the millions who are here and there are 11, 12, 13 million illegal people in this country. let s focus on who is is deporter in chief and that was barack obama who deported almost 3 million people we re talking about the details about whether or not he has an actual plan here. well, the reality is, donald trump obviously has plans. i.c.e. has been working on plans. they ve admitted that they ve been working on different plans to try to increase deportations and the reason is, this is why i disagree with the way the issue has been framed, the immigration issue for the president is not a cultural issue, it s not a moral issue, it s an economic issue. if you look at why barack obama deported so many people is because we were in a recession and they were taking jobs away from americans who were in need of jobs. it s one of the reasons that donald trump is doing well along lower wage workers because they see this as not a cultural issue, they see it as an
today, he says millions of people are going to be deported in the near future. it s worth pausing to consider what that would mean to actual human beings. there are millions of people in this country without documents who have families, jobs who are have kids that are american citizens and the idea mass deportations could take place in this country, millions of people, that s what the president said is something that has never happened in american history. jeffrey? and only happened in authoritarian countries. again, we re waiting to see if he brings up that policy tonight when he speaks. let s listen to some of this as the president gets ready to speak. i don t know if we ll hear from the first lady prior to that. let s watch.
nice people but let s focus on president trump. he wants to make a case in a state the president won big, in a state where the economic situation, big numbers, unemployment rate, things like that have improved. here what s america is going to say. america s farmers have been crushed by the tariff war with china. he thinks he s being tough. it s easy to be tough when someone sells feeling the pain. how many sleepless nights do you think trump has had? here s the answer, joe biden will say, just as many as he had when he stiffed the construction workers and electricians and plumbers that built his hotels and casinos, zero. yes, the numbers might be better. he s trying to make the case that this promise promised he d care but, and he doesn t. two really interesting things about biden s prepared remarks. one, clearly pointing to the role that he s going to play in this democratic primary which is as the front-runner looking ahead to a general election. he knows that the way he wins this
that. i think they re waiting, probably playing, that the president doesn t screw it up again. politics aside, i sort of tried to explain what s in this deal compared to the last time. if you don t follow this very closely, it s unclear as to who this is a win for and whether this goes any distance towards actually fixing what s broken with our immigration system. ways yo what s your take? 50 miles of a fence is not going to fix the problem. let s focus on who s winning and losing here. i ve been really shocked to hear conservative media sean hannity talk about this being a garbage compromise. i don t want to question your big board, but one thing missing from it was the $5.7 billion allocated in that first go-around, that would only have funded 110 miles of new wall. oh, let me just point something out. that was not on a.mli s big boa
all right, rebecca buck, thank you so much. let s look at the race for 2020. joining me, boston globe political reporter liz goodwin, david swerdlick, and bureau chief for sun times, lynn sweet. let s focus on elizabeth warren. within the hour she will be making the announcement officially. less than a year until the iowa caucuses. how will elizabeth warren stand out from the very crowded democratic field. yes, she has name recognition, has been in the news a lot, particularly because of the heritage issue. what is her viability? i think the viability for senator warren is she comes to some of the issues the democrats are talking about now, having talked about them for several years. things like income inequality, things like getting a better