ing politics with this obviously and he was hoping to use it as a bargaining chip in terms of what is coming in september in terms of arguments over the budget, the wall, et cetera. today apparently he has pulled back on the insistence the wall must be funded as the part of any budget. i think jesse who shocked me by being so compassionate. actual empathy? actual empathy from jesse. it seems to me you have an opportunity here now for the president to say you know what? these young people deserve an opportunity and it s overwhelm ing in the polls. it s close to 70%, higher than 70% in some polls. americans think the kids deserve to stay. i preface every immigration conversation by saying we should end the entitlement state in this country. no one, just end the entitlement state. start with that. these kids consider themselves to be americans and i think there is good criteria here. if you do well in school, if you don t break the law, you should stay here, work hard and
obviously and he was hoping to use it as a bargaining chip in terms of what is coming in september in terms of arguments over the budget, the wall, et cetera. today apparently he has pulled back on the insistence the wall must be funded as the part of any budget. i think jesse who shocked me by being so compassionate. actual empathy? actual empathy from jesse. it seems to me you have an opportunity here now for the president to say you know what? these young people deserve an opportunity and it s overwhelm ing in the polls. it s close to 70%, higher than 70% in some polls. americans think the kids deserve to stay. i preface every immigration conversation by saying we should end the entitlement state in this country. no one, just end the entitlement state. start with that. these kids consider themselves to be americans and i think there is good criteria here. if you do well in school, if you don t break the law, you should stay here, work hard and flourish and really live the
incarcerated. so i would argue that if that law were in effect and if the judge had given this individual a longer sentence, that murder would not have taken place. but also it s ironic that they they opposed a policy that we have suggested would prevent kate s death and murder. they still oppose those policies as well and they have opposed them in our committee again and again and again. thank you. that of course was paul ryan leading the house gop leaders speaking ahead of the immigration bill vote. ali velshi, weigh in on this. you gave us a quick tutorial of what it means if you re looking to come into the country but these are pretty strong statements from republicans, they want to carry that party line, sticking to campaign promises. so this is the other half of the immigration conversation that the republicans have been having, the travel ban is one rt of it keeping dangerous people out. the second part of it is those
conflate the two. and president trump has really changed the conversation to focus more on the burdens, economic burdens that illegal immigrants bring and when it is unchecked. and to separate the issue of legal immigration from illegal immigration so that his crackdowns can t be pushed back with so much emotional stuff, the democrats do turn to conflating the issues but president trump is working to change the immigration conversation. jenna: that is an interesting point that he has been able to do certain things without congress. i wonder when you look at the long-term policy and where the immigration policy goes from here, whether it is the border wall or however it gets an aggregated, is he stronger or weaker because congress has not been involved up until this point? the reality is for trump to make any of the major campaign promises that he has thus far presented, he has to get congressional buy-in, he needs congressional funding to hire more i.c.e. agents, more border
doesn t have ceo experience, doesn t have executive experience, doesn t take full responsibility because the art of legislating and negotiating and coming up with legislation that can get a majority vote is a very different skillset than being the leader of any organization never mind the free world. did marco rubio, david, do as well as he should have done last night? listen, he is probably the best performer on that stage. and i think he delivers his answers in sort of ready for tv ad style. so i think he s a very, very effective performer. but what also happened last night, wolf, is that in that immigration conversation that dana was pursuing with rubio and cruz, one of rubio s major vulnerabilities with the conservative base was exposed and exposed to 18 million people. and that is something he hasn t talked about in such a large venue. he talks about it on the trail, but now this is going to be something he has to address