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Say? >> most people in america, george, want us to solve the daca situation. >> john, i didn't hear that word either. i certainly didn't hear what senator durbin has said repeatedly. senator durbin has had a history of what happens in white house meetings, though. so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised by that. >> and asked last night about this outrageous response to donald trump's remarks, the president himself then pointed to senators cotton and perdue. >> did you see what various senators in the room said might be comments? no, no, i'm not a racist. i am the least racist person you have ever...

>> as one of my colleagues said it seems a lot of senators know a lot about jell-o but the reality is where we've been in this process is the president put forward his proposal over about 11 months ago, sending it to congress. general kelly went to congress to say here's how we need to solve daca. the daca situation has been unresolved for decades and obama took actions into his own hands with an unconstitutional solution to the problem. we asked congress to fix it and sent our priorities in october, a long list. we then sent a refined list a few weeks ago. we've been absolutely consistent in ...

That. joining me now is senator jeff flake of arizona he was one of the leaders in that meeting with the president. maybe he can tell us what happened of a the cameras left the room. senator flake, what a day? >> it was. it was. i never thought i would have a day when the president talked about bringing earmarks back and joe arpaio decided to get in the senate race. some days you have just got to stay in bed. >> you can't pull the covers over your head right now. let's get to the daca situation. i will be honest, a lot of us are are confused who have watched this, who have done reporting on th...

Happening. lauren: and paul ryan might be more inclined to deal with infrastructure. i want to ask you about immigration reform. do you see that president trump, this is one. things he campaigned on. do you see him saying to congress, here is the ultimatum. you want to deal with daca on the dreamers here raised in the united states you want to deal on them. fund my border wall, show the money. do you think he'll do that. >> the border wall and i don't think he'll ignore chain migration, that's become a massive problem in our country ap it's sort of a shady way to continue to import people who ...

Is towards is it? >> the president is conflicted because he doesn't like being seen as a racist. he doesn't like being seen as the guy that will kick these young people out of the country after living productive lives. he's put in office people who are strongly anti-immigrant. not anti-illegal immigrant, anti-immigrant. they want to cut illegal immigration in half. they have emotionalized views. whenever this issue comes up, he's very swayed by the people in his inner circle. unfortunately i would say this to my democratic friends, it's time they put down their foot as well funding the governm...