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Little too soon. >> democrats are pretty good at articulating values, but a little weak on defending them. >> mcconnell pledges to talk daca but right now the deal leaves nearly 800,000 dreamers in a living nightmare. >> we're not pieces on a chess board. we're human beings. >> and untangling the kushner web. good luck with that. an investigation brings reports of failing properties and new concerns over jared kushner's use of the white house for his own family business purposes. we begin this morning -- there's no surprise -- with mitch mcconnell's vow to somehow work out a bipartisan immigra...

Here's the question, what does he really want? what will he be definitive on? my white house colleagues and i have been trying to figure out. a path to citizenship, legal status. what does a permanent solution mean? peter a lexen der tried to get an answer to that. listen. >> be clear, legal status versus pathway to citizenship or does it not matter to the president? >> i think it's a negotiation process. we want a permanent solution for that program. we also want to keep a big priority for the administration, making sure we don't find ourselves having this same battle in two, three, four, fiv...

That's just been pushed to 3:30 this afternoon. we expect to see the president in one of the pool sprays later on today so we'll watch for that as well. >> i want to bring my panel in. shannon pettypiece, my dear friend with bloomberg news. tim o'brien, executive editor of bloomberg view. and shannon, to you first, republicans want to run a major victory lap. saying it's a clear win. i don't know it's a clear win. three weeks from now, mitch mcconnell has put himself in a position where he has to answer for daca. on the other side, you've got 9 million kids who now don't have to worry about he...

>> it's also true they could have won that without shutting down the government. that was on the table. that was the deal they walked away from to begin with. yes, this is the morning after, like, well, we got chip. but it was there already. i think democrats have lost leverage on this. it's not just there's some outside media relations. the people who are most angry about this are immigration activists in the democratic base. so this is not some kind of contrived outsider looking at democrats type of thing. they lost leverage in this deal. but there is some unacknowledged leverage that republ...

You have those among the president's own party begging for clarity from the president. the white house has insistently said it wants four things tied to this. it wants a fix for these dreamers. it wants something dealing with family-based migration, something dealing with the lottery system and something with border security. that is sort of where the beginning of the broad strokes outline is. of course the devil is always in the details. here's the bottom line. the president right now feels like he is winning. he feels like he's on top. we don't think we're going to see him since this afterno...