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Broke bread with the president, a later lunch, if you will. let's bring in victoria, msnbc contributor also there in austin, texas, for us. victoria, let's start with that issue of the wall and what he discussed about daca recipients, those as well as related to tps and he said obviously both sides want to have a solution for both of those, but he did offer this. that with $5 billion, what you do get is a temporary work permits for daca recipients, right? and number two, they're going to do something about tps. what's your take of what he mentioned? >> forirst of all, it feels lik almost where...

That the rebuilding should come from the region. we'll see what happens here in the next few weeks, but i feel better about syria than i felt before i had lunch. i think the president's taking this really seriously and the trip to iraq was well timed. thanks. >> senator lindsey graham at the white house just finishing his lunch as we have been telling you through this afternoon. now it appears heading back in after his meeting and potentially heading home on this sunday. but it was much awaited to see what was going to happen, what were they going to discuss in their lunch meeting on this sund...

This before? >> of course we're seen quarrels like this before. let me put this in the bigger picture. it's not about $6 billion for a wall. it's not even about illegal immigration. it's a much bigger conundrum. it's all about immigration per se and fundamentally different world views. donald trump is not a conservative. donald trump is a reactionary who wants to turn back the clock to the immigration restrictionism of the 1920s. back then the targets for restriction were jews and catholics. today donald trump's targets are primarily muslims and keeping people out from latin america as well. b...

Forced to take unpaid leave, that would be the day they miss their first paycheck, except for members of the u.s. coast guard. because you have the coast guard announcing they worked out a deal with the trump administration to get those folks paid. president trump is actually tweeting about it. he says great work by my administration over the holidays to save coast guard pay during this what he calls a #schumershutdown. no thanks to the democrats who left town and are not concerned about the safety and security of americans. you can imagine democrats will take issue with the second part of tha...

What are they really fighting for? when i hear lindsey graham talk about slash, slash, slash, what are we actually going to be getting and i don't think that's been very clear. i think that say messaging problem coming from the communications department within the white house because they are not clear on what exactly they want. this whole build a wall is a complain slogan that's not really reality. i'm not sure they need to keep calling this a wall. i think they need to be honest with the american people because it hasn't been vetted, which is why there's so much confusion. >> there's a lot o...