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Levels in history. >> juan: you see the hispanic caucus, the black caucus remaining seated and therefore people asking why didnt they stand up? what do you think is the answer, dana? >> dana: i think they miscalculated. from a communication standpoint, they were going to be caught in a trap. you always are when youre the minority and you are in the state of the union. they should stand up and own it and say we did this. we helped you get to this point, mr. president. >> jesse: i dont think it is...

Clearly, the recovery was ongoing. trump comes in. in response to gregs terrible attitude about our wonderful state of the union address, you get -- youre going to have some reality tv. you have mr. reality tv delivering the speech. so i think youre going to have people who dont show up. lots of members of the hispanic caucus, the black caucus say, why should i show up? [siren blaring] >> dana: they are coming for you. i think one of the things -- one of the reasons greg and others feel that way...

That you cast it, most of the republicans would agree with it except for the fact that they disagreed of adopting it through an executive action and they wanted it to go through the congress. and when you heard john kelly say about the hispanic caucus and others he said that he did not speak to one single lawyer, but there are some who say that it is constitutional, but he said that i did not find a single lawyer to say that we can do it constitutionally, and when you are shifting it back to con...

And what is the fix? we have on a couple of hours sleep, this this is congressman carlos gutierrez, the congressman from illinois and head of the hispanic caucus, and it has been a blur for you, but help me understand from your perspective of the democrat, that the senate minority leader chuck schumer went to talk to the white house, and talk about this wall, and some that vehemently oppose, but would you want to build a wall to protect the immigrants. >> i think it is terrible to build a wall o...

And jack, he sandbags them according to to durbin. or gets bad advise and says no way. this is no good for me in a room of hard liners. >> what hes trying to do is say get your head in the game. if you want to negotiate get people like the hispanic caucus. who kelly met with yesterday. sitting down with people like cotton. and purdue. thats real negotiation. there moderate democrats and republicans. their willingness to sign a bill. you got six votes unfortunately you need 60. its not a real neg...

Daca and the force for border security, the chief of staff told the hispanic caucus that the presidents views on the wall during the campaign were not fully informed. heres what john kelly told bret baier on "special report" last night. >> i told him, you know, its been an evolutionary process that this president has gone through. i pointed out to the members in the room that they all say things during the course of campaigns that may or may not be fully informed. but this president, if youve se...

By senator joe man chin, the moderate democrat saying today that the threat of over 300 million people may be punished with a government shutdown because of wo disfunction is simply terrible. the president was on capitol hill to give bob dole the meddle to celebrate his compromise. the president blunltdly telling reuters the bipartisan immigration plan that we just mentioned is horrible and the opposite of what he campaigned on in 2016. still the white house reemping out with the hispanic caucus...

Prime minister in that case to speak like that in public, that would be a fireball offense. im not saying he should be fired. thats the last thing anyone would want to see. its not in anyones interest for that to happen but it was a staggering step. >> bret: i was surprised by some of the things he said but it was kind of refreshing that he was answering the actual question and being kind of plain spoken about it. i came away thinking that was pretty interesting. >> there is reporting that it co...

Hispanic caucus was one of the most important ones because they found a way to talk to each other. americas tired of tribal warfare. thats what weve got going on now. that meeting last week, the disputed meeting about what the president said or didnt say blew up an important part of what we need to get done about daca, wherever you stand on it, we have to find a way we can have common ground and not have everybody go to the respective corners and only come out punching at each other. >> right. >...

This week, its going to be incumbent on the president to not, you know, just talk about this, to bring both sides together. hes the only one who can control tom cotton, john cornyn, et cetera. >> the number twos, as they call them. they are meeting at this house to discuss this yet again. significantly, maybe, mark short, the white house legislative affairs director and the chief of staff john kelly, are in that meeting. well see if they can make any progress. the one interesting thing today, we...