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It turns out the president went for it. >> wait, you thought it was such a low ball offer that it was a ridiculous low ball offer? >> well, i dont know about low ball, but it just -- i thought it would have been better to kick the can down the road, get the debt limit extension through the next year and clear off the under brush and try to deal with other stuff including daca. now its in one big mess. but cudeose to pelosi and schumer. they pulled it off, and this president fell for it hook line...

Wednesday. the trump no action tweet on daca that nancy pelosi reportedly asked for, the budget deal on wednesday mep appeared with a democratic senator up for reelection in her home state even calling heidi hite camp a good woman. he has an infrastructure meeting with new york and new jersey leaders most of whom are democrats. includes his new buddy chuck. schumer, president trump, looking like a couple of old new york friends there. cornell, what do you make of this last 24 hours or so? >> i t...

Be in the business of making deals with donald trump. donald trump may in mismind well, maybe ill do this again, but it will be the very rare moment when the democratic leadership is going to see it as being in their interest given their politics to make a deal with donald trump. theyll do it occasionally but most of the time now donald trump is going to find the back of the hand from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer if he tries to reach out to them because their attitude is we agree with you on n...

Yvette clarke, because we were talking about this, and yvette said they are not strangers, speaking of president trump and leader schumer. so they are not strangers. theyve known each other for a long time. i dont know, maybe some of this carried over the nancy pelosi as well. >> the presidents comment about no action against dreamers with no work permits for six months, do you take that as a sign that something big could happen as it rlts to the 800,000 so-called dreamers in this country? >> i ...

House. >> the bottom line is, the president listen to the argument, we think we made a very reasonable and strong argument and to his credit, he went with the better argument. >> heather: joining us as a white house correspondent, think you for joining us. he goes around the republican leaders, he strikes this deal with pelosi and schumer, should this be a warning to republicans? >> i think it is a warning to republicans. this is the trump that many feared and he has no ideological anchor and he...

Michael steel told me leapt out at me because thats exactly what happened. what the president wants is to make a deal any deal. and now i hear he is gloating over all the great press coverage that hes getting of being with chuck and nancy. as much as this made me laugh, like joyously for first time since november 8th, from a political perspective, it was the right thing to do. if only president trump could behave that way all the time. >> let me press you, do you think thats why he did it? >> no...

Republicans on? weve seen a lot of house speaker paul ryan today. his usual catch us up if you will news conference and then also talking with "the new york times." >> yeah. well, hes, i think, still trying to recover from what happened yesterday. sort of being blind sided along with the rest of the republicans in the room by this deal that the president struck with nancy pelosi and chuck shumer just hours after paul ryan had called attaching some of these things to harvey relief unconscionable ...

Schumer and pelosi? >> its hard to read. we obviously dont like the december 15 date. i think everybody in the whole country knows when you have a fiscal cliff and a huge budget deal and the kitchen sink being thrown in by both sides over the last ten years, nothing good comes of it in terms of fiscal responsibility. were throwing debt on the next generation. and so were waiting to see the end of the playbook. you listed a few possibilities. theres other possibilities in terms of what the presid...

Cost of donald trump getting the debt ceiling taken care of in december is, having a press conference, with 350 ladies and gentlemen lators standing behind him, to do for daca and d.r.e.a.m.ers what barack obama wasnt able to do and have him sign a law, then donald trump will take that deal. listen, this all assumes donald trumps pivot will last longer than 12 hours. im sure he will watch "fox and friends" this morning and tweet and destroy any gains he made yesterday afternoon, because theyll b...

We need is more republicans in washington to cut a deal with harry reid and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer then i get donald trump is your guy. >> i guess trump is their guy. >> look, as doug just said, the debt ceiling and the budget, especially the debt ceiling was a must do thing. if this were tax reform -- >> im sorry, so was daca. 800 -- >> look where we are with daca. he sent jeff sessions out there -- >> pulling strings. >> and then he sent out the tweet, ill he visit and then he does thi...