laboring organizing network, he is an undocumented father of four who has lived in the united states for more than 25 years. his only criminal record is for misdemeanor driving offences including a dui. the organization is leading a petition to prevent his deportation. joining me now is antonio vargas, founder of define american. he attended trump s joint address to congress as a guest of nancy pelosi. i want to get your impressions in the room when you heard donald trump, whose policies caused that 12-year-old to be crying in that car, said that he wanted to create something called v.o.i.c.e., the victims of immigrant crime, and an e. what did you feel when you heard that? victims of immigration crime
this notion that because there are five different ideas is a sign of weakness is ridiculous. should we all be listening to whatever they mandate down our throat and voting for a law and find out what s in it after we pass it the way the democrats did a few years ago? it s a good thing there are a lot of different ideas. other republicans told us they didn t think the president spoke like a member of the gop. he sounded like a proud american who tried to inspire the american people and wants to help move the country forward, bill. bill: what s the criticism from democrats? what are they saying this morning, mike? they don t love that obamacare criticism. they continue defending it. on russia democratic lawmakers said they wish the president said he had nothing to hide and he wanted to call for a special prosecutor or independent investigation and also those critical of the president s call for a probe into victims of immigrant crime. i think that office is ridiculous. obviousl
where he shifted his tone. i love the way he started but i think it was a late add on to say it s the end of black history month and i am concerned about the hatred and division. but he does that add on and i appreciated it. i thought it was an important message to the country. but then he goes on and he plays the fair card. he starts talking about this voices project, voices of people who have been victims of immigrant crime. he starts talking about the loss of jobs, restarting the american engine as if we haven t. we started an engine that crashed during the recession back in 09. he starts talking about the schools, very important issue for me, but he talks about it in such a way to make it only affecting blacks and latinos. i think this is the bigger issu issue. bret: but he did say it is the civil rights issue of our
i love the way he started but i think it was a late add on to say it s the end of black history month and i am concerned about the hatred and division. but he does that add on and i appreciated it. i thought it was an important message to the country. but then he goes on and he plays the fair card. he starts talking about this voices project, voices of people who have been victims of immigrant crime. he starts talking about the loss of jobs, restarting the american engine as if we haven t. we started an engine that crashed during the recessionwe back in 09. he starts talking about the schools, very important issue for me, but he talks about it in such a way to make it only affecting blacks and latinos. i think this is the bigger issue. bret: but he did say it is the civil rights issue of our time. you stole my line.
from the democratic party. trump won overwhelmingly in kentucky. i think the only person in the state who didn t vote for donald trump. i agree with chris completely on trump s speech. without the affect, there was nothing scary about it. he explained what he believes as a populist. even for moderate democrats, there were some things obamacare. but not big things, actually. merit-based immigration system? who is against that? who knows if trump will stick to this template, one hopes. democrats did not greet him or applaud when he said we would put american interests first. they groaned when he brought up the victims of immigrant crime, raising the question, whose side are you on?