and it s not just the enforcement, it s alsoe the rhetoric the president chooses to use. bs illegal immigrants are second guessing the idea of trying to cross the border when they know that our laws are actually going to be enforced. i absolutely love that statement from secretary kelly. the shot across the bow to congress who are complaining about the administration simply enforcing the laws. democrats had their chance, they had ample opportunity when theyi controlled both bodies of congress and obama in the white house and they failed to do it because they didn t care enough to pass immigration reform. sean: let me ask this because in the 2006 bill it was supposed to fund a 700 miles of fencing. there were last week on the republicans move into the budget phase if they can ever get thehe health care bill replaced, the freedom caucus says they ve got a deal.ud can they still continue to deny funds? do you think the republicans would die the president of the
the border, i wonder why because there is a new sheriff in town and it s not just the enforcement, it s also the rhetoric the president chooses to use. if illegal immigrants are second guessing the idea of trying to cross the border when they know that our laws are actually going to be enforced. i absolutely love that statement from secretary kelly. the shot across the bow to congress who are complaining about the administration simply enforcing the laws. democrats had their chance, they had ample opportunity when they controlled both bodies of congress and obama in the white house and they failed to do it because they didn t care enough to pass immigration reform. sean: let me ask this because in the 2006 bill it was supposed to fund a 700 miles of fencing. there were last week on the republicans move into the budget phase if they can ever get the health care bill replaced, the freedom caucus says they ve got a deal. can they still continue to deny
harry reid said he would bring it up and intends to pass it it watch. but to spare the middle class another knockdown, drag out fight we re going to proceed to work on this legislation and get it out of here as quickly as we can. i also want to give credit where credit is due. and i thank speaker boehner for his leadership in diffusing a fight over the debt ceiling debate. 86 house democrats went along with boehner in the bill. 33 republicans opposed it as insufficiently conservative, shep? shepard: this doesn t stop the fight though, carl. it just puts it off for a while, right? yeah, in the short-term it did i investigators default by exceeding the nation s borrowing limits. there has been no reduction in spending or the deficits. if that happens in the upcoming budget phase, everybody wins but it hasn t happened in washington for years. spending has been going up and there hasn t been a balanced budget since the 1990s. shepard: a balanced budget indeed. carl cameron, tha
that s good news. he s talking about the local unemployment rate, not the national unemployment rate. last night the president described america s fiscal distress and many other challenges an as a modern day sputnik moment. in 1962 a 20-pound chunk of the sputnik 4 landed in man to work. none of the words applies to the serious business at hand nor certainly to my good colleague ed henry who joins me live from the white house with more on the president s visit, his vision for the next couple years. ed, let s talk a little bit about last night s speech, that s history. that s a speech for broad themes, the president depends where you fall on that. he did that. now he moves into this budget phase. he has indicated that there are going to be investments and there are going to be cuts. right. that s what this is going to come down.