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Dealing with daca. the process will be neutral and fair to all sides. >> let me be clear, this immigration debate will have a level playing field at the outset, and an amendment process that is fair to all sides. >> melissa: lets bring in republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana, a member of the finance committee. thank you for joining us. do you believe those words that you heard? that is quite a difference from what weve seen from washington lately. it would be nice to think that everybody...

For another two weeks. nothing will change over the next two weeks so we should do our work. i want to talk about daca but the results of the continuing resolutions is that our military cannot do the war planning it needs to do. it has airplanes that are broken. they cannot get parts because of the stupid budgeting. and if they cant get parts, they cant train pilots because the pilots cant fly. weve cut domestic discretionary spending by 35% as a percentage of gdp because of the auto pilot that ...

Of a suggesion that the republicans are the ones doing it. and now it seems more of a mixed bag. to your point, there does seem to hurt president trumps self-styled title as negotiator in chief. >> yeah. and certainly thats why he invited schumer over to the white house today. had a very long discussion. more than an hour. we dont know exactly what happened in that meeting yet. i dont think the democrats have done a great job of articulating why this is so important and why this is the bill that...

Much. how it will go this way, he was free to say that because he didnt have responsibility at that time. i do think bringing schumer over and having this responsibility is how you do it. it is under fortunate that we do it in this pressure cooker situation. many peoples politics on shutdown change depending on who is in charge. my view this is irresponsible. in the end, probably less catastrophic materially and politically handle the conventional wisdom says. it didnt end up being that much of ...

This is first time republicans as one party is controlling all houses and the white house. so there is a slight difference. you see in the polling that republicans would be slightly more sglablamed and there has ba question of whether they can properly govern. all that being said, no one wants a shutdown. shooper doesnt want it. mcconnell doesnt want it. they are trying to leverage to see what they can get out of it. >> schumer is trying to offer a short term. even less in exchange for some - so...

>> heres how the democrats could be telling the story a little better. one, they were given the promise in december when many of them supported the cr that daca would be fixed. were talking about 800,000 people who are not citizens but law-abiding. they came in innocently as children and they see it as an opportunity for leverage to fix the problem. one that trump promised he would fix. well, theres disapproval for republicans, say, back in 2013. it was short-lived. typically, this approval for ...

Moments. theyre making a tricky calculation but they also recognize that daca and doing something for daca recipient is central to the tenets of who the party is and this may be the last opportunity to do it for quite some time. they dont have a lot of power otherwise. >> a point you made earlier, the politics of this. i said arent you worried that the repercussions? if this is a bad calculation for democrats? it will change next week and the week after that. and all the more so in this trump er...

Last decade or so, when ive been here, have been incredibly low rent, i will stipulate to that. what we should be doing is having a negotiation together that actually benefits the american people rather than not. and i hope were able to do. that one of the realities here that we all have to confront is that we have absolutely no idea what this white house is going to do. the reason were in this situation were in today is that the president in september stripped the d.r.e.a.m.ers of the status th...

Either the president or his party. 10% say a pox on all their houses. everyone is responsibilitiful are democrats playing their hand into this funding bill? most americans the believe avoiding a shutdown is more important than passing a bill to fix daca. thats the deferred action that allows those brought to the u.s. illegally as minors can stay. another issue is funding chip. most say this is extremely or very important. overall the public is frustrated and it shows, the new cnn poll shows cong...

Faith bipartisan negotiations. thats what civil people do. thats what we should be doing and that is what we have done here in the house. >> bill: i take it thats the headline from our conversation today. you are saying you can get a deal done on border security and daca. but we are 72 hours removed from the white house blowup. is dick durbin -- that thing that went round and round. is that history now? >> yes, guess what. people have been talking since that meeting in negotiations how to fix da...