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>> martha: show me how you see this playing out as we had to christmas, theres a discussion of all of you folks standing on the hill. the president said i feel so strongly about this issue im willing to shut the government down. most of the funding is already past. do you think thats going to happen? >> i think the president and people like me need to make a case to the american people that they are denying this president money that makes sense. the difference between 1.65 million is what we are...

Back with breaking news, major breaking news. the white house now suggesting not 690,000 or 700,000 dreamers might be eligible for a pathway to citizenship, but 1.8 million undocumented immigrants. >> so we now have, wolf, the white houses attempt to solve the immigration policy. 1.8 million people would be given a chance of a pathway to citizenship. this is daca-plus in some ways. its both people part of the childhood arrivals and those eligible, but did not apply. this is a broader pool. the a...

They are probably not going to do a budget next year. we are expecting for them to roll the dick durbin bill with lindsey graham for example is not only daca, it is daca plus. folks should get ready. >> shannon: even if you get something passed on the house, you need nine senators, nine democrats to join republicans on the senate. you know thats never going to happen. >> you start negotiating from that strong position. then you negotiate. if you listen to the liberals, they thought president tru...

Year. they are probably not going to do a budget next year. we are expecting for them to roll the dick durbin bill with lindsey graham for example is not only daca, it is daca plus. folks should get ready. >> shannon: even if you get something passed on the house, you need nine senators, nine democrats to join republicans on the senate. you know thats never going to happen. >> you start negotiating from that strong position. then you negotiate. if you listen to the liberals, they thought preside...

With it. now everybodys lying. >> i think the message should be we should re-examine -- heres what the message should be, chris. we want a daca bill. the president has said this, right? the president said he wants to sign a clean daca bill. lets have daca plus some border money. "the washington post," right, the very conservative washington post-opined that would be a great deal for democrats. they should take it. we should narrow the focus back to where it was, tone the rhetoric down on all thi...

Specific, very detailed narrative, and he wasnt there. im saying you cant simply do that. you cant. >> but, dave, what was the response from the white house? it was never said. theyre using the wrong word. durbins a liar. >> am i saying, that chris? im not saying that. >> but do you condone what it is doing? >> do i condone what? >> whats coming out of the white house in terms of the counternarrative. they never pushed back. a white house staffer said they liked the message. they thought the bas...

>> bret: he said whatever you all come up with, im going to sign even if i dont totally agree. >> republican leaders are paralyzed with fear over alienated the base. alienating members who dont want to give amnesty without really big concessions in terms of a wall and frankly you see in that meeting the definition of what a clean bill is. trump says i like a clean bill but in his mind, it is daca plus a wall. where this is heading, like it or not, unless some dynamic changes, its likely we get a...

Also youll see texans who dont want to do this. and republicans in particular who want to vote for this emergency package but not vote for a debt ceiling and ticked if they get jammed on this. sounds like leadership sources say thats what theyll do. >> a switch from the administration. having the finance secretary say that. both the president and fema director says we want them to be separate. >> in the house, thats certainly true. i think as the white house did its homework on this idea, they c...