town hall.com sky benson and from "the washington times"

brett you've been around washington long enough. you know how to defeat bad legislation which is what that amendment did. >> the problem though is that at the time you were telling people like byron york, with the "washington examiner" that this with a not a poison pill. you told him my objective was not to kill immigration reform. you said you wanted it to pass at the time. my question to you is, looking back at what you said then and what you're saying now, which one should people believe? >> what the amendments i introduced, i introduced five amend mtsz, a whole series, what they did is illustrated the hypocrisy of the democrats, they showed that it was a partisan effort and they succeeded in defeating the rubio/schumer

i supported the other aspects of the bill, which was a terrible bill and brett, you've been around washington long enough, you know how to defeat bad legislation, which is what that amendment did, is it revealed the hypocrisy of chuck schumer and the senate democrats and the republicans who voted against it i'll give you the simplest proof why this notion that my fighting amnesty, made me a supporter of am nesty. jeff sessions voted with me on my amendment to eliminate citizenship. is anyone remotingly suggesting that jeff sessions supports amnesty? >> of course not. we were fighting side by side to defeat marco rubio's bill for amnesty. >> the problem is at the time you were telling people like byron york with the "washington examiner" that this was not a poisoned bill. you said my objective is not to kill immigration reform. my question to you is looking back at what you said then and what oar saying now, which one should people believe?