i'd like now to invite senator cotton and senator purdue to say a few words. thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. president. i'm very excited to be here with senator purdue and president trump to be introducing the new version of the r.a.i.s.e. act. our legal immigration system should a com pleasure two main goals it should help american, woers get a pay raise and two, it should make america more competitive in the world and our system doesn't do that. it's over a half century old and it is an obsolete disaster and it's time for it to change. so first, we bring over a million imgrants into this country a year. that's like adding the population of montana every single year. adding the population of arkansas every three years. the vast majority of those immigrants come here not because of those english language abilities or their job skills or their job offer or educational attainment. in fact, only one in 15, one in 15 out of a million new immigrants come here because of the job skills and their ability to succeed in this economy. that means it puts great dow

i would like now to invite senator cotton and senator purdue to say a few words. thank you very much. sen. cotton: thank you. i am very excited to be here with senator purdue and president trump to introduce the new version of the raise act. our new immigration system should help american workers get a decent pay raise and have a higher standard of living. it should help promote economic growth, make america more competitive in the world. our current system simply does not do that. it is over a half-century old and it is an obsolete disaster and it is time for it to change. so we bring over a million first, immigrants into the country a year. that is like adding the population of montana every single year. adding the population of arkansas every three years. the vast majority of those immigrants come here, not because of their english language abilities or their job offers or their educational attainment, in fact only one in 15 out of a million new immigrants come here because of their job skills and ability to succeed in this economy. that means it puts great dow

so i guess it's not a big deal. >> sreenivasan: purdue also sets a minimum income threshold. if, in the future, you are out of work, or earning very little, you don't pay. >> what feels most important to you? >> the protection when times get tough, so that way if you are unemployed, rather than interest piling up, you're already struggling to get back on your feet, you don't need interest on top of that. >> sreenivasan: is it a good investment for the university? >> well, we'll find out. frankly, i'll be disappointed if this new instrument doesn't grow over time, so that it attracts all kinds of investors, people who see a chance help a student, but also make some kind of a return. >> sreenivasan: this fall, purdue university is expanding their income share agreement program from juniors and seniors, to incoming sophomores. in indiana, for the pbs newshour, i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: in his address to the nation last night, president trump also stressed the need for unity, and urged americans to "heal our divisions within." but those divisions could be on full display

i very excited to be here with senator purdue and president trump.ors tom cotton, the junior senator from arkansas, and david purdue unveiling this legislation. the president saying he was going to change the way the immigration system works and it will eliminate the outdated visa lottery system right he said it serves questionable economic and humanitarian interest. he also says the raise act will give american workers a pay raise because it will mean that unskilled workers don't take their jobs and will reduce unskilled immigration. it's a different attack on the immigration front. talking aboutr illegal immigration, were talking about reducing legal immigration, the raise act to being unveiled by the president and senators caught in an purdue. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: live from london and new york, i'm vonnie quinn. mark: i mark barton. this is the european close on "bloomberg markets." deutsche bank said to be considering a plan that would shift almost 1/2 u.k. workforce to the european consulate. most of the 4000 positions would move to fran

senator purdue? >> thanks, tom. the gold standard. i've lived around the world, and worked around the world. the gold standard is the american green card and what this proposal does is basically look at best practices around the world, particularly canada and australia and comes up with a bill that is pro-growth, pro-worker and actually has been proven to work. this is not an experiment and what we do is we focus bringing up people that can protect the american workers and grow the economy. this is a standard that we've been trying to get to for a long time and this attempt will be successful because of one reason. one, it's been proven before and two, it limits this effort to just the permanent legal president issue and the green card, as i said is the gold standard and focus on the merit-based immigration system that brings in the best and brightest of the world. this historical economic rise that we've had in the united states has been built on the back of american workers and what we've done is gone away from that focus in a few d

