three-year extension of temporary protected status for the roughly 300,000 immigrants currently covered under the status, they re facing the prospect of their tps expiring. the white house is defending this proposal on saturday, against criticisms from both sides of the aisle, responding to charges from the far right that this bill would amount to amnesty. vice president pence said a pathway to citizenship right now is not on the table, claims that the bill would not constitute amnesty for the dreamers. pence also acknowledging that the president in the past has said he would not support this kind of trade daca for wall funding by saying the president came around to the idea after hearing from rank and file members on both sides of the aisle. the white house is hoping to move quickly on this bill with a vote in the senate as soon as next week. but it is not yet clear whether the bill has the ability to make it through the republican-controlled senate, let alone the
into the dem side and following trump into the 2020 re-elect, they re going with trump. the question is everyone else who is not with trump or on the far left. when do they get tired of this? when do they get tired of the blame of chicken and whom do they blame? that will determine who sort of caves first. so, scott, what is mitch mcconnell going to do? well, he needs something that could attract 60 votes and a presidential signature. i think the way mcconnell and trump could flip the script today is to go ahead and propose trade daca for the wall. i know democrats are saying, well, that deal is off the table. that was a year ago. we re not there now. but it strikes me as crazy they wouldn t go $5 billion for a wall and a permanent solution for the dreamers when they were ready to do $25 billion for the dreamers before. the president can say he got his wall.
first step in the you know, in this $25 billion project of the president s then that would be a mistake. so they need to find a way to define what that $5 billion is that is acceptable to both sides and perhaps there is a solution there if the other piece is a solution to the daca situation, which is extraordinarily important. i hope they re all listening. he is completely right about this. if the democrats can find a way to define the $5 billion in a way their people can accept, he s completely right on it. drop the mic. we re done. we solved all the problems. have a good day. meanwhile we re done for the day, scott. thank you. got a show tomorrow. you re welcome to come on. thank you guys very much. now to this. it is only his second day on the
they passed the senate unanimously a couple weeks ago. the senate should take them up again. the senate or the president doesn t take those bills up, they are saying they want to use this shutdown to apply pressure on the american people to make people who depend on government or work for government miserable to develop political pressure on the question of the wall. that s wrong. let me just say it is wrong to try to blackmail the american people by this kind of pressure. it is wrong to hold the government and people who depend on government services hostage to make a political point. shawn hannity says the president is willing to negotiate on daca and dreamers. do you feel there is ground there for compromise? well, the president agreed a couple years ago on daca. he said he should legalize or reli li
when john boehner was speaker, he promised he was going to do it and he just couldn t find the political constituency to back him. so, everything tells us that this is a congress and a republican party that just can t find a line through this very complicated divisive issue. that said, i do think tom cotton s proposal, we will trade daca, relief for these dreamers who really caught the country s imagination, speak to our hearts in a sense. we ll trade that for future limits on people who can come into the united states under legal immigration policies. that s going to pit the dreamers and their interests against what many of our biggest companies would like to see in terms of the ability to bring workers in. i think that s going to be a real, a real debate. i think tom cotton has come up with something, not saying it is the way to solve it, but it will get serious attention. tom, ashley, thank you both. thanks.