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>> here's how the democrats could be telling the story a little better. one, they were given the promise in december when many of them supported the cr that daca would be fixed. we're talking about 800,000 people who are not citizens but law-abiding. they came in innocently as children and they see it as an opportunity for leverage to fix the problem. one that trump promised he would fix. well, there's disapproval for republicans, say, back in 2013. it was short-lived. typically, this approval for the shutdowns doesn't last that long. so i think the democrats are making a calculation that this...

Moments. they're making a tricky calculation but they also recognize that daca and doing something for daca recipient is central to the tenets of who the party is and this may be the last opportunity to do it for quite some time. they don't have a lot of power otherwise. >> a point you made earlier, the politics of this. i said aren't you worried that the repercussions? if this is a bad calculation for democrats? it will change next week and the week after that. and all the more so in this trump era with the news cycles. >> right. there's less risk but there is some risk. they've pretty succes...

Last decade or so, when i've been here, have been incredibly low rent, i will stipulate to that. what we should be doing is having a negotiation together that actually benefits the american people rather than not. and i hope we're able to do. that one of the realities here that we all have to confront is that we have absolutely no idea what this white house is going to do. the reason we're in this situation we're in today is that the president in september stripped the d.r.e.a.m.ers of the status that they had. and now he set a deadline for march 5. and there isn't anybody in this building, in...

Either the president or his party. 10% say a pox on all their houses. everyone is responsibilitiful are democrats playing their hand into this funding bill? most americans the believe avoiding a shutdown is more important than passing a bill to fix daca. that's the deferred action that allows those brought to the u.s. illegally as minors can stay. another issue is funding chip. most say this is extremely or very important. overall the public is frustrated and it shows, the new cnn poll shows congress' approval rating is down to just 18%. the first time this congress is under 20% approval. desp...

Faith bipartisan negotiations. that's what civil people do. that's what we should be doing and that is what we have done here in the house. >> bill: i take it that's the headline from our conversation today. you are saying you can get a deal done on border security and daca. but we are 72 hours removed from the white house blowup. is dick durbin -- that thing that went round and round. is that history now? >> yes, guess what. people have been talking since that meeting in negotiations how to fix daca. you have the house majority leader, the house minority whip, you have the senate majority whi...