they actually graduate from purdue university. it was company paid for. sociologydegree in from purdue university. a four years bachelors degree completely paid for. we have students who graduate with an associates degree, two-year college really paid for. the story i would like to share is, this school because we approach it from a different perspective, i am an administrator of a total of 900 students. that is k-12. if we were to attack a school from a traditional administrative year and has 250 high school student and make sure that every student gets a four night with credit to meet state standards, i only have so many dollars, i am going to pick french. we offer french class at our high school. that leaves out the kids that wanted to take latin, french, polish, that top-down thinking is what does happen in small schools around the country. instead of that top-down thinking, we look at the student and say what do you want? i want to take french class. what do you want? i want to take spanish. we have to make it possible. have indiana university, north

i'm very excited to be here with senator purdue and president trump to be introducing the new versione act our legal immigration system should accomplish two main goals. one, it should help american workers get a decent pay raise and have a higher standard of living. >> the president rolling out the raise act in conjunction with senators cotton and purdue, essentially a skills-based immigration bill that would reward immigrant applicants based on their individual merits and limit low-skilled and unskilled labor from entering the united states. one of just a couple things that happened this morning, the president signed the russian sanctions bill, although in a statement he did say that legislation in his view is significantly flawed that he's signing the bill for the sake of national unity our kayla touche and john harwood are watching both of these pots boil today. john, we'll get some reaction from you >> well, first of all, on the raise act, which david purdue and tom cotton have joined president trump to introduce, keep in mind, this is something that would reduce current levels o

bachelor's degree from purdue. how does that happen? she also has a two-year from -- tech.ee when she went to purdue had applied, she went in not as a but as aol graduate junior college transfer student. purdue looked at her trance gripped -- transcript which was all a's and b's and accepted her based on that transcript. in fact, when purdue found out that she didn't have her diploma the admissions office called her , they have to strip her of that degree because she did not have a high school degree. you don't do that to raven. if you look at twitter you will see he has a picture of himself with raising saying, that will not happen. raven did indeed graduate with her bachelor's degree. one of the things that i wanted ladyare is this is a young who went around the system to get her masters degree. very innovative, very nontraditional. she did it a high school diploma , the ac to your sat and didn't take a bunch of high school level foreign language or high school level she took college-level courses. one semester of college counts for a

senator purdue: thank you, tom. the gold standard, and i have lived and worked around the world, the gold standard is the american green card and with this proposal does is basically look at best practice around the world, particularly canada and australia, and comes up with a bill that is progrowth, pro-worker and has been proven to work. this is not an experiment. what we do is we focus on bringing in people that can help protect american workers and grow the economy. this is a standard we have been trying to get to for a long time and this attempt will be successful because of one reason, it has been proven before and two, it limits the effort to just the permanent legal resident issue. the green card as i said in the gold standard and what we need to do is focus on merit-based system that brings in the best and brightest of the world. so this historical, economic -- rise that we have had has been built on the back of american workers and what we have done is moved away from that focus in the last few decades. wh

she got a degree in sociology from purdue university. a four year bachelors degree completely paid for by her school. six others it means for two years of college completely paid for. now, dna total story i would like to share is that the school because we approach it from a very different is, i'm an administrator of the school that serves a total of k-12. if we were to attack the school from a to, and say we have 250 high school students and they get a foreign language credit to meet the state standard. i only have so many dollars, so we offer that's really fair to the kids who want to take latin or german, italian, whatever. the top-down thinking is what happened in small schools around the country. what we do, instead of the top-down thinking, we say what you want? okay, what you want? i want to take spanish. we are going to make it possible. we are in gary, indiana, northwest, purdue, university, a lot of colleges around her community. instead of me hiring one teacher , live at. you've got to take advantage. that is not the attitude.

