the president's words. chief white house correspondent john roberts is there again on the north lawn. >> good evening. the president will spend his time on capitol hill twisting arms in support of the two immigration bills before the house, talking with republicans tonight about the importance of getting at least one of those measures through. officially the white house supports both of them but the compromise bill is the one they would more likely like to see past. the president thing these bills, at least one of them come are needed to end the crisis of families being separated on the border. president trump will need all his dealmaking skills to pull this one off, leveraging the horribly unpopular idea of separating children from their families at the border in order to get congress to move on immigration form. >> as a result of democrats supported loopholes in our federal laws, most illegal immigrant families and minors from central america who arrived unlawfully at the border cannot