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Reach the threshold. as it currently stands the agreement does not meet the thresho thresholds. what happens now? they are trying to gain that support. i'll note that's ha heavy lift. not just because republicans are opposed to it in large part, depending which section of the conference you talk o but also democrats have problems with some of the democrat compromises in there. most importantly, and i cannot stress this enough, the key player here is the president. if the president gets behind something and says i want this to pass, republican leadership has said they will put that on the floor...

Asking to tie together with any daca solution. and we're asking for a democrat colleagues to get more reasonable and start negotiating with us in good faith. >> jon: some democrats have said it's daca and nothing else. no strings attached. you have got to pass daca. have you got to find a way to allow the dreamers to stay in this country. what do you say? >> it's not happening. first of all, they are trying to hold our budget negotiations hostage to this issue. and it's our military that is suffering the most. january 19th is when the government funding ends. and our military needs certainty a...

Entire issue has gotten so confused over the course of this afternoon. flake was the first person who said they had a deal and then lindsey graham was at the white house with some other members. came back and says this is not what the white house wants to do. the white house thinks this deal that they have struck in this bipartisan group cannot pass the house, primarily, and they are focused on another set of negotiations which are the number twos in the house and the senate. the minority whips basically. majority leader kevin mccarthy on the house side and john kelly, the white house chief of...

Type of plan. paul ryan, he says the vast majority of republicans want to see a daca solution. and that is a balance plan. speaking of a balanced plan. republicans and democrats are expected to work in a bipartisan fashion to accomplish a plan for daca. where will republicans hold off until march as mr. mcconnell keeps hinting around that the president is giving them a deadline until march? and what will that do for the dreamers? >> nothing like procrastination, right? you have a lot of republicans. democrats want a solution. and a lot of republicans, this is a very sympathetic group of people...

Daca resolution on part of the zero spending deal. did you have that discussion at the white house? >> you have to show up if you want to make your point. i don't think democrats are in a very good position to to be making demands if they're not going to participate in the negotiations to move legislation forward. do we have to have a daca solution, yes, we do. the deadline is march as far as i understand it. other deadlines in front of that like fiscal year deadlines an appropriation deadlines. but if they want to get to a solution they ought to come to the table and start talking. >> i'm not...