enforce funding mechanisms to ensure sanctuary cities don t make us less safe. a sanctuary city that is supposed to putnam county makes the residents of putnam county less safe. clayton: it s a spillover effect and then this affect surrounding counties. it s going to be an interesting four years. it is day two of donald trump s presidency. a busy week ahead of us. we appreciate it. clayton, thank you so much. in putnam county, we celebrate naturalization. we celebrate immigrants coming here. great ceremonies of public officials. this is about criminal illegal aliens, people who are here illegally and commit crimes against their citizens and people. that s why it the country are standing up for. well said he thank you so
challenge to persuade saudi officials and says donors constitute some of the most significant sources of funding for sunni groups and until we deal with that we re dealing with this problem. well i m not sure to be honest if i agree with the premise of your question only because it s not the saudis contribute to what s happening but they weren t the cause, the root cause. the situation in syria is clearly what is driving driven the creation of isil and the continuation of it. and unfortunately, our policy is murky. the u.s. policy is murky and so we have to take a look at that and then we have to take a look as you pointed out the funding mechanisms. they re almost become self sustaining with the cities and oil refineries captured and the social but they may not have gotten to this level at all, this level
i m just pointing out how absurd government treats these funding mechanisms. they throw money at the problem. they re not going to solve the problem p.m. i m trying to take president obama up on his offer. he s correct, we ve got to expedite deportations. we want to help him with that. senator john cornyn will introduce that will. let s fix that problem. let s stop the incentives. eliminate the incentives for these parents sending their children to this country. you know another thing we re not really talking about? so many of these unaccompanied children are teenage boys that just might be actually used by the drug cartel to set up networks in the united states. we also have to take a look at this as a national security problem and if we just and this basically is what we re doing, we re releasing these people in the general population. that s a real national security threat as well. the best solution is returning them. one quick final thought on the point of returning them. going
unemployment benefits which ran out on saturday. now it s up to congress to extend those benefits. but the democrat leading the charge told me this morning that any deal they reach will likely be short-term. take a listen. i d like to be able to say we have a year. to keep the program going, we thought and the senator and i thought a three-month extension giving us the time to look at changes in funding mechanisms and all those things would be the appropriate way to go, not leave people high and dry, give them some hope we re going to fix this on longer term basis. with me to break it down jonathan capehart, writer for washington post and msnbc contributor. mark murray political editor and karen a political editor with the washington post. thanks to all of you for joining me. happy new year. i want to go around the horn. mark, i ll start with you. what are the prospects for
director at omb. a very capable guy. i think the problems with obama care are much deeper than a website. we re going to have to see what the composition of the population that s enrolled is. i suspect it s very light on young healthy people and probably long on older people that are going to be very exmembersive to take care of. there s a lot of other problems with it. some of the funding mechanisms, medical device tax are pretty unpopular. so believe me, i think the website is the beginning of the problems. it s not the end. it s a deeply flawed, you know, law. and we can do some things to try and mitigate that. we already have. and i d like forward to working with my democratic friends. but long-term, this is not going to be a program that, would out well. what are you hearing from folks in oklahoma who never really had health insurance but can now purchase it? they ve had pre-existing conditions or they were very