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Problems. >> lets talk about the likelihood of getting the votes. in the bill, which includes the same four pillars that the president asks for in february, which fails to pass, the question is how is this bill youre proposing or two bills youre proposing than the bill that failed any different and does it prevent the separation of families? >> yes. goodlatte number 1, a bill i introduced along with the chairman of the homeland security committee, mike mccall and raul labrador, its a strong enfo...

It was a meeting that lasted an hour. i was there the whole time. >> bill: give us a sense of the conversation. what was said? >> the president is absolutely -- feels as strongly as possible we have to pass immigration bill. talking about a bill which i think is the one that will pass if anyone does. a consensus bill that provides funding for the wall, will take care of daca and end chain migration and go toward a merit-based system and have funding in there to allow for the families to be kept ...

Compromise on immigration. the hot ticket items for the president include funding for border security, including the wall and curtailing legal entries. all of which his gop colleagues insist theyve got covered. that consensus bill has not, i think -- weve been working with the white house on it, but i dont think its been fully vetted with him yet, and it contained all of the things that he mentioned in that interview that were important to him, all the pillars. >> reporter: meanwhile, the depart...

Capitol hill. >> hes using children, whether its dreamers or children at the border now for political purpose. its shameful. >> administration insiders say that by continuing to enforce the separation policy the president is playing long game, he hopes to force democrats hands and increase chances of reaching a broader compromise on immigration. the hot-ticket items for the president includes funding for border security, including the wall and curtailing illegal entries all of which gop colleagu...

Defense and immediately clarified the remarks, insisting the president will sign onto one of the two republican-led bills, frustration is rampant on capitol hill. >> hes using children, whether theyre dreamers or children at the border now for political purpose. its shameful. >> administration insiders say, by continuing to enforce the separation policy, the presidents playing a long game. he hopes to ultimately force the democrats hand and increase chances of reaching a broader compromise on im...

The presidents playing a long game. he hopes to ultimately democrats hand and increase the chances of reaching a broader compromise on immigration. he wants funding for border security, including the wall and curtailing legal entries, all of which his gop colleagues insist theyve got covered. >> that consensus bill has not i think -- weve been working with the white house on it but i dont think its been fully vetted with him yet and it contains all of the things that he mentioned in that intervi...

Compromise on immigration. the hot ticket items for the president include funding for border security, including the wall and curtailing legal entries. all of which his gop colleagues insist theyve got covered. that consensus bill has not, i think -- weve been working with the white house on it, but i dont think its been fully vetted with him yet, and it contained all of the things that he mentioned in that interview that were important to him, all the pillars. >> reporter: meanwhile, the depart...

Now for the nation. >> huge issue. joining us from washington, capitol reporter molly hooper. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> lets talk about this vote. house republicans planning to vote on this pair of immigration bills. well have to wait and see where that goes. there is the broader immigration debate involving dreamers. then theres this issue of separating children from their parents which has really become the hot button issue as of late over the last month or so and especially than...

It is important in my view that as much as we can get started right away, jump start the negotiations and produce a consensus bill that can get 60 votes in the senate but also pass the house and get signed into law by the president. >> neil: something seems to be falling apart. chuck schumer has already revoked a deal for funding for the border wall. something that he signed up with the president and had offered. what do you make of that? >> first off, its hard to offer something thats been reje...

So the offered he made was a symbolic one but meaningless in terms of addressing the issue. >> neil: sounds like theres still bad blood. >> i hope that changes. they should have learned a lesson. this attempt to shut down the government was a response to pressure from the become. but theres a lot of democratic senators that didnt want to go along with that. theres a broad consensus that we need to address daca, that we need to do more on border security and im hopeful that not withstanding where...