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And know to be going on in the white house. but i certainly dont think that steve bannon is going to have a role in opposition to donald trump. hes somebody who holds extreme political views, frankly we didnt talk enough about over the last year his opposition to what he calls globalism, these are crack pot ideas that emanate out of him and have always been crack pot ideas and so this is someone who i think touched the third rail here, overcome by hubris, he flew too close to the sun and he did ...

It was later than we wanted it, but it came, the problem is it was pretty expansive. it was just throwing basically everything in and the value of the meeting today was shelving some of that or saying, yes, this is important, but its important as part of comprehensive reform, which we can do in phase two. but right now we need to protect these daca kids. >> the president said he wanted comprehensive immigration reform, as you note. thats phase two, this deal with the d.r.e.a.m.ers and border sec...

Presidents plans with the border wall. lets bring back kevin and jonathan here. and the president is demanding the wall in exchange for a deal that would protect the daca recipients. heres what congressman gregory meeks said yesterday about how democrats would respond to this proposition. >> is that the kind of divisive request that could lead to a government shutdown? >> it is. now he then put down his list that says that there is -- has to be $18 billion for a wall in regards to immigration, m...

Fury inside the white house." bannon said the miller probe was all about money laundering. there is a lot of other things in this book. we will talk about some of them. lets bring in the panel. jonathan swan, byron york, amy walter. guy benson. jonathan, have we heard from steve bannon in response? >> i have been texting with him all day but its all off the record so i dont want to spell anything about it. >> bret: how washington is digesting this. >> was clear straight away bannon had touched a...

White house and trying to involve them in conversations. the worse thing that could happen in 2018 is for both sides to continue this ploliticizing f every single thing. politics as usual. the american people have really expressed their displeasure of both sides of political isle in the last couple of years. i think infrastructure is important and daca is important. >> republicans are going to vote for protect dreamers. there is a possibility for republicans to come to the table on this. there i...

Almost have to have a bipartisan agreement in order to achieve a result. >> mcconnell is hoping congress will have better luck with an infrastructure package. the white house has indicated president trump may renew that push in 2018 although hes got his eye on obamacare. the president will need to talk that over with mcconnell. he said the senate is moving on from health care. lets bring in the "hardball" roundtable, best mui, katheryn rampell and nick confocoey. we know -- >> yeah. >> donald tr...

There. you can see the democrats have been told and fully understand there can be no daca without the desperately needed wall at the southern border and end to the terrible chain migration and lottery system , et cetera. what do we know about that heading into 2018? >> reporter: this is going to be the big fight on capitol hill over the next couple months. there has been, by all accounts, a good faith effort by republicans and democrats in congress and the white house to work out an immigration ...

Interested in those third rail issues. where do you think this goes in terms of priority for 2018? >> the first legislative priority will be keeping the government funded. in mid-january, theyll have to come up against that. then they probably have to face daca as a result. any big legislative achievements is so unlikely because were also in the time of congressional primaries. democrats will not want to give anything, because if theyre facing primaries on the left, they cant be agreeing with pr...

The country. and republicans have signaled they want to work with democrats on this at different phases along the way. what i think will ultimately shape up here is a deal that will allow some kind of protection, some kind of path, likely to legal status. maybe not all the way to citizenship for these d.r.e.a.m.ers. n then a mix of border security, internal enforcement, almost certainly not the wall. thats such a third rail for democrats to support any kind of package that would include that. bu...

Much because they assume theres no way donald trump would touch this third rail, that it would be inconceivable to them, that the political blowback would be so strong. theres nothing in his history to suggest hes afraid of that blow back. >> i think you make a point in talking about how congress dont see it as a point because they see it as so far out of the realm. they think it is against donald trumps interest, it is not rational, it wouldnt be a rational pattern for him to pursue. we have se...