we will be joined by democratic strategist robert raben and brian walsh. then a discussion about race in america with the institutes michael denzil smith and radio tv talkshow host and columnist armstrong williams. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: morning. congress returns this week, the house is scheduled to take up a spending bill for the defense department, the senate is back on tuesday. a vote on the last week agreement over student loan rates. the president travels to missouri to talk about the economy. on thursday he makes -- we will put the weeks events into perspective on to sunday roundtables. we want to begin by looking at

host: our sunday roundtable with robert raben and brian walsh, good morning gentlemen.ssue ofgin with the immigration. some news this past week with regard to the speaker of the house and republican leader cantor indicating that they are coming together on one component, which is the children of illegal immigrants. what is happening? >guest: i view it as a positive step. i think pompey -- some people think that the momentum had slowed after the senate to address this. i think it is an indication that the house is focused on this. they are going to break this up a little bit. they are going to come back in august. beginning of summit is meeting right now. they are talking about introducing some proposals -- the gain of seven is meeting right now. they are talking about some proposals. host: let me share with you what the speaker and the house leaders said. [video clip] >> i will make one comment. this is about basic fairness. these children were brought here on no accord of their own, and frankly, they are in a very difficult position. i think many of our members believe