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Republicans. we just went through a government shutdown of your creation. who is going to be held accountable for that? >> well, joining me now is one of those democrats you just heard, from the number two democrat in the united states senate. its dick durbin of illinois. senator durbin, welcome back to "meet the press." >> its good to be here. >> i know you guys are hopefully going to go solve this problem after the show is over, but let me ask you this. why -- why draw the line in the sand now...

Larger changes to the immigration law in the daca negotiations? >> the president made it clear on the january 9th meeting, he agreed with us there should be two phases. lets deal with the problem which he created on september 5th by eliminating daca, deadline march 5th. just a few weeks away. lets sol that have problem now and not all the problems of immigration. and, yes, we did include a provision related to family reunification which breaks my heart. we have said -- >> only applying to this p...

The empathy in my party? people, the number one important thing in america when somebody is asking for a presidential candidates support is, do you care about -- does he care about me? how do we tell 50 million people that we care about them when there is not a single word of empathy about the fate of these million people? >> can i say the trump base in my view would be very happy with a daca deal and an immigration wallen forcement thing. theyd be happy, but its more than theyd be happy. the mi...

Reservists whose training was cancelled this weekend, who have to pay their get here and their travel costs back home so the president is engaged in finding out what are the impacts of this. hes on the find trying to find a resolution to it and he had members over to the white house a week ago in a bipartisan bicameral fashion to get past this impasse. >> part of the issue seems to be that people come away from these meetings not sure what president trump stands for. let me -- heres mitch mcconn...

Authorize lots of money that never happens so we need to clarify that but we see progress. on our side they said they want the 690,000 daca population expanded. senator durbin made the case saying many people did not register and they should not be held harmful. weve been willing to expand that population and theres progress happening here which leads us to, chuck, why are we shutting down the government? >> i guess then the graham/durbin say they put this offer out here and chuck schumer saying...

How do you not see it as progress that chuck schumer is even publicly saying you get full funding for the wall. louis gutierrez publicly saying you get funding for the wall. how is that not done? why is that not a done deal? theyve already moved. the democrats say weve moved much farther. >> chuck, thats a good first step but devil is always in the details on immigration. its a very complicated area of law. last week senator durbin and senator graham were saying you get funding for the wall. you...

Frankly why not draw this line in the sand in three weeks? >> this is the fourth cr this fiscal year. for those who are not following the insides of washington politics, it means a failure to pass a budget for the united states of america. this has to come to an end, as well. there are people, even five republicans works voted against the cloture on the continuing resolution because they are sick of the continuing resolutions. you say why dont we wait another three weeks, four weeks? it has to c...

Why did you do that? >> because the president denied it happened. i was in chicago. i woke up the next morning. the story was in "the washington post" the night before and the president tweeted it had didnt happen, and it did happen, chuck. >> i -- i -- i ask this because i played that ad that the trump campaign is playing. its accusing democrats of being accomplices to crimes, to murders for some reason. not helpful to a negotiation obviously to do name-calling. this became personal for many of...