honest with you, with the democratic party, they want daca. the democratic party has no interest in border security. they ve never abdicated for it. they ve never wanted. they certainly don t want the border wall. you better hope you re not going to get played on it. sam, he seems sympathetic. let s listen to what the president said when it came to this issue. we re not looking at citizenship. we re not looking at amnesty. we re looking at allowing people to stay here. we re working with everybody, republican, we re working with democrat i just spoke with paul ryan. he s on board. everybody s on board. they want to do something. we re not talking about amnesty we re talking about we re talking about taking care of people. people that were brought here people that have done a good job and not brought here of their own volition. he said, we re not looking at amnesty. that was key, obviously, to his
there s a huge political risk. but i don t think a big political risk from his base. new polls show 60% of conservatives are in favor of allowing people that actually signed up, came forward and worked through the daca program ability to have a pathway to stay in this country. that does not mean they re necessarily in favor of full-blown amnesty. there s also compassion from a lot of conservatives. the average age of some on daca were 6 1/2 years old. that means 50% were under the age of 6 1/2 when they came here. so there is compassion. but the concern is, and we ve heard this before, oh, well, we ll deal with this now. and we ll allow them to have a citizenship or a pathway to citiz citizenship, and then we ll do border control later. there s no deal with conservatives on the base. he will lose the base. we ve seen this multiple times. we know how it plays out, to be
at sea pleading for help from a passing cruise ship but allegedly ignored. now the sole survivor of that horrific 28-day ordeal takes matters into his own hands. we want to welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the 2012 campaign ad wars are threatening to take an lig new turn by dredging up the past. so far mitt romney is rejecting a proposed anti-obama advertising offensive that would have brought back a controversial figure from the last presidential campaign. here s jim acosta. it was a pitch to tear down the president laid out in this proposal obtained by the new york times for a multi-media ad campaign that recommends, quote, hitting barack right between the eyes. entitled the defeat of barack hussein obama, it proposes tv spots featuring jeremiah wright in the clips that almost derailed his previous campaign. ending spending says it received the proposal but rejected it. we ve got to