MARGARET BRENNAN: Can you get this (border deal) passed without Donald Trump's approval?
SEN. JAMES LANKFORD: I'm looking forward to President Trump having the opportunity to be able to read it like everybody else is. There's a lot of misinformation out there right now that- that I hear this comment that it waves in 5,000 people, it hands out work permits. All those things are not true. There's just a lot of internet rumors that are running around on this right now. We're looking forward to getting the information out. Now I can say there is no question, no matter what your political persuasion is, we would not have had the immigration crisis we're experiencing right now if President Trump would have been president the last three years. There’s no way we would’ve had 8 million people illegally cross our border because you would enforce those different authorities, and would have made sure that we actually secure our border. But even while he was president, he was specifically asking Congress to change the standard on asylum to be able to tighten up, to give additional funds for deportation. All of those things are in this bill. So if he were to be president, this would be new authorities that he had actually asked for when he was president before.
BRENNAN: Right. And I just want -- you just said that he has not read this bill. He doesn't essentially know what he's talking about. Um. So this deal --
LANKFORD: I'm not saying that. I'm saying there's just a lot of rumors out there about the bill and I want to make sure that everyone has a chance to read it before they make a final judgment.