host: just a couple of minutes left from laura meckler. you can follow her on twitter. charles has been waiting. buffalo, new york. republican. charles, go ahead. caller: good morning. a question, twofold. six callers ago, a guy or ained, very narrowly very shortsightedly, or maybe not educated -- he addressed the flow of the immigration and you fail to tie it to going to various countries and starting various wars and being involved in installing democratic institutions while looking for new minerals to enhance our country's ability to grow and continue forward. what happens generally is that we have a lot of wars and conflicts and we support rebel groups and -- host: we're running out of time with laura meckler. so what's your questions? caller: from those types of wars, we bomb people's countries and they come to the place where the heroes or liberators have come from. host: charles was referring to refugees, as well. which is part of the system that we haven't talked much about. guest: i'm not sure that's what he's talking about but i'm happy to talk about refugees.

laura meckler, let's start with where republicans are on this subject. a republicans any closer to finding consensus on what they will be pushing for in the coming weeks and months? guest: there is so much on the immigration agenda right now that there is -- that it is hard to say. the dreamers had been protected program that had existed since 2012. and he called on congress to come up with a legislative answer to give these people a path to citizenship or legalization. question is, will congress be able to do that? essentially what the president and republicans are saying is that they will do that but they also want money for the border wall. enforcement divisions and all sorts of things wrapped up in the immigration debate that is becoming it take immigration debate over a whole bunch of stuff. what they want for the wall and provisions, how much money are we talking about? what are other important revisions included? guest: the wall has been the most politically difficult subject that we have had all year. trump obviously ran on an election promising

host: just a couple of minutes left from laura meckler. you can follow her on twitter. charles has been waiting. go ahead. caller: good morning. question, twofold. six callers ago, a guy complained shortsighted late -- or maybe not educated -- he addressed the flow of the immigration and you fail to tie going to various countries and starting various wars and being involved in starting democratic institutions while looking for new minerals to enhance our country's ability to grow forward. what happens generally is that we have a lot of wars and conflicts and we support rebel group. host: what is your question? caller: from those types of wars, people see this country and they come to the place where the heroes or liberators have come from. host: charles was referring to refugees, as well. which is part of the system that we haven't talked much about. go refugees, that is another area with the immigration system where the president has decreased the number of people dramatically. 45,000. host: margaret from florida. go ahead. your true liberal colors are showing. a few m

laura meckler, thank you for your time. come back again.next, we talk about the outlook for immigration reform with the president of the federation for american immigration reform. and the executive director of the american immigration lawyers association. phoneser we open up our to hear about your immigration priorities of the new session of congress which begins today. ♪ >> this weekend, c-span's city tour takes you to springfield, missouri. we are working with media, to explore the literary scene and history of the birthplace of route 66 in missouri. onurday at noon, eastern book tv, and author talks about the conflict along the kansas, missouri border in his book. left therown, having territory, comes and begins a series of raids into missouri, during which his men will liberate people from missouri and help them escape to freedom. they kill a number of slaveholders. so the notoriety of john brown grows as part of the struggle that people locally understand is the beginning of the civil war. >> sunday at 2:00 p.m., we visit the nra nati

. >> "washington journal laura meckler, let's start with where republicans are on this subject.

host: phone lines are open if you want to join in on the conversation we are having with laura meckler. we are talking about immigration reform efforts in 2018. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independence, (202) 748-8002. a special line for a special line for border state residents of any party (202) 748-8003. ,we do want to hear from you in this segment. take us through the democratic party strategy. when it comes to these issues, daca, border wall funding, how are they planning to tackle this in the coming weeks? guest: democrats say they are fully committed to trying to get some sort of dream act, the legalization program for young people into law. how can they do that? they are in the minority. they are trying to use their leverage over spending bills. republicans need democratic votes in order to pass spending bills. we have a deadline coming up on january 19 and another one , coming up later this month and that is one point of leverage that democrats have. they could say, if they wanted to, that they would vote for a -- they would not vote for a spending