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Push is on capitol hill to get a deal, to get this all sorted out, to get the budget caps on military spending lifted. theresident here though, also is going to be briefed on another very important item, the nuclear posture review. this is a classified study being prepared for him at his orders, about the future of nuclear weapons. what is needed, what the rules will be about employment of weapons. a lot of concern that this review could recommend new smaller nuclear weapons, that it could begin to set the path for mr. trump or any future president to find it easier to use nuclear weapons. in ...

Issue of immigration, the president talked about one of these key sweeteners, which is chip for six more years, the president said that chip should be part of a long-term solution not a 30-day or short-term extension. the president wasn't entirely clear that this was in fact a longer term solution for chip more broadly. that is a statement the white house has posted to try to clarify the president's position here, the white house previously said the president liked the cr, politico posting that the president according to one of the press secretaries, rob shaw, that the president supports the r...

Border security for me and it wasn't -- didn't satisfy the president's demands. the daca discussion has really hijacked everything else, including the negotiation over budget caps, funding the military, children's health insurance, and other important programs. >> reporter: so to that degree, john cornyn is right, the daca discussion has become the driving factor here. democrats don't want to continue to kick the can until they feel like they could get a deal and get something they could work with. that puts pressure on the two separate groups trying to negotiate some kind of bipartisan deal h...

There are people who are very concerned and scared. congressional leaders who are very fearful that friday comes and there could be a government shutdown. and this president talks about this great economy. the economy will shift if this happens. i mean, hundreds of thousands of people could be furloughed for a while. so you not only have immigration situation that's looming, you have a government shutdown. and there are five issues, not just daca, up in the air. it's the budget caps. it's also disaster relief, and c.h.i.p. and daca. so there are a lot of things up in the air, and they cannot s...

Possible in the congress to move forward. it's absolutely essential that congress step up, pass a spending bill to rebuild our military at the level that president trump has been driving. look, we have many challenges across the world. i'll be travelling to the middle east in the coming weeks. i'll be traveling to the olympics in south korea next month. now is the time as we started last year to make a historic investment in our military and president trump is absolutely committed to reaching a bipartisan agreement to pass that spending bill. even while we work through these other issue. >> ma...