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Haitians. either way, andrea, this is a political problem for the