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White house with the president, and whatever you think of them, they were people who have at least a substantial amount of experience. the presidents two seniormost advisers at this point are hopix, who is 28 or 29 now, a former fashion pr person, and stephen miller, who i think everybody saw this weekend. these are people who are -- its extraordinary that these two people of this caliber are now the presidents senior advisers. >> i wanted to take issue with something you said to my colleague ka...

Insurance reauthorization, thats a spending deal, and daca negotiations ongoing. much of the talks while theyre still occurring on the staff level are frozen. all contingent on that daca issue. the big question is with such a short amount of time to get them down is the a possibility to actually figure something out. nobody when you talk to lawmakers and aides actually wants a shutdown right now, but at this point as we currently stand just eight legislative days away, theres no clear point forw...

Make the democrats dig in harder. >> we talk a lot about the republican base by them. they are receiving a lot of pressure from their base particularly on the daca issue. what they are saying is you cave on this, dont call us. they are really, really putting the pressure on them right now. >> he is sinking $18 billion to build that wall along the mexico border in the new budget. >> you want to talk about republican who is flipped and flopped, look at lindsey graham. he spent most of the decade w...

Game plan for for the rest of the year. some people want to do welfare reform. there dont seem to be enough votes for that. it is clear and the next few weeks are jam packed with government funding and some sort of solution or no solution on the daca issue. >> the president tweeting, great meetings with the cabinet and military on many important subjects including the border security and desperately needed wall. the ever increasing drug and opioid problem. do you sense that there is a clear mess...

Talks? lisa: here is the thing, too. president trump ran on immigration. this was at the centerpiece of his campaign. corner stone of his campaign was building a wall. increasing. pete: american people want the wall. its clear. lisa: this the is leverage president trump has. if you want to get those immigration policies done, those immigration promises that he made to voters done, this is the time -- the time is now. this is with daca. issue is going to come up. giving congress until march to ad...

>> not all all. its a matter of symantecs, hallie. those in the media and congress nose that, too. theres historic border funding in the appropriations package that we passed earlier in the presidents term. there are places along the southern border that a wall is not ever going to be built. but we have to have border security. they are also addressing the daca issue. that has bipartisan support. >> i know you talked to speaker ryan trying to get a daca deal done. actually, you wanted it before ...

Diversity visa lottery program. the president also taking aim at democrats tweeting democrats are doing nothing for daca. just interested in politics. daca activists and hispanics who go hard against dems will start falling in love with republicans and their president. we are about results. steve, given your experience advising the president on hispanic issues, are they going to start falling in love with republicans? >> they are going to. and by the way we outperformed massively among hispanics...

Leaders are going to meet with top officials at the white house, or are meeting from the white house on the hill today, and the big issues that they are going to be talking about is at what levels to fund the government. republicans want an increase in defense spending. and democrats want an equal increase in domestic spending. and they have been having these talks for at least two months now. and they still have not come to an agreement yet. im told they are far away from that. but one issue th...

There may be democrats who actually suffer. lisa: congress is given until march to address the daca issue. richard, president trump said daca is not going to happen unless you get the border wall, chain migration is ended and the visa lottery is ended as well. what are democrats willing to give up t daca done? >> this president blows a lot of hot air on twitter. >> do you think they would be on board with border secure? >> under presiden -- under prest obamas last year in office more individuals...

Children who came here through no fault of their own but we want money to start building this wall. is that a fair exchange? >> its not a fair exchange, quite frankly. >> should democrats take it? >> of course they should not take it. this is a brauripartisan suppor. and schumer has given a commitment to 17 or 18 hispanic members of the house as well as other members of the senate that theyre going to lay down the law on this. but this is lis about political capital. the democrats have committed...