i m aishah hasnie. and they ll feast on a big banquet of barbecue. the main hall where the candidates will be speaking later today, but the g.o.p. presidential front runner donald trump not expected. rich edson joining us on the ground in des moines with a special guest. hi, rich. hey, good afternoon, aishah. the barbecue is coming a little later today. we ve got some speeches coming up and that includes senator tim scott who recently declared he would be running for president. senator, thank you for joining us this afternoon. it s a crowded stage, a crowded field. how do you break through? easily, the optimistic positive message when i take it on the road, people are starving for optimism as long as it s anchored in conservativism and you have backbone. and i have both and that s good news for the american people and the campaign trail. you ve talked about the positive message and explicit about it. what do you think of the tone from some of the other candidates so f
From capitol hill, this is just over an hour. Just over one hour. Welcome in good afternoon. My name is Mark Krikorian and i am the director of the center for immigration studies. Thanks for coming. It has been clear from the beginning of this administration that its approach to the illegal immigration issue and the border specifically is to accommodate the flow of admissible rather than to stop it. The problem is that has caused them political headaches as people notice the magnitude of this border crisis. Just at the southern border since this administration took office, there has been more than 5. 5 million socalled encounters at the southern border. So, how to do damage control . One thing they could do is enforce the law and reduce the number of Illegal Immigrants crossing. That is apparently off the table. So, to accommodate the flow, they have turned to a strategy, the linchpin of which is cbp 1, a Smart Phone App that you can download yourself from google play or the app store.
The respective parties. To hear from you this morning mprticularly about the tru and Bernie Sanders campaigns. You may agree with these matters, you may not agree with him, but we are interested in hearing from you about why the public is interested, and why you think that is happening. From republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7458002 for independents. If you want to let us know on social media, what is driving the trump and sanders on twitter. Anwj facebook. Com cspan on facebook. This is from the los angeles times, about the popular sentiment feeling both the Bernie Sanders and donald trump campaigns. Host again, your thoughts on what is driving people to the and Sanders Campaign. Again, you may agree with them or not. For republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7458002 for independents if you wouldnt mind, when you call in, let us know the candidate you are supporting as well, whether it be sanders, or someone else. Senator sanders was in South Carolina yesterday. Part o
Of the potential Republican Voters or voters interested in the republican race because he is talking about issues that a lot of the conventional republican candidates really dont want to address in a detailed way. They want to audit a few cliches utter a few cliches because they dont want to upset their donors. That is getting attention. A lot of black voters are saying, we want to look at this, when ordinarily, they would not be paying attention to a republican race. I think trump and sanders are shaking things up in a way that the usual republican versus democrat correlation of forces is breaking down. Guest mark has a very good point, right out of the gate this morning. , when you look at support across the country, on congress, it is one of the few Public Policy issues that has support across the political spectrum. When you look at polling, anywhere between 65 70 will support immigration reform. On how you asked the question. There is no other Public Policy issue that has that foo
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