minister of norway that's scheduled to start at 3:20 eastern. when it gets under way, we'll bring it to you live from the white house. then this evening on cspan3 we head to richmond virginia for the governor's state of the commonwealth address. that's set for 6:30 eastern also live here on cspan3. the cspan bus continues its 50 capitals tour this month with stops in raleigh, columbia, atlanta and montgomery. on each visit w50e'll speak wit state officials. follow the tour and join us on wednesday at 9:30 a.m. eastern and when our guest is josh stein. house minority leader denny hoyer has a news conference on daca. that's the obama administration's program allowing some undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children to remain.

president trump is planning to end the program. democrats want legislation to continue the program. yesterday president trump indicated that he's open to that as long as a wall on the u.s./mexico bord ser is part of the legislation. our first guess is representati representative lynnet bearer. good morning you to. >> good morning. >> for those who may not know you on this program, a little bit about your background that brought you to congress and how you use that to kind of help you make decisions in issues of immigration like daca and the d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> thank you. i'm the daughter of immigrants from mexico. so everything happening around daca and the country right now with a lot of the anti-immigration policy is not just affecting people in my district which is about 70% latino, but it's very personal for me. my mom came over for a better

life for her kids. when i got here she said you've got to be awo doctor or a lawye. that's the only way you're going to get out of this world. i seeen blood and i want to pas out so i decided to go into law. ended up here. just really sometimes still walk into the building and pinch myself and say i can't believe i workas here. to think that the daughter of immigrants, the youngest of 11, was able to make it, beat the odds andho come here to washingn now to fight for the very community that's under attack. >> aer lot of perspectives and input given on the topic of daca. where do you currently stand on this and a legislative fix by congress? >> you know, we've been hearing so many conflicting information even from thehe visit yesterdayt the white house. this is an issue for me. i have a family member who is a daca recipient. i hear so many heartbreaking stories. from the very k k beginning we been and continue to ask for a clean d.r.e.a.m. bill.

we know if it went to a vote on the floor we would have the votes. i talkedd to my colleagues on te other side. this is where they're playing political chicken really with people's lives. and sopu we're continuing to pu to ask that there be a vote on the d.r.e.a.m. act before any spending bill, as not part of anything else. we would just like a clean bill affixed to this, especially because there's bipartisan support for this. that's what we're pushing for. the realities of congress and thety politics is different. and we know that there are discussions going on about what can be done where a compromise can be reached. but make no: mistake, i want a clean bill and that's what we're stillha pushing for? >> some republicans say that border security and daca have to go hand in hand. what's wrong with that approach? >> diwell, i sit on homeland security. we have had plenty of discussions. we've authorized funding. there's already 700 miles of borderer wall.

there are border security measures in place. there are places where we can end border security measures. yesterday i had a hearing on homeland security. thewa ports of entry are airpor, our seaports which by the way are they bigger threat to terrorism in this country is where we should be investing money. those are borders. those are port of entry we should be spending money on. every person that's come into my committee will tell you that any kind of a wall is like a speed bump. it's not going to solve the problem. it's really i think a waste of dollars. could there be discussion about adding some border security measures? sure. we do thatit all the time in e homeland. it's not a new topic. it's become more politicized with the s president in his antii' anti-immigration. >> what's acceptable for you, what can you vote on? >> i'm notha looking to even stt

there. this -- we have the support for a dream act. that's theon real starting poin. why don't we put this thing to a vote? if we did, i don't think you would even have to go down that road. there should be a conversation that's part of comprehensive immigration reform. i think that's the appropriate place to have it. we forul a moment got a little glimpse from the president who said he was willing to do that. which i think would be the more appropriate way too, go. t we know he put out aat tweet. this is the h reality. we can't trust this president when it comesar to immigration. that's why i'm working hard to talk to my colleagues on a bipartisan basis. n congress because they'll tell us behind closed doors and some of theme have been pretty vocal as welll that they're willing t support the d.r.e.a.m. act. the problem is with the leadership who won't put it to a vote. just take a look at what

