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Sense for democrats to try and bring us to a shutdown. >> reporter: so as you could see, playing the blame game there. saying it is democrats who want this and we still want to do it down the line but the question is whether the trust is there. as you know, trust in washington, not ata super high level right now. >> let me ask you a question that a number of people have been asking. with democrats in the control of the house and senate, what is the rational for being able to blame democrats if there is a shutdown? >> reporter: essentially that they are taking a stand that is unrelated and you ...

Immigration reform battle with some republicans now urging lawmakers to stay focused on what is really important protecting the so-called dreamers and not allow themselves to be distracted by the president's reported disparaging comments. >> what i heard i didn't like. i want to focus on what comes next. what comes next is a bipartisan proposal that will pass on a daca solution and hopefully -- [inaudible] >> i think this is a president who would like to solve the daca issue. this is a president who i believe wants to secure the borders of the united states. this is a president who has said th...

Elimination of the diversity lottery system. two things in exchange for a permanent daca solution could easily be negotiated. eric: what about chain migration. critical after one of the terrorist acts allegedly was not just diversity lottery system they said in the other suspect chain migration. >> chain migration is a misnomer right now limited to parents and children and brothers and sisters of u.s. citizens, lawful permanent residents. >> is matching? >> well, you can be limited as i said in 2010 there was an agreement in the senate to limit it and eliminate brothers and sisters from being ...

Republicans open and democrats willing to come together to figure this out. recognizes heavy lift. while as senator jeff flake said only game in town, i've had both in-house and senate over the course of the last couple of days they don't have any desire to touch this proposal whenever it comes out because they feel it moves too far away from where republicans are on that issue. that is significant problem. that's why the behind the scenes work once they have agreement they need to conduct becomes extremely important. i'll say, though, and this matters a lot right now, people are casting about...

Centers. funding to stabilize the health care market as well as solving this issue for daca kids. so those are the priorities of the democrat caucus. they continue to be. >> so would your party be willing to shut down the government over this issue as it is a priority? >> i can't speak for the democrat caucus. what i'll tell you. >> speak for yourself as a democrat. >> exactly. what i'm saying is i'm not comfortable voting for a continuing resolution nunless w address these issues. that's what i've committed to do. we have a solution, let's do this, we have eight days, let's start. let's get t...