lawsuit here i mean this could have sweeping changes depending on the outcome of this lawsuit purdue pharma what did they do wrong and where do you think their liability is. oddly enough our focus is cases on focusing on state to state that we represent counties in cities in ohio kentucky a west virginia florida alabama here's what's wrong with with what south carolina is doing we've seen the history of attorney generals has not been good where comes to dealing with the manufacturers there's two parts of the case the manufacture and the distributor for example mckesson takes the purdue drug and they're the ones that distribute it the problem seems to be if we're looking at you know who's most at risk is most responsible it seems to be the distributors the distributors have become nothing more than pill pushers they don't look like bill pushers because are dressed up in armani suits but when we follow these places all over the country. and again we've been hired i think at this point in forty seven different counties and in cities from ranging from kentucky to west virginia the storie

i would like to invite senator cotton and purdue to say a few words.nk you very much. >> thank you, mr. president. i'm very excited to be here with senator purdue and president trump to be introducing the new version of the raise act. our legal immigration system should accomplish two main goals. one, it should help american workers get a decent pay raise and have a higher standard of living. it should promote economic growth, make america more competitive. our current system doesn't do that. it's over a half accept tcentur. it's a disaster. it's time to change. first, we bring over a million immigrants into this country a year. that's like ardi inadding the population of arkansas every three years. the vast majority of those immigrants come here not because of their english language abilities or job skills or job offer or educational attainment. only one in 15 out of a million new immigrants come here because of their job skilz als and abil to succeed. it puts great downward pressure on people who work with their hands and work on their feet. for some

by senators tom cotton of arkansas and david purdue of georgia. the president and the senators spoke and the roosevelt room of the white house and after the meeting, the senators spoke outside of the white house. we will show you all of that now on c-span. president trump: thank you very much. it is great to be here to unveil legislation that would be the most significant reform for immigration system in half a century. i want to thank senators tom cotton and david perdue for their tremendous work in putting together this historic and every vital proposal. as a candidate i campaigned on creating a merit-based immigration system that protects u.s. workers and taxpayers. that is why we are here today, merit-based. the raise act, will reduce poverty, increase wages, and save taxpayers billions and billions of dollars. it will do this by changing the way the united states issues green cards to nationals from other countries. green cards provide permanent residency, work authorization, and fast-track to citizenship. for decades the united states was op

i'd like now to invite senator cotton and purdue to say a few words.ch. >> thank you, mr. president, very excited to be here to be introducing the new version of the raise act. our legal immigration system should accomplish two main goals. it should help american workers get a decent pay raise and have a higher standard of living and promote economic growth and make america more competitive in the world. our current system simply doesn't do that. it's over a half century old. it is an obsolete disaster and time for it to change. first, we bring over a million immigrants into this country a year. that's like adding the population of montana every single year, adding the population of arkansas every three years. the vast majority of those immigrants come here not because of their english language abilities or job skills or job offer or their educational attainme attainment, only one in 15 out of a million new immigrants come here because of their job skills and abilities to succeed in this economy. that means it puts great downward pressure on people who

cotton and purdue are maintaining the spousal and minor children priority.ersation about this and get the demigagoguery out of it. >>> being offered by chris coons, if this bill would come to it, would you vote yes or no? >> that's a hypothetical. i don't see that bob mueller will be fired. i was very vocal, saying i would have preferred the congressional committees, shous and senate intel committees finish their work, issue their report before we begin thinking about special counsel. the history of special counsel, special prosecutors sometimes go off the rails, go on witch hunts. we have enormous challenges facing this nation. we don't really need that kind of distraction. >> senator ron johnson of wisconsin, appreciate it sir. hope you have a good district work period. >> have a great day. >>> president trump says republicans are not getting the job done. he blames congress for the all-time low relationship with russia. is he about to go his own way on russia? that's next. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost any

