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The president was having that sprawling meeting with members of both parties from capitol hill talking about immigration, he laid out some principles for what he hopes a pursuit of immigration, border security, as well as extending legal protections for young immigrants could look like. here is first how the president described his goals for what a negotiation could try to achieve. >> we agree to pursue four major areas yesterday of reform. securing our border, including, of course, the wall whi...

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But to your account to what transpired yesterday, if in fact senator schumer is willing to put on the table full funding of the wall that will require basically what the custom border patrol front line officers said they need, that is enormous progress. weve also said were willing to consider expansion of that daca population. >> his office is saying though he put forward what the president asked for. i gez this really speaks to this broader erosion of trust. >> if theyre willing to fund over $2...

Are doing. the daca population is very sympathetic in the eyes of the public. the military is beloved in the eyes of the public. most people want to fund the government. the president decided to get the congress six months to finds a daca solution. that was plenty enough time. the president needs to find a deal he can live with and stick with it. i think we look petty. we look that we care more about the party flag than the american flag, and i voted no last night because i think continuing this...

Leadership members in the senate side trying to figure out what democrats want. and then there is the lindsey graham/dick durbin group who are still hoping to get the president to sign on. i know that they are still working because dick durbin called lindsey graham in the middle of our interview a short time ago. take a listen to what he had to say. [ phone ringing ] >> this is durbin. hey, dick, can i call you back? im not going to vote for 30 days of chaos without any concept of how to bring t...

Assessment? >> i agree. there are so many ways russia can interfere with elections and they have done it in the past in 2016. that was not the only example. we are not the only nation. we have to really step up our game and get to a point when we catch him red-handed, theres got to be a consequence for it. >> president trump on his mental fitness were calling back to calling him a social genius. is he? do you agree? >> im not a psychologist or psychiatrist. ill leave that to the clinic n clinici...

Understands what he actually wants, policy-wise? >> well, yeah, because i think what has happened here, and it is really indicative of the way the negotiations have gone to then point. senator langford and i filed the succeed act purely on the provisions, but we said on the onset it had to be paired with border security. so i think the president was saying, we have to get the daca, hes worried about the long-term solution for the daca population. he genuinely cares and has a compass gn compassio...