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Product that increases border security and addresses the other concerns. >> melissa: you do not doubt, i dont think from where we sit, that everybody wants a solution on this. it has been a problem for a long time both border security and what to do about immigration in this country, how to make legal immigration more straight forward and what to do about illegal immigration. do you think there is enough give and take? both sides have things that they want and both sides have things they cant po...

Issues, on the wall, on chain migration, and the visa lottery system that the president demanded? it may be both parties walk away from this saying we got what we really needed out of this deal. >> jon: there was that offer of compromise, the lindsey game dick durbin legislature lace would have had immigration status for daca and -- >> the democrats complain comes in. durbin felt they had a deal along those lines. the democratic senator from illinois and a top democratic leader in the senate. we...

Were and we refined that list to be more careful and specific on exactly the four pillars were asking for, fix daca, handle border security, end chain migration and end the visa lottery program. >> before the house and senate voted yesterday on the congress gretional resolution the president was holding meetings on daca with john corrin, cotton, lankford and grassley and senator tillis of north carolina and a separate meeting with joe manchin, a senator from west virginia and doug jones from a...

Through the same drill again? >> we want to move forward and were welcoming a debate about immigration reform. thats what the democrats want and the white house and republicans want. we want a bill that deals with the daca population and also deals with the issues we talked about. ending the visa lottery, reforming the extended family chain migration system and border security with a southern border wall. if we can get those things in a package. forget february 8th. wed love to get it tomorrow. ...

Fact. we have lost too many men and people over there in that war. and they still call it a forgotten war. pete: yep. >> police action. well, when you are being fired at and killed its not a police action. pete: thank you for your service and your time and candor. marilyn, as a trump supporters a well this morning what do you make of the whole shut down and lou it came out? >> well, of course i think it was a schumer shut down showdown and, yes, i think that they felt that they had to cave in an...

The whole wall. ainsley: is that just a rumor? why wouldnt the president say okay, lets do that. steve: heres the thing the president didnt want just the wall. he wanted to end chain migration and do something about the visa lottery system. he said, you know what? thats not a deal i can do. i said i wanted these three or four parts. i want them all. not just wall. so ultimately the with the won, too. brian: there was a difference between appropriation and okay have the wall like we did five year...

Shut down last night and keep the government funded for three weeks after three days. steve: president tweeted big win for republicans as democrats cave on shut down. now i want a big win for everyone, including republicans, democrats and daca. but especially for our great military and border security. should be able to get there see you at the negotiable table. brian: g.o.p. senator tom cotton sits on the senate budget committee. he joins us now. strong opinions about immigration. senator, i kn...

So yes, that date is out there but we have a little more room than that would suggest. >> melissa: can you give us a sense, you talked about talks already going on. can you give us a sense of what those conversations are like both in tone and content at all? >> it is mutually -- im speaking of the republican side but i have spoken to democrats, too. it is respectful. it is an understanding that if we go beyond the parameters of the four pillars well lose everything. i notice that democrats are s...

Actual daca recipients there might be out there. melissa, the current number that folks are working with is 690,000. the democrats contend there could be as many as two million because a lot of daca -- potential daca recipients havent come out of the shadows. the white house indicating that two million number may be a little on the high side but willing to go up from the number of 690,000. >> melissa: the truth is nobody really knows and we wont know until we do something about it. it is inter...

To work in the government serving the american people. brian: senator, it was hard not to see that the growing bipartisan meeting that took place in senator susan collins known as a moderate republican helped move this story forward. its almost as if you guys wept past the leadership to get this done. will you look to combine with whom to get something done in terms of a compromise on daca? because leadership seems stuck in the mud almost on both sides. >> yes, brian. im happy to sit down with a...