saying let s rewrite the 2008 law, guaranties that process they want to take that process away or make sure it happens more quickly. if you get that done, that opens the gateway to how much money the president won t get $4 billion but something. if the president and speaker boehner are talking past each other, who emerges to be the voice of reason to get us a deal? yesterday you saw a voice of reason, the republican congressman of florida, working on the undocumented portion of the house bill and wanted to do something to give some sort of status, guest workers, whatever, for the undocumented people and he was talking about yesterday this is the border crisis is a reason for reform, not for republicans to say you see this? the speaker told him to go away, right? wasn t happy about it and also the dreamers, the idea maybe you should deport the dreamers and he s saying that s not helpful. the president says no because
colleague wolf blitzer early last week. here s what she said when asked how many children will be sent home? we believe a majority are unlikely to qualify for humanitarian relief. how do you define majority and ultimately, in the sense of majority, is that half plus one or is it 50%, is it 60%? that would not satisfy the right and ultimately is it in the next weeks or months and years down the road. as a footnote the l.a. times did great research in fiscal year 2013, 20,805 unaccompanied children apprehended, 8% of them returned, only 8% of them. you ve put your finger on one of the biggest problems, the trust deficit. republicans are very, very open about saying the simple fact is we don t trust this president to propose the right policy, we don t trust this president to implement the right policy so that s a huge part of this log jam in washington, d.c. you point out the majority issue is a big issue but the administration would say we
needs of the country. we are getting short changed. the three men wrote friday in the new york times it s time for 535 american citizens to remember what they owe to the 318 people who employ them. gentlemen, well put and good lucks. buffett, gates and adelson want sweeping immigration reforms, not happening, not this year but the most pressing question is can the president and his critics especially house republicans get past the war of words we ve seen in the past week and find common ground how to deal with the pressing border crisis, molly ball, the surge of the undocumented children. they re talking at and past each other. there seem to be some seeds of compromise. will they get it done? i think this coming week may be the week we finally start to find an answer to that question. there is a lot of aagreement that something needs to be done and i think this past week was largely consumed with the side show whether the president ought to go to the border and a lot of this partis
part never came. if the president wants to get a deal that language isn t going to help. it s almost silly that we re even still having this conversation whether the president can get a deal. this has been over for a long time. it s coming up again because there is now a border crisis, but i think immigration reform has been off the table for basically the better part of this year, and so that s part of why i think the president feels liberated to go off on the republicans when he made his speech about the executive actions that he was planning to take, feels like a century ago but really just a couple of weeks ago, the reason he did that, he had finally given up hope and finally been told the house republicans weren t going to do it. they ve been stringing along their allies in the business community but this wasn t going to happen, and i think despite or more intensely because of what s happening on the border this isn t going to happen. you see on the senate side
and knows after the election he ll be up for the gavel again, wants conservatives behind him. you have the speaker emotional and volatile in his message against the president and the president seems to be campaigning. i picked on john boehner saying where d he go, i don t see leadership right now and i get the dynamic in his party. some people say it s because there s a democrat in the white house. listen to the president saying he doesn t understand why today s republicans won t do what their hero once did. ronald reagan passed immigration reform. you love ronald reagan. let s go ahead and do it. i mean, what changed? i m just sayin . he knows, molly ball, what changed and that s not helpful either. republicans remembered the reagan bill where they granted amnesty to a lot of undocumented people and said they d improve border security and the second