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Obscure the larger truth. If the ideological gulf between the president and steve bannon is small. This is not a fight over ideas, its a fight over who deserves credit for an election win. Talk about missing the point. If the legacy of 2016 is not a single person, any person, its a set of ideas, the ones that reflect the hopes and their needs and the fears and the aspirations of a badly mistreated american middleclas middleclass. Those voters came to the polls because they wanted real borders, h...

Immigration package and i will give you basically 15% of what you want just dealing with daca. thats not really how deals are made. so thats why i feel its phony, this is the trump not wanting to deal coming out here. >> just so were clear here. what the president is specifically talking about is a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million dreamers. that isnt a little deal. thats a significant deal. >> its 15% of the undocumented immigration problem. he wants 100% of solution on the security side f...

My wall isnt in there. >> i will tell you i serve as ranking member on the appropriation committee for homeland security. whats in the bill is what he asked for this year. theres another year next year the chain migration issue they made great advances on. >> i want 18 billion. you gave him a tenth of that. >> 18 billion over 18 years. its there. were there. all you have to do is take look and want to come to a deal. the president says we need a good old fashion shut down. and mcconnell hasnt do...

All these issues. now is the time to reach it. not a month from now. >> what our friends on the other side are saying here is theyre prepared to shut down the government over the issue of illegal immigration. this is a bipartisan interest in solving the daca problem but the president has given us until march. last time i looked, this is january. >> welcome back to "morning joe." its friday, january 19. donny is still with us. >> oh, my god. >> republican strategist and political commentator susa...

Governing and frankly in the congress, we see on house side, two-thirds of the republicans in the congress, do not know how to work across the aisle because theyve never had a republican president. all theyve done is be the party of no. they dont know how to govern themselves. lets look at it. when you look at the senate, a week ago they were really close. but it was donald trump who decided he wanted to fight. he doesnt want to win. he just wants to fight with people. and he, as a result, you c...

Vote im confident it will pass. >> ill try one more time. if we can take this as a stand-alone issue because its at the center of the debate whats happening in the senate today -- >> its not a stand alone issue. >> youre talking about legislative questions. im talking about your personal view about d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> you want to make it about that. chuck schumer wants to make it about that. you want to make it a stand alone issue. >> i dont want to make it a stand alone issue. im curious as to wh...

Republicans think theyre going to win but they control all of government at this point and you have the presidents aides, including mark short, his legislative affairs director, going out and blaming congress as an institution for this shutdown, not helpful to republicans on capitol hill no matter what you think of the issue and right now in these early stages here you have a president in pittsburgh and his legislative affairs director yesterday was on a panel at the university of virginia senat...

Republicans on capitol hill who feel perfectly fine with this issue and they are people the president listens to day in and day out. >> kasie predicted in our last hour along with jake that we are headed toward a shutdown at midnight tonight. whats the one thing that could happen today that might prevent it? are we more likely to get what chuck schumer proposed, a four to five day extension so they can continue to negotiate this deal? >> i think its a possibility, willie, that theyll hold a vote...

Exchange for that and i understand that and thats the negotiation you have to engage in. >> not in exchange. we want those prioritized because again thats what the american people elected us to do. theres no question about that. so why is now the democrats so focused -- we had an election, they elected us to do these things and now theyre saying no, no, we cant do those. we have to deal with these 700,000 individuals. that has to be first. i dont think thats what the election was about and what ...

>> i want to clarify your position. do you believe d.r.e.a.m.ers should be protected? should be allowed to stay in the country but it should not be part of the government funding bill were looking at today? >> i think were going to have to deal with that issue. >> do you think they should be protected? >> i think theres a prioritizing that has to take place and a focus that has to take place that is consistent with what the american people sent us here to accomplish. >> do you believe, do you ag...