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Very quickly if you can, a lot of democrats on this issue the past couple days always bring up the fact that democrats offered the president $25 billion in border security spending including $18 billion for walls or fences but rejected it because it's and go far enough in terms of limiting family-based immigration and ending the diversity visa program, do you think that was a mistake or the right thing for the president to do? >> that was absolutely the right thing to do so he needs to stand by that. >> thank you for joining us, appreciate it. your insight is invaluable for sure. 20 minutes un...

Extension for daca in exchange for the border wall and border security spending. >> i would probably favor a short term solution, three years for three years funding. >> i just had a meeting with a variety of senators, they seemed surprised by some of the offers were rejected out of hand. >> there are lots of opportunities for us to help the daca kids. right now, the president as he did a few weeks ago, was standing in the way. >> bret: but is it fair to say that because the president says it's the democrats who don't want to take this deal. they wanted as an election issue. >> they do want it...

It's the immigrant's story. and we all know it. it's part of our lives. and betraying that fundamental american value is something that we cannot tolerate. >> look. i hear you. and there's no question it's been grossly exaggerated as chain migration. and this idea that it goes on forever is demonstrably false. the backlog of spousal and child documentation cases proves that. but this is about politics. what i don't understand is if it's such an impassioned principle, why are you adding anything to it? why don't the democrats just stand on doing daca and fixing the situation? and adding nothing...

Welcome back to "the lead." turning back to politics. president trump's newly released 2018 budget proposal will bolster defense and military and border security spending, but other dramatic cuts to social safety net programs could hurt a large number of americans, including a large number of trump's base supporters, white working class voters. renee marsh joins me now. what impact might trump's budget plan have on the very people who voted to him? >> we took a closer look to the programs that are slated to be reduced or eliminated all together, and there is no question these cuts will sting p...

Today is we saw president donald trump's frustrations in some ways saying that the president was unhappy and baffled that the democrats were taking a victory lap here, trying to claim that the budget deal was better for them than the white house and that's why you saw homeland security secretary john kelly making the case here that the administration is going to be improving border security, touting the fact that they got the biggest increase in border security spending bringing totals to higher than in the past decade and they'll be able to start fixing parts of theist examining border wall a...