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Compassionate solution to the daca situation. he wants to give them certainty. but any daca solution has got to include border security, to include a wall. steve: right. >> end of chain migration and an end to this diversity lottery. he has been very clear about that from the beginning. steve: right. he has been very clear about it, senator, and yet durbin and flake and graham brought this proposal to him last thursday and part of that stuff was there but the rest of it wasn't and he said are you guys kidding? this isn't what i want. get out of here. >> well, that's exactly right. this preside...

Level playing field vehicle. it was a more explicit commitment. and that is what i think made the difference. this is not a small deal. people are saying, i heard one of your reporters saying we can't guarantee what the house is going to do. you can't. that is not how this place works. the best thing we can do in terms of the house is get a bill that passes by 60 or 60 votes and then we have the president's attention and the house's attention and that is what we are trying to do. i was in a bipartisan meeting with a dozen senators on both sides starting to work on the border security issue. th...

Path forward protection. what does that mean? are you asking to make d.r.e.a.m.ers citizens? >> we have a bipartisan agreement that has been reached by senator graham and durbin with enough support to pass the united states senate. we believe also the house of representatives. it does provide protection for d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> pathway to citizenship. what else, senator? >> well, we believe republicans will support that. what they want is something in exchange for that. the real hangup has been border security. over the last week we were able to make progress on the border security issue. we have...

A lot of subparts to the border security issue. you've got daca, the d.r.e.a.m.ers, the bigger problem of -- >> congressman, yes or no, is that a problem that you don't know where the president stands on the wall? >> absolutely. >> this is a concern, i'm sure, to you and your constituents. >> absolutely that's a concern that the white house might take one position today and one position tomorrow. i'm sure in time we'll see a coalescing on shalls that will serve the united states of america. unfortunately we've not had that consistency of message on a variety of public issues that i think behoo...

Thinking. thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you, chris. >> all right. so it is good that something's happening in washington, d.c. that gives us some type of window into action for friday. but why go with one month again, february 16th being this funding date? why kick the can down the road? >> well, i know everyone in america asks the same questions, but we need 60 votes if the senate, chris. there's still a filibuster, and we still have to do something on daca/d.r.e.a.m.ers, the 800,000 young adults now who were brought into this country as young children. you know, they've been h...