the word revisit mean? that s what he said at his tweet, if you want to put it up there for people, that he might revisit this if congress doesn t get it done which is, just to remind people, exactly how he got daca. they ve been asking for it since the early 2000s. congress failed, several different iterations of it and then obama said revisit it. this was not done around congress to be flighty and deciding what parts of the law you want to enforce. there was a very real situation that congress was not dealing with. to your point, over, i think it was, 16 years. that s why obama did what he did. there was a clear option and he took it. the president the current president has taken what could have been a clear option and has appeared to take everything. so, look, we have seen him do this for years. he likes to act like a dealmaker.
how? he just had his attorney general say daca is unconstitutional. what will congress do? congressman jim jordan, republican ohio, chairman emeritus of the freedom coalition. congressman, always a pleasure. great to be with you, chris. a lot on the plate. should be a very active fall. you have taxes, border security, health care you can pick up again. now the president has put something on your plate that does have the feel of urgency. do you believe that left and right would come together and protect dreamers? do you think something like that can get done? i think we ll have a six-month debate. i think you ve got to step back and remember what got us here. president obama knew his executive order was unconstitutional. he said it was unconstitutional prior to enacting it, but enacted it back in the string and summer of 2012 but did it for political reasons in the
pass a new dream act by the end of september. the clock is ticking. we re now in a countdown toward deportation for 780,000 protected by daca today. my challenge for the president is that you talk very glowingly about these kids. help us in the house, help us in the senate. reporter: others are sceptical about congress s ability to pass come hen situation immigration legislation. senator john cornyn telling cnn a large scale immigration bill would pretty much guarantee failure. the move to end daca fell well beyond the halls of congress. president obama slamming the decision to rescind his 2012 executive action in a lengthy letter as wrong, self-defeating and cruel, saying in part, let s be clear, the action taken today isn t required legally. it s a political decision and a moral question.
i don t know what she says about the e-mail issue in the book, although from what i ve read, a lot of that is blame. she describes it as blame but it was this one s fault for focusing on it. the reality is it is not as if there was not negative or rigorous coverage of donald trump. the difference is she has been around in the national public s mind in a very sfeshl way for a very long time, and the e-mail issue was one issue whereas with donald trump there were 50 issues and not exactly everything was sticking. and i think that was a huge source of frustration in her campaign. i also think again, look, i have not seen this book. her campaign wanted to run against donald trump until it became clear that that was going to be a lot more challenging than it seemed. but they thought he was the ideal person to run against, and i think to her point, when she s saying she was running a campaign of the past, she was running the last war, i don t think that s just saying it was an outdated pla
ladened campaign where they assumed the demography was destiny and that didn t turn out to be true. what s interesting about that, the krit siechl of sanders. i fault myself, others in the media. for failing to recognize sanders and all his support for what it was which was a big deal, not just a nuisance, not just something that would make her a better candidate, but a big deal, because it was connected to the populism on the right which was the major force and still is the major force in our politics right now. it said something about how alienated younger people, elements of that obama coalition had become from the clinton brand. that s what made her so difficu difficult. i think she was a target of sexism without a doubt. me, too. we ve had conversations about that. people wanting to move on, that s what she s saddled with. this doesn t help the democratic party because the democratic party is in upheaval right now,