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Million, 3 million, and these are the d.r.e.a.m.ers they have identified themselves. >> thank you for coming on. inc >> i want to bring in congressman. heres the statement from the white house about daca. as president my highest duty is to defend the american and the constitution of the united states of america. at the same time i do not favor punishing children, most of whom are now adults where w the actions of their parents but we must also recognize we are a nation of opportunity because w...

Wall. i cant remember a time in my live with the president of the united statess words manage to evoke absolutely no reaction. no fear, no hope, nothing. the feeling is, you know, hes -- as ive said many times before, hes just bull shutting. >> but what theyre saying is consider the source. by the way, hes meeting with the chinese president tomorrow. speaking with him. thank you fareed. dont miss fareed zakiya gp s. when we come back is president trump sending a message to daca members of co...

Funding for harvey and irma should be tied to the nations debt ceiling? >> i dont care if they tie them or not. we cant allow either of these things to happen. we cant default on our debt. >> the administrations decision to end daca, to phase out the protections for the so-called dreamers. if congress cant fix this in the next six months, hell, quote, revisit the entire issue? >> i thought he was putting the bright light right where it ought to be, on the congress, who has the responsibility to ...

Particularly when you are donald trump and you were elected by a base about the notion of leading these d.r.e.a.m.ers stay in this country because they consider it am necessary city. he has said in his heart he thinks it should be okay for them to stay. >> david, i know you feel a certain way about this. listen to the white house press secretary explaining the presidents decision and then well talk. here it is. >> its not the presidents job to create law, its congresss job to create legislation....

This is from the former president barack obama. david, youve been couching your words. you said you didnt want to go as far as what i asked you about. you did say weak, but heres what he said. he called it cruel. basically what hes insin waiting. he said, to target these young people is wrong because they have done nothing wrong. it is self-defeating because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military and otherwise contribute to the country we love. and, very specifi...

Hot potato, but they do have it now. its been punted their way. theyre going to have to make a decision one way or the other. the question to you though is, can they do it? theyve got six months. they havent really done much else but can they do this? can they fix daca in time? >> you know, i have a hard time answering that question because ive covered congress long enough to know that both that sometimes at the last minute they complete that hail mary pass and youre sort of amazed that they wer...

On this story. we were trying to get to the bottom of this. i dont know if we did. there were a few explanations we heard, with general kelly in 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 anymore. that kelly was taking that role he had filled. theres also been this issue of just the money. that schiller took a big pay cut going into the white house. his white house salary is $135,...

Official notice tweeting, congress, get ready to do your job. a week from tonight, billions more for hurricane irma. a new budget, a new debt limit, tax reform, infrastructure, maybe even another shot at repeal and replace. all this in a month where the house is only scheduled to be in decision for 12 days. joining us tonight, kimberly atkins, chief washington reporter for the "boston herald." and harold ford, jr., former democratic congressman from the great state of tennessee. kim, we usually ...

Members of congress, they want to be able to do something and do it right. and really we have no choice. we have to be able to do something, and i think its going to work out very well. long-term, its going to be the right solution. >> he has a love for these people. and the haste hour, hundreds of these people upset about the presidents decision wrapped up a rally in los angeles. at around 200,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers, california has more of them than any other state. two u.s. senators are already ste...

Our colleague were visibly annoyed by the fact that this appeared to careen off topic after this meeting that was supposed to discuss the range of major issues that were -- that our congress has to deal with here. so, republicans probably not very happy about this three-month deal that the president has cut with democratic leaders and not happy, apparently, about the fact that ivanka trump did appear towards the end of the this meeting and perhaps the meeting, for whatever reason, did not go as ...