senator purdue to you first. when you hear that, those sound like the precepts, the principles behind it sounds noncontroversial. they sound pretty basic. you guys work in politics. i know you have polled this. what's the public opinion of those ideas? >> well, this is the big learning here in washington that people out there in the rest of the country get this. 72% believe it should be the primary worker plus their nuclear family or less. 18% we ought to be just a nuclear or just the worker. so people out there in the real world get this. it's pro-worker. it's pro-growth. and it's been proven to work in canada and australia. >> tucker: what's interesting senator cotton you say this bill is pro-worker. our current arrangement seems anti-worker. if you look at working class workers in the family when the kennedy acts came into law they have gone down and remained stagnant. do you think there is a connection between immigration and low wages. >> absolutely. even though some republicans feel like it doesn't apply th

interestingly enough, i actually banned purdue pharmaceuticals from my form larry when i was governor0 years ago. i knew it was incredibly addicting. and that's really in many way what's started all this. and then when they had to reformulate the drug so it couldn't be cooked and snorted, heroin became the cheap substitute. that's really how this exploded. i don't think we'll get any help from trump at all. sessions has no idea what they're doing. i'm not sure price has any idea what's going on. the states are on their own here. disease this is a disease. this is not some choice by evil people. this is a disease. we have to treat it as a disease. should we go after the pushers? sure. but the low level pushers that are easy to go after are only feeding their own habits. they have to go after the kingpins. and the nonsense that we'll have a wall from mexico that is going to stop this stuff being imported is asinine. first of all, most of it doesn't come over the mexican border anyway it comes from china and afrg. >> does the trump administration have the balance that governor is proposi

about 600,000 which is pretty much what this cotton/purdue legislation would take our immigration to.were we unamerican in 1986 when we were celebrating the centennial of the statue of liberty? >> tucker: you can track pretty easily. i don't think there is necessarily a pure correlation, but you can track the rise of cheap immigrant labor to the decline of the fortunes of the middle class. >> it certainly has overland. >> tucker: for sure. >> a lot of things going to be responsible for less skilled workers, especially as well as middle class workers seeing stagnation or even drop in their wages, globalization. there is a lot of things going on. immigration not only contributes to it. it clearly is contributing to it. but also, it's making it worse. in other words, if things are bad. if we have, for instance, the highest percentage of our working age population, that isn't working, not even looking for work, why -- how is it helping things to import more people from abroad. >> tucker: when the democratic party represented the middle class, people like barbara jordan would make that poi

new ones doing that i thought it was pretty much in the ninety's with purdue yeah what we see what we see sir is is pictures where the law enforcement is taken pictures of people standing in their pajamas lined up outside doctors' offices lined up side drugstores lineups pill mills and we find out that the distributor for that product lives no less than two miles away drives by that every day in sees that actually occurring and for it to say that there's no notice that the company didn't know this was going on that this is all the doctor's fault i just don't see that connection but maybe there's something i'm missing but full disclosure was unlikely to handle these cases on behalf of counties and cities all over the country when you still need a bucket or like your average joe and i don't know how four million dollars is going to be enough to go around here but it any rate good luck out there i hope you can help solve the problem is going to take a lot more than four million dollars i think you'd agree. that if you want to me thank you. an environmental watchdog group has released a s

the rate of illegal in half.on he talked about the bill at the with senator tom cotton and david purdue. pres. trump: thank you very much. it is great to be here today to unveil legislation that will represent the most significant reform to our immigration system century. i want to thank senators tom cotton and david perdue for their tremendous work in putting together this historic and very vital proposal. as a candidate, i campaigned on creating a merit-based immigration system that protects u.s. workers and taxpayers. that is why we are here today, merit-based. the raise act, r-a-i-s-e, will reduce poverty, increase wages billions andayers billions of dollars. it will do this by changing the way the united states issues green cards to nationals from other countries. green cards provide permanent residency, work authorization track to citizenship. for decades, the united states was operated and has operated a low-skilled immigration system, issuing record numbers of green to low-wage immigrants. this policy has placed pressure on american workers, taxpayers and community resources. am

