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Sure. they cant do it with just the base. it is everything you said. it gives them a chance to push back against the president. i dont see this as an opportunity so much as a nightmare. >> fair enough. >> thats not wrong. they can go behind the agenda and now get to say well, tax cuts, yes. but race baiting comments, no. >> this all happened at a meeting where he was being shown a proposal and briefed in a gang of six. i will call them a more moderate group. what they gave the president was not ...

Not just once but repeatedly. >> while the argument over the presidents language will continue, getting to the substance of the issue, how to fix daca, there seems to be a lot of daylight between the white house and congress over a plan. the plan that senators durbin and graham brought to the oval office yesterday was unacceptable to the president who tweeted at length about it this morning saying quote the so-called bipartisan daca deal presented yesterday to myself and a group of republican se...

You want to say as the president of the united states. >> i think we see a little disconnect there. the president is accustomed to having a closed door meeting, it is a closed door meeting. it doesnt work that way in washington >> jon: he tweeted out he should have had a recorder running at this meeting because he says he is being mischaracterized in the things that he said. >> thats right. in our interview with him he was talking about how much he wants a daca deal to get done and how important...

Target. one widely distrusted by his base and can seem incredibly condescending toward the man in the white house. lets bring in our panel. a senior political correspondent for bustle.com. and the president of district media dc and contributor for "the washington examiner" and the hill as well. the title of howard kurtzs column asks this question. are never trumpers being consumed by their own fiery denunciations? are they? >> the point is it doesnt do the president or republican party or even c...

The president move towards more of a moderate to liberal agenda infrastructure will be a big push for him and for fiscal conservatives that is not the direction they want to go. well have to see what happens in 2018. >> jon: you think it will be a different presidency, beverly, that 2017 was the year he sort of appealed to his base and he may go a little different direction? >> well have to wait and see. he talked about infrastructure spending even in the campaign. part of this he have will get ...

Haitians. either way, andrea, this is a political problem for the white house. this is not the first time they have dealt with racially tinged comments by this president. of course, one of the recent examples of that was in the wake of the charlottesville riots when white nationalists took to the streets, and of course it turned deadly in one instance. president trump in the wake of that said that, effectively drew a comparison between the white nationalists and the counter-protester. this is an...

They need to get the spending bill by, and democrats, of course, have entangled the two issues daca and the spending bill, but the talk on capitol hill is they may be moving towards decoupling those two. what would democrats do to pushes this? would they push this to a government shutdown over their demands on daca? >> sunlen serfaty, thank you so much for that report. joining me is democratic congresswoman jiapal to talk about this, a member of the house judiciary committee. thank you so much f...

Daca, its about d.r.e.a.m.ers, something that 80% of the population, including in trump districts believe should get done and should not be tied to other things. so, you know, i know negotiations get tough, i know people want things to get done, but we are pushing back and saying look, this needs to be about d.r.e.a.m.ers. if were going to have another conversation about family based immigration, that should go into the comprehensive immigration reform bucket and by the way, we have a plan, a bi...

Visa lottery. you said putting the other issues on the table is absurd, tell us why you think that? >> these issues are part of the larger conversation on comprehensive immigration reform. they were on the table when we were talking about legalization and a path to citizenship and the backlog and family immigration system which has been a central tenant of immigration policy in this country for families everywhere. now to add those two things to this discussion, is disingenuous and would lead to...

Of this, joining us now from capitol hill. what are we expecting to hear from the speaker later this hour, sunlen? >> i expect that he will be asked and will provide some sort of update on the status of negotiations. we know there are several working groups up here on capitol hill going through, trying to put pen to paper on certain proposals that they want to put forward. the senate side, there is a working group of members that met late last night and came out and said that they believe that t...