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Some of his own political capital today. joining us now to talk about this is david bozell, president of foramerica, eugene scott, and cnn politics reporter, tom. good morning to all of you. eugene, i have to get used to saying youre a "washington post" reporter. >> thank you very much. >> first of all, to you, you wrote on the day of the deal that paired harvey funding with the debt ceiling that the president spent political capital. if that was spending political capital, how much did he lay d...

Of what he is doing right now with in the presidents words chuck and nancy, but how his relationship or lack thereof of people ensures to run into the arms of other people. >> incompetence is a funny thing to charge. david, this entire thing, right? supposed to be tax month and unite around that as republicans. >> sure. >> donald trump first cornered by the attorneys general saying well sue you over the d.r.e.a.m.ers, a process taking months an months and made a big holiday announcement about it...

>> what seemed to be a candid moment on the senate floor, he had a straightforward explanation for why trump may be working with him. take a listen. >> he likes us. he likes me anyway. what he said is exactly that. heres what i told him. i said, mr. president, youre much better off if you can sometimes step right and sometimes step left. if you have to step in one direction, youre boxed. he gets that. its going to work it and it will make us more productive too. >> anne hayworth, what do you mak...

Supposed to be tax month and unite around that as republicans. >> sure. >> donald trump first cornered by the attorneys general saying well sue you over the d.r.e.a.m.ers, a process taking months an months and made a big holiday announcement about it. then the blowback to that and now doing the schumer/pelosi thing and reacting to other people with no plans, david. >> sure. he does. look, the insult is to paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. he could have struck the same deal with them and taken a big...

>> okay. so, peter, are the democrats or at least schumer and pelosi, are going to live to regret to reaching out to the president? do you think its a bad move on their part? >> not at all. ive always believed from day one that if the democrats just simply flattered president trump, which she seems very susceptible to flattery, they could end up getting some things that they want done. the problem on this daca deal is that ultimately in the house of representatives, theres enough of a majority t...

Running for re-election when trump won by double-digits 32 points also inspires confidence and the ability for tomorrow reform to get done as lee pointed out so if it doesnt happen i think its a problem but on all cylinders betting on america is a good thing to be doing right now. >> dagen: lee i want to give you final word on this but when people see other people standing shoulder to shoulder and stranger helping stranger, that cant help but make people optimistic and hopeful. >> it makes peopl...

Base. >> its legalization, yes. >> im sorry? >> its legalization, were going to allow them to stay here. once again, just like ben, im not opposed to daca, but what im opposed to is doing daca without security, without the wall. >> but the president has said he wont do daca without doing the wall. >> well, thats new. certainly, when pelosi and schumer left that dinner, they immediately statement with a statement and they said that passing daca, to them, what the president told them, was not tied...

Recommendation. but even to wade into this is not good for a white house press secretary to be doing in the first place. >> i want to talk about president trumps talks with democratic leaders on daca. your colleague jonathan swan had this fascinating report yesterday titled "trumps new world," in which he says, for the first time in his presidency, hes enjoying positive media coverage and reinforcement from his top aides. any other takeaways from this collaboration? >> yeah, i mean, i think at f...

President trump is again at odd at his own party. hes hailing it as bipartisan. it came after his white houses dinner with democrats nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. the three say they have agreed to move on daca, the program allowing undocumented children entering the united states as children. now, the question is at what cost. pelosi and schumer says daca will not be linked to word wall funding. at one point the president seemed to be on board but later he repeated, there will be nothing on da...

Strategic, ill be honest with you. >> hes probably not. if this was strategy on his part, in a lot of ways it wasnt very good because his base is getting pretty mad at him. but i think schumer and pelosi come out of this with no debt ceiling fight and a possible deal for the d.r.e.a.m.ers so theres actual substance to it and this is good. >> its a win. david corn. >> i was tempted to say that paul ryan won the week. >> how dare you? he never wins anything. >> he doesnt have to deal with trump fo...