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>> or a shutdown? >> right they're moving beyond him and working around that essentially, assuming he's going to sign whatever they send him, if it doesn't involve immigration and funds the government and deals with the debt ceiling, does all these other great things they want to do, i'm sure he will. >> speaking of immigration, the present chief of staff with some kind of shocking comments about people who qualify would qualify to be dreamers but didn't sign up. listen -- >> there are 690,000 official daca registrants, and the president sent over what amounts to be 2.5 times that number, to 1...

Listen to this moment. >> the difference between 690 and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say they were too lazy to get off their asses, but they didn't sign up. >> what did you think of those comments? >> i wasn't too happy. he said people would say. he didn't say he said it. >> but what's the difference, congressman? to insert that into the conversation that some of the recipients would be too lazy to get off their asses. what's the point of putting that in? >> you'd have to ask general kelly. what i want to focus on is the effort to co...

Parties announced they are close to a sweeping two-year budget deal to avoid the recurring shutdown drama. >> i'm optimistic that very soon we'll be able to reach an agreement. >> i am very hopeful that we can come to an agreement. >> reporter: the white house today doing damage control. >> we are not advocating for the shutdown. i don't think that we expect the budget deal to include specifics on the immigration reform. >> reporter: the shutdown, not the only looming deadline. in less than a month, protections begin to expeer fir the dre expire for the dreamers, those undocumented immigrants ...

Safety, unrelated but still related, they don't want to take care of our military, shut it down. we'll go with another shutdown. >> the president's threats come on the same day white house chief of staff and former general john kelly also weighed in on immigration policy. kelly praised trump for his offer to reinstate daca. here's how he described undocumented immigrants who are eligible for the program but who for whatever reason did not sign up. >> there are 690,000 official daca registrants, and the president sent over what amounts to be 2 1/2 times that number to 1.8 million. the differenc...

>> there are 690,000 official daca registrants and the president sent over what amounts to be two and a halftimes that number, to 1.8 million. the difference between 690 and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say were too lazy to get off their asses but they didn't sign up. >> so, setting aside the spending discussion, the breaking news that's developing right now on the hill avoiding a shutdown when we talk about the immigration pieces, do comments like that help or hurt the debate? >> they're not helping with sympathizers of dreamers, dem...