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policies because the polling data i ve seen suggests that the sp public is pretty you can read it different ways but they re spep tick cal about the idea of immigration. the polls are very clear in terms of the daca and the children that there s two-thirds plus support bipartisan, everybody supports there being a solution for the youngsters. and so that s an issue around well that s why aren t we more resolute and apoll get nick that regard. what i m pushing democrats on is to actually take a stronger stand in terms of reframing this issue. and so if the discussion is well people are breaking the law and there s criminals coming over here and we have to protect our safety, that s one argument that s really a losing argument for democrats. if the discussion is that there is an effort to socially engineer this country in order to benefit and prefer white people, which is what is
that have lived on this earth. i d like to see reagan debate obama on that. president obama spent a good deal of time apologizing for the united states our policies and history and so on. that signals weakness. we know what happens when the united states takes a spep back. we have seen that over the last seven years. the office of the presidency is so important because we look to the president to personify how we want them to act. donald trump refuses to apologize. he said he s going to make america great again. it does sound a lot like reagan. that s his rationale for president. we re also going to see him angry. this little clip is about how he
2% growth next year. but people are feeling the squeeze. they are feeling the sequester and especially poor people and live on the poverty line or close to it on very much feeling the sequester. we are job and housing issues. i think that is where the president feels he could make a difference in this spep. igor, do we expect president obama to call on congress to act or do we think he is laying out some plans of what he might do next? he is going call on congress to act but i think he is also going to call on the american people to act. we are getting close to the august recess. this is traditionally the time lawmakers hold their town halls. you saw in 2009 during health care that that really set back that effort. so i think if progressives can really tap into a lot of the frustration you now have with washington, d.c., with congress just repealing laws, not passing new laws, you can really maybe start to see some progress of folks, for instance, put pressure on their local