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Problems. >> let's talk about the likelihood of getting the votes. in the bill, which includes the same four pillars that the president asks for in february, which fails to pass, the question is how is this bill you're proposing or two bills you're proposing than the bill that failed any different and does it prevent the separation of families? >> yes. goodlatte number 1, a bill i introduced along with the chairman of the homeland security committee, mike mccall and raul labrador, it's a strong enforcement bill that deals with the daca population. the new bill never got to 218 votes. so the ne...

It was a meeting that lasted an hour. i was there the whole time. >> bill: give us a sense of the conversation. what was said? >> the president is absolutely -- feels as strongly as possible we have to pass immigration bill. talking about a bill which i think is the one that will pass if anyone does. a consensus bill that provides funding for the wall, will take care of daca and end chain migration and go toward a merit-based system and have funding in there to allow for the families to be kept together when there is the situation rather than have the child taken from the families. families wo...

Compromise on immigration. the hot ticket items for the president include funding for border security, including the wall and curtailing legal entries. all of which his gop colleagues insist they've got covered. that consensus bill has not, i think -- we've been working with the white house on it, but i don't think it's been fully vetted with him yet, and it contained all of the things that he mentioned in that interview that were important to him, all the pillars. >> reporter: meanwhile, the department of homeland security released figures revealing almost 2,000 children were forced into sepa...

Capitol hill. >> he's using children, whether it's dreamers or children at the border now for political purpose. it's shameful. >> administration insiders say that by continuing to enforce the separation policy the president is playing long game, he hopes to force democrats' hands and increase chances of reaching a broader compromise on immigration. the hot-ticket items for the president includes funding for border security, including the wall and curtailing illegal entries all of which gop colleagues say they got covered. >> that consensus bill -- we have been working on the white house on it...

Defense and immediately clarified the remarks, insisting the president will sign onto one of the two republican-led bills, frustration is rampant on capitol hill. >> he's using children, whether they're dreamers or children at the border now for political purpose. it's shameful. >> administration insiders say, by continuing to enforce the separation policy, the president's playing a long game. he hopes to ultimately force the democrat's hand and increase chances of reaching a broader compromise on immigration. the hot ticket items for the president, including funding for border security, inclu...