Fa ms. Pelosi good morning everyone. As you know last night, leader schumer and i had a very productive meeting with president trump. We agreed to a plan to work out an agreement to protect our nations dreamers from deportation. We insisted that the bipartisan dream act, the one introduced by congresswoman roybalallard would be the basis for the protection and review Border Security measures that do not include building a wall as we go forward. We urged the president to make permanent the cost sharing reduction payments under the Affordable Care act. Earlier in the day, leader oyer and i and chairs of the caucus that would be the asianpacific american caucus, hispanic, we had a very good meeting with the speaker in which we agreed to move forward in order to put forward the dream act on the floor as soon as possible. He, too, wanted to see some border initiative, which we said we would look into. We suggested to him and to this white house that the border package that passed the Homeland Security committee. Any solution to the challenges facing the dreamers must include the bipartisan dream act as i said sponsored by representative roybalallard. As you know, faith community, the Business Community have implored congress to pass the dream act and democrats and republicans and independents support action. 76 of americans support citizenship or permanent status and well over 50 citizenship with 15 backing deportation. 69 of republicans back citizenship versus 24 who support deportation. This is not just that would be enough justification. This is about who we are as americans and so many people are rallying to the dreamers. Our american values, our faith and basic human deesens si that e pass the dream act and not deport hundreds of thousands of young dreamers. And working with congress to et this done soon. Later today, house and Senate Democrats unveiled the newest legislation child care for working families. As parts of our better deal. Its a bold solution to close the gap to access an affordable quality child care and for early education. It is a bill to put children on the path to success tomorrow and parents on the path to bigger paychecks today. Children learning, parents earning. That is our mantra. A better deal means better jobs and creating better jobs, raising incomes for american workers, lowering costs for American Families and giving every american the tools to succeed in the 21st century which falls into the lowering cost category. Democrats will continue to advance and expand on our better deal, better jobs, better pay, Better Future. Any questions. Reporter can you help us clear up some things since you were there last night regarding the veto. When you guys say that the dream act is the basis of whats going to be involved in this, as you understand it, that would include a pathway to citizenship . Ms. Pelosi thats in the dream act. Its a long path. And this is an earned path. In other words the dream act its about serving the military or being employed or being in school for a period of time. So its an earned path but its a long road. Reporter would this agreement have to include in your view perhaps the legal immigration, something along the lines . Ms. Pelosi this is not about that. This is about daca. We would love to engage further in the insurance about comprehensive Immigration Reform, but thats not what this is about. Reporter just to be clear, its your understanding that the president does support a pathway to citizenship and you have no doubt that you and the president are on the same page . Ms. Pelosi we agreed on our ath, which is we are insisting in every conversation with the speaker and the president , with the dreamers that it will be the dream act sponsored by congresswoman roybalallard which on september 25, 26 goes into a bill by the chairwoman of the hispanic caucus into a ischarge petition. Thats what that is. Reporter based on what happened last week and what you re saying happened last night, are you have you sense a change do you feel this is a new path forward between the president and democrats or onebyone thing . Ms. Pelosi its a onebyone thing. You establish an understanding of whether in the president s case, understanding of the legislative process and on our part, what some of his priorities might be as we go forward. But theres plenty of work to e done in many areas and talked about this and talked about infrastructure, we talk about a number of issues, trade, et cetera. Finding areas of common ground. This is one of them. Nd maybe other issues we wont find common ground. Reporter do you trust the president of the United States and should the dreamers question him . Ms. Pelosi is that a fair question . Eporter sure. Ms. Pelosi one was talking about this legislation to protect the dreamers, yes, i do trust that the president is sincere in understanding that the public support that overwhelmingly the public supports not sending these young people back. We had a discussion of this thoroughly and as chuck and i leader schumer and i said coming out of the meeting it was interpreted that we had a eal. But that wasnt the case. We had an agreement to move forward. In our view, the dream act as the basis for how to protect the dreamers and for further discussions on what provisions relating to the border might be in an accompanying bill. I trust the president in that regard. Reporter we know from reporting and talking to your office, only woman sitting at dinner. What was the mood like around the table and what was the most interesting moment . How did it unfold . Ms. Pelosi really, the atmosphere at the dinner was very friendly. We made it clear from the start that there were certain concerns we had had about some f the president s statements relating to the muslim ban, charlottesville, daca, those kinds of things and we needed to establish some trust and competence as we go forward. And one path to building that onfidence and trust would be the dream act, daca. The president likes to call it daca. I believe we have had enough conversation with the president with enough iteration to protect the dreamers, in fact publicly. You saw his statements that it wouldnt be wise to send these young people back. So, yes, i think we have votes i have no question that if e put the bill on the floor, it would win. And for these and other reasons, i believe that the president , because of conviction, but because of reality is there for the