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Early in march. >> let me ask you, if i can, about what the chief of staff, the president's chief of staff, john kelly said today about the discrepancy between that number, 690,000, which is the number of official daca recipients, and the 1.8 million dreamers that the president has now offered to accept. here's how the chief of staff characterized it. >> 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 [ bleep ], but they didn't sign up. >> should the white house be characterizing those wh...

Sound so that people can judge for themselves. >> the difference between 690 and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others were too lazy to get off their asses but they didn't sign up. >> nick. >> it's incredibly kind of loaded words he used, to say people were lazy. you have to ask yourself, if you were in the country illegally and someone gives you a chance to sign up and avoid deportation and you don't do it, can you really imagine that the failure to do so is out of laziness as opposed to fear. which he also said, by the way, in his comments, it see...

Guessing -- do we have said owe of that. i'm going to play it here. the chief of staff in a defense about those that signed up for daca and those that didn't. >> the difference between 690 and 1.8 million, were people that that come would say were too scared, and some that were 2000 l too lazy. >> he actually cares, but he is not politically correct. i don't agree with that statement -- >> the people that didn't sign up for daca would you say were concerned about giving the government their information. >> i think some people just didn't pay attention to it or do it. i have a problem with the ...

Talking to reporters, and frank thorpe, our senate producer, was there, and has recounted what happened. because he was talking about all the compromises that are floating around there from both the white house and members and senators. and he suggested, first of all, that the president should not have suggested a path to citizenship. he said we were asked for the president's perspective on taking care of the daca issue and he sent over what has been his four pillars. i think the first part of that, which was stunning, and no one expected it, was there were 650,000 official daca residents and ...

Sign up, here is what john kelly had to say. >> the difference between 690 and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say are too lazy to get off their [ bleep ] -- >> that sort of stuff doesn't get us to a solution. >> that language doesn't help. i don't think he was expressing he feels that way, but why say that when we know that a lot of young people that did come forward it took a lot of courage. they said you might be signing a deportation order, so i understand why some others decided not to come forward and not sign their names and becom...