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Entire negotiation over daca and the dreamers. i think, look, what you saw senator durbin doing was very calculated. as you noted, it was very planned. two fold. first to get on the record, in public, by two actual participants on either side. senator durbin trying to defend his remarks, something he wanted to do, and he wanted to have the fight on policy, have a very clear discussion about what his proposal on the daca issue would do, where the administration stood and why according to his questions the administration rejected that proposal when he feels it addresses many of the things they asked for in the beginning. you can make the argument he was effective in the first part. also clear if you want to look at the long game here and the negotiations ongoing right now, that where he sits and where secretary nielsen sits and the trump administration sits on this daca issue specifically, they re still very, very far apart and have a very compressed time window to figure out some reso ....
But rather than dealing with the carnage in our streets, what is our mayor doing? and what is senator durbin doing? o grandstanding and trying to claim that we are a sanctuary city. trish, a sanctuary for whom? it s not sanctuary for the victims of crime and criminals who are allowed to hide in plain sight, people that don t belong here in the first place. and then allowed to stay despite committing additional crimes, and also the chicago cops that have to deal with this terrible situation. trish: the administration t is being anti-immigrant? maybe this gives them a better shot in the next election cycle. unfortunately that s the crude reality of it.ct do not want what, steve? the people are paying the price of the process.ot those death rates and homicide rates in chicago. you are exactly right. there s a crude politicals calculus here. ....
In this counter year, north 500 homicides. and rather than dealing with the carnage in our streets, what is our mayor doing? and what is senator durbin doing? grandstanding and trying to claim that we are a sanctuary city. trish, a sanctuary for whom? it s not sanctuary for the victims of crime and criminals who are allowed to hide in plain sight, people that don t belong here in the first place. and then despite committing additional crimes, and also the chicago cops that have to deal with this terrible situation. trish: the administration is being anti-immigrant? maybe this gives them a better shot in the next election cycle. unfortunately that s the crude reality of it. do not want what, steve? the people are paying the price of the process. those athletes and homicide rates in chicago. you are exactly right. there s a crude political calculus here. ....
What is senator durbin doing? what are any of the democrats doing to improve healthcare in our country? how can he deny that millions of americans have opted out of obamacare, have preferred to fork over their hard earned money in taxes and penalties rather than be part of this system? how can he deny that 83 insurers have left the market with dozens more promising to do so? how can he deny that this is unaffordable, unsustainable process? look, this is to improve healthcare, make it more free market, more patient centric. to give people choice. obamacare has robbed people of choices. five states 1/3 of our counties in this country have one provider that s not a choice and also the premiums exploded, look, the premiums exploded by more than 100 percent. premiums supposed to come down and more than doubled in places. i want to say also that the cbo projected 23 to 24 million people would be on obamacare there are 10 million. none of this has panned out. ....