so congress has to address this. i'm encouraged that i see members of congress and the senate saying that they're going to address this. but i think a lot of folks are disappointed that it hasn't been addressed already by the folks we elected and sent to washington. >> "the new york times" is reporting president trump had been looking for a way out of daca, the daca dilemma. first he promised to deport those impacted. then he said he would treat them with heart. do you think what he did today was what he really wanted to do, peter? >> you know, as on many policy issues, my strong suspicion is donald trump doesn't actually know the details here very much at all. and would be hard-pressed. this is why i think he can't offer any leadership towards congress, because just as on health care, he doesn't understand the issue well enough, i think, in fact to chart a path forward. congress could have acted anyway, right? there's nothing stopping congress from passing comprehensive immigration reform, for instance, and actually

it's congress' job to do that. we would like to have confidence that congress will actually do their job. we want to have laws that address these problems. but it's congress' job to legislate, not the president's. i think he is giving congress the ability to do their job. the goal here is that congress actually fixes the problem. congress has six months, which is a pretty long time to get something done. >> after about the 12th example, you get the distinct feeling that she's trying to deflect the attention to congress and their role in this. welcome back to our broadcast. that was white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders today, making it clear the administration expects, as you may have heard there, congress to figure out a solution to daca. the president preempted the official notice tweeting, congress, get ready to do your job. daca. and remember what other actions are avwaiting action from congress. a week from tonight, billions more for hurricane irma. we have an update on that at the end of the broa

implemented a policy congress explicitly rejected. there is a misconception that they primarily serve as a shield from deportation and this is misleading. the grants work authorization to nearly 800,000 individuals that are not legally authorized to work. recipients that average ages in their 20s were not in the priority before and they certainly won't become a priority now. they remain the same, criminals, security threats and those that violate immigration law. of the main effecthe main effecs announcement as work programs and other events are being gradually phased out rather than leave the recipients as the men and women of the enforcement and confusing limbo once the program was challenged by states that struck down another of the administrationadministration's r workers earlier this year president obama is laying out the responsible 24 month phase out. [laughter] sorry, president trump. permits will remain active for two two full years. for the meaningful immigration reform that puts the child wages and security of the american

the bottom line is, the congress must act. it would be shameful for the republicans no the to act on this. these people deserve a protection. >> he gave them a six-month deadline and extended it perhaps indefinitely. democrats will play a big role. if anything is going to pass congress in the next six months, democrats may be the majority of those votes for the protection of dreamers. how far do you think the democrats should be willing to go? do you think that they should be willing to make a compromise on border security if it includes any funding for the president's border wall? >> no. i think there was -- congressman crowley was on yesterday. and he noted if they come with a deal trying to tie saving the dreamers with border wall for instance, we should call the fbi. they're being held hostage. i agree with that. i think that there is a humane and practical way where folks can go about this without having to tie it to this border wall that everyone thinks is ridiculous, mind you, including some house republicans. this is t

does congress want this football that they described as being punted? >> they have so much to do and you'll read this is another thing.th but sometimes when you have a lot of legislative things you need to do maybe you can trade if you give me this all give you that. we haven't seen that trading in recent years that's been successful. they've tried it was certainly a even if some supporters are saying why his truck backing down and yielding to congress? you should just and it. so he could get some backlash. >> to think that's why jeff sessions is making that announcement? >> it's within his jurisdiction. trump was asked about it last week and the announcement was forthcoming remember, the relationship between jeff sessions and trump has been strained at times over his decision to recuse himself. i think it's a normal thing to yield to the cabinet a secretary who has jurisdiction over this issue. >> the attorney general will not be taking questions today does that surprise you? >> no, they want to control thea message and say what they want. to say. it's

it gives congress only enumerated powers. since congress has no power to infringe free speech, there is no reason to fear it would endanger free speech. dangerous because people might assume if the right was not written down, it was not protected. the framers believed our rights are so important that they come from god and not government and to try to reduce things to a single list would be folly. in the face of the objections from three federal list, madison changed his mind. he was a practical politician. he almost lost a house election in virginia and and he came to support the adoption of additional amendments to prevent further abuse of powers. but we are now going to do in this final section, we have been seeing these rare, priceless, earliest drafts of the constitution went by the pennsylvania historical society. we are now going to see the first public printings of the bill of rights. we will see how madison's original list of 19 amendments were whittled down to 10. let's go see those now. we're about to see the first

