obviously each senator is going to have to make up his own or her own mand and i respect that. but does this hurt your cause as you try to recruit a heidi heidekamp on your side? i have a great deal of respect for that. senator schumer, i have to leave it there. we have a businessy morning and a packed show. i thank you. thank you. happy passover. nice to talk to you. now for the republican perspective, another member of the so-called gang of eight, jeff flake. senator, welcome. senator, let me start thanks for having me on. let me start with the same question that i started with senator schumer at the beginning. how close are we to a deal? are you guys there? is it just dotting an i and cross i crossing a t ? we re much closer with labor and business agreeing on the guest worker plan. that doesn t mean we ve crossed every i6 or dotted every t or vice versa.
legislation are finalized are premature. he is one of the gang of eight senators trying to hammer out an agreement. he urged pat leahy that the bill goes through rigorous hearings once introduced. you have said that delay for delay s sake would be mistake and i agree but a lasting solution is more dangerous to the goals that many of us share. others expressed optimism today. as senator rubio has said, we will not come to a final agreement until we look at all the legislative language. he is correctly pointed out that hasn t been fully drafted. we are much closer with labor and business on this guest worker plan. that doesn t mean we have crossed every i or dotted every t. and lindsay graham says we have a deal. the white house is hopeful that
come to final agreement until we look at all of the legislative language and he correctly is pointing out that language hasn t been fully drafted. we are much closer with labor and business growing on this guest worker plan. that doesn t mean we have crossed every i or dotted every t. and senator graham of south dakota said we have a deal. the white house is also hopeful that a spokesman said the president continues to be encouraged by progress made by the bipartisan group of senators. we look forward to seeing language when it is introduced and expect legislation to move forward as soon as possible. a crucial agreement last week assures guest workers would be paid no less than the median wage in their industry. gregg: thank yous steve, from washington, dc. all over the world, christians celebrated the holiest day of the year and in new york city standing room only at st. patrick s cathedral, with
obstacle overcome. as senator rubio says, we said we wouldn t come to final agreement until we look at all of the language. he s correctly point outing that language has been fully drafted. we re much closer with labor and business agreeing on this guest worker plan. that doesn t mean we ve crossed every i or dotted every t. we re closer certainly. the white house is also optimistic, a spokesman saying the president continues to be encouraged by progress being made by the senators. we look forward to seeing language once it s introduced and expect it to move forward. the agreement assures workers would be paid no less than minimum wage. the bill could be introduced in a next few weeks. thanks so much. now more on the immigration deba debate. he just heard from democratic senator chuck schumer brokering the deal between u.s. chamber of
eight of us next month. we are much closer with labor and business agreeing on the guest worker plan. that doesn t mean we have crossed every i or dotted every t but we still have a ways to go in terms of looking at language and making sure that it is everything we thought it would be. we are closer, certainly. gregg: now we have doug schoen and a former spokesman for governor jeb bush and publisher of www.safetyreview.com. i think there will be a deal, we heard that from senators flake and schumer. the devil is not in the details but it is in the tea party and the republican right. they blocked it in 2006. the republican party is no less adamant in its base that they don t want to do immigration reform. they want to protect the borders