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And in a volcanic meeting at the white house, the same script played out with myself and the president yesterday. the president called me in the morning and asked that i come to the white house. and of course i accepted. we had an extensive and serious negotiation about every single outstanding issue. we came close to a tentative agreement on the budget, after i offered the pentagon's full budget request. on the thorniest issue of immigration, the president said many times he would take a deal that included daca in exchange for the wall. i put that deal on the table in the oval office in a sin...

Much -- there's normally animosity but there's just -- you can feel it, right? it's very palpable. does it help to give everyone a little breathing room for a month? >> i think time heals a lot of wounds and you would rather take the heat off of this. it feels like a month but it's been less than a week since donald trump had that immigration meeting in the white house. so sure, in theory, but i'd remind you, they had issues with daca -- this is not -- the border security funding versus daca protections fight is not one that suddenly became contentious because donald trump said what he said. t...

Daca. but that seems like a stretch when republicans have so much control. >> republicans do have control. they had hoped to have a deal where they could trade-off priorities the democrats would get the dream act fixed that they had been seeking. republicans would get some money for border security, if not everything the president wanted. it seems like a pretty straightforward deal in previous times. washington would have signed, sealed and delivered it and sent it to the president. in today's atmosphere that doesn't seem to be so easy. even the easy things are hard. so, we're facing the spend...

Really nothing to do with appropriations. they want the negotiations to be focused on raising defense budget caps. something they brought to the table and democrats want parody between defense and nondefense budget caps. main sticking point. a lot of democrats recognize if they don't tack on a daca protections to the spending bill, then they may be stuck in a protracted fight over things like the wall, over things like ending the diversity visa lottery program. things republicans really want to stick into a daca bill. democrats best strategy for avoiding that kind of fight is get it in the spe...

Daca by the deadline the president has set? >> i don't know, victor. i think it's important for him to deliver what so many americans wanted that is a separation between two countries that stops or substantially reduces the amount of folks coming into the country. a lot of countries people do that with their front door when they lock it. so, this is part of his deal. look, you got to give me the wall or i'm not going to play ball. i think that's fair because he got elected on one of the premises he made to the american people. >> and the prospect to the world is very unpopular. mr. mayor -- mi...