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>> the president has bn all over the place on those comments. i know that he may have said that was the first time that he had felt his base shifting. thats not true. i mean he has vaulted back and forth between very strong on the walt to, well, the wall partly exists already, and you can see through some of it. he got very upset as we know that john kelly, you know, spoke about him as evolving and perhaps not being fully informed on the wall in an interview with fox news and to congress members...

Shutdown is going to turn out. one thing im confident of, he will not be cornered into what he considers a surrender on daca. >> look, i love this beat up on the democrats, maybe they dont have a message, theyre fighting and they dont know what theyre doing because in november theyre going to lose all their enthusiasm. that simply isnt the case. the fact is we have a president who was elected and sworn in on 1/20/17. the fact is you control the house and the senate and the white house, and you c...

Militants were withholding votes because they wanted to defund obamacare. thats why we were here. right now were actually having a debate over an issue that the majority of the country agrees with. daca is a popul issue. this isnt something in which there is a divided spectrum in the united states. people agree with this. and, look, if we lose a seat or we dont regain the majority because of the simple fact that 800,000 people now have citizenship, i mean thats probably not something we want to ...

Point. >> or the president does want to get a deal on daca. keep in mind the reason this happened was because president obama did something that was unconstitutional, and the trump administration was not going to defend something they didnt believe was constitutional. so he had to be put in this position. but he said, i want to fix it. he said that many, many times. now theyve laid out the pillars of what they want. we can have a daca deal if well also do border security. as long as we get rid o...

Is when you want to do something quickly, you can. all you need is unanimous consent to actually move forward. things can move fast in the senate. i know it seems like its not remotely possible. thinks can move quickly if something is there. i think the big question right now is, is there anything there? by shortening, say, the funding bill from four weeks to three weeks, does that do anything to address the very real concerns the democrats have had up to this point? and thats just a hypothetica...

Working behind the scenes. do they feel theyve made any progress? >> reporter: at this point, not really. i will say one of his top deputies, mark short, the head of legislative affairs, hes been um on capitol hill talking to senators. he just came out and spoke to reporters a few moments ago and said he still feels like theres a chance they could get a vote on this c.r. tonight. as you heard from phil mattingly, it is becoming exceedingly unlikely theyre going to have the votes to get that hous...

News lik wre drinking out of a fire hose. people talk about this will be an albatross around democrats neck if we shut down government because we want to protect daca. a few weeks ago we were talking about bump stocks because of a mass shooter in vegas. so we move so rapidly through these news cycles that what happens over the next 24 hours to two weeks, will it have an effect? november? i highly doubt in will. but if were able to get a deal on daca today or before march 6th, how will that have ...

They dont have all the republicans on board. you cant say you have a unified caucus. democrats know what were fighting for, our message is clear, and we never have a clear message. our message is clear, were fight willing for daca, dreamers, americans period. >> the problem the democrats are going to have, theres a bill to keep the government open. and they oppose it, you had a republican house vote handily to keep the government open. you had the republican president support this bill that just...

I just want to play that. >> its a bad day for the military according to general mattis. i think the real world needs to deal with the 800,000 daca recipients and the overwhelming need to rebuild our military and increase funding thats going to get us there within a month. >> -- first time that youre feeling optimistic? the first time today? >> this is the first time ive felt like, okay, enough is enough fromeverybody. the president is going to get -- gr graham/durbin is going to be made law. it...

Discussed throughout this night, anderson, raised a litany of concerns about the process, about the daca issue, about the trust issues they have with the white house. the idea that they would back off where theyve currently walked themselves into at this point because of a one-week reduction in the c.r., right now im told from democratic sources, people are skeptical. heres the issue. republicans doengt need all 49 democrats here. they need what im told, about 12 or 13 at this point. they alread...