and calling on congress to act. daca was initiated after congress rejected the same proposal in legislative form. in other words, president obama didn't just suspend federal law, but implemented a policy congress husbaad rejected. there's a misconspception is a shield to immigration. they apply visas to 800,000 individuals are not able to work. they won't become a priority now. the priorities remain the same. criminals, security threats, and those who repeatedly violate our immigration laws. the main effect of today's announcement is that work permits and other government benefits are being gradually phased out. rather than leave daca recipients and the men and women of immigration enforcement in confusing limbo while the program was challenged by states in the same court that struck down another of the previous administration's unlawful orders last year. president obama is laying out a 24 -- sorry president trump. no permits will be expiring for another six months and permits will remain active for up to two full y

i don't know about priorities for congress. i don't think about congress. i'm not concerned about them. i don't it's possible to throw all of the young people out of the country. it's impossible. businesspeople people talking about throwing 80,000 people back to their so-called countries of origin -- they don't remember them to start with. i would remind them that as you do unto the least of us, you do on to me. 787,580. that's the number of individuals who have received daca status since the program was launched in august 2012. the migration policy institute will dive into those numbers more when we are joined by doris meissner. joel is in texas on the line for democrats. good morning. what's your priority for congress? last week the democrats failed to jump on it. trump's and paul ryan a letter going to cut all the federal wages. and this is something that was agreed to by both parties. wage increases and you wonder stagnant ins are this country. people have to realize corporations don't love america. they don't love the workers. they could care less abou

do your job, congress. let's talk about it with simon rosenberg, president and founder of the new democrat network and former clinton campaign adviser and vince colinaise, editorial director for the daily column. always good to see you. vince, i'm going to start with you. sarah was very strong on that point today. she said it several times, congress needs to step up and do its job. the president has handed them yet something else to do. can they get it done? >> well, i think so. especially now democrats will be forced to come to the table. this has now become a litmus test for democratic party. just look how we've spent the hours since we found out that this was even a possibility. democrats everywhere have been pulling the fire alarms that the president of the united states is ending daca. but understand that even leading up to this we all were under the understanding that he was going to use this as leverage ultimately to get a legislative version of daca passed through congress and some of the concession

it's the role of congress. interestingly, the folks you've heard on other side of the issue said it's our job, it's what we should be doing and yet, we haven't done it for 16 yea years. who in their right mind thinks that congress will do their job unless they're forced to do their job. and what we previously passed will expire. i don't believe it's to do with the seven wars we were involved with currently. if we would force them to expire we would have a debate. for those who say that congress should use their authority and they don't believe that unless they're going to vote that way. what will happen is the continuation of the same. if we abdicate that role let the president do whatever he wants. it's worse than that. lets say we were to vote for my resolution, do you think in any of the wars would end? no, they believe that the president has unlimited authority. called article 2 authority for war. there is some authority given to the president, tremendous amount of authority to execute the war, but not to i

it's congress' job to do that. we would like to have confidence that congress will actually do their job. we want to have laws that address these problems. but it's congress' job to legislate, not the president's. i think he is giving congress the ability to do their job. the goal here is that congress actually fixes the problem. congress has six months, which is a pretty long time to get something done. >> after about the 12th example, you get the distinct feeling that she's trying to deflect the attention to congress and their role in this. welcome back to our broad cast. that was white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders today, making it clear the administration expects, as you may have heard there, congress to figure out a solution to daca. the president preemted the official notice tweeting, congress, get ready to do your job. a week from tonight, billions more for hurricane irma. a new budget, a new debt limit, tax reform, infrastructure, maybe even another shot at repeal and replace. all this in a m

congress, congress, congress, term limits and force the old adage of compromise. it makes me sick to hear left and right, we are americans, i'm a moderate, the majority of americans are in the middle and not on one floor and the other. host: stick around for our 9:00 hour when we will be getting into some of the issues you bring up, the economic impact of the dreamer population. how many there are and where they live. we will be joined by doris meissner of the migration policy institute to talk about a lot of those issues. bob cusack? guest: you mention deportation. at one point, groups on the left were criticizing president obama and called him the deep order in chief. deporter inr -- chielf. -- chief. democrats had control in 2009 and 2010 but they were afraid of pushing reform. host: michigan, an independent, sue. caller: my question is -- i have not heard much about the democratic, i think his name is menendez, his trial, harry reid is implicated. can you tell me how that will affect congress? guest: great question, the menendez trial i believe starts tomorrow

