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Ryan should commit to a vote on daca? >> no, i dont think he should commit to a single thing. look, we didnt shut down the government, they did. and, you know, were not in the business of negotiating with terrorists, whether theyre political or otherwise. >> you think the house should commit to vote on daca before february 8th? >> absolutely not. >> okay. well, mitch mcconnell can speak for the senate but theres two house members who kind of sound like theyre saying go fish. >> im so glad you br...

These things. they were elected by the american people to do a job. and that job right now is getting these bills and talking about whats happening in our communities and for me, i just hope all of them are going to do their job and not just sit there and bicker back and forth. we need legislation. and right now for me this is -- this is changing my life. i know that it may not affect them every day, but this is the entire part of who i am. this is my identity right now. i am a dreamer. because ...

Its going to be hard. its going to be a hard one to get to. and again, they now have this march 5th deadline self-imposed by the president hanging over them. that they have to meet. >> they do, but tim, where do democrats go from here? i mean, republicans are loving the fact that within the democratic party people are mad at chuck schumer. theyre mad. they think he rolled. what do democrats do to try to find some sort of united voice here, because they dont have one. >> well, i think theyre thin...

Daca deal depends on what they get in exchange. if thats mitch mcconnell saying today, doesnt it sound like were right back to playing politics? because yesterday, it sounded like if democrats were willing to play ball and keep the government open, thats what they offered in exchange. now the republicans sound like theyre moving the football again. >> the president was given the deal two weeks ago and he refused it. it had a border security. it had completely destroying many of our families. and...

Its another to actually do it. so what is mitch mcconnell doing to show people that it was more than just lip service because its not just democrats, this is a 9010 issue. and mitch mcconnells own district, he has dreamers, he has immigrants who care about this. >> absolutely, there are dreamers in every state. mitch mcconnell has made a promise here but its a very specific promise. i think we should probably start by playing what he said and how democrats are interpreting it. heres mitch mcconn...

Little too soon. >> democrats are pretty good at articulating values, but a little weak on defending them. >> mcconnell pledges to talk daca but right now the deal leaves nearly 800,000 dreamers in a living nightmare. >> were not pieces on a chess board. were human beings. >> and untangling the kushner web. good luck with that. an investigation brings reports of failing properties and new concerns over jared kushners use of the white house for his own family business purposes. we begin this morn...

Heres the question, what does he really want? what will he be definitive on? my white house colleagues and i have been trying to figure out. a path to citizenship, legal status. what does a permanent solution mean? peter a lexen der tried to get an answer to that. listen. >> be clear, legal status versus pathway to citizenship or does it not matter to the president? >> i think its a negotiation process. we want a permanent solution for that program. we also want to keep a big priority for the ad...

Thats just been pushed to 3:30 this afternoon. we expect to see the president in one of the pool sprays later on today so well watch for that as well. >> i want to bring my panel in. shannon pettypiece, my dear friend with bloomberg news. tim obrien, executive editor of bloomberg view. and shannon, to you first, republicans want to run a major victory lap. saying its a clear win. i dont know its a clear win. three weeks from now, mitch mcconnell has put himself in a position where he has to answ...

>> its also true they could have won that without shutting down the government. that was on the table. that was the deal they walked away from to begin with. yes, this is the morning after, like, well, we got chip. but it was there already. i think democrats have lost leverage on this. its not just theres some outside media relations. the people who are most angry about this are immigration activists in the democratic base. so this is not some kind of contrived outsider looking at democrats type...

You have those among the presidents own party begging for clarity from the president. the white house has insistently said it wants four things tied to this. it wants a fix for these dreamers. it wants something dealing with family-based migration, something dealing with the lottery system and something with border security. that is sort of where the beginning of the broad strokes outline is. of course the devil is always in the details. heres the bottom line. the president right now feels like ...