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The base say that the president did a deal on daca and did not do anything on the wall, but his base would collapse in despair. i really dont think thats true. but the president has a difficulty here. i think in his heart, and in his plans, he wants to do something for these kids, these daca kids, but hes got a tough row to hoe to keep his base inside the tent. >> just for our viewers awareness, this is donald trump. hes holding a prison reform roundtable. this is something that was really led b...

>> i recall during the obama administration and being schooled. why are you so obsessed with this issue? people move on. >> to my point, if you brought legislation to the floor and they dont do it legislativlegi will democrats say what about magazines or this rifle or this or that. thats the issue. >> thats part of it. i agree with republicans and gun control and i stick to believe it when you see it. its easy after a shooting like this to say we will consider it and this is horrific. i was cove...

Something through reconciliation. >> i think they may have had something short term, the landmark next saturday. there is concern theyre going to get bad reviews. not a single major legislative initiative having gotten through either house of congress. and i think they have also concluded its hard to do anything else unless you do something about this very fundamental promise on health care. its hard to do the tax bill because you dont get the tax numbers youre going to get. its a numbers issue ...

My sense is that donald trump has turned a corner in the last several weeks. it feels like this isnt a left versus right thing as much as its sort of an incompetence versus competence thing. >> you brought up in the previous block about donald trumps base being impenetrable, a cult following, but when you see him taking shots during the campaign, heres a banker, does his base say, wait a minute, i thought he was a man of the people, why is he hanging out with those guys? does it penetrate in tha...

says theres something to be said about being the underdog. >> one of the great gift that is ive had in my political career is that no one ever think that is i could ever win anything. [ laughter ] >> the gift of being underestimated is a wonderful gift. [ laughter ] >> and i think we might have seen a little bit of that last night. >> last night santorums trifecta reshuffles the republican race. the question tonight is can he sustain it? dana bash is back in washington with us live ton...