Thats where hamas and israel have agreed to a temporary pause in violence. A 12hour limited ceasefire now in effect through 1 00 p. M. Eastern this afternoon. People in gaza have been using the hours to collect their belongings. Its not a truce, actually. Secretary of state john kerry has promised that he and other diplomats will keep trying. According to reports, kerry had initially proposed a sevenday ceasefire. But that proposal wasnt accepted. Hes in paris today to continue negotiations for a more permanent end to the violence. He told the Associated Press that a more permanent ceasefire quote can be achieved if we work through some of the issues that are important for the parties. With us this morning to talk about this and Everything Else in the news, we have the Court Reporter for the washington post, robert costa. Lynn sweet is the Washington Bureau chief for the chicago suntimes and my colleague chuck todd hosts the daily rundown for nbc news and the white house chief correspondent. Chuck, well start on the news in gaza with the 12hour ceasefire and john kerry looking for something bigger here. Is there still optimism on the part of the white house that they can achieve something longer than 12 hours. There was skepticism last night. I ran into susan rice at the end of the evening and she was, the 12hour ceasefire. She was like well if they can get that, great. But she was skeptical that they could get the 12 hours. So this is a positive step if they can complete the 12 hours. There was even skepticism that it would last the full time. But the question is, does this turn into a week. And israel at this point it appears wants to finish the military job. They want to finish dealing with the tunnels and they may want to do more. Theres been some hints that they want to completely demilitarize hamas and the gaza strip in some form or another. If they want to do that, youre going to see continuations of dragging on negotiations while they finish their finish their operation. Which has been the m. O. With israel every time theres been these sort of hot flashes. It buys more time. Well keep tuned to that. Turning to the other big story this weekend, the crisis at the border. It doesnt seem to be much hope at the white house. The administration is going to get all of the funds from congress. They say they need to deal with the rush of undocumented immigrants who have come to the u. S. In recent months. The white house has requested 3. 7 billion. In a private meeting yesterday, republicans in congress seem to rally around a framework for a very scaledback plan, to cost less than 1 billion. Basically a quarter of what the president has been looking for. One congressman, Steve Scalese of louisiana, who will become the republican whip next week, proposed changes to the 2008 law. And that law was intended to protect children from sex trafficking. The republicans had their meeting yesterday. House republicans had their meeting. The public signals that are being sent from that are they say theyre confident they can all get on the same page and something south of 1 billion next week. I guess the first question is we always have the question of you know, the far right of the Republican Party, anything that deals with it, is it too much for them. Is there, how confident are republicans that they can get something in the next week . The package just keeps getting smaller and smaller, i was at the capital on wednesday and john boehner comes out with the 1. 5 billion proposal for the border crisis. And what happened an hour before the meeting on wednesday, ted cruz met with house conservatives. He told them to take a hardline approach. A couple of days later on friday, the number from 1. 5 billion goes to under a billion. Now the House Republican package is likely to be under that figure. Is the billiondollar figure significant or is it symbolic . Its symbolic. When you talk to house conservatives, they dont want to spend that much money at all on the border. They think the problem is the president s policies. His executive actions about children coming up from Central America. And so they want to spend as little as possible. And that leaves the white house in a tough position, because theyre at the 3. 7 billion number and theres no room for compromise, conservatives are moving away from it. The other question, lynn, it raises is the republicans are intent to making changes to the 2008 law. And the white house way back when it was starting seemed to be signaling there was openness to having a compromise. The republicans get the changes to the 2008 law and the white house gets the money its looking for. Since then democrats have come out and said absolutely not on the question of changing the 2008 law. It raises the question of even if republicans can all get together on this, and pass something with those changes, could the white house accept that . Well, and this is where the democrats have some trouble on their left flank. Because thats where theyre vulnerable just as the tea party can influence the republicans. This is a tough one, that was going to be a trade. I think when it comes to the money, even republicans have to realize that there are more contracts for more kids to be cared for that have been coming up in the pipeline. Now this has gotten our