Extension. A lot of people up here saying does this mean he does not understand the policy, is it a poorly worded tweet . Or is he really undercutting the republican strategy to try to push this shortterm spending plan forward. Many members really scrambling up here to try to really decipher what that tweet means for the overall negotiations, and the fact that Republican Leadership is now pushing to try to hold a vote this evening to get the shortterm spending plan through the house. Thats not to say there is a lot of complicated efforts on the senate side that they also have to overcome. We will hear from speaker of the house paul ryan in just a few minutes. Certainly top on the agenda is what do you think President Trump meant by that tweet, how does this impact the plan to vote on it tonight and certainly the biggest fact is that this is under 40 hours to a potential Government Shutdown and no plan as of now. Yeah, which made that such a stunning tweet. Sunlen serfaty on the hill, thank you. Also this morning, the president is reportedly furious at his own chief of staff. A source tells cnn that the president hated remarks by john kelly in which he said the president had changed his views on a border wall between mexico and the u. S. The president venting some of his frustration in this mornings twitter storm saying in part, the wall is the wall. It has never changed or evolved from the first day i conceived of it. Lets get to the latest from the white house and cnns abby phillip. Tell us about what seems like it may be a rift between two key players in averting a Government Shutdown here, abby. Reporter thats right. Some very direct pushback from the president to john kellys commts on fox news and also in a meeting with Congressional Hispanic Caucus members yesterday. Now, john kelly had been tasked with sort of leading this effort on behalf of the president , trying to broker a deal between the two sides. But in the process he seems to have undercut the president himself and President Trump is, as you mentioned, fuming according to this source and hated the comments that he made in this interview. Take a listen. Hes very definitely changed his attitudes towards the daca issue. And even the wall. He has evolved in the way hes looked at things. Campaign to governing are two Different Things and this president is very, very flexible in terms of what is within the realm of the possible. Reporter now, remember that john kelly came into this administration with sort of midway through and tried to put his own stamp on it. But clearly that is chafing at the president right now on this on the daca issue. Unclear how that rift will be resolved, brianna. Abby phillip at the white house, thank you so much. I want to bring my panel in to discuss this. We have mark preston, david drugger with us and rebecca berg as well. Im so curious what you guys think in the midst of all of this, the last thing the white house needed was to be bigering amongst itself. When you look at the president s tion to what john kelly saidhen clearlyohn kelly was tryingo smoot things over with critical democrats, i mean, what do you think about it . The art of the deal, brianna, clearly. It shows that the president really doesnt have a strategy here. Hes lashing out at his chief of staff at a time when the administration really needs to be speaking with one voice on this issue. If only just to be able to make the case to republicans on capitol hill, especially on the house side, and the immediate future, to pass this shortterm spending measure, keep the government open. I mean, it is just a total disaster for the president to be out there at this late hour undermining his chief of staff and the work hes trying to do. And how does the president , david, go to the pentagon, which that seems smart, go to the pentagon, use this as for optics, say that democrats are hindering the funding of the military, which is a case that can arguably be made about a Government Shutdown, wherever you want to put the blame as a partisan, you know, you may do that, but as hes doing that, he seems to really be just proving that hes hes as much the problem if not the bigger problem here. The president always had difficulty adjusting to what it means to negotiate major legislation. At a time when republicans desperately, i mean, the president as well, desperately want to keep the focus on the tax reform bill that he signed last month, all of the good news that is coming out of that in terms of job creation, and investme for corporations that are benefitting from the Corporate Tax cuts, the president is blowing up his partys plan to jam democrats on the continuing resolution and to keep the government open by appearing to say that he does not agree with this idea of including c. H. I. P. , which is Childrens Health insurance. For the poor, this linchpin of the cr plan that is the republicans way of trying to get democratic votes and force them and force the issue and force them to support this thing. I want to interrupt you, listen to President Trump at the pentagon. Were here to support our countrys military. If the country shuts down, which could very well be, the budget should be handled a lot differently than its been handled over the last long period of time, many years, if for any reason it shuts