happened yesterday. we had t the president on camer saying he was willing to do the cleaniv d.r.e.a.m. act and then move in a second stage into the comprehensive immigration reform. but it was leader mccarthy who had to step in and he had to say wait, mr. president, and he had to stop him and try to save the president at that moment into going backwards. i think that gives us the political reality of there are conversations, there's going to be wesomething. we haven'tth seen a whole lot o anything from republican leadership on this. all we've heard is that the president has put out which is too far extreme. i know that there are conversationsg going on on the hill on what that would mean. look, i would support having more cbp officers, custom and

border officers down at the ports where our seaports are there. i actually had more funding to go to airports. so there are areas where we could supplement our ports of entry. i thinke that is a place that would be a fine compromise. >> joining us until 9:30 to talk about these issues of daca and d.r.e.a.m.ers. if you want to ask her questions. do you take any comfort from that decision from the california judgege saying that r now the daca program has to remain in place? >> it's a great start. but i'll be honest with you. i think we've seen the supreme court hold a prior decision of his. i have to tell people we really can't let up on the hill, on the legislation. congress has to fix this. itor shouldn't be a legal issue. at this point congress has to fix this. wesu know there is support acro the country for this. we know there's support in the

house and the senate for this. we've just got to get it to a vote. first call for you comes from kent and kent is in princeton, neww jersey. democrats line, you're on with your guests. hello. >> hi. >> u hi. >> i have had a middle ground idea for a long time and you used the word citizen and i would give the word citizen up for both t the d.r.e.a.m.ers an for their parents. i have the idea that if the parents have been here ten years or 12no years and been upstandi members of their communities, they're not citizens, and working and they've been, you know, paying property tax through rentt probably and they've been contributing in other ways, and i would even go so fart as to say if they neve had anybody going after them for a felony as they might have been involved in what most call

misdemeanors and we call conduct offenses, orr persons or something like that, the point is that even if they had that, if they had two or three charges, we know they don't get good representation and they might be told to plea by a public defender, i would ignore that. i would call them anet upstandi member of the community. i would say let's all get them all on to a type of card. the card i, have in mind is a nongreen card.y that card would entitle them to be a permanent resident of the united states. any contributions they make through legitimate employment into the social security, i would say they're entitled to the benefits that they're contributing to. maybe some people in the public wouldn't want to give them pell grants, but i'd say hey, let them have studentll loans. they're going to pay that money

back. >> we'll leave it there and let our guest respond. >> thank you for your ideas. ii made a few notes. certainly you can take your ideas back tohe washington and some of the conversations when we get a little closer to the immigrationon reform. now,en there actually is a bipartisan support to put d.r.e.a.m.ers on a pathway to citizenship. there are quite a number of bills on that. the d.r.e.a.m. actct is one of those bills. i think for now continuing on where we have that bipartisan support is a good idea. i agree with you that there are so many immigrants that come to this country who have been good members of the community who have paid taxes, who work, who contribute to this economy and that we should take a look at those situations so that families are not broken up. we keep them together. we have an opportunity to let them contribute to enrich this country of ours. thank you for yourli ideas.

>> i wouldde say you have solidified me. i've been a lifelong democrat since i've been able to vote. the fact that you were pushing for a daca program for 800,000 people, people that came here illegally, obtaining employment here, use resources here, went to school, and then do anything toward walls, world war i, vietnam, didn't do anything of these to come here and have a better life, which is fine. but thetr country they're comin from haven't evolved to the point they wouldn't need mass immigration. secondly, p do you push for criminal justice reform when you haveve millions of people who he pho felony convictions from 25 or 30 years ago? were you upset when the dominican republic kicked all the haitians out of the country?

