one of them is jonathan tamari with "philadelphia inquirer," national political reporter there. thank you for being with us. guest: thanks for having me. host: we also say hello to jonathan tamari with axios. the president -- with alayna treene axios. what is the president going to say today on the environment? why is he doing it now, why is it weird? guest: it is odd because a lot of people within the white house that we spoke to were the ones that were like this is odd -- this is more of the democrats issue, and something the president elect take it upon ourselves to tout our record on the environment. it is a controversial issue involving the trump administration because the president has not been one to help the perils of climate change or recognize it as a crisis, where is a lot of people have criticized him for that. we have seen a speech. there are some influences from his daughter a ivanka trump and her husband and senior advisor jared kushner. are of them thought -- they new york liberals, as some in the white house call them, they are the ones pushing for the speech. t

jonathan tamari.st: when you are out of the white house, there are these big debates and we saw it play out when barack obama was president. you had some of the book into one to push to the right for a more conservative movement and some republicans that want to be more moderate. you are starting to see that on some issues play out with democrats on the left, particularly on immigration. we saw the debate -- a large number of carries said they would support decriminalizing illegal border crossings. i was surprised by the number of people that came out to support that. there are arguments this would alleviate the detention centers by making this a civil process instead of a criminal process. it would not be held in the same way. they would show up at civil court. publicans are going to say this is the fact -- republicans will say this is the fact of open borders. they can point to this and said this is what they are in favor of. terms of uniting on a message, some democrats are trying to appeal to the