the purdue product is going to take it all the way, 87 yards for a touchdown. he wasn't done.th quarter, he will score against. the niner goes in front. but the vikings rally. minnesota decides to go for a two-point conversion and a bin. on the run, will drive and he will score, the vikings with a victory. the miners foul. >> disappointing. and how it ended. and a lot of things to be happy about. we have to go out and look at the tape and learn. >> the few good driving, i'm sure there will be a few missed opportunities. and so it wasn't a relief because i know adds an offense that is's who we were. we didn't have an opportunity to move the ball down the field and eventually score. >> for arizona times in the inning. france was trying to get his first chase. the ball gets hundley. it's 1-0. her alta gets ejected. and a faces-loaded single, drives in a pair a. arizona gets back-to-back-to-back home runs, possibly mvp. god schmitt got it going with a blast off. martinez follows with his second home run of the contest. and gave all home run to tomorrow the diego. >>> over at the c

there's two parts of the case the manufacture and the distributor for example mckesson takes the purdue drug and they're the ones that distribute it the problem seems to be if we're looking at you know who's most at risk is most responsible it seems to be the distributors the distributors have become nothing more than pill pushers they don't look like pill pushers because are dressed up in armani suits but when we follow these places all over the country. and again we've been hired i think at this point in forty seven different counties and in cities from ranging from kentucky to west virginia the stories all the same the distributors understood that the numbers of drugs that they were selling far exceeded anything plausible but it was the decision leaders who were on the street for example a pill mill would be on fifth avenue the distributors sales person would be on third avenue they could drive by the pill mill every day see people lined up around the pill mill sometimes at seven o'clock in the morning wearing their pajamas so they could buy the opioids so i really the thing we're fo

yesterday, i heard the president railing against migrant workers and wrapping his arms around the cotton-purdue bill. the bill goes after hardworking people who want to play by the rules, contribute to our economy and earn citizenship, while doing nothing to address the unscrupulous practices of employers that abuse our visa programs to outsource jobs and displace american workers. but here's what i'd like to focus on. so the president has this nice announcement, he's cutting back on immigration, but a n month ago, he actually increased the number of h-1b h-1b visas -- h-1b v.c.r.'s, -- visas, a program the president knows well. many of those h-1b visas work in hotels. i don't know the number, but there are plenty of trump hotels. so when the president actually looks at negligence in his own business, he says we need more immigrants. and he has said when asked before, well, he couldn't get american workers. but when he comes up with his big immigration plan, i think appealing to not the higher instincts of americans, he says slash it. those two are complete contradiction. to hold both those vie

introduced by david purdue and tom cotton. you know, already getting some feedsback from republicans like grahams graha lindsey graham, calling this a misreading of the economy. he says he does back the merit-based idea, but then says this -- >> i don't want an economy that doesn't recognize how diverse we are as a nation and to take all the green cards and put them in one in the economy is just, i think, ill advised. i can't support that. >> no support there. why introduce something so controversial that many are saying has little chance of going anywhere? >> a lot of reporters were tweeting yesterday how surreal it was to see stephen miller at the podium talking about this bill. absolutely when he was working in jeff sessions' office, this is the exact type of thing that sessions would spruce. did not get -- would introduce. it did not get widespread report. it's not overstating it that the idea has been around washington for a long time, have typically been at the margins and do not have a lot of support. you know, there wa

the drug that purdue pharma makes, was crucial. for two reasons. one was that purdue pharma used aggressive form of marketing to doctors, giveaways, similar to the marketing techniques that the boys used to pharmaeir heroin, purdue used to convince doctors that these pills were no longer particularly, oxycontin was no longer addictive and they would be fine prescribing it to their patients. and they gave away stuff. don't do this any more but for seven years, for the drug's life they gave away trips. they gave away a c.d. called "swing in the right direction oxycontin," where we got some swing band tunes. t was a very aggressive, constant kind of marketing to doctors to convince them that to do.s fine and also, oxycontin was a crucial part of this because not contain any abuse deterrent for the first 14 years of its life so it took addicts, people would get addicted and it would take their tolerance up to very high would be d then they looking for a cheap potent heroin proved to be that, particularly the heroin from mexico, proved to be the crucial

