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Capitol hill. phil, a very different tone and tenor for this meeting we thought would be about a big immigration package that now seems to be about the anger of separating families. >> reporter: theres no question about it, john. uneasy is probably the way to describe lawmakers right now. when the president comes to the capitol, he will be visiting basically a place that has become totally enveloped by this issue, by this crisis, by lawmakers on both sides trying to figure out a way out of it. t...

Whether were talking about obamacare, has been with the president. >> hopefully that will give us a path forward where democrats and republicans can come together and endorse a piece of legislation that deals with this issue at our border. >> do you have a sense that the white house actually supports a stand-alone bill to deal with this? >> really, at this point its more a legislative action. i think the administration has said that. its up to congress to act on this particular thing. >> someone...

That being said, its clear from rsponses on the hill unlike when the president ended daca, he said, come to me with an immigration bill. ill fix daca and help the dreamers. republicans are more uncomfortable with this, even more so than when he ended daca. that pressure is going to keep increasing. i know republican leaders, paul ryan and his team right now, are trying to keep a proposal to fix this in a bigger immigration package because the president wants it to get his wall, to get these othe...