leadership in on that conversation. i have not been in on conversations like that but i assume those it dialogue, happening. obviously, daca and protected undocumented, and hopefully there is a future debate on immigration during this time. daca doesn t have to be part of it as a requirement. hopefully it will be a requirement, but it doesn t have to be, because it pushed off past the president s election. your take on this idea of amnesty? the president tweeted when people suggested this was amnesty like ann coulter, no, amnesty is not part of my offer and amnesty will be used only on a much bigger deal whether immigration or something else. what do you make of that? the president the president s willingness to embrace amnesty in a bigger deal? i need clarification with the president how he defines it as that. i ve been outspoken for daca and daca eligible, we should have a
solution. we don t hold children responsible for the actions of their parents. what about a broad amnesty deal? depends what else is there. a real desire for border security obviously. if you get into the adults that illegally crossed the border and went ahead of others who did it the right way, there would be pushback in oklahoma. rightfully so. a lot of folks in my state of proud of the immigrant community, engaged with immigrant around the world that live in oklahoma. they re a healthy part of our culture and society here in the state, but most of those folks have come in and actually done it legally. we lose track of that fact if there is a tremendous number, millions of people here, who legally have gone through the process and frustration to say why do people illegally get ahead of those who did it legally? you re on the indian affairs committee. not a lot to talk about it in the course of our two hour on kasie dc tonight but you saw what was the scene and still
the idea even discussed amnesty, right? this isn t amnesty but open to amnesty in a bigger deal, his own challenges with his own base, with the sean hannitys and ann coulters on the other side. you saw the proposal. call it amnesty and the administration tries to push back. no, it s mot alnot amnesty. a serious effort to move the bill forward. that s the president s achilles heel and the ann coulter and rush limbaughs and others sitting watching with an innate fear, with history, if you think about it, that the republican president will ka tich lacapitu this issue. they want the hardest line with the hardest wall possibly built that prevent anything that remotely looks like amnesty and the president, that s not his inclination. it s to cut the deal. just wants it done and off their
but in the end i think it s dangerous for the democrats because it erodes their main promise, which is we ll get back to business as usual. and what they re showing is we ll hold up everything in order to show we can win this bottle. carin, mark warner said this morning this is a starting point. is this a real starting point? it seems like as a democrat, your feet are locked in. though he also said let s open up the government, let s end this shutdown. here s the thing, donald trump is not an honest broker. we ve been here before, about a year ago, 11 months ago. the democrats, which i didn t agree with it at the time, gave him the president $25 billion for for daca, and he turned that down because, they said, it was amnesty. the far right told him you can t do this. it s amnesty. so democrats say yes to permanent protections? no, we re at a different time now. 11 months has passed by. november 6th hand. the american people who a majority of them came out and voted said we
he met with two dozen former staffers who claimed they had been mistreated and he pledged to, quote, do better if and when he enters the 2020 race. elizabeth warren, meanwhile, continues to face scrutiny over her decision to release that dna test showing a small fraction of native-american ancestry, which was the very first question she was asked at a recent event in iowa. and then kirsten gillibrand, who came under scrutiny during her time in the house when she ea earned an a-rating from the nra and had a different posture. you said you were a form opponent of giving amnesty to aliens. you said english should be, quote, the official language of the united states. you called for expediting deportation of undocumented immigrants. i know you have different positions today. but if trump immigration positions were racist, were they racist when you held some of those positions as well? they certainly were not