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Statements on the floor of the senate at 10:00 p.m. eastern time on sunday, it was with minimum partisan jabbing and minimal criticism of the other side. and that was a positive sign. it suggested what mcconnell was doing was allowing for more time for the back-room talks to come to fruition and reach a deal. that was a positive sign and suggests they could be getting somewhere. on the other hand, there will be some distance between the two sides and ultimately i think democrats are going to hav...

Nothing and no leverage, daca administration will be discuss told for another couple of weeks instead of other issues like infrastructure that republicans may want to discuss and it keeps the issue on the front burner. it is not ideal. it is divisive within the party because progressives are upset, d.r.e.a.m.ers are upset and thats not a good place to be in. democrats keep the issue alive and thats not a total loss. >> i think a reasonable and cynical person could look at the situation and ask. ...

And talk to voters. republicans still have to look at the aspect of whether or not they will let a minority in the senate dictate final terms on a deal. they would have their own voter stance or two if they do that. the same way democrats right now have their base to talk about when it comes to why they are leveraging a shutdown to solve the daca issue. >> it is interesting with chuck schumer. the last tigme we had a shutdow, schumer called it the politics of idiocy. how do you deal with this is...

Believe every member of congress wants to address. the president has never -- in my conversations with the president, he has never waivered on his desire to address a solution. lets put aside the rhetoric and the attacks and lets get something done. >> senator gardner, always good to see you. thank you. i want to play some sound from senator lindsey graham. he was talking about the difficulty they face when dealing with this because of staff members at the white house. >> his heart is right on...

Legislate the fix. joining me, he was brought from convenient venezuela with his brothers. he was age 11. thanks for joining us. you think democrats failed today to protect you and your fellow d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> i think so. they had a really strong negotiating position in which they can carve out a deal that protected as much of the deal. in good faith, also republicans. what we see here now is that the democrats have seen the way and we have until march 5. but uniformitily, what will happen is t...

Again, but we also have got issues of continuing resolution, which would only go until february 8th and between now and then we have to come to a consensus about how we address the issue surrounding immigration. and we know we have to get that behind us because youve got a march 5th deadline with regard to the daca issue. so theyre all trying to build this. there is a sense of trying to get that trust among republicans and democrats that the process in the united states senate would actually wor...

House republican majority refused to bring up the bill, even though it probably had 218 votes because it did not have a majority of the majority, the majority of their caucus. i do believe that is the question looming over us at the end of the road, whatever the senate does, will the house republicans vote for dac? in the house, the parties are representing two different americans. for the people that were foreign born, immigrants are below the national average, 60% of the democrats above the na...

Everything else fails between now and the 8th that as part of the discussion were going to be behind immigration. it is a matter of how you lay that out on the floor and what he can do, because, remember, the only way you can actually do it is to actually make the motion on the floor to move to it at a particular time. he cant do that today. he has to wait until that time to do that. so i didnt know if he would use the word, i will schedule or -- in my schedule or i plan to or it is my intention...

Are holding the government funding hostage to resolving daca. theres an argument for that. on the other hand, the president is holding resolving daca hostage not only to board. er security, but to an issue thats very different. reductions in the level of legal immigration. its important to understand thats the biggest hangup at this point. certainly in the senate on resolving daca because you have had them move significantly toward the president saying they would be willing to put more money int...

Commitment to move on that issue, thats been a big push for the democrats, a central demand as part of the negotiations. we dont know whether leadership u is yet on that issue. we know a senior white house aid just arrived in the capital for a briefing with senate republicans. theres a discussion happening behind the scenes moving at a quick pace. because we expect a vote could happen tonight and maybe as late as 1:00 a.m. to determine whether or not they have reached that 60-vote threshold. the...