attention most recently. But an increasing number of kids and increasing costs of their care has been going on for a bit of time. I think that the money as you guys have been talking about, there will be something put on the plate. This 2008 law is very tough. I understand the policy, but the politics now are too complex, especially to sort out by the end of next week before Congress Goes home for the summer. The other, the other elements quickly among the record here, republicans apparently also looking for using the National Guard, sending in the National Guard. There also might be a separate resolution attached to this. Republicans express their displeasure at the Deferred Action Program the president instituted a couple of years ago. Chuck can you see anything coming out here . Well look in some ways, and ive talked to some folks close to the white house who say they did this to themselves. They sort of handed the republicans a wedge, a way to wedge the democrats here. Because the white house does want to change the 2008 law. Theyre still for this. Now they dont want to say it out loud. Do they not know that democrats were all going to be against it . They did not think it was going to be this unanimous. They knew there was going to be a split. They expected this to be okay, they were going to lose about half of the democrats. But that was in fact look at nancy pelosi, watching her on this when it first comes out. She seems to be agreeable to it. She hears from her left flank that its more problematic than she thought. And she ends up, she goes with her conference, too, shes just like boehner, shes very mindful of the base in that respect and all of a sudden she shifts her position. Right now the whole focus of the white house is can they get Dianne Feinstein to agree to an amendment of the 2008 law . Some form of it. Maybe thats how this compromise happens. But at this point, the white house has given up on getting anything before the recess. The house is going to pass something so they cant be accused of not doing anything at this point. The senate now, whats funny, there was a real Senate Compromise coming together. But now a whole bunch of republicans want to back out, they dont want to be left hanging in the wind if house conservatives are able to narrow what theyve done. So i think realistically youre going to see the white house going to get its money, theyre going to get it in the continuing resolution in september. Its going to get buried somewhere in there. Its not happening now. Were in a dangerous period where lawmakers are going home, it seems innocent. When we say they can go home. But theyre not out of trouble. We know from that famous summer of 09 when the Tea Party Movement caught the Democratic Party asleep. That you go home, these lawmakers have town halls. Last thing they want to do is to have to start defending a Spending Program that they cant even know theyve got primaries. Pat roberts, if hes voting for lets say he voted for the supplemental. That could be enough to tip him. And that would be a disaster. They cant mess around with the august recess. The story we seem to have is how does the primary psychology affect the lawmakers. Its a more dangerous time than you think. We have reaction to the number two, well have reaction from the number two democrat in the house, steny hoyer, the democratic whip. Weve have it for you later in the show and well speak to him about our next story, whether republicans in congress are planning to impeach president obama. A move here that might surprise you. Because it is now the white house thats actively promoting the idea of a republicanled impeachment push. The idea being that House SpeakerJohn Boehners plan to sue the president for supposed president overreach will override an effort to remove him from office. Saying the lawsuit has opened the door for some republicans to consider impeachment at some point in the future. Boehner insists theres no no plans to impeach the president. Many House Republicans fear impeachment could hurt them in november. And theyre being accused of playing political games. There was a poll that came out yesterday, we have this that overall, this was a cnn poll, 65 of americans say they dont want impeachment push. But 57 of Republican Voters say they do. Boehner is in such a tough position. When you stake out the meetings he has with House Republicans every week, hes always hearing from conservatives in the house that the president , because of what hes doing on the executive actions, deserves to be impeached. Not from a large majority of the conference, but from a vocal few. It influences what he feels he can do, what he feels his Political Capital is within the house. And so hes trying to assuage them in some ways by suing the president , but its never enough for the conservatives in the house. The question, will it hurt republicans in the philadelphia suburbs or the swing districts, where maybe a lawsuit can become as a white house hopes, connected to impeachment and become a political problem. Lynn, you wrote about this morning, also i think a lot of people were surprised that dan fifer and the white house, they see a politics of impeachment push would work in their favor the way it did for a Clinton White house in the 90s. But i think a lot of