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I miean, it was a key element w were pushing for. we weren't able to get it into the short-term c.r. i think the important thing is the leverage we think we have when it comes to an ultimate deal on the budget, and we're going to be coming back to that in january, we still have that leverage. i think we're still going to press to make sure that the daca situation is addressed. as you say, these are young people who came here, they didn't make the decision to come, but once they were here, they took advantage of the opportunity to work hard. many of them served their country. they shouldn't be ...

Congressional hispanic caucus we want today make sure they knew what our thoughts were. >> there has to be new legislation, new law passed to allow them to stay and have legal status here in the united states. i don't know about pathway to citizenship, but legal status. earlier in the week, mark short was here in "the situation room" with me and he flatly said that the white house, in his words, is committed to getting a resolution on the daca situation, he said they've been working on negotiations. he said they're anxious to complete them. is that encouraging to you? >> no, not at all. the wh...

Action on that too. it didn't happen it. all the threats we're not going to let the government be funded and go on. how do you face your constituents and say to them when you come up and say, why didn't you do enough to protect d.r.e.a.m.erss this year? how are you going to do it next year? >> that's a very fair question. you know, basically right now, i think that there are -- there's not enough attention being paid to this issue and mitch mcconnell the other day said he doesn't believe that daca situation is an emergency however if you are one of the d.r.e.a.m.eres a d.r.e.a.m.eres and facin...

Saying, we made a promise to susan collins, we will deliver. >> wolf, we have been and we will continue to do that. >> jeff flake, the republican senator from arizona, he says he supported the tax bill because he got a promise that the so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers, the children who were brought here illegally by their parents and have grown up here in the united states, the daca provision, as it's called, that they will be allowed 700,000, 800,000 to stay. is the president committed to jeff flake to make sure that the d.r.e.a.m.ers will be allowed to remain in the united states? >> we are committed...

Get a deal on health care, democrats and republicans working together, an interim deal and worry about repeal and replace next march or april. >> yeah, and yet he called them obstructionists and they're terrible politicians component for stopping his agenda. he wants to work with democrats and clearly, he opened the door to potentially doing some sort of fix for the health care markets and yet at the same time he's attacking democrats at the same time. so how do you do both? i'm not sure. i will say my takeaway from the press conference is that republicans will like this not only because he sa...