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White house? spelling can you imagine that crowd right now whispering and texting each other, what is this going to be like? i would love to be on the fly in the wall on that meeting. >> the swamp is alive and well. >> dana: nothing says drain the swamp like bring back earmarks, but later in the program we have a few guests here to talk about that. bret baier, i could not think of a better guest to have on today. thank you so much. for more on that extraordinary moment in the white house today. >> we should do it. i am there with you, because this system really lends itself to not getting alon...

Comprehensive immigration reformulater. work barrel politics, it's good, bring back earmarks. an extraordinary get together today, president trump and law makers from both parties in a rare cabinet room on-camera session. sarah sanders called the talks very successful. today's meeting with the bipartisan group of nearly two dozen lawmakers lasted close to an hour and covered a range of immigration issues, specifically border security, chain migration, visa lottery program, and the dreamers. president trump today called on lawmakers to put country before party. >> president trump: i feel having...

That we were here in d.c., and over the weekends a lot. it was -- that was tough to negotiate. we're not going to be very far down the comprehensive road when we finish daca but it will be a start. that's a good thing. >> the president also floated the idea of bringing back earmarks, pork barrel projects to help control members of congress, help cajole them and get them on board. the conservative group club for growth said about that idea, quote, bringing back the earmarks is the antithesis of draining the swamp. it will only grow the government at the expense of working men and women. what's ...

That is one way to do it. >> we covered the white house a long time. this was unusual. >> we covered the white house and i stayed on in the george w. bush days. you have democrats and republicans sitting around a table having conversations they haven't had in a sustained way in years. they do it when they get up to the deadline on the spending issues. patty goes into the room and do an urgent thing at the last minute, but if this is the beginning, the president responding to the criticism and the michael wolffpresident. a president putting the pressure points on both parties rk, tell the repub...

Deal to allow the d.r.e.a.m.ers to stay, work out what border security means, work out what the chain migration might mean as far as a short-term deal, the lottery, maybe kick that down to comprehensive immigration reform, but after possibly leading to a pathway to citizenship. >> he is willing to consider the comprehensive immigration reform after this. but the deal now would call for an end to chain migration. >> the president has promised to drain the swamp, that language during the campaign. but all of a sudden today he was saying maybe it's a good idea to bring back the earmarks. bring ba...