congressman, joe scarborough here, do you support d.r.e.a.m.ers being able to stay in the united states? i support the daca individuals in a stand alone bill as we move forward? i support the daca individuals being able to stay, that s consistent with the labrador-goodlatte legislation. i m supportive of that legislation but that legislation does in the the order i describe. it prioritizes border security and deals with the daca individuals you re talking about. so if you get what you want in the bill, then you support d.r.e.a.m.ers like the 87% in this morning s poll? then you do support d.r.e.a.m.ers. let me finish. i just want to be clear because it s been asked several times. so if you get what you want regarding border security, the wall, etc., etc., etc., then you will support d.r.e.a.m.ers being able to stay in the country with legal status? the goodlatte labrador legislation does what you just described relative to daca individuals which are different
vote i m confident it will pass. i ll try one more time. if we can take this as a stand-alone issue because it s at the center of the debate what s happening in the senate today it s not a stand alone issue. you re talking about legislative questions. i m talking about your personal view about d.r.e.a.m.ers. you want to make it about that. chuck schumer wants to make it about that. you want to make it a stand alone issue. i don t want to make it a stand alone issue. i m curious as to what you think. i want to know, do you think d.r.e.a.m.ers should stay in this country. and i have said no one is talking about sending anyone out. we re talking about doing what the american people elected us to do. so you believe they should stay. that is so simple, so basic, so focused. do in the that prioritizing order. that s what the election was out. so you believe they should stay that bill allows the people you re talking about to stay here. it does. so let s pass that piec
prevailing. it s sort of what got him to agree to sign any piece of legislation in that infamous meeting with lawmakers. it s also why, correct me if i m wrong, senators perdue and cotton demand that they be s-ho. if that is the case, i m wondering, how do you end up forging an immigration deal with this white house? or is it simply impossible because he ll listen to whoever is last with him? well, it s not the case for that particular meeting. trump himself wanted them in the room. but in general your point is correct and that s why in the early days when you didn t have john kelly, you shhad steve bann lurking as this figure after the formal proceeding ending just whispering in the president s ear. and you had these hovering figures of the early days of the trump administration in reince priebus and steve bannon, jared
than d.r.e.a.m.ers. does it with daca individuals, those childhood arrivals here on the deferred action program that president obama set up but it does in the the prioritizing way i ve described which is entirely consistent with what the american people elected us to do. so if you get what you want on the security issues that are in that legislation then you will support daca individuals being able to stay here legally? joe, yes, that s what the legislation does but it does in the that prioritizing way. i understand that. but that s a yes, you would? yeah. i mean, i the labrador bill the goodlatte bill is a good piece of legislation. let me ask you a question about a crisis coming up in the next couple months so we don t wait until the last second to bring it up. we re going to have to increase the debt limit and that s a battle coming up. are republicans, are anybody in
exchange for that and i understand that and that s the negotiation you have to engage in. not in exchange. we want those prioritized because again that s what the american people elected us to do. there s no question about that. so why is now the democrats so focused we had an election, they elected us to do these things and now they re saying no, no, we can t do those. we have to deal with these 700,000 individuals. that has to be first. i don t think that s what the election was about and what we were sent here to accomplish. so is it that you haven t made up your mind or you re not willing to say whether or not d.r.e.a.m.ers should be able to stay here. no one is talking about sending d.r.e.a.m.ers home, the daca individuals home. no one has talked about that. everyone knows that we re going to work that out well, the president has talked about that as a matter of policy, that they shouldn t be protected. the president has been clear border security wall, end chain m