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One step at a time. we'll see what resolution the leader in the senate puts forth. >> are you surprised that the president backed what you guys were asking for against what his republican leaders were advocating for? >> i wasn't really that kind of a dynamic. i think we all have the same goals to come to, agreement at some point in the next few months, and we need some time. can't just do things overnight, even though we have the urgency of harvey and we need to do that overnight. but we have a lot of other issues to deal with. >> republicans seem to be concerned that you guys are going to try...

Leadership. i think you're here with me and i want to get your highlights from what you heard with paul ryan. >> you hit on a few of them here. i think importantly he did signal that this daca fix, whatever happens, is going to be connected somehow to border security. so, the devil, like it always is, is going to be in the details here and whether or not democrats are going to be able to get to a point where they feel like they're not giving up too much. there are a lot of democrats who are happy, frankly, to spend more money and time and effort on border security. so, i don't think that's an ...

Sorts of internal political problems, they especially couldn't work with him on the immigration issue. here you have the biggest immigration hawk there is theoretically in president trump, who although the human element aside here, the politics of this is interesting because by saying he's going to give, if this is what he does, six months for congress to do something about this before he implements the roll back, what he's theoretically sighing is i'll sign a big. so if you have the biggest immigration hawk in town saying he'll sign a bill, does that give republicans more room to maneuver int...

$25 billion for border wall. cuts to legal immigration, by the way. also restricting those asylum seekers and a path to alw ca recients to stay here in the country. as you pointed out on capitol hill they want to get something in place and get it to the ident's to end the crisis. >> they're both similar since they have border security bill of $25 billion of funding for the president's wall. it has the four pillars we talked about and that also visa lottery elimination, chain migration and a daca fix. unfortunately no democrats supporting this. >> mike mccaul. more on that later today when we h...

Relief, disaster relief funding. that's the point at which you can force them to do a year's funding ball. all of the leaders, congressional leaders of both parties met with the president and with the treasury secretary. the treasury secretary was talking about, let's do full funding and the president said, i'm gonna go with chuck and nancy. it's always used as a point of leverage. it's always a question of who needs it more and who has the advantage over the other side. at this point it is so stuck. republicans really want to fund the pentagon, democrats are under tremendous pressure from the...