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The president's playing a long game. he hopes to ultimately democrat's hand and increase the chances of reaching a broader compromise on immigration. he wants 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 contains all of the things that he mentioned in that interview that were important to him, all of the pillars. >> reporter: the department of homeland sec...

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...

Now for the nation. >> huge issue. joining us from washington, capitol reporter molly hooper. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> let's talk about this vote. house republicans planning to vote on this pair of immigration bills. we'll have to wait and see where that goes. there is the broader immigration debate involving dreamers. then there's this issue of separating children from their parents which has really become the hot button issue as of late over the last month or so and especially thanks to our own nbc's reporter to got into one of these detention centers. help us make sense of al...

It is important in my view that as much as we can get started right away, jump start the negotiations and produce a consensus bill that can get 60 votes in the senate but also pass the house and get signed into law by the president. >> neil: something seems to be falling apart. chuck schumer has already revoked a deal for funding for the border wall. something that he signed up with the president and had offered. what do you make of that? >> first off, it's hard to offer something that's been rejected three times. the white house -- what schumer offered them was an authorization. a authorizati...

So the offered he made was a symbolic one but meaningless in terms of addressing the issue. >> neil: sounds like there's still bad blood. >> i hope that changes. they should have learned a lesson. this attempt to shut down the government was a response to pressure from the become. but there's a lot of democratic senators that didn't want to go along with that. there's a broad consensus that we need to address daca, that we need to do more on border security and i'm hopeful that not withstanding where their leadership may be in the senate, there's a number of senate democrats that would be will...