it's not something that congress like to do. and so the key element is that there has to be a champion. there has to be someone in congress who is highly respected who is really taking this on and pushing it forward and of necessity that needs to be someone who chairs one of the two armed services committee because that's the position you need to be in to really serve as the champion. and in the past various folks have served that role. the last 2005 round it was senator warner who served that role and what is interesting and notable and i think very i guess significant this year is that we have a champion who has stepped forward in senator mccain, along with senator reid, the two of them together to serve as a champion. that is the critical event. and i should recognize obviously congressman smith mhas been thee for some time as a ranking member, pushing the issue and been incredibly helpful and moved the process forward. but as the ranking member he hasn't been in a position to push it through. and that's a key element that's

i was part of the congress at that time and was part of the congress that passed the 2001 authorization for the use of military force. that was targeted towards afghanistan. and i was part of the congress that when we took up the 2002 authorization for use of military force against iraq, and i voted against that authorization. mr. president, it's now been 14 years after the u.s. invasion and -- of iraq and the end of the saddam hussein regime, and yet, mr. president, we still have on the -- we still have the authority for the use of military force against iraq and it's still being used. it's time for that authorization to end. so i take this time to support senator paul's efforts to put a termination date on the 2002 awth radification and put -- authorization and a termination date on 2001. we wanted our country to hold those responsible in afghanistan for the attack against america. that authorization is now 16 years old. let me read for my colleagues exactly what authorization said -- what we passed 16 years ago. that the president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate fo

not while democrats were controlling congress. there's been some bipartisan talks over the years to try to get some type of deal. the dream act did pass under barack obama, it died in the senate but very few republicans voted for that. speaker ryan voted at the time against it. this is going to be very difficult in just six months to get something that has been in the works to try to get done for more than six years. >> jon: typically congress is pretty protective of its turf, we are looking live at some protests right now, we believe this is in washington, d.c., area. protesting the announcement of this policy. congress is pretty protective of its turf, the attorney general said hey, it's not for a president to simply rule and announce his own interpretation of the law, that is up to congress. why does congress not seem eager to jump into the fray here and write a law? >> it's so polarizing, it divides the republican party and this is another headache for republican leaders to try to get some type of deal on this. as you mentione

by the congress. if you worry about these kids, you should vote for the d.r.e.a.m. act because it gives them what they, i think, deserve, a new life in their home country. to those in the republican party who vote no, i respect it. i respect your decision but let's have a healthy debate. make the case that these kids don't belong here. because i'm going to make the case they do. and we're all going to vote. so from a republican party point of view, this is a defining moment. we need to create a step, a process forward to fix a broken immigration system, starting with the d.r.e.a.m. act kids, i think, is a good down payment on what will eventually be a comprehensive solution to a broken immigration system to the president. you have a chance to show the nation as the president of all of us where your heart's at. you have a chance as the leader of the republican party to do two things. say that we are the party of constitutional process, that we believe in doing it right, but right means taking care of t

it is in the hands of congress. congress is the one that makes immigration law. congress has the power to do something about it. yes, democrats are in the minority, but you have republican leaders who have been supportive of some form of protections of dreamers. if folks are floating the idea that protections for dreamers, daca would be linked to money for the border wall, if that happened, would you vote against protections for dreamers? >> i think if the president or the republican party linked this to the border wall, we should call the fbi. it's taking. they will be taking these young people in their lives as hostages to build a wall, a $40 billion wall that does nothing for the economy of the united states and doesn't make us any safer. >> you would get protections, legal by law protections. >> it is morally a waste of money of the taxpayer money. $40 billion. we should not hold them hostage. deal with this issue on merits alone. that's what congress needs to do. deal with this on the merits alone, that is these 850 lives. >> congressman, i appreciate your t

and calling on congress to act. daca was initiated after congress he can pliftly rejected the same proposal -- explicitly rejected the same proposal in legislative form. in other words, president obama didn't just suspend federal law but implemented a policy congress had explicitly rejected. there's a misconception that daca primarily serves as a shield from deportation. this is misleading. daca grants work authorization to nearly 800,000 individuals who are not legally authorized to work. daca recipients whose average sage in their 20's were not in an enforcement priority before and they certaintyly won't become a priority now. the priorities remain the same. criminals, security threats and those who repeatedly violate our immigration laws. the main effect of today's announcement is that work permits and other government benefits are being gradually phased out. but rather than leave daca recipients and men of women of immigration enforcement in confusing limbo while the daca program was challenged by states in the