down, the worst thing is what happens to our military. Were rebuilding our military. Were making us bringing it to a level its never been at and the worst thing is for our military. We dont want that to happen. Im here to support our military. Our military has to be the best in the world by far. And as you know, it has been depleted over the last long period of time. And when we finish, there wont be anything like it. We need that now, almost more than at any time in the past. So im here for our military. Im here to support our great, great and very powerful military. And were going to keep it that way. But were going to make it much better and thats what were doing. It also means jobs. You see whats happening with respect to jobs, you see what happened yesterday. Apple and now it was Just Announced that theyre giving each employee a lot of money. So our tax cuts and our tax reform has turned out to be far greater than anybody ever anticipated. And im sure the democrats would like to blunt that by shutting down government. But, again, the group that loses big would be the military and were never letting our military lose at any point. Were going to fund our military. Were going to have a military like we have never had before, because we just about just about never needed our military more than now. Thank you, all, very much. Thank you. Okay, mark preston. We need to fact check something the president said. Hes raising this specter. Why you heard democrats and republicans say it is important to get through this budget process, allow the military to move forward with future plans, construct a better budget, hes raising a different specter, that entirely the military funding is going to be cut off. Thats not true. Thats not true at all. Hes being very vague in how hes saying this right now. Yes, there needs to be a budget in place, not only for the military, but also for domestic priorities. Were going on the fourth continuing resolution stopgap measure to try to keep the government funded. As far as the military goes, in 2013, president obama signed a law that ensured that 1. 4 million active military members and reserves and dod contractors would get paid during the shutdown at that time. So the military can get funded. There is no way congress is not going to allow the military to get funded. Specifically if we run into a shutdown right now. So hes playing very fast and loose with the facts. So where is the truth actually had it comes to this argument that he should be making . Both sides always play this game, right, when the republicans forced a shutdown because they wanted to try and get rid of obama care, the democrats very effectively said the republicans were putting Vital Services at risk and threatening National Security by cutting off funds and making us look like a laughingstock. The truth is, whoever makes the argument to the voters that the voter accept is where this thing ends up. Mark is right, the military will be just fine, the president is beg little loose there to try and win polal argument, which makes you nder though, why the president would blow up the deal that republicans think they have to force the democratic votes they need in the house and senate to keep the government open. Not only for all of the Vital Services, military and otherwise, that they say may be threatened, but also so they can focus on tax reform and keep the news and the attention where they want it, rather than in a Government Shutdown where you end up in a tit for tat politically over who is to blame for washingtons dysfunction. What do i wonder Congressional Republicans think about this, rebecca, when they saw that tweet go out, and just to be clear, it is not as if this was a proposal that came out five minutes ago from house republicans, this is a proposal to have a shortterm funding measure with a sweetener for democrats for Childrens Health insurance, for poor americans, on it, we have known about this for a little while now. The vote is scheduled for tonight. And then he tweets out completely undercutting it. He knows the im assuming the president is aware that the vote is tonight. What did republicans think about that . Republicans have seen this movie before, brianna, a week ago when the president tweeted about fisa in advance of that house vote. Is that the same . It seemed like he didnt know what he was talking about . It seems like he skdoesnt exactly know what hes talking about here either. There is no reason he wouldnt support the Republican Leaders position on this. No reason he wouldnt support the deal that they have crafted to try to keep the government open. And so it really does throw into question what is his strategy here when hes coming out on multiple occasions tweeting things that undermine the republican strategy that are supposed to help him. Republican leaders are acting in such a way that they hope will help the administration this is supposed to be something to benefit the president as well. Do you think it feels left out that theyre brokering a deal i cant look. Im not going to try to shrink the president. The white house put out a statement support the parameters of the plan and in talking to my sources on the hill immediately after the president tweeted this morning, they were trying to figure up what he meant. They said they