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Address daca, fund children's health, and take care of disaster aid? over the last several months, democrats have bent over backward to negotiate with the white house. unfortunately, the president and republican leaders in congress are like abbott and costello. the congressional leaders tell me to negotiate with president trump. president trump tells me to figure it out with republican leaders. let me talk a little bit about what transpired in negotiations. first, a little history. last year, when president trump ended the daca program, we immediately began working on a solution that both side...

With what they're looking for. another piece of this that i think is really important for folks to remember is that there's probably not an issue that separates the democrat base from the republican base in such a dramatic way as the issue of immigration. i remember in 2013, when i covered the gang of eight bipartisan efforts to do comprehensive immigration reform, there were massive, massive marches and protests that tea parties and conservative leaders had. folks at those events said they thought gang of eight would be just as bad as obamacare. the conservative republican base believes daca ...

However, i do think in this case, since it's the first time in 40 years that there's been a government shutdown with one party owning all three branches of government, that may change. but for the general public, the psyche is that the democrats are the party of government, and we need to keep that in mind. >> stephanie, you had senate minority leader chuck schumer saying he thought he had secured concessions on daca and the border wall with the president. what changed, and is this more about politics than about policy? >> you know what, there's no reason they should have tried to ta attach da...

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