congress. this congress ends in 2018. of the not this year. back to you. david: i know, mcconnell is the hard sell. adam, thank you very much. treasury secretary steve mnuchin not mincing words at all on sunday about cutting taxes regardless what the cb or anybody else in congress say about tax cuts adding to the deficit. take a listen. >> we believe in dynamic scoring and under our growth models at the treasury, this will pay for itself. and again we may not get full credit for that. there may be short-term impacts on the deficit, but we're very, we want to be very careful in paying for this with growth but we also need to boost the economy. we need tax cuts and tax reform now. david: i don't know, if you can hear, grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform. he is saying yeah. he is taking on pencil pushers, people at cbo. maybe mitch mcconnell, the people who don't believe in the dynamic effect of tax cuts to change the economy. the pencil pushers i think will lose to steve mnuchi

for those of us who watch the goings on of congress from day to day, we know that the congress is about to consider the fy 19 authorizations act on the senate flor. it's really important to be able to talk to you all to take questions and talk about why we believe that the department is in a good place right now and a good place to request permission and authorization and to carry it out with the intent of congress. a couple quick hits from my background on brac. i worked when i was in the air force on the committee and ultimately now serving in a new capacity. i've been in the job for three weeks. two of those weeks i've been traveling. if i start to nod off, it's because i'm still on guam time. if you really look at it, brac has been a great process for the department of defense to really take a look at itself, to stand back and say, okay, where do we need to go with military value, where do we need to look, what is happening in the world of weapons systems, emerging technologies, and how can we best station our forces to take advantage. if you look back on it, congress has also share

what congress as, give us the analysis before we give you the authorization, and the response in congress, from the finns, we need to authorization your to be able to do the analysis. we haven't offramp. people don't realize the law does provide, the secretary of defense at the first year of analysis, looking at the four structure, like at the defense strategy, look at what we have for threats around the world, decides that you know what, i've done the analysis, i don't believe it's worth the expense we will find the savings or when you to continue, then he certifies to congress that he does a happily a brac should go forward and it stops. folks have forgotten that, that is on pain of the law and it still exists in the proposal. what congress trying to do is get a better understanding for what the department feels it's at. it's difficult as department to do that detailed analysis without causing concern, without creating hysteria out there as far as what they're looking at as far as basis. there has been done no analysis until we get authorization, there would be no analysis accomplished

what happens next is significantly in congress' hands. this is critically important and almost completely overlooked. if the president chooses not to certify iranian compliance, that does not mean the united states is withdrawing from the jcpoa. withdraw from the agreement is governed by the terms of the jcpoa. the corker-cardin law governs the relationship between the congress. if the president can't certify, it would signal one or more of the following messages to congress. either the administration believes iran is in violation of the deal. or the lifting of sanctions against iran is not appropriate and proportional to the regime's behavior. or the lifting of sanctions is not in the u.s. national security interest. under the law, congress then has 60 days to consider whether to reimpose sanctions on iran. during that time, congress could take the opportunity to debate iran's support for terrorism, its past nuclear activity, and its massive human rights violations. all of which are called for in the corker-cardin. congress could debate

think what would happen today if congress were to say no sex discrimination? it would be indisputable that didn't cover sexual orientation. >> okay, the case law saying what you are witnessing and several prior acts of congress so if that is the case today then surely in 1964 when congress passed the same word they didn't have a broader notion of sex determination compared to today. it makes no center on us. >> the suggestion that sometimes the statute can be read to prohibit a comparable evil. >> i don't dispute the proposition. it is not applicable here. the point was the statute was sexual harassment and only questions whether it is from single-sex and clearly does and the fact that congress wasn't thinking -- >> you said it covers sexual harassment but that is not written in the statute, just discrimination because of sex, took a series of cases to include sexual harassment. >> i am not sure how long it took but it seems you can't discriminate based on current conditions of sex that readily supports the proposition that it covers sexual harassment. >> dc c

given congress six months. given divisions in the republican party, it may not be easy. >> i don't think the american people elected congress to do things that were easy. they elected them to make a government that works for >> unless and until congress comes up with a solution, today's order means no new applications to daca status will be accepted actually. applications already in the pipeline will be processed. renewal request already received will be adjudicated on a case-by-case basis. dreamers whose benefits expire by march 5 haven't october 5 to file a renewal request. no new renewal requests for benefits that expire after that will be accepted. diana's family just lost everything in hurricane harvey and now they face more uncertain future. >> we are going to continue to fight the push for because we are not cowards. we know that we are doing and converting the best we can to this economy, the country. >> lindsey graham and dick durbin consulted with president trump's senior advisor jared kushner to come

