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Saying that daca is dead. feinstein saying the president blaming democrats for a stalemate is not true. she insists she could support fundingg for a wall if the president would just compromise. feinstein saying,l president trump is absolutely wrong on daca and unilaterally rescinded daca for no reason and rejected every single bipartisan proposal that would protect dreamers from deportation. its simply false to say democrats walked away from the table. the president won in part in 2016 on this i...

All the other campaign promises that this president has failed to deliver on, namely the wall and immigration, which are most important to his supporters, i think this all adds up to a pretty depressing despiriting picture for the midterm voter on right. >> eddie? >> i like the keeping up with the joness theory he put out there. given all the billionaires that are part of this cabinet. i also want to say, you know, i was thinking that, you know, theres a loch ness monster in this swamp and it se...

Corey lewandowski, forced out on controversial circumstances. >> these are people who say, let trump be trump. lynn, this is the first week without hope hicks. where do you think this is headed? >> where it would have been headed even if hope hicks were sitting in the white house today, that these tweets are powerful tools to command the attention of the nation and create chaos. so people should know, congress is not in this week, nothing could happen any way. i dont think anythings going to hap...

For this border wall he so adamantly wants in exchange for a pathway to citizenship for daca recipients. did the president ever want a deal? >> well, we know he wants to claim credit for big deals and big beautiful deals. it is not clear he wanted a deal necessarily or that he knew what that deal would be. but ultimately were still in the context of this being an election year, which always complicates things. we also know that congress and ive gone through a lot of fights and struggles myself, ...

Use this as a campaign issue. but for the president to call it dead at this point, i think its more downside for him politically than it is upside. >> dana: of course, he can declare it dead today but then perhaps thats part of the art of the deal. in the mean time, republicans and democrats are gearing up for the midterm and nancy pelosi is being featured once again as a star in the ads, especially that republicans are running against democrats. 34% of republican ads in the house feature nancy ...

Nondefense spending. you know what the biggest chunk of that was, martha? infrastructure spending. the president wants to spend 200 billion on infrastructure and the biggest chunk was to be found of domestic spending and the additional spending on the domestic side in infrastructure and a another big increase, it is like the third largest increase was on homeland security. it only included 1.6 billion for the wall. but the other was personnel and technology and infrastructure. it is not always a...

Weve had a number of elections the democrats shaved 15, 20 points off the election that trump won by. if you look back to the state races, youve had scores that were away from the trump margin in 2016 toward the democrats. do you look at that and say theres a wave coming? >> yes. nobodys had a good off year election since 2002 so i think republicans would be well advised to get ready. foreign fortunately, i think we are. we have good candidates, a good committee. we have good things to run on be...

Nervous in that situation. they felt while there was broad public december think for the dreamers, it start today look like democrats were prioritizing the dreamers over government funding and democrats then backed down a little bit. i wonder, betsy, maybe ill throw this to you. if this thing goes into limbo for the next few months where theres no deal on daca, trumps not moving toward a deal, but were also not getting deportations. is there any political risk there for democrats just in terms o...

Was just passed, but this is an issue that animates his political base as no other. after all, it was the issue that electrified his campaign. it looks very unlikely well get any movement on daca or other immigration issues before the midterm election in november. the legislative window for that is narrowing every week. so this is a way to get president trumps voters animated before the midterm elections, to get them to come out and vote. the president keeps saying hes worried that in the midter...

The cities dont have many can you have the private sector and you have to convince people that the federal government is really their long term it will speed up the process. to get these things built. >> maria: alright so this is on the agenda ahead of the midterms i guess. infrastructure, possible phase 2 of the tax plan and possible regulation on opioids. >> i do not think -- i think congress is done. >> maria: this congress is don . >> i think it will start campaigning for republicans will st...