process will favor applicants who can speak english, financially support themselves, and their families, and demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy. that was donald trump today. the same donald trump who despite his rhetoric against immigrants in this country has said he s open to legal status for some undocumented immigrants, and also expressed concern about sending home foreign students who come here to get their ivy league education. now trump is fully endorsing a plan put forth by republican senators tom cotton of arkansas and david purdue of georgia that would cut by half the number of people allowed green cards in this country over the next decade. in part, by ending a long-held policy that allows immigrants to be reunited with their families here in the united states. the way the white house sees it now is if you don t speak english, if you re not rich, or do not have an ivy league education, back of the line. the white house dispatched steven miller to the pre
low scaled system with a new points-based system for receiving a green card. this competitive application process will favor applicants who can speak english, financially support themselves, and their families, and demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy. that was donald trump today. the same donald trump who despite his rhetoric against immigrants in this country has said he s open to legal status for some undocumented immigrants, and also expressed concern about sending home foreign students who come here to get their ivy league education. now trump is fully endorsing a plan put forth by republican senators tom cotton of arkansas and david purdue of georgia that would cut by half the number of people allowed green cards in this country over the next decade. in part, by ending a long-held policy that allows immigrants to be reunited with their families here in the united states. the way the white house sees it now is if you don t speak english, if you re not rich, or
bipartisanship and join us together. how truly is that going to happen? i hope so, i think one of the criticisms of the affordable care act, it was passed without a vote and put forward by the house and senate, they are trying to push it through without one democratic vote. we can t have a partisan health care policy for this country. we can t have a new policy for health care in our country every time the resident of 1600 pennsylvania avenue changes. this isn t a partisan issue or bipartisan issue, it s a nonpartisan issue, and having to change every four years isn t fair to patients and families and health care providers or insurance companies. we agree. what are you going to do? well, it s our hope that we start reaching across the aisle. i think we d like to see we both voted no on the replacement plan put forth by the house. i would like to see democrats and republicans get together and find out how to help our broken health care policy of our
welcome the shift. i m for a wall that makes sense. a 200 mile wall doesn t make a lot of sense. the administration continuing to insist that ultimately mexico will foot the bill for the wall. why has there been a discussion about shutting down the government over paying for the wall. isn t mexico supposed to pay for the wall. i think, jim, the president made clear initially we need toting the funding going. there will be several mechanisms to make sure that happens. the president is trying to deliver on one of his key campaign promises, proposing to slash corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%. he will unveil details of the tax cut plan tomorrow setting up a potential clash with republicans concerned about the impact these cuts will have on increasing the deficit. the tax plan will pay for itself with economic growth. the administration arguing the sweeping cuts, which go beyond a plan put forth by house speaker ryan will pay for themselves, a theory economists
now. by the way, i don t want to denigrate negotiating in the press. all for it. i think we do have to go through this process of one public, one public. it s more the tone. we actually encourage negotiations in the press, mika. it s really where negotiations should take place. i m curious, tom, what you think of our good friend, jim demint, who we ve known and served with for a long time. he said that the republican plan put forth by john boehner would, quote, destroy american jobs. speaker boehner s $800 billion tax hike will destroy american jobs and allow politicians in washington to spend any more while not reducing our $16 trillion debt by a single penny. do you agree with that? well, i think it s important to have the fiscal conservatives viewpoint on this. you re a fiscal conservative. i know, but what i do is i look at the process and say, where are we today? what s possible? but isn t it a lot easier to