people are surprised theyre actively flirting with this. To set the scene, im at a reporters yesterday that the Christian Science monitor sponsors and fifir is talking about this and that and all of a sudden hes invoking sarah palin, who they usually ignore. Well you know she said something, weve got to take action. Shes talking about impeachment, chuck, weve got to take her, weve got it take it seriously. You figure, thats maybe a oneoff, maybe he was just going there, dan fifer is not a rogue here, he watches the rogues. A few hours later at the white house briefing,off earnest kept it going, impeachment procedure cannot just be done by anyone. It can only start in the house. It has to be with the blessings of house leaders. That would be john boehner. John boehner says he doesnt want to do it. I wonder so let me spit this out, its so remarkable at the briefing. In press, who are the republican leaders, hoe want this, meaning to me in the house, elected people, josh earnest says sarah palin. The white house wants to be quoting sarah palin. I wonder, chuck, theres so much talk. What sarah palin is channeling is a spirit of a big chunk of the Republican Base. Is there anything from John Boehners position, knowing how poisonous the prospect of impeachment is to republicans elect electorally. I think this is where the lawsuit was, he thought this lawsuit was going to calm everybody down. That he thought the lawsuit was going to be the replacement for impeachment. For all the impeachment chatter. Because it is, its a small group. But they are very vocal, they want to do this. He thought well maybe this will satisfy everybody. I wonder if it actually has had the reverse effect. It whetted the appetite. It whetted the appetite. The white house has been giddy about this from the very beginning. You can actually see it in the president himself. The president , think has been, you can see that the presidency is weighing on him, he seems down and out. And then the lawsuit happened. He enjoys events again. Hes like wanting this, so sue me. Theyre suing me because they dont want to do their job. House republicans cant get the border deal done. They cant get the veterans deal done, but they can get a lawsuit passed . I mean theyre walking on dangerous ground here this is a weird election cycle. This is not 2010. This is not 1994. I know were going to talk about it later. I think theyve got to be careful. And democrats smell blood. They see an opportunity to totally somehow rally the Democratic Base in a way that they havent been able to do. You have set it up, were going to talk about it in a bit and whether its no immigration, potentially nothing on the border. The state of d. C. 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As weve seen with immigration, maybe even the border, weve had divided government since the 2010 midterms, democratic white house, Republican House and almost nothing actually gets done these days. Charlie cook writing in the National Journal says in the new political order, nothing is more important than winning or holding a majority. Rationales of the other party is so wrongheaded, if not evil, if it were to prevail then the immediate future of the republic would be endangered. So anything that prevents the other party from capturing or holding majority is justified, even necessary. Now unexpectedly, the result is gridlock. So what are the sources and solutions for gridlock in our Nations Capital . I bring this up because i think we have three people here who have covered this, lived this sort of day to day. And its been sort of the story of the obama presidency. It was the first two years, democrats had big majorities in the house, big majorities in the senate. Probably the most Productive Congress, whatever you thought of it since the Great Society days. And since 2011, Republican House, democratic white house, really nothing happens. Is it as simple as its divided government and thats the reality or are there other things going on here . House republicans, i think there is a hesitancy in the house gop to engage with the president directly. They have complicated boehners political life by telling him hes not able toe go to the white house and cut deals or negotiate at all. Theyre very much into the idea of regular order, of processing bills through committee. Slowly taking things to the floor and that has thrown a wrench in the political process. Its cut boehner off from talking with the president. And i think thats one of the core problems at least on capitol hill. Is that something that you can go further down the line . Is that a republicproblem with Republican Base, has positioned itself at opposition to the obama ideas. Youre not with the tribe any more . The best example i like to use is tax reform. Its sort of what i think has happened here is the leadership on both, in both parties has too much power over committee chairman. And if so, lets go to 19851986, bob packwood, dan rostenkowski, democratic ways and means, they didnt need the leaderships blessings to do that. Leadership didnt cut them off at the knees. Two years ago max baucus, and republican dan camp, house ways and means, they wanted to do this and leadership cut them both off at the knees. Har ary reid sand no, and john boehner said no. So its not just that