who have been shielded from deportation under the obama administration s so-called daca program, dreamer act, young people. so it s clear that there are some big issues of policy that the president-elect has not engaged on. he has shown he s quite interested in policies having to do with jobs. we ve seen that repeatedly as he s tweeted and talked about things like carrier corporation and general motors and toyota. on a lot of other issues, some of which they ll deal with in about a week. he does not appear to have engaged in the details and maybe not even the broad general strokes of policy. and that could be a big issue going forward about who s really running this government. well, the other issue, let s say the argument over policy gets heated, mr. trump is president. he has the final say. so will his nominees feel strongly enough about their positions to resign, because that s possible, right?
in the senate the last chance for dreamers. negotiations are off to a rocky start with democrats and republicans in a standoff over how debate should even proceed. majority leader mitch mcconnell trying to open the session with a vote on legislation to punish sanctuary cities. minority leader chuck schumer objecting to the measure because it has nothing to do with the dreamer act. no reason, no reason not to come together and get a solution this week. this has been going on endlessly. they shut down the government over this. i want to see what they want to do. finding 60 votes for something that meets the needs of both sides and can deal with the dreamers and border security is not easy. we all know that immigration is fraught with peril, but this is the closest we ve come, and everybody head to make a really final effort. reporter: florida bait
mar-a-lago and this afternoon while heading home, the president invited a dozen or so to take pictures and personally meet with the president and for the supporters, certainly an unforgettable afternoon. as for tomorrow, nothing planned for the president. it is the official martin luther king, jr. holiday, and some point tomorrow afternoon, we re expecting president trump, first lady melania as well as son barron to reboard air force one and return to washington. rick: phil keating, outside the president s winter white house. while the republican senator david perdue blaming democrats for letting political games get in the way of real immigration reform. the democrats have tried for years, and the dreamer act in 2013, schumer and durbin both talked about ending parts of chain migration. so we re doing things that democrats have voted for and have supported in the past.
going to do here is see once we get past the funding deadline, which should have nothing to do with daca, we will move on to hopefully a bipartisan solution to daca and our immigration system. trish: you know, when it comes to the solution, you point out your business experience. you ve got to negotiate right? one side has to offer up something the other side has to offer up something and the impression we re certainly getting at least out of the left is they re not willing to allow one single dollar to go to a so-called wall because the wall symbolize everything that they will dislike about our president well, this is outrageous actually. it s a gross distraction away from the issue. the issue is this. the democrats have tried for years and the dreamer act in 2013 of schumer and durbin both talked about ending parts of chain migration so we re doing things that the democrats have voted for and have supported in the past, just in the 90s under bill clinton, we had a
schmidt reports that an aide to the attorney general was up on the hill before the firing asking congressional staffers to dig up dirt and get it to press about the fbi director. if that was something the attorney general was doing as part of the conspiracy to obstruct justice, if that was an overt act he took to further that conspiracy, the attorney general himself could now be a subject of that investigation. that is a very difficult place for the chief law enforcement officer of the united states to be. and jeremy, we also learned that reince priebus was taking notes. first of all, one of the first things that any chief of staff usually tells the white house staff, don t take notes. for a variety of reasons. that s sort of the rule of thumb in washington. reince priebus, chief of staff, was taking notes and that those notes confirm james comey s notes of his conversation with the president. the president told reince priebus, i said this to james comey about trying to cut this inve