Page 2 - At Daca News Today

Very vocal and very consistent message from them, which is one appeals to the majority of this country. again, weve been talking a lot about how this is something aimed at his base and something that is -- that has very much pleased his base. ky tell you some of those groups have been talking today about this being the labor day present and a wonderful surprise from western workers and all that. but its going to overwhelm these congressional offices with folks just pushing very hard and just tel...

About the presidents management style, the message theyre delivering, the way that his message is being delivered to congress and what they should do about it. but put yourself in the shoes of these 800,000 or so undocumented immigrants who are sitting there, theyre getting this message, theyre hearing the president say he loves them. but at the same time, the department of homeland security was clear this morning in a conference call with reporters saying that 100% they are -- they will become ...

Congressman herald ford, jr. i love speaking about them as though they are a monolith. they enjoy an approval rating lower than the president. what is going to be the dynamic? they get that their fortunes are tied to this guy. >> i think they all understand it. kimberlys point, you look at august for a moment. the president was critical of must bes, including john mccain, mitch mcconnell and others and continue to be. i found daca interesting. not one republican came out in favor, at least publi...

Ceiling. theyre going to get four or five shots at this, because it will take a big chunk of money to deal with the damage in texas and louisiana and may have another one that could come along. so do they do something on that front? two, the issue thats going to dominate over the next week or two, will be north korea. do we achieve some diplomatic accomplishment there or do we travel another path? i know we all want the former. if the president is able to do these two things, do republicans feel...

Repealing and replacing obamacare, which i dont think will happen. theres a lot of opportunity there to sort of stir the pot and enflame those tensions. >> my bad, it was not bannon, it was a source in the article that gave us the bloody september quote, not steve bannon himself. so harold, what -- if youre a suburban republican member of the house, whats your impetus to run side by side with donald trump to embrace donald trump when the entire house of representatives goes up for re-election? >...

Points that include this line for surrogates -- >> we should tell you a senior administration official says that is standard language for anyone without legal status, not just daca recipients. the immigration debate has laid bare the tension between the president, his base, and the rest of his political party, the gop. "the washington post" reports tonight, trumps hardline base, which demands purity and expects results, recoils at daca, as illegal amnesty and will look to him to veto any such le...

You have a republican party who is not in agreement on key issues that lawmakers are going to have to hash out. and when you have the additional forces, like the white house and the very mecurial president who uses twitter and breitbart and people pushing buttons on that side, its going to expose a lot of the divisions on issues people need to get done. do lawmakers attach harvey relief to the debt ceiling like some conservatives want to do but other republicans dont? do they try to attach daca ...

It on day one and they were worried he might act upon it in his inaugural address or soon thereafter. that perhaps it could be one of the first bills he would sign. some of them were very concerned he would do that. they felt like this was a mistake for the party. the president had already begun to field some second thoughts. he laid bare in an interview a few days later, that he had great heart, that he was offer daca, the dreamers a good deal. things would be a great solution for them. it also...

Consistently he said were going to terminate this program, do it on day one. when he was exposed to some of the stories of daca, when he was exposed to the political reality surrounding it, that many in his own party dont want him to get rid of it, he saw this as sort of a untenable situation and was looking for a way out. in some ways, pushing this to congress is his way of doing that. and also i would hike to point out, that tweet tonight, may will reflective of something we were given a heads...

Explanations we heard. one of them having to do with the fact general kelly in there as chief of staff, schiller was cut off from the president. he lost his walk in privileges. he didnt feel like he necessarily had a role in this administration any more. that, you know, kelly was taking that role that he had filled. theres also had issue of just the money that schiller took a big pay cut going into the white house, his white house salary is $165,000 which someone told me about half what he was m...