interviewed an illegal woman here who was fleeing arizona in advance of the law and going to los angeles. so my question is, if you re just pushing the problem to another state, are we really helping the nation? well, arizona can take the action, jessica, as you and i have discussed before. other states will take a look at mounting this kind of action. i want to do federal action five years ago. when i returned to the united states senate, and i believe elections have a very real way of clarify things, i believe there will be a new impetus to actually have laws on the books that are enforced that are enforceable, that say no to amnesty, yes to enforcement, and that s what i think is going to be the key. you just heard the attorney general, and there are voices like him across the country, mayor bloomberg in new york, many members of congress, the mccain/kennedy bill, senator mccain saying, look, it s wrong that there are 12 million or more illegal immigrants in this country. but yo
state-of-the-art fence and send troops to the border and want to secure that border, it will cost $100 billion, you tell me republicans where you re going to take that out of the defense budget. take it out of afghanistan, take it out of iraq. if you want to spend it, fine. i think the president could call their bluff that way. why doesn t he do that? why isn t there another request for time later in this week? i don t know. but i think that s the way you got to do at them, it seems to me. you have to play their game better than they do. what does the president have in mind? do you have any idea? to get some grand compromise somewhat to the right of where the mccain/kennedy bill was. the schumer bill that they re working off, the chuck schumer bill is really much, you know, more to the conservatives liking than the one of a few years ago. it s the conserve difs like lindsey graham and the others refuse to play ball. it s very difficult for the
secure that border, it will cost $100 billion, you tell me republicans where you re going to take that out of the defense budget. take it out of afghanistan, take it out of iraq. if you want to spend it, fine. i think the president could call their bluff that way. why doesn t he do that? why isn t there another request for time later in this week? i don t know. but i think that s the way you got to do at them, it seems to me. you have to play their game better than they do. what does the president have in mind? do you have any idea? to get some grand compromise somewhat to the right of where the mccain/kennedy bill was. the schumer bill that they re working off, the chuck schumer bill is really much, you know, more to the conservatives liking than the one of a few years ago. it s the conserve difs like lindsey graham and the others refuse to play ball. it s very difficult for the president, and they know that.
you want to spend $100 billion building a gigantic state-of-the-art fence and send troops to the border and want to secure that border, it will cost $100 billion, you tell me republicans where you re going to take that out of the defense budget. take it out of afghanistan, take it out of iraq. if you want to spend it, fine. i think the president could call their bluff that way. why doesn t he do that? why isn t there another request for time later in this week? i don t know. but i think that s the way you got to go at them, it seems to me. you have to play their game better than they do. what does the president have in mind? do you have any idea? i think what he has in mind is to try to get some grand compromise, somewhat to the right of where the mccain/kennedy bill was. the schumer bill that they re working off, the chuck schumer bill is really much, you know, more to the conservatives liking than the one of a few years ago. it s just the conservatives like lindsey graham an
on meet the press and they re talking about this $50 billion fund and this is what will happen if a major firm, you know, blows up, we ll wind it down, we ll wrap it up in a box and put it on the shelf and everyone will be why not do something before that happens? you mean like too big to fail? yeah. like why not make it so that doesn t happen? on the front end. exactly. that s a very good point. some parts see, this financial bill is such a work in progress right now. part of it is separating pieces of the firms, like the credit default swaps, taking that away from the firms that would be guaranteed to go to the fed window. that would be essentially breaking the firms up, which would address that problem. why not do that? well, i think that s a good question. we can ask that. let s ask our bring glass segal back? yes. paul volleyer is advocating why doesn t anyone have the