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Best bipartisan agreement the president will also support. the plan on immigration, president trump says he would support, would provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants under daca but also $25 billion for border wall, hardline enforcement and substantial cuts to legal immigration. lawmakers admit its a bit of an uphill climb to try to find a plan that at least 60 senators will support. >> seems to me the consensus is to have big border security and big daca, that the president will get h...

>> again, i would push back a little bit because these were children that were brought here. no fault of their own and the 1.8 million is an approximate number. we know that there are daca-eligible young men and women out there that did not come forward and register, so to make sure all of them are included, if they would like to participate in a pathway forward, then they would need to come forward. the large number, while it may seem large to some, we are thinking at least its all inclusive. a...

>> again, i would push back a little bit because these were children that were brought here. no fault of their own and the 1.8 million is an approximate number. we know that there are daca-eligible young men and women out there that did not come forward and register, so to make sure all of them are included, if they would like to participate in a pathway forward, then they would need to come forward. the large number, while it may seem large to some, we are thinking at least its all inclusive. a...

That. >> chris, i got to the point -- so many good people up here, both democrats and republicans. theyre all my friends. i work with them. when you get us together, it sounds like we make sense. we want things to work. and all of a sudden all the power transfers to two people, the majority leader and minority leader who makes a decision what moves and doesnt move. the majority sets the agenda. i keep thinking my be loved robert c. byrd laying in his grave, hes got to be twisting and turning thi...

Sat in his office. myself and doug jones sat with the president. i can tell you he believes these children need a pathway forward. there might be people around him that arent quite as sympathetic as he is. my gut tells me the president wants to get this done. im willing to continue to keep working with limb in a bipartisan way, be an honest broker, tell him what i think we work and wont work. reneed to get past this. the rhetoric is what it is. the president is going to say what hes going to say...

And senator manchin democrat talking about their votes today. lets watch today. >> can you talk about what specifically changed? >> every meeting we were in, the meeting susan and i had, was always an optimistic meeting. we always knew there was a pathway forward and it was a reasonable pathway forward. most importantly, should reach of the government down? absolutely not but there were other people that felt differently. the bottom line is not to keep it shut down. we were all moving in a very ...

Now, jim kind of alluded to it. when you talk to republican leaders on capitol hill and their top advisers, theyre very comfortable with where they are. they think as this all plays out politically they can win this fight in the public perception, in the public sphere. they believe the proposal they have on the table is a reasonable proposal and democrats should be willing to take that. but, don, we talked ad nauseam about this last night. the issue for democrats is that there is a significant t...

Mitch mcconnell is in the mood to deal in anyway. they believe the four-week stopgap is the pathway forward, that means theyre going to try to make things as difficult as possible for democrats in the days ahead, i will tell you, i had one republican source tell me flatly, a couple hours ago, the wild card in this issue will always be the president, they dont know when the president is going to step in and try to change the dynamic, they thought for a period of time that might be happening, clea...

Furious lobbying, after the government shutdown, into saturday morning on the senate floor in live view for everyone, no resolution and one clear fact, things are going to get worse before they get better. instead of trying to figure out the pathway forward, republicans and democrats framing who is to blame. for senator schumer, theres one answer. >> every american knows the republican party controls the white house, the senate, the house. its their job to keep the government open. its their job...

In the house. speaker paul ryan tonight had a closed door conference meeting with house republicans where a lot of republicans and a lot of senior aides came out of that meeting saying, things are pretty good. we think we can get this four-week spending bill done. we think we can get the majority to move this through, kick this over to the senate. now with this group of conservatives meeting behind closed doors, deciding that they are not in support of this, theyre back to square one. right now,...