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Anna. >> gosh, it was a false alarm, but as you point out, that fear was so real. such a wake-up call for call of us. thank you very much. from honolulu, i hope you can enjoy the beauty of that great city after this show. well, former secretary of homeland security says failure to get daca legislation passed is symptomatic of a big and dangerous problem facing the united states. youll hear what she says that problem is ahead in the cnn newsroom. ♪ its time for sleep numbers lowest prices of ...

A bipartisan way, and then on the d.r.e.a.m.ers, the daca legislation, you work it another venue along those lines? why do you have to bring all of that together and endanger both? >> both should be clean. and we should do both. and we should do both by the end of the year. we should not leave washington, d.c. without fulfilling -- >> but what if they cant do it by the end of the year, they do it in january, lets say. you support that? >> i would support doing the d.r.e.a.m. act pbefore the end ...

Regulations, without just cause. the problem is a lack of enforcement mechanism. thats what our legislation tries to correct. >> well, the president could tell the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, to fire mueller. >> and then it would be rod rosensteins decision whether he wants to cave, and in effect, subvert the rule of law. because this effort is not only to sabotage the investigation and stop the fact-finding that is uncovering the truth, but also to sabotage the rule of law. and we ...

Saying, we made a promise to susan collins, we will deliver. >> wolf, we have been and we will continue to do that. >> jeff flake, the republican senator from arizona, he says he supported the tax bill because he got a promise that the so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers, the children who were brought here illegally by their parents and have grown up here in the united states, the daca provision, as its called, that they will be allowed 700,000, 800,000 to stay. is the president committed to jeff flake to m...

Of these fbi agents and one of them actually was a lawyer, had any impact on the investigation. theres no evidence that the investigation has been in any way affected by those two fbi employees. >> i want to just switch gears and get your thoughts on the -- what mark short, the white house legislative director, just told me. he said, if theres legislation, clean legislation, that would extend the childrens health insurance program, the c.h.i.p. program, as its called, the president would support...

>> yeah, but the democrats will support the children health insurance program, as well. >> no, they will support it, youre correct, but they want other things added to the cr as well, not just -- >> well, why not just have a clean bill on the -- >> were not objected to that -- >> you would support them? >> yes. >> and not include other extraie extraneous stuff? you agree the president would support that and sign it into law right away? >> he has supported it, he has. >> lets talk a little about ...

And we need a strategy, not just to achieve c.h.i.p., but for the d.r.e.a.m.ers, for the community health centers, for disaster relief. each of these tasks is a fundamental obligation. and we need a strategy that combines them, not just pick one of them or a couple of them along with a continuing resolution that enables the government to keep going. >> you heard mark short -- ive got to leave it at this. you heard him say, the president want to keep the d.r.e.a.m.ers. he wants legislation to all...

Is reauthorized. as youll recall, what happened in the previous administration, it was ruled by the courts that those cautionary reductions were not ever appropriated by congress, and therefore, illegal. the obama administration continued to pay them, we felt they were illegal, and we stopped. but in order, because of the grander amount of the tax relief bill, repealing the individual mandate, we felt that was a transaction to make with senator collins. we look forward to fulfilling that commitm...

Congress, principally on the republican side, to attack the fbi, fbi agents, and the deputy fbi director to attack the investigation itself, and mueller personally and others around him. so this kind of concerted and coordinated attack on the special counsel is an indication that there is coordinated effort. and senator warners warning today was powerful and eloquent. and i think it will attract a lot of support. >> what type of action is senator warner referring to? what does he have in mind in...

Senators to try to come to a consensus bill that would put in statute, in law, the protection that the daca beneficiaries, about 800,000 of them, previously enjoyed. weve got a lot of other end-of-year issues here that havent yet been resolved. we have about 9 million children who benefit from the childrens health insurance program. that ran out three months ago and states are going to have to begin shut down health care benefits through that program. community health center funding has run out....