rubio/humor amnesty bill. the biggest news on immigration came after five
backed off, and meanwhile, he s sending out mailers saying he s fighting amnesty, he was really being hammered from both sides, there s been a lot of negative attention on him from the pro amnesty crowd. there s something in the republican base that this issue just winds them up in a way that very few do. i ve seen it up close and personal as a reporter reporting on this issue through the years. he gets something very visceral in a certain part of the republican base. this idea of invasion, this idea of being overrun, this idea that people are going to come and pull out the rug from under you, where you live. sure, chuck todd spoke to that tonight that you see it much more prevalent in the south, largely it s because we re the states that are most largely impacted by it, so you see a more visceral reaction, a