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Daca problem. have been wanting to solve it a long time. president obama should have solved it, especially when he had the house and the senate. they could have solved it in a day. but he didnt solve things. >> how do you respond to that, as someone who was in the senate at the time? >> president obama did take steps to protect the d.r.e.a.m.ers. thats why they had status. they could go to school. they could get drivers license. they were okay in the united states. so president obama did protect...

House? >> yes. as a short answer -- my experience is we shouldnt worry about the house. we should show respect to the house and the president but we need to do our job. we should pass a bill with border security, solve the daca problem, i would start with the most limited bill that will do that, allow a amendments and make the objective of 70 votes, not 60 because if we get to 70 well have republican supporting it and the president is more likely to support it and if he supports it, the house wi...

Collins office being dubbed switzerland. a place where all sides can come together. garrett haake, thanks so much. kimberly, here the president speaking about d.r.e.a.m.ers, take a listen. >> i want to solve the daca problem. i will consider that a great achievement to solve the daca problem. its been out there for a long time. these are good people, people that should be able to stay in this country. >> people that should be able to stay in this country. sounds good. heres what breitbart has ...

Protected under daca, but also those who are registered. the president wants roughly $25 billion for a border wall, another $5 billion for border security, an end to the visa lottery system and a limit on family-based migration so immigrants could only sponsor spouses and children for citizenship, not parents or siblings. >> i will consider that a great achievement to solve the daca problem. its been out there for a long to h time. >> its that pathway to citizenship that might anger the presiden...

I accept your point. >> and got exactly what we wanted and sometimes not going to the table is what you do in a negotiation. he got the government funded and the c.h.i.p. extension and got the delay in the taxes and didnt have to give anything in exchange for that. moving forward we do look forward to continuing the -- >> what is his position? >> the position is as it has been from the very begin. we are interested in border security. >> thats not a daca position. whats his position on dreamers?...

Now and think what crazy thing were people thinking back then? people will tunnel under it, cross over it. it will be a waste of taxpayer dollars and im against that. >> lets talk about d.r.e.a.m.ers. i dont know if you heard or the people watching heard the director of omb, mick mulvaney, discussing the presidents stance on d.r.e.a.m.ers. here he was. >> we want a large agreement, a big deal that solves the reason we have a daca problem in the first place. >> just say what his position is on it...

Office. that republican has said on various occasions when hes in his tuesday trump mode he wants to get a deal done. when hes in his thursday trump mode, which is his breitbart mode, hes all against everything. but it will depend upon the president deciding he wants a deal, and he does want that wall, and so we have more leverage this year. we can also pursue a discharge petition in the house should we pass this in the senate that will put a lot of pressure as people are approaching november. >...

Appropriation bill. the d.r.e.a.m. act is one issue. weve still got to get the top line numbers. weve still got to get how we divide the numbers. we still need that appropriations, otherwise were going to continue to stay with the cr, and we have to get those numbers. the numbers and the appropriations is what the topline numbers are that are important and thats the leverage. >> look. i hear that from a lot of people in the house. maybe thats why in the end it was the democratic conclusion to se...

D.r.e.a.m.ers ought to get legal status in exchange for tighter border security. >> yes, its just logical. you had a daca problem because you had a porous border so lets be compassionate and deal people who have been here, as you say, through no fault of their own, for many cases dont have a home to go back to but lets fix the problem as well so i think the position is -- theres a lot of latitude to come up with a reasonable deal. both those are 80% issues. so is border security so if you cant m...

Extension, but not a permanent solution in extension of funding, that even has more support than the daca fix does. clearly the democrats are advancing an agenda that the american people overwhelmingly support. and going back to johns point in terms of passing a deal, republicans are the party in power. republicans have had one year of the trump presidency to pass a comprehensive budget. but what do the republicans do? they jam through congress a widely unpopular tax cut for millionaires and bil...