what should viewers know about the purdue farmer? >> guest: perdu farmer, oxycontin was crucial. it was crucial. for two reasons. one was purdue pharma use the daria gress is form of marketing to doctors very similar to the marketing tech makes to sell their heroin to convince doctors that these pills were no longer take if particularly oxycontin was no longer addictive and they began to prescribe it to their patients. they don't do this anymore but for seven years they gave away a little cd called swing in the right direction with oxycontin where when you have a swing band he was a very aggressive constant marketing. and then also oxycontin was a crucial part of it it is oxycontin was not an abuse deterrent. people would get addicted take their tolerance of two high levels and then they would be looking for a cheap potent alternative and heroin prove to be back. particularly the hera went initially proved to be the crucial alternative and all that. >> host: and the drug overdose death rising to somewhere between 59,000 in the united states in 2016. what is the story talk about i

i'd like now to invite senator cotton and senator purdue to say a few words. >> thank you, mr.president. i'm very excited to be here with senator purdue and president trump to be introducing the new version of the raise act. our legal immigration system could accomplish two main goals. one, it should help american workers get a decent pay raise and have a higher standard of living. two, it should help promote economic growth and make america nor kp more competitive in the world. our current system doesn't do that. it is over a half century old. it is an obsolete disaster and it's time for it to change. first, we bring over a million immigrants into this country a year. that's like adding the population of montana every single year, atting t. the vast majority come here not because of their language abilities or job skills. in fact only 1 in 15 out of a million new immigrants come here because of their job skills and their ability to succeed in this economy. that means it puts great pressure on people who work with their hands and work on their feet. now, for some people, they m

the drug that purdue pharma makes, was crucial. for two reasons. one was that purdue pharma used aggressive form of marketing to doctors, giveaways, similar to the marketing techniques that the boys used to pharmaeir heroin, purdue used to convince doctors that these pills were no longer particularly, oxycontin was no longer addictive and they would be fine prescribing it to their patients. and they gave away stuff. don't do this any more but for seven years, for the drug's life they gave away trips. they gave away a c.d. called "swing in the right direction oxycontin," where we got some swing band tunes. t was a very aggressive, constant kind of marketing to doctors to convince them that to do.s fine and also, oxycontin was a crucial part of this because not contain any abuse deterrent for the first 14 years of its life so it took addicts, people would get addicted and it would take their tolerance up to very high would be d then they looking for a cheap potent heroin proved to be that, particularly the heroin from mexico, proved to be the crucial

about 600,000 which is pretty much what this cotton/purdue legislation would take our immigration to.re we unamerican in 1986 when we were celebrating the centennial of the statue of liberty? >> tucker: you can track pretty easily. i don't think there is necessarily a pure correlation, but you can track the rise of cheap immigrant labor to the decline of the fortunes of the middle class. >> it certainly has overland. >> tucker: for sure. >> a lot of things going to be responsible for less skilled workers, especially as well as middle class workers seeing stagnation or even drop in their wages, globalization. there is a lot of things going on. immigration not only contributes to it. it clearly is contributing to it. but also, it's making it worse. in other words, if things are bad. if we have, for instance, the highest percentage of our working age population, that isn't working, not even looking for work, why -- how is it helping things to import more people from abroad. >> tucker: when the democratic party represented the middle class, people like barbara jordan would make that point

