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Understand this proposal that the white house came up with basically slashes our current immigration levels in half and brings us back closer to levels of the 1920s. what we need is a smart policy to recognize what is it the future immigration flows, what is the mixed skill labors that this country needs and not trying to pit daca recipients here legally because they came out of the shadows, have them pit themselves against the rest of the immigrants in some cases their own parents. >> the line ...

Dealing with dwrak? t daca? >> he offered the president wall money. and then that was walked back. >> thats not true. they are asking for straight amnesty. something the majority of the american people reject. we have a good life bill which offeres a great compromise on all the issues confronting us on immigration. and let me just make sure, president obama caused this by creating daca. president trump said, look, im getting rid of daca. have you six months to come up with comprehensive immigrat...

That is what i would have done if i was president. but again hes a chaos president and he gets easily detracted by wh what he sees on fox and friends and tweets and other things happening in his orbit. >> why hasnt he done a tour of the red states touting -- in the i was told this was an idea floating around that -- >> well either he tours too much or too little. he cant seem to make the washington press corp happy with his travels. >> this is isnt a washington press corp issue. >> you will see ...

>> as soon as the president is finished at the golf club, he is expected to then motorcade back to his winter white house at mar-a-lago on palm beach, only about 8 or 10-minute drive and the president has no public events scheduled not only today tomorrow or monday and it is monday afternoon we expect that the president and first lady melania and son baron will be boarding on air force one and returning to the nations capital. jillian. >> phil, i had to take a double take at david letterman, i b...

Not believe that the daca issue would prevent legislators from coming to an agreement to keep them open and funded by next friday. >> thanks for that reporting, molly. >> mike. >> lets bring in michigan congressman dan killdee. do you want a clean daca bill? >> yes, and i think its sometimes in a partisan divide where one doesnt exist quite as much as people say it does. republicans in the house, i know, and democrats would like to get a daca deal done, and would vote for it, if it was on the fl...

Mike: wouldnt it wise to separate a controversial issue like immigration and government funding and a budget, it seems all are difficult enough individually for this congress to do. your thoughts, sir? >> well, i mean, we can separate it. we can put the daca bill on the floor on tuesday. and get it done. and basecle i -- basically set that aside and dont have to conflate these issues. theres a moment when the budget bills come up. democrats-- the republicans dont have the vote to keep the govern...

Plan, you know, essentially it would shift, it would do away with the diversity lottery which is a random lottery program and it would shift some of those 50,000 slots over to the tps program which is the countries like haiti, el salvador. temporary protective status, and the president said, well, lets not deal with those countries, why cant we make this all about merit and, remember, these were comments that he made two days earlier in the televised meeting in the white house who said who would...

Get democrats that vote for some things, to get some things across the finish line, what about the timing and what about the week ahead. >> i still think we are going to get through. i dont believe theyll be a shut down. >> i hope youre correct. i hope that there isnt a shutdown. we shouldnt be politicizing the -- the economy and the health of the american workers and thats federal workers and private workers that will be affected by government shutdown. we shouldnt be doing that. we shouldnt be...

Dream only piece of legislation now. and in a statement yesterday, she said, quote, in october, the president wrongly decided to terminate daca. since that time. the president has constantly said he supports daca. what is clear is it that we must insist on a clean dream act, which is supported overwhelmingly by the american people, has bipartisan support in congress and must be enacted in january. but that doesnt sit well with republicans who wants border security or those who want to end chain ...

This morning, 30-something degrees. all of us have a little frog in our throat. gillian: thanks, adam. youre the best. mike: authorities say the same russian hackers who targeted the dnc are back. who theyre probing for information now. the clock is ticking for lawmakers to reach a deal on daca and immigration. how their lack of progress is resonating with voters.