several central american nations at the white house next week. he ll talk about stemming the tide of illegal immigrant children with the presidents of el salvador, honduras and guatemala. we re waiting for congress to act on the president s $3.7 billion emergency funding request. there are two weeks left in the session and some lawmakers want substantial policy strings attached. let s bring in brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to george w. bush, and a professor of public policy, politics and international affairs at georgetown university, and jehmu green, former president of the women s media center, fox news contributor and co-founder of define american, a campaign to elevate the immigration conversation. thank you for joining us. brad, you say president obama is neglecting to include a key country in these meetings, mexico. absolutely. but for mexico letting these child migrants come across their border, they would have never gotten to our border and had our border been secure
their districts to be out there saying impeach and all of that, but as you know all too well, it doesn t work for the party nationally and could be a huge problem going in to 2016. i must say for the wall street journal editorial board to talk about extremism is a little much. they have certainly been guilty of that themselves to put it mildly. or, harold, maybe it s a sign things have gotten so extreme they even see it extreme? well, that s true. jeremy, i guess the question for you. you talked about speaking to democratic senators about this immigration conversation. what are republican senators and other leaders in the republican party, in light of what this impeachment talk as it grows a little bit and hearing from sarah palin do you have a sense they want to distance themselves from her as well and deal with serious and more meaningful issues the country wants to focus on? absolutely. i think it s a question how
again, it s a border policy question. governor perry is also raising a competence question. why don t they respond? they may just say i m just a republican, but i m the governor and they don t even respond to me. this gets into a lot of issues republicans think are good for them politically. one is the issue of competence. we ve seen it come up not only with immigration, the recent veterans affairs scandals, things like that. on immigration for republicans, what s interesting is this comes at a time when the white house is trying to pin the blame for comprehensive immigration reform not happening on republicans. this in a way allows republicans to shift the immigration conversation back to the white house and say that things at the white house did are to blame for what s happening at the border. if the president goes forward with more executive actions, we could be seeing similar situations for years to come. republicans think they have the upper hand. house speaker john boehner
may be hurt. people are risking their lives. it s an incredible thing to be here on the border and see so many mothers and children and have the opportunity to talk to them and hear about their harrowing journey. they believe this place, the united states is a beacon of peace and justice. and their hope is that their dangerous situations will be ak nojted by this country and they will be able to seek safety here. adrian, it s like the ones we ve been seeing at the border. hearing the stories like the ones we heard in alex wagner s piece. what do those pictures, interviews, what, if any, do they do to the immigration conversation in this country? yeah. you know, i think it s clear that republicans have been, you know, seen what happened. they do not like where the narrative has gone. they don t like what the president s policies have done. what it does to the immigration debate. yesterday i was on a call, and a lot of people who were working, like juanita, working at the
check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business. built for business. now i would like to take a moment to introduce our esteemed guest this evening. he was born in the philippines and emigrated to the united states as a child. he has since become a very successful journalist and has begun his campaign, define american, that seeks to elevate the immigration conversation. we are pleased and honored to welcome mr. jose antonio vargas. i want to be up front about