>> we like to have congress do their job. they allowshow us to work with them to be part of that congress. if congress doesn't want to do the job they were elected to do, maybe should get out of the way to let someone else do it. >> reporter: attorney general referred to the daca recipients as illegal aliens. at one point he intimated hundreds of thousands of americans did not get jobs that were taken by daca recipients. does the president share that view? >> i think that it's a known fact that there are over four million unemployed americans in the same age group as those that are daca recipients. that over 950,000 of those are african-americans in the same age group. over 870,000 unemployed hispanics in the same age group. those are large guys of people unemployed that could possibly have the jobs. we're looking for fixes. we're not looking for complaints. we're looking for solution. that is our focus moving forward. >> reporter: -- with the idea that hundreds of thousands of people, if the president gets what he wants woul

that was about congress too. how does this all match up with the announcement that the attorney general made about ending the program? joining us now is sara iz gert, flo flores. sara. thank you very much for joining us. >> good morning, chris. >> clear up this one point and then we'll get into what we see happening going forward. attorney general says what obama did with daca was unconstitutional. president trump said if congress doesn't get it done i may revisit this. how can he revisit something that the ag just said is unconstitutional. >> i think both have been clear this is now up to congress. this was about rule of law and rule of law only matters when i'd hard. it doesn't mean you always get to agree with the policy outcomes but it means that the process matters, and when the president said a constitutional scholar by his own calling there, when he said he didn't have the power or authority to do this and did it anyway, he took the power away from congress. regardless of how you feel how this comes out, y

i want congress to pass daca. he says i'm going to pawn it off to you and let you make a decision about something i didn't have the courage to make a decision about myself. go on. >> don, actions are louder than words. this is not about race. this is simply about the rule of law. this was simply an illegal program. >> it was not illegal. it has not been tested in court. it's not illegal. >> okay. we can debate that. >> it's not a debate. if it has not been tested in court, it's not illegal. >> there are some people, minds, legal minds saying it didn't have legal standing and that was the opinion of the attorney general, jeff sessions, the opinion he gave to the president. but the rez, his actions today. you've got to look at the actions for the second. let me explain what happened. the president ended the daca program today as we know it, it's gone. i don't care what the tweets say. >> he said six months. >> there is no six months, don. let me explain what happened. as of today there are no new applications by the

and calling on congress to act. daca was initiated after congress explicitly rejected the same proposal in legislative form. in other words, president obama didn't just suspend federal law but implemented a policy congress had explicitly rejected. there's a misconception that daca primarily serves as a shield from deportation. this is misleading. daca grants work authorization to nearly 800,000 individuals who are not legally authorized to work. daca recipients whose average age is in their 20's were not in an enforcement priority before and they certainly won't become a priority now. the priorities remain the same. criminals, security threats and those who repeatedly violate our immigration laws. the main effect of today's announcement is that work permits and other government benefits are being gradually phased out. but rather than leave daca recipients and men of women of immigration enforcement in confusing limbo while the daca program was challenged by states in the same court that struck down another of the pr

look, congress, it is very hard to get anything passed in congress. there's a lot of sympathy for these group of immigrants. more than any other group of undocumented immigrants. you saw that with paul ryan's talk earlier today on the radio. but getting anything through this congress has been difficult. >> yeah. getting them to agree on what the actual weather is is difficult. franco, stay with us. dara, thank you for being here. always a pleasurpleasure. >>> one senator calls the president poorly informed and reminds his colleagues, we answer to the american people. that senator, republican john mccain. much more on that when "the 11th hour" continues. ight of mount everest. because each day she chooses to take the stairs. at work, at home... even on the escalator. that can be hard on her lower body, so now she does it with dr. scholl's orthotics. clinically proven to relieve and prevent foot, knee or lower back pain, by reducing the shock and stress that travel up her body with every step she takes. so keep on climbing, sarah. you're killing it. dr.