. >> the president supported the cotton purdue immigration bill which would reduce illegal immigration over a short period of time by 15% most economic analysis that i've read say this is negative for gdp and for economic growth. do you think it's a good idea that support this bill and reducing immigration in the united states? >> i it this president is very focused on making sure that americans have good paying jobs and have proper jobs and i think that's his priority. i think that you've seen the president has also been very focused on stopping illegal immigration. >> but what about the economic implications since immigration is a big part of population growth and population growth say big part of economic growth >> i think that's right. i think there is a lot of issues that are going to focus the economy in the short term that are much more important than this one >> you don't think it will have a anythi negative impact? >> i do not. >> last question thank you for answering the other ones second lu before you, your predecessor, supported the idea of removing andrew jackson from the

so, president trump said he wanted center purdue and me to go back and take a look at the employment-based green cards as well. we've done that. e've consulted with experts, consulted with people who designed the canadian system and we have come up with a system that is similar to what senators isboth parties, which moving our employment-based andem into a point bassist that rewards people that can speak english and have high educational attainment, you can create their own companies. so, we think this is a new were an improved version that we have done at the president's request. again, we have seen a lot of interest from senators already. >> what do say to your -- within the business committee who say this could make the workforce weaker by cutting down on illegal immigration? guy,perdue: as a business i can tell you that whoever says that has not been in the real world because what happens in the real world is we are competing with other countries for this talent. are competing for natural resources. but right now, by going to a merit-based system, we will assure the american economy ca

president trump said he wanted senator purdue and i to look at the employment-based green cards. we have done that and we consulted with experts and people will help to design the canadians wisdom and we came up toh a system that is similar what senators in both parties have supported in the past moving the green card system into a point system that reward people that can speak english and have a job that will pay them more than the local economy typically pays and create their own companies. we think this they do work and improved version we have done as a president's request and will soon a lot of interest from senators already for the -- already. >> what you say to the business community that say this can make it weaker? as a business guy, i can tell you whoever says that has not been in the real world. what happens and the real world as we are competing with other countries for this talent and like natural resources. to a merit-based system, we will ensure the american economy can attract the best and brightest and also protects american workers. it is not only longer focused

. >> the measure by republican senators purdue and cotton would award aspiring immigrants points based on age, education, english language test scores, whether they have a job offer with a high salary, or won a top award like a nobel prize or olympic medal or are a major investment in a new business. applicant spouses would be scored the same way. >> the proposal is reigniting the debate about national identity and immigration. that was the central theme of president trump's campaign. the white house on the defensive, almost as soon as the president's backing was announced. quarrelling with reporters, taking fire from lawmakers from both parties slamming the bill. let's go to cnn's jim acosta with more. >> reporter: the white house is bristling at questions over its plan for sweeping changes to the u.s. immigration system that would install a points system for people coming into the country legally. the president's policy adviser, stephen miller, sparred with reporters who were asking questions about the president's proposal and seemed to suggest that the statue of liberty is not the b

o i didn't know that this was going to be a viable career option until i graduated out of purdue, and companies looking, can you hack uni systems. can we test them? i want that job. that's a fun thing. keep me out of trouble and make it legal. that's how i got into attacks and penetration. >> so you would be hired by a would say, come hack our system? >> that's right. done. precisely how it's target saying, and are the assets of value see what a real-life focused attacker can do. ow far can they get what kind of monetary loss would be suffered? kind of -- to our customers.n or then we give them a reality heck, as i would call it, get ngs, rattle the cages, in, and actively steal sufficient. how easy was it? >> let me say my track record is very close to a hundred percent. dependent totally upon the time you have. ow will you scout out the perimeters, how well you know the organization. how well you know the technology importantly, how well do you know the mindset of the people behind this technology. challenges? daily what do they fall for? hackersways like to say don't hack computers

by senators tom cotton of arkansas and david purdue of georgia. the president and the senators spoke and the roosevelt room of the white house and after the meeting, the senators spoke outside of the white house. we will show you all of that now on c-span. president trump: thank you very much. it is great to be here to unveil legislation that would be the most significant reform for immigration system in half a century. i want to thank senators tom cotton and david perdue for their tremenus

