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People who otherwise will be really subjected to a pretty bad fate. >> susan, this whole business, i know you have seen it of some apparent trump supporters burning their maga caps here. is there a bigger matter? is the president selling out his supporters and many republicans? if so, what's the fallout of that? >> no, i think that was an attention getting thing for some people to do, and yes, it played for the cameras very nicely, but the fact is this is what we call an 80/20 issue. 80% of the public, the majority of republicans and democrats, support daca and doing something about it. as far...

We'll see. the other 60% of the country i'm curious about. those off limits in the approval questions. does cutting a deal with democrats on an 80/20 issue actually get him in there? >> it does with some of those people. we don't want to overread this. a lot of people just wanted as outsider who would get stuff done. if he starts putting points on the board, he will reap some rewards with independents. and even maybe some democrats who had voted for obama and then voted for trump. so, you know, democrats have to understand, and we're living in a world of amnesia. nothing really does seem to pe...

A like what he's saying. he's holding on to that. on this particular issue, not suggesting the whole agenda will go this way, but on the dreamers. it's an 80/20 issue. ma jompty of republicans are for this. majority of democrats. something he can do. the big question you mentioned to your previous guest, will this be a path to citizenship or a way of becoming legal in the country? i think it will be the latter. >> ask you about that, jonathan. if nancy pelosi looks at this and donald trump draw as line in the sand saying there can't be a path to citizenship. legal status, fine. permanent resid...

800,000 young people who came to this country when they were 2 months old 2, years old, would be thrown into a country they didn't know. through no fault of their own, deported. that's not going to happen now in this country. and i think we all understand that now. because it's an 80/20 issue and the president understands that he's going into a buzz saw, not of his base, but of the whole country if he moved forward with deporting these dreamers. one way or another, those young people are going to remain in the united states, and that's a good thing we should be thankful for. >> and the other t...

Something else that is making headlines for democrats which is the idea of a single payer health care plan, the one that bernie sanders is pushing. last year you came out against it, the your state that ended up getting voted down. do you support, in congress, do you support bernie sanders medicare for all legislation? >> well, you know, in colorado the single payer initiative got voted down by -- almost 80/20, didn't go well. wasn't popular. you know, i look at it, we've got to figure out how we get to universal coverage. >> a lot of people think single payer is how you get there. >> reporter...