it's also only congress who can do a pathway for congress for action. it's a program that allowed, and is it continues and allows people to work without a fear of deportation. the last couple years, it's renewable. it doesn't provide the certainty young people need. as a craft legislation to take the place of daca we make sure that these artifact americans. they are american as you and i the don't know any other country and many don't even speak another language. there is is not another home. as in the state of the union we had a few weeks ago my guests grew up many not knowing he did not have documentation until he wanted to join the military. he was into jet varsity sports owner been a great capable soldier defending our country in that process he found out he was not documented and now he has deferred action so there's separately some bills that would allow that. so, hopefully we can address this with certainty. in a manner that not only allow these young americans to go to work but also allows them to go at their fellow citizens. only congress can d

a look now at what else congress will be up to when they return next week. >> congress returns from august recess on september 5. over the next hour, we will discuss four key issues that the house and senate plan to take up this fall, including federal spending, raising the debt ceiling, and rewriting the tax code, as well as continuing work on health care legislation. we will take a look back at some of the past hearings and talk with a reporter to get an update on the fall congressional agenda. funding for the federal government expires on september 30, so congress must pass a federal spending bill to keep the government open and avoid a shutdown. the house passed four of its 12 appropriations bills in a spending package. here are the opening remarks of the floor debate from the house appropriations committee chair and ranking member. >> mr. chairman, i rise today to present an amendment to hr 3219, the make america secure appropriations act. this legislative package revise critical appropriation for nafta security, including the department of defense, the department of veterans affairs,

unless congress comes up with a fix. the attorney general is announcing this, it was the president who made this decision. there are a number of memos who have gone back and forth as well between the department of justice and the department of homeland security. what we're going to take a look at, clearly there will be a lot of people who are wondering what their status here in the united states will be, but also come out with the political fallout of all of this will be. clearly there are a lot of people who support the daca program will be upset about this, but then there are people who are supporting the rescinding of the speethirteen program. in congress who were trying as hard as they can to not grant legal status to people who were here or grant some sort of status that may not comport with what other people want. there is a big risk here, particularly on the conservative side who think this will ignite a civil war in the republican party which could potentially end with them losing control of congress. the attorne

congress has the power to declare war. the early language of making war would have given congress more day-to-day decisions and later the president took a greater role to this is important to define congress powers. he mentioned the continental andress had specific powers the u.s. constitution gives congress the flexibility to pass laws necessary and proper to carry out their powers and the scope remains hotly debated today. at the appointment of power, the senate has the power, as well as the ability to appoint supreme court justices and the president has no role in these crucial duties. the election of the president, look at this, there is an election but the president is chosen by the legislature. that was james mattis caused -- james madison's idea, and he sees the tension between populism and constitutionalism and he fears directly elected presidents and he says one would be an invitation to tyranny and demagogues, so he wants a president elected by the legislature. over james wilson's objections, we later see they se

he's been serving in congress since 2004. one of the reasons i'm excited for him to be here today season appropriate her. he helps decide how we spend our money. there is anything i was told in the aftermath of hurricane harvey, the five most important members of congressman are john cornyn, the senate majority whip in the floor park breeders. is a democrat. have delayed in the democratic efforts from the state of texas to get as much money for harvey as possible. my for the left is a cars man from louisville elected in 2002. his the most important texan from congress on the healthcare issue. very powerful committee chairmanship. i once asked if he was the quarterback of the effort for healthcare reform and he said i'm the water boy. but he's very important on this issue. i follow these guys around the capital and annoy them and asked some questions. they're very much believe in their issues, they work hard. i'm honored to have them here talking to us about their life in congress. [applause] >> and will start off with the be

the pressure will be on congress responsibility will be with congress. now you know, this dream act goes far legislation back, dream act was first 2001 in congress and it was first introduced by republican on a the judiciary committee and the senate. here have been a number of iterations since, there is been a couple bills introduced just house and oth in the the september. they have various formulas, but basically deal with particular age group and with articular number of years that people would be in a condition legal status, then earn their eligible for permanent resident status or a green card. the real difficulty of course is whether congress can legislate there is a all, different level of pressure now, given the way in which this daca population s showing itself and the bipartisan nature of the support, not only parties within he congress, lots of republicans and lots of democrats supporting, but also from the business community, other parts of the congress has not been able to deal effectively with immigration legislation. six months is fairly s

