West palm beach airport, following the president s First Physical exam as president. According to his doctor at walter reed, the exam went, quote, exceptionally well and further details on tuesday. Before leaving washington for this Martin Luther king holiday weekend, trump signed a proclamation expanding site, with questions from the president about remarks about haiti, el salvador the day before. And throughout the day, republican lawmakers in florida, including senator marco rubio and congressman carlos ro bechlt. Llo strongly distanced themselves from the remarks, all in a state, florida, a home to many immigrants and their families, including 300,000 haitianamericans, most in south florida, some of whom protested the president s comments. And republican governor rick scott also reacted to trumps
for so long. Do you get the sense that hes sort of distracting from his own Policy Agenda with the comments he made this week about other countries, whether true or not, with tweets he put
now, the media hasn t really reported that. certainly not the liberal media. but that happened. in the meantime, they agreed to provide money for fencing but they didn t they were not willing to negotiate with the president on daca and on tps. and we could have gotten a temporary fix for it daca or piece recipients and tps beneficiaries. harris: i want to lean on your expertise. and your culture perspective on this as well. is this an emergency or not? it is an emergency. look has border security improved? absolutely. in 2006 we were detaining a million people at the border. that number has gone down, but we are still detaining last year he detained around 400,000 people. the bulk of the drugs, of the opioids, aren t coming through the point of entry.
for a while. i ve seen three government shutdowns. we have to for once and for all say, you can t get petulant as a president, as a senator or congressman and say if you don t repeal the affordable care act i m shutting down the government, if you don t give me my wall, i m shutting down the government. there will be democrats who if the president succeeds some day, maybe soon, say, well, that looks like a pretty good weapon. i m going to use it too and that s just not the way we should run a government. you seem optimistic about this getting resolved soon. my optimism stems from the fact that we are now talking about is it daca for three years or permanent? is it money for more lawyers, for more judges? is it technology? we re a long way from a 30 foot solid wall from the pacific to the caribbean. i think if the president i understand the president has to play to his base, but if the president can just say, we re
give me one fundamental thing, is it daca, what s the fundamental thing that must be in a bill? the best way we could go and hope that the president would agree to is comprehensive immigration reform, where we address the whole package of reforms. we have always said, all of us together will go the daca situation, the dreamers that became such an urgent matter and still is, that we separated that out and that would be a part of it. but if you have comprehensive immigration reform where you talk about people coming forward coming forward because people are not going to come forward if that means they come forward and they re arrested. and deported. they come forward and taxes, that usually isn t the case, but whatever that would be.
and every new generation of immigrants is a revitalization of america. making america more america. give me one fundamental thing, is it daca, what s the fundamental thing that must be in a bill? the best way we could go and hope that the president would agree to is comprehensive immigration reform, where we address the whole package of reforms. we have always said, all of us together will go the daca situation, the dreamers that became such an urgent matter and still is, that we separated that out and that would be a part of it. but if you have comprehensive immigration reform where you talk about people coming forward coming forward because people are not going to come forward if that means they