hastert went to prison, they couldn't bring it up. i think everybody wishes now they had because it would have helped dreamers. i worry when we talk about daca, there is a lot of fear mongering that goes on. dreamers take nothing more to contribute to the only country they have known. every day on paper they are as american as the senators up here. so will we play by the rules, pull them selves up by the the traps, or do we tell zeepo phobic attitude -- zen phobic attitude that faced my grandparents when they immigrated to vermont from italy or my great, great grandparents when they immigrated from ireland. now, let me ask. attorney general session suggested daca program put our nation at risk of crime, iolence, and even terrorism. libertarian cato institutes, confirmed less than 1% of dreerms have lost their daca status to safety concerns. mr. readler, did the attorney general of the united states accurately describe the justice department's view that it puts our nation at crimes of violence? -- readler: he pry plare senator leahy: d

there is this idea in the house called the hastert rule named for denny hastert, the former speaker, now disgraced former speaker. and the rule was you could not bring a bill to the floor unless the majority of your own party supported it. under boehner and ryan that almost became, although not when they needed votes to pass something that needed to be past. you couldn't bring a bill to the floor unless it could pass with only republican votes. again on must do pieces of business. so this is clearly a bill if you brought to it the floor, it could get some coalition of democrats and republicans in both the house and the senate. what we do not know if it's a bill that could pass with only republicans in the house and the senate. and it probably cannot in the end. so the question is, and this is something that donald trump would be able to do if he were playing this sort of role of semi independent that he often said without being in hock to either party. but so far if they decided to governor this just on a republican vote, it's going to go nowhere and they're going to end up in 2018 h

. >> i would say, if there's any issue on which to test a time where you should break the hastert rule, this is it. because immigration legislation has never been able to pass by just one party. immigration legislation historically has required bipartisanship. there are elements of each party, although they're not equivalent. i don't in any way say that this is an equivalency. but still, there are parts of each party that will resist. however, as you pointed out, and so important. this issue of all others in this contentious area is one that is strongly backed across the board by the public. it's, members of congress know that we've got to find a way to get a center back into, a functional center, you know, back into play. and this is an election whatever else wants to see problems solved. they picked a way to do it that was surprising, but nonetheless, that's part of the message. and so you can't solve problems without bipartisanship. the leadership has got to be willing to take this to the members and allow both parties to vote for it in order to get a majority. and they will get cre

month that the that the people of puerto rico murdered and that now to this is very scary because hastert and tell us what we have added a recipe for disaster i mean you have absolutely we have an island in the caribbean that is essentially a colony of the us they have disparate tax treatment they have different tax schemes worst tax schemes that we do they don't have representation in congress they're borrowing money year to year to year to live to pay for their basic services garbage health safety welfare the debt gets up to seventy two billion dollars it tanks craters the power grids already in disarray and then hurricane hits now you've got it absolute complete you had a clear and you're not taking on it i almost want to ignore what so much input is from media in general what is your take to where this this island is even operating in a way that that's where people can do is not as of right now the governor has said that they're looking at potentially another government shutdown because they don't have money to pay for essential services at the end of this month seventy two billion do