the president putting the ball in congress's court. >> i have a love for these people and hopefully congress will be able to help them and do it properly. we have to do something. >> protests erupting immediately after the announcement, large crowd protesting and chanting outside the white house and in denver hundreds of students walked out of class and hit the streets and crowds with signed protests in trump tower in new york city, 30 people in handcuffs. democrats including nancy pelosi ripped the move as cruel, shameful and heartless. sarah huckabee sanders firing back. >> the most heartless thing i have seen all day, democrats like nancy pelosi are using this decision for fundraising when the president is trying to fix the situation, politicizing an issue instead of doing their job. if they spend less time fundraising and more time focusing on solutions we would not be in this in the first place. >> reporter: a new protest at trump tower scheduled for saturday, 11,000 people plan to be there. heather: all congress has to do is do their job now and it will work out. heather: tom cotton sa

if the deficit is rising or is static, congress has to debate it. that forces us to get back to , how are we dealing with the issue of deficit? for me, we have half a trillion dollars in overspending this year. we cannot pretend that will go away. we have to address it and i believe a debt ceiling moment is a moment to address it, but if we are actually cutting away at the deficit, i think that should be a process that is ongoing and very predictable. the only time it is not predictable, is the moment when the deficit is static, because something has to be addressed at that moment and we have to take that on. >> cristina marcos is with us, a reporter for the hill. the trump administration called on congress to vote to raise the debt ceiling before the august recess. obviously, they did not do that. what have you heard from house and senate leaders about their plans to schedule a vote on the debt ceiling? and when is the deadline to avoid default? guest: the default deadline that has been issued by the treasury department is september 29, which incid

handle this. >> that is where congress is heading but what chuck did was right, diluting congress way in and if congress chooses not to act donald trump would be leveling the playing field. when it comes to immigration we need policy based on merit, not the fact your parents committed an illegal act. people say it happened through no fault of their own and then it is the republicans fault, the fault was the parents, the parents did an illegal act and we are rewarding and subsidizing it. my favorite economy start laffer points out when you tax something you get less of it, they are attacking american taxpayers to give free education to illegal people who are here, breaking our laws and thinking their children, if i showed up at stanford university and said i won an mba, you didn't accept me but i deserve to get one that doesn't mean i deserve to get one. rob: a lot of immigration groups referred to president obama as the deep order in chief, he was strong on immigration, deported a lot of people before he came to the daca realization and i think the kids, a sensitive issue and i have a

i need congress. so essentially and the reason did he that was ultimately was because congress would not do immigration reform and include that so now essentially, donald trump is doing what barack obama did not do. will he, donald trump, be able to get it accomplished? don't know, depends on congress. abby: you look back. that was a great sound bite. kudos to our producers for pulling that up in 2011. >> he was struggling with the same thing president trump is today. this is a difficult thing. it is emotional. you are also dealing with the legal angle of this. we saw a year later, a couple years later he reversed that and ended up doing it on its own. brian: watched it over the weekend and other people. there are controversial things about this president people want to criticize it really nothing to criticize here. is he openly saying how difficult it is this decision is to make. he is, i think, doing the right thing by kicking it back to congress to let them have the power that they yearn for. how c

the librarian of congress is not so bad. tony bennett, the first person to be given the gershwin award for his interpretation of popular songs and he was so touched and said am i really the first person. the people who are going to be part of this program, let's just say mature, old song, country, everybody's gonna be there to pay tribute to tony bennett. >> no one has bee done more in the u.s. collection. >> just think of all the people. >> the last one was really something. our experience for the library of congress and this festival is also illustrating the unifying power of the arts, music, literature and female jackson was the mc. at one particular smoky robinson song, wasn't my girl. >> i think it was. >> because you were singing. >> let's just say we got everybody from every party, every state and as mr. jackson said, this is bipartisan karaok karaoke. [applause] it was something. everybody knew the words. >> of course on the news, we see all of the divisiveness between the parties, but this is something that brings p

if you can address some of the concerns that congress has had. it's not necessarily that far when the house with the leadership in the senate coming on board and it's always been the senate that has taken the lead on brac and made it happen i don't see me reason that that's likely to change. there is real hope this year that they might be able to get there. the other point that is worth making in the hill did last year or the year before authorize the department to do the excess capacity analysis that has now become one of the major justifications for bases for their request to brac showing there's 22% excess infrastructure. that also was a bit of a weakening and the resistance in congress to the idea of a brac. one interesting thing about that is almost none of it is department of the navy. the navy essentially took a knee on brac and thinking they have probably done enough and notwithstanding there were some recommendation turnarounds that were turned down by the commission where they you would think the navy would not again but the navy is goo

