Democrats and Republicans, conservative Republicans, came together with a concrete plan that would have put more enforcement at the border, more judges to process issues, all this stuff. Donald Trump lobbied actively and told Republicans to vote against [the bipartisan immigration plan]. it because he figured it was better to have an issue that he could run on for his presidential campaign. He was not interested in actually trying to solve problems. (50:19–50:25)
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Asserts that Trump opposed a bipartisan immigration plan.
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