the notion we would give a financial incentive for a new purdue pharma, this is the big tobacco of our time. big marijuana will now have an incentive to marketing to people, which is the same problem we saw that got us into this crisis on the opioid crisis. i don't think we should go down that road again and replicate what we had happen to us with overprescribing of oxycontin and other opiates happen to us now with the over access and commercialization of marijuana. it just doesn't seem to me that it is a logical or sensible solution. and that's my view. >> just to clarify, because we have to go. you don't hold much weight to that study, 23% drop in hospitalizations related to opioid abuse with states of legal marijuana? >> this is, obviously, an issue i care about. i sat with the head of the american society of addiction medicine three nights ago and asked her in great detail. she says the american society for addiction medicine is apo plek tick, but you don't conform by allowing a new for-proper pr industry, i just don't think that's a solution, especially in a time where we're in su

on the cotton-purdue bill, our congratulate both of my colleagues for officiating the debate about what our legal immigration system should look like. we found it is an normally complex topics. beam have a variety of different views. i congratulate them for officiating the conversation. that's the beginning. not the end. what we have chosen to focus on here and senator johnson made the point is we need to regain the public's confidence and trust. we simply don't have it. there's a huge trust deficit when it come to the federal governments willingness to deal with the border security and en forcing our laws. we aim to change it by the legislation. with this president in the white house, we think we have an ally who will help us. >> even that wasn't the appropriations that's going to be the flash point? many republican members in our state are opposed to the border wall. >> chad, we have a lot of things to do before the end of the fiscal year. i don't want to put the cart a head of the horse. what we need to do is not be dis tracted by the stories of the day. i understand that you all hav

senator purdue and senator cotton, two conservatives spearheading this effort on capitol hill, working closely with stephen miller and steve bannon, two top strategists more on the right wing of the white house. this is signaling to the republican base, the rest of the agenda that is stalled on health care and other priorities, at least on immigration. they're making some progress. of course, they don't have the votes. >> isn't this what we've seen with so many legislations they've tried to pursue, that they whittled it down over time because the fact they're not getting support from lawmakers? health care, for example, trying to push repeal without replace because they just wanted to get rid of obamacare first and the travel ban where they tried to pull elements that the courts would find acceptable and let the rest pass later? this is what we're seeing throughout even immigration now. >> kasie is back with us. i know you always have your eyes on the prize in the hallways of the capitol. we heard from tom cotton just today. this morning, he was out talking about all this. i want you t

ana, there's a push from david purdue and tom cotton, the president seems to have embraced it or thete house has, to make immigration a merit-based system, let in foreigners who are educated, who are skills-based and who speak english. what's wrong with wanting people to come here who speak our language? doesn't that help assimilation? >> you would be sitting next to an empty chair right now if the only people they threat would be those who speak our language. it would be pretty lonely for you today, alisyn. look, i think we need to have the immigration discussion. practically everybody, no matter where you are on the spectrum agrees the system is broken. you can't do it in this piecemeal way where all you do is address legal immigration and cut it in half and make it a merit-based system. i think what he's trying to do, what the trump white house is trying to do is what they always do. they are trying to throw a bone. they are trying to send a dog whistle to his base. there is no way that this proposal is going to see the light of day unless the paul ryan i have known for years has

it was the trump administration's endorsement of legislation created by two senators, david purdue out of georgia and out of arkansas, the raise act, as they call it. here's some of the endorsement from the white house, saying in part, their philosophical approach saying a surge in unskilled immigration for decades in the united states has surged, depressing wages and harming america's most vulnerable citizens, adding that our system does not prioritize the most highly skilled immigrants. just one out of every 15 immigrants comes here is because of their skills, and on average, one million immigrants are accepted into the united states for legal permanent residency annually, and most of them are low or unskilled workers. this influx is the equivalent of adding more than the population of san francisco to the country every year. there's more at the white house website if you want to see the endorsement of this raise act by the trump administration. to give you some specifics, it would do a couple of things. it would, first of all, retain immigration preferences for thousands of minor ch