congress headed back to work today and one of the presidnt's pry orts for this congress is the tax reform. so far he's only speaking -- spoken broadly about the issue. we still haven't seen a big plan. any de tails. today the president sat down with a republican congressional leadership as you you a to talk about tax reform. we must bring back trillions of dollars that are currently parked oversees. we have, in my opinion, four trild, four trild, massive amounts of money that can't come back to our country because of our tax code and because of the rates. >> tax reform is a major goal but the more pressing issues for congress are harvey the debt ceiling. the house is expected to pass a harvey relief billion tomorrow and then send it onto the senate. gop senator john correspond in of texas says he will be attaching legislation to the billion to also race the debt limit. however, some of the more conservative gop legislators might fight tieing the two together. disaster relief funds may run out by the end of the week so they have to act now. there hewed be a billion for the president ready

maybe that will get congress to act. but it's going to be an interesting six months, and i, by the way, have no sympathy for the additional work for congress. maybe the senate should work more than two days a week for the rest of 2017. >> so, you can take that up with members of congress and i don't know if they'd agree with you or not but i think they only have so many more legislative days to go. so ken, i wanted to hear from you. and then andre, to you, with a much different perspective to this whole thing. how do you feel? >> so, i want to be very clear about what you just heard. everything you heard about daca being illegal is wrong. >> no, it's blatantly illegal. >> this decision by president trump was a political decision and it's a morally bankrupt one. president after president for over four decades have used what's called prosecutorial discretion to determine who is a priority for removal and who is not. and that is exactly what the daca program is. so you hear a lot of words from this other commentator about r

i want to see what happens in congress. i think they're going to make a deal. >> 15 states including new york filed suit against him to try to block the rescission of daca. they claim that what the president did was illegal, placating his base by denigrating and punishing people with mexican roots. >> bret: john roberts on the north pond. federal officials say they are 80 large fires burning over 2200 square miles and nine western states. people in oregon are covering their faces with scarves to keep the choking -- to keep choking from ash from the wild cards -- while fires hundreds of evacuations. health warnings issued, roads are closed. many outdoor activities for children are canceled. we'll keep an eye on it. corruption trial for u.s. senator that could have major ramifications for all americans. ramifications for all americans. we'll explain next whoooo. i enjoy the fresher things in life. fresh towels. fresh soaps. and of course, tripadvisor's freshest, lowest... ...prices. so if you're anything like me... ...you'll

congress -- this is what i think congress should do. they should have a very simple bill. a very simple vote on this. and make it very clear without putting in all the other crap that congress loves to put in bills to screw things up or to make it where it doesn't actually get to the president. and the president said, you've got six months to do it, do your job in the next six months and i think that's the right play for the president. it shows compassion to these individuals. >> right. >> and it doesn't keep them wondering what's going to happen in their future. >> will he sign it? >> i'm only laughing because here's one thing that i know with almost certainty is that nothing simple passes congress these days. no matter the -- >> right. we can agree on that. >> i agree -- >> they're terrible at their job. >> in fact, i love everything that ben is saying. i hope that he is as optimistic this week. >> kumbaya. >> hopefully we can get this done. >> first things first. the president's words tomorrow, i say it all the time, taken literally and take him seriously including on t

it means we are properly enforcing our laws as congress has passed them. it is with these principles and duties in mind, and in light of imminent litigation, that we reviewed the obama administration's daca policy. collective wisdom is that the policy is vulnerable to the same legal and constitutional challenges that the courts recognized with respect to the dapa program which was enjoined on a nationwide basis in a decision that was affirmed by the fifth circuit court of appeals. the fifth circuit concluded that daca had not been implemented in a fashion that allowed sufficient discretion and that dapa was foreclosed by congres'' careful plan. close quote. in other words, the immigration law that congress passed foreclosed this possibility of daca. in other words, it was inconsistent with the constitution's separation of powers. that decision was affirmed by the supreme court on an equally divided basis. if we were to keep the obama administration's executive amnesty policy, the likeliest outcome is that it would, too, be enjoined just as was dapa. the de