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These negotiations. you didn't have the moderates really involved in the crafting of that more conservative bill last week, so you would think this bill which had been negotiated ostensibly in good faith between all these factions of the republican party would do better. as it appears right now, that will not be the case. >> not even close. >> it is performing substantially worse. chris, really this is going to be -- i don't want to make too see how there would be t it is another broad immigration bill again certainly before mid-terms. just seems extraordinarily unlikely. terrible outcome in t...

Oh. garrett haake. he's there. garrett, how's it looking? not anything we're surprised by at this point, i assume? >> reporter: no. the only surprise, the only sur now appears to be the margin. but the vote is ongoing so it is a fluid issue. there are already 259 no votes which means it will do worse than the more conservative bill that was voted on last week. remember the operating theory here was that the conservative bill would give the chance for hardliners to get on the record about something they wanted to see done. then there was this more moderate bill negotiated between the conservati...

Compromise bill included really the most money we've seen yet set aside for the wall. $25 million up front. what doomed this bill ultimately was it did include a pathway to citizenship for d.r.e.a.m.ers. what we saw in the final tally was republicans abandoning the bill that they had compromised upon in droves. this bill only got 121 votes from republicans despite the fact that it had been this product of intense negotiations over the last couplf weeks to try to find a goldilocks spot, something that would appeal to the different factions of the republican party. this bill couldn't do it. in f...

Damage has president trump, stop wasting your time tweet, done to the chances for passage? >> i would urge the president to continue to support the four pillars idea. that's my border security bill. going to a merit-based system and provided for a rational daca fix. the more conservative bill got rejected but i did talk to the white house yesterday. they said the president is the 100 percent behind this. moving forward, when you look at these kids down there. this is not the first time this has happened. this happened in 2014 as well. congress needs to act close the legal loopholes that incent...

Republicans control the house. it was republicans who failed to pass the more conservative bill this week. it's republicans who could cash your bill next week without a single democratic vote. you could lose 20 republican votes and still pass the bill. for all the presidents talk about democrats, if you fail to pass the bill, isn't that on republicans? >> the fact is every democrat voted against the bill, a rational daca fix. they've been talking about daca for a year now we had a bill on the floor that would resolve this issue. legalize the daca kids and every one of them voted against that. ...