host: she is sabrina rodriguez of politico. we are talking about immigration reform. we will have lines set up for democrats, republicans, independence. you laid out the broad overview. you mentioned what president trump did and what president biden is undoing. could you remind us where congress left off on the immigration issue? what does it mean as they receive this big proposal from the president? guest: congress has been unable to do comprehensive immigration reform. the last time they had a big effort was in 2013. it was a bipartisan effort. there were faces like marco rubio and lindsey graham that were both involved in this process at the time. they were able to pass a bill through the senate. it ended up falling apart in the house. a lot of people are concerned. they don't want to see it happen again. they are concerned it will happen again. on capitol hill, senator bob menendez is leading the effort. saying this is going to be very difficult. he says he would not have lent his name, if you thought the biden administration would not have put political capital b

host: martin is calling from massachusetts, independent, you are on with sabrina rodriguez of politico. caller: good morning c-span, sabrina, and thank you for taking my call. i appreciate c-span. one of the things that i find confusing about this entire debate is that we have a legal immigration system which basically allows one million plus people in annually, then we also have another system which is of illegal aliens, i know we call them undocumented immigrants. this has been going on for probably the last several years. back in 1980 when ronald reagan was president, we were throwing around that 11 million figure and we are still throwing that 11 million figure around, i do not believe it. we live in an age of you know, competing narratives and competing facts. if we simply enforced our legal immigration system, we would not need a wall. the trouble with this -- this is the trouble with this debate right now. host: before we go to our guests , you mentioned the 11 million figure, but you do not believe it. what do you believe? caller: i believe that figure is a lot larger than that

host: she is sabrina rodriguez of politico. we are talking about immigration reform.e will have lines set up for democrats, republicans, independence. you laid out the broad overview. you mentioned what president trump did and what president biden is undoing. could you remind us where congress left off on the immigration issue? what does it mean as they receive this big proposal from the president? guest: congress has been unable to do comprehensive immigration reform. the last time they had a big effort was in 2013. it was a bipartisan effort. there were faces like marco rubio and lindsey graham that were both involved in this process at the time. they were able to pass a bill through the senate. it ended up falling apart in the house. a lot of people are concerned. they don't want to see it happen again. they are concerned it will happen again. on capitol hill, senator bob menendez is leading the effort. saying this is going to be very difficult. he says he would not have lent his name, if you thought the biden administration would not have put political capital beh

host: she is sabrina rodriguez of politico. we are talking about immigration reform. we will have lines set up for democrats, republicans, independence. you laid out the broad overview. you mentioned what president trump did and what president biden is undoing. could you remind us where congress left off on the immigration issue? what does it mean as they receive this big proposal from the president? guest: congress has been unable to do comprehensive immigration reform. the last time they had a big effort was in 2013. it was a bipartisan effort. there were faces like marco rubio and lindsey graham that were both involved in this process at the time. they were able to pass a bill through the senate. it ended up falling apart in the house. a lot of people are concerned. they don't want to see it happen again. they are concerned it will happen again. on capitol hill, senator bob menendez is leading the effort. saying this is going to be very difficult. he says he would not have lent his name, if you thought the biden administration would not have put political capital b

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morning, a discussion about the biden administration's plan to reform immigration policy with sabrina rodriguezthen we talk about the biden administration climate and environment policy with axios energy and climate change reporter, amy harder. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. can be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. ♪ announcer: you are watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government. c-span was created by america's cable television companies in 1979. today, we are brought to you by these television companies, who provide c-span to viewers as a public service. ♪ announcer: house speaker, nancy pelosi, talked about the democratic agenda with president biden now in office. other topics included the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol and the next epson donald trump'

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host: our first call for sabrina rodriguez of politico. we are talking about immigration. carolyn, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for having this subject. i'm a democrat but i do not agree with biden on this issue. we will take you alive to the u.s. conference of mayors -- live to the u.s. conference of mayors. a conversation of what the mayors are doing in a recent update and gun violence. we will hear from dr. anthony found she and suzette, who cochairs president biden's coronavirus advisory board. >> we are here to talk about how mayors are addressing gun violence. it becomes on the hills of one of the most violent year is that many of us have been through. we appreciate the help and support that every town for gun safety and mayors against illegal guns has provided to us organizing the session and to all of us individually in our cities. first, in cincinnati, it is one of the many cities that saw this. a huge spike in gun violence. in 2018, 20 19, we had record low gun violence, and last year, the wheels really came off. historic levels of gun violence,

sabrina rodriguez. then we talk about the biden administration's climate and environment policies with amy harder. watch c-span "washington journal" live friday eastern 7:00 in the morning and be sure to join the discussion with your facebook messages, telephone calls, text messages, and tweets. during a photo op on capitol hill senate majority leader chuck schumer acknowledged the 16 senators who help democrats regain control of the senate. senator schumer also answered a few questions from reporters about the senate agenda, including the second impeachment trial of donald trump. >> what are those papers? [indistinct conversation] >> each state has two democrats. senator schumer: i am proud to be joined by jacqueline knoxville who did such a great job running the gsep and we are proud to be joined by the majority makers, these six fine folk have put us in the majority. each of them is a fine human being. i got to know each of them as we went through the campaigns except for alex and i got to know him a