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People behind trump wanted to see he has the same attitude or they care about results? are they happy if he just screams and shows he doesnt like illegal immigrants from across the border from mexico, if he screams against the chinese and acts tough and tries to get us out of the middle east, its just the exercise of trying to do those things, do they win votes and keep votes with him and his base? >> i think thats partly right, yeah. there is this desire to reconnect with them when the wheels s...

What do you think? is this dance with the one mr. president, youre losing your audience if you dont build the wall a wall? >> if only somebody warned ann coulter before she wrote "in trump we trust." this president is never going to get that far from his base. obviously he spent the weekend with the menagerie of misfit toys that were whispering in his ear. you lost on the wall. you to do something. you to blame somebody. you need to go back to this playbook of blaming the chinese or blaming the ...

Double digit gap between how many people will vote for democrats this november and will vote from republicans went from double digit down to half a dozen. is that it? they were dripping away and losing their advantage come this november on this daca thing. >> leader pelosi knows. >> sure, they all saw internal polls that saw it narrowing for democrats and believe the democratic base will be there in february and march ahead of the daca deadline to fight to push it the republicans around. >> than...

Process. >> neil: your colleague, lindsey graham, expressed some frustration with the president and the mixed signals on this daca thing. the famous tuesday meeting that was beamed live -- not live, but it looked like they were -- he was inclined to accept whatever deal they came up with and he changed his mind. we dont know the back story. so its lethal to try to recreate it. but that he might have sent mixed signals and contributed to this. what do you think? >> neil, hes laid out his four pri...

I kept thinking if chuck schumer believed they had a deal, he brings us back to democrats. arent democrats going to say, cuck, do you believe this guy? we thought we had a deal? how can we trust him. maybe that is why they said if we dont do this daca thing now it will never get done. because we cant believe the promises from the white house. >> right. that can be part of the calculation. thats an issue for the president to consider. i just think the larger point here is that the president has n...

These meetings with the dems is changing his mind on all of these things. you always have to worry obviously donald trump was a new york liberal for much of his life and so its always been a question of where is he philosophically, but i think the statement from sanders is pretty clear which is exactly what he said when he got out of it is, you know, well listen if theres a better deal well consider it but if it turns out he gets out of it i think people are going to start asking again, you know...

Hopefully with that in mind, i know theres a lot of members on both sides and our problem solvers caucus, the whole daca thing is a big deal. were trying to get our hands around that. the timing was right i think to meet with the president. and i think based on what i heard from schumer and pelosi, theyre ready to work on this. i think were close. theres a dreamers bill out there. it has no poison pills i can see. nothing partisan about it. think the countrys moved on in that regard. a lot of th...

Whole daca thing. theres an inability to empathize with real people are affected. thats part of the reality show effect. reality shows exist in their own bubble. when youre on survivor, the only purpose is to win. this is "survivor" but with a body count. >> you mentioned the hurricane. donald trump still talks about ratings. like theyre an independent metric. but he, unlike some people in this building, is not on a tv show anymore. so it is really weird. you used the word discordant. thats a ve...