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Live inside that room in washington >> sandra: another big story this morning the senate expected to open the debate on the gop's latest immigration proposal allowing a path for citizenship for 1.8 million dreamers and funding for the border wall. republicans claiming this offer as the best chance to pass in the senate. the president weighing in on twitter this morning saying negotiations on daca have begun. republicans want to make a deal. democrats say they want to make a deal. wouldn't it be great if we could finally after so many years solve the daca puzzle? this will be our last chance. t...

Trying to bring people in and get down to the fine print. we'll see what comes out. he is not promising to do that. >> he wants more funding for border protection. he would compromise whether it's a total wall across the entire border or whether there are different measures of security but he is clear he wants to have border security as part of any compromise. >> jon: you mention nancy pelosi the house minority leader who held the house filibuster if there were such a thing speaking for eight hours about the daca situation. she is also criticizing paul ryan when it comes to protecting the drea...

Domestic spending they want and the funding to help with disaster relief. a lot of money being put if play. >> jon: people on both sides are unhappy about this budget as well, which might also be a sign of bipartisanship. >> on the democrat side many are still upset that daca was not pressured into this, right? they wanted to use the leverage they thought they had and now by the way, that leverage has gone for two years if you talk about a government shutdown in theory. on the republican side, there was a number of people not just rand paul but many in the house as well concerned this marks th...

Recently with the republicans in our retreat with general mattis and secretary of state rex tillerson about the importance of predictability and funding for defense. my son is an active duty marine officer, who has described to me how devastating this is for our military and how much it puts our security at risk. i wish chuck schumer would recognize that as a fellow new yorker. >> as we look at what happened on funding, we know this is obviously intertwined when it comes to integration. i know you have gone -- >> actually it is not. there is really no -- immigration has nothing to do with this...

To manipulate election results yet, but that may be the next thing they try. >> yeah. let's switch gears here and talk about immigration reform. we have this march deadline approaching with daca. you hear from the president that they want to get daca figured out, they want to get immigration reform figured out. but we also know with daca comes the attachment to the border wall funding, which a lot of democrats obviously are not on board with. do you think we're going to see a fix on this? >> well, the fix that seems to be available is a fairley narrow one in which he gets some border security ...