didnt know. And the hopeful interpretation from them was that he misunderstood the deal and thought that the c. H. I. P. Component was only for as long as the 30day cr. And if he knew it was a sixyear c. H. I. P. Authorization, he would be he would support the deal that his white house said he supported, but they really dont know and they have not yet figured it out. That is so baffling to me, david, that the president wouldnt know that it is a sixyear c. H. I. P. Extension. I give him credit for knowing. I assumed he knows and i assume that he blew up the deal because he didnt like it. The fisa thing was complicated. There were different parts of fisa to understand. Still seemed like as the president he should understand it, but i would argue that that wasor complicated than Something Like this. This is a pretty straightforward deal. 28day extension of funding, sixyear c. H. I. P. Extension. One, two. I think that we have to stop for a second and forget about the details of the deals and just go up to about 50,000 feet and look down at this situation right now. Could you imagine president ronald reagan, president bill clinton, president barackobama, president george w. Bush, president George Herbert walker bush, president nixon for that matter, coming out and saying day in and day out that they feel aggrieved, that theyre being attacked, not only by their enemies, but inside as well. Can you imagine to have a president of the United States come out and be critical of his chief of staff who is trying to go up on capitol hill and solve the problems that he has created himself . So basically when you look at this whole situation, and we talked about this for the past year right now, all of these problems have been created by President Donald Trump and they have been created because he feels aggrieved, feels like hes the victim. Hes the most powerful person in the world. And i know a lot of people out there might not believe that hes the most powerful person in the world. Yet, we hear the petty and trivial little snarks and snicks from him that is just absolutely ridiculous and that is in part why were seeing washington right now frozen, not only on this deal for the cr, but on daca, and just about everything else. Incredible lack of discipline overall. And where does it leave us then . Were looking, rebecca, at a potential Government Shutdown, the clock is ticking toward tomorrow. Right. And so the big question with the house vote, which is going to come first on this, is what do the conservatives what do the House Freedom caucus ultimately decide. And the fear after the president s tweet is that they might be emboldnd nelldened now a shortterm spending measure from moving forward. The Republican Leadership position had been hopeful that the president and the administration could persuade these members of the House Freedom caucus to go along with a shortterm spending deal because it is what the president wanted. But if the president doesnt want it or if there is some doubt about that, that might emboe embolden the conservatives to stop this. I think paul ryan may have news for us when he deliver his Weekly News Conference coming up shortly. Will he have spoken to the president personally by the time he goes before reporters . Thats going to be the first question we ask. If you want to know why Mitch Mcconnell will only do an immigration bill that has Donald Trumps definite support, it is because of chaos like this, they dont want to make any assumptions and be caught taking tough votes for nothing. Very good point. 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The question, though, so many questions for him, is not just about that, but about the Central Place that he has had in the chaos surrounding immigration and relations with the president. I started there. Dick durbin said you guys got sandbagged. First and foremost, who sandbagged you . Do you believe it was the white house chief of staff . All i can tell you is that at 10 00 on thursday morning, he met with talked with senator durbin, senatorurbin indicated we had a bipartisan propos, he ran through it with the president , the president said that sounds very good, lets talk about it. I think the president actually gave some interviews with the washington journal or somebody about 10 30 saying he feels like were close to a breakthrough. So all i can tell you is i dont know what happened between 10 00 and 12 00. The meeting did not go well. And we are where we are. What john kelly said publicly is that he got the details of the proposal from the perspective of conservatives. And he realized that what youre saying is something that he was convinced that what you are saying and talking about is i think john kelly is a wonderful man. An American Hero if there ever was one. Hes done a good job of creating order out of chaos, but on immigration, ive been dealing with it for ten years, i know where the bandwidth exists, what you can and cant do in phase one, and there is still some room. The president laid out a pretty good idea, but there is people here in the white house that are outliers. People in the staff, working in the senate, that are well known, to be completely are you talking about Steven Miller . Name names. There are people around the president am i right that youre talking about who