some senators note the filibuster does provide some profession. if god forbid they won the senate in november and they could pass whatever they want with 51 votes. we would have a very porous open borders immigration policy. so the 60 vote threshold protects republicans more times than democrats. i understand his frustration. we share it, too. i would wait to withhold judgment and see if the house can pass a bill. yeah, there s nothing for the senate to take up. immigration less than five months before an election is a heavy take. trace: give me a quick run down, if you can briefly. what is the timeline here? we re getting e-mails about what is happening on immigration. one bill is out, one delayed for questioning? a lot of lawmakers were asking leadership on the floor earlier in the day, what is in
kirstjen nielsen and jeff sessions and they couldn t close the deal. if you had the votes, trace, they would vote. the fact that they re not voting today and possibly delaying the vote till tomorrow tells you a lot. here s another interesting tidbit. that will got 193 yays. they thought it would get 170. did provide real money for the wall. the bill they have tomorrow does. what the bill did do is not provide a pathway to citizenship for those in the daca population. the bill tomorrow does. in other words, there s a lot of republicans in the house of representatives, in you interpret the outcome of that vote and where they are that think that maybe voting against the pathway to citizenship, no amnesty is more important than voting for border wall, trace. trace: yeah, it s important to note, chad, during his cabinet meeting, the president
family members. it ends legal immigration, what we have called family reunification. that s just in all the pressure to the house republican leadership bill that would provide a path to citizenship for dreamers and is based on president trump s four pillars. many republicans are pessimistic. they have an uphill baitle because you are dealing with this issue of trying to be conservative enough to keep conservatives on and keep moderates on. when you play that game, you won t get there because you re getting no democrat votes here. next hour a briefing will be held for house republican members to ask any questions they have about the bill they re going to vote on tomorrow, trace. hey, mike, what about the president once again calling for changing the filibuster rules in the senate? that s right. huge frustration for president trump and huge frustration for house republicans that pass lots and lots of bills that don t go anywhere in the u.s. senate.
maybe they can pick up steam there? i don t know. when you think back to the democratic primary, beto o rourke squeezed by. it was a surprise to a lot of people. he had established his backing. the money didn t flow in the way that alex would be accustomed to for the leading candidate. the question is if he has that kind of appeal to energy the democrats that are necessary to turn out in large numbers to win. the key on the immigration issue, now he s leading marches to the border and using it as an edge and an effective wedge, which is why he s getting closer. dana: ted cruz has his idea of a solution, a very narrowly targeted bill. he s handled the issue very well. he s talk about what he s for rather than what he s against. he s offered common sense solutions for handing the immigration issue in texas, which is ground zero for immigration. the question is how does he
i didn t like the addition of a big guest worker program at the last minute. i thought that was a little bit too much. the bottom line is that it didn t have the votes to pass. now, i would tell you i don t think the prospects for tomorrow s bill are any better than i thought the chance was on this bill. that s one of the reasons i voted for it. try to push it up over the top. but it wasn t to be. now we ll have to regroup. what worries me in this bill we ll reject this bill and get something worse down the road. so sometimes you can paint yourself in a corner where something gets done that is counter productive. dana: and because you re from texas, you ve had a lot of experience with this. you re on the immigration reform caucus. for the democrats that you talk