dreamers. Reporter another clarification. Does the word citizenship come up in the meeting . And does the president understand that dreamers include a path to citizenship . Ms. Pelosi im not here to speak about what the president understands, but i do believe theres an understanding that down the road there is an event all path to citizenship in the dream act and overwhelmingly the American People support that. 50 and then 12 want to send them back. It came up in the context of the suggestion that there might be other bills to be onsidered. Reporter did the president gave an indication he will sign he c. R. s and what does it ean [indiscernible] ms. Pelosi we put the issue of c. S. R. s on the table because it is essential to the wellbeing of the American People that the c. S. R. s be unded. We didnt have any commitment back from the president on that, but we had an opportunity to convey how important it was to do that. Quite frankly i believe its in the president s interest to do it and to fund it and then when we have and we had this discussion a while back on this subject. And when we do finally, omnibus if we arrive at an agreement, that it would include language that clarifies that congress as a role in doing this, which some of you know that is part of the court case the uncertainty in the courts of clarifying within the law and ta enables the president not to do this every month. But should he come up with his own Health Care Proposal to it would be easier for him to do that. Reporter when you say down the road on the pathway to citizenship, does that mean not in this current daca bill . Ms. Pelosi its in the daca bill. The path to citizenship and even when we talk about come prepares i have Immigration Reform and we want them to go on the path to citizenship they get to the end of the line against people who are here fully documented. Iming is a long way down the road. Not down the road in terms of legislation. I have to go. We have votes. Im sorry. We have 14 votes on the floor. Reporter regarding tax reform, the speaker said growth was the most paramount concern of his when he was asked about whether it would be revenue neutrality. Is that a condition in your mind for House Democrats to support . Ms. Pelosi i would not characterize anything that the republicans are doing as tax reform. I would say same old trickledown economics, tax cuts for the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. Now theyre saying yesterday theyre not going to give any tax breaks to the high end. Well see it when we see it in writing. That was really news to me, because it is basically in heir d. N. A. To give tax cuts for the high end and trickledown economics as opposed to what we support which is middleclass economics. Have a job, get a good paycheck, Better Future and middle class has consumer confidence, they consume, injecting demand into the economy and creating jobs. Evenue neutral is a very important standard for us to have. Growth i tell anybody who goes put growth in the middle of the table. Growth is what is important. Growth at good paying jobs as well as in our american economy. That growth means that we do so in a way that creates jobs and reduces the deficit. What the republicans had been proposing would increase the debt by 22 trillion at a minimum. We cannot go down that path they say the growth is going to pay. Never has. It created debt. So far, its not about tax reform. What we want to do is engage them in a bipartisan way and simplification, fairness, closing special interest oopholes and having revenues to help the American People and create growth in our economy. Because growth just does not come from tax cuts in the wealthy. Thats what they think. It comes from the education of the American People, investments and we will have this as part of the better deal. But yes to your question, revenue neutral is very important to us. O, again, whether what we have coming up are certain deadlines which was part of the discussion we had last night, we have deadlines coming up september 30. Any things expire. We will have to extend them by the 30th or shortly thereafter. We see a lot of activity on health care that senator sanders just introduced his and democrats introduced medicare 50 to 64. All of these to be on the table to be considered. Niversal care. That is our goal, we think the Affordable Care act is a path to that. If they have a better idea, lets see what the numbers are. And how we can come together about it. But i dont want anybody to think that the Affordable Care act is not an important path to niversal care. And thats why coming back do your question, we want the cost sharing reductions to be made personal nentsap and thats what we asked the president to make them permanent or have language in the bill that says congress can act and doesnt have to be just the president , because you have the integrity in the system, the more outreach, the bigger the pool, the healthier the population and lower the costs to everyone bringing us closer to universal care for all americans. Reporter the president said we are not looking at citizenship and not looking at amnesty. Ms. Pelosi we arent looking at amnesty. Hats in the bill. You know what . Im not here to respond to tweets. You asked me about the meeting and im telling you about where we are. The issue of citizenship is not just about these young people which would be justification enough or other undocumented immigrants in our country that comprehensive Immigration Reform should be on an earned path. This is an earned path to citizenship whether its military service or education. Its not just about them, though. Its about who we are as a country and not having two different kinds of People Living here. It is about having the opportunities to earn the path to citizenship. Thats what the bill does. Its an earned path to citizenship. Reporter well the Democratic Caucus include a path to citizenship . [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org visit ncicap. Org during tomorrows washington journal, we are in dover, delaware. The delaware governor is our featured guest at 9 30 a. M. Join us tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Now a News Conference from london with u. S. Secretary of tate Rex Tillerson and Boris Johnson and spoke about Hurricane Harvey efforts and chinas role putting more pressure on north korea. This is 20 minutes. 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