they've gotten a good deal coming here. they jumped the line. i had the people who started the process legally. they send their money back to their country. their currency exchange is well-advantaged. whose job did they take? your parents had 11 childrenho living hohere? did they pay for schools or school board taxes? to send the schools that they were going to? my grandparents had to bust theirr chuckles just to vote in this country. they come here and get all the resources necessary to them? >> caller, thank you. >> thank you for that question. actually, you raised a big issue that actually will highlight one of my guests for state of the union. the issue of deported veterans, we actually have immigrants who come to this country who can pick up a weapon and they can fight over seas in a combat zone f. they di f.. if they die the government will make them a united states po

citizen. if they survive, they can come back to this country and still be deported. that ises a tragedy. it's a real injustice and this is something where we have heard some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle say they want to help support to fix the situation. immigrants come to thisse count. they contribute to our economy. they become our doctors. they becomee our nurses. our teachers. and are paying taxes and are part of this rich country. i have to say when you take a look at the issue of veterans who go and serve and then come home and a can be deported, thi should be at the forefront of the things that we'reue talking about. it's not. my guest who is going to be coming for the state of the union isht one of those people. came to this country. was anin immigrant. signed up. went and fought. then got deported. now,bl in his situation he's ab toe -- he was able to come bac. he had the governor's help and was able to come back. he lives in my congressional

district. we're going to be bringing him to the state of the union to highlight this issue and see if we canan bring awareness to it. most peoplee don't know this. look, i was just in afghanistan for the thanksgiving holiday to visit our troops overseas. i talked to them and they will tell you they don't care about the status of those that are fighting next to them, those who are onou their -- saving their lives and who have their backs. i think this in instance you raisees an issue that is one we need tohe look at. > you won't be surprised by this but the president just tweeted about the topic of the southern bordered saying as i me very clearth today, this is fro the discussions, our country needs the security of the wall on the southern border which must be part of any daca approval. do you think any type of agreement will happen by march? if not what happens then? >> i have to remain hopeful. we have to continue the conversations with our colleagues.

at the end of the day i think if we get something on the bipartisan basis that the legislators can agree to on the house and senate side and they send it to the president, i'm hopeful that we can have leadership talk to him and get off on something like that. we'll have to see what they come up with, what is put on to the table. but i'll be the first to tell youor as somebody who sits on homelandnd security, the use of $18 billion on a border wall is a real waste of money t. really is. it should go to things like our children's health insurance program that we need to have funded. disaster relief that hasn't been done. certainly we can use some of that moneyth to put into our airports and v seaports. there are plenty of areas where there arem shortfalls in filli some of the vacancies that keep our country safe. from the prime target which i think the greater target no doubt is terrorism.

take a look at what's happening inke airports, what's happening and how immigrants are coming to this country that have been linked to terror attacks. and so you don't hear stories of terrorists coming to the south border wall. so it's really unfortunate to see thehe president go back to e wall. this is where it makes our job more difficult in washington to get the legislation done. and ie tell people if this president was seriousve about daca,e, we would have a vote today. because the republicans have control of the house. they have control of the senate. andul they have the presidency. if they were o serious on daca,e will get that vote today. it would have passed today and we could move on and we could talk about the other important issueser facing congress.

they don't talk about the 12 people that have no legs, no arms and all of the things. i'mm talking about everybody. i really believe that when you talk about the subject that we're all mentioning right now, i think they have -- how many people came in? 22 to 24 people came in through him. it was a killer. it was a guy who ran over many people. eight died. 10 to 12 are really badly

injured. so i o really think that a lot people arest going to agree wit us now on that subject. >> representative, what goes mind when he makes those connections? >> well, this is the president again making immigrants look like criminals and generalizing it. there is no dispute even amongst democrats in my party that when you have criminals, murderers -- and they're bad people and they're criminals and that's not the case. and so it's unfortunate to hear -- >> we'll leave this discussion at this point to go live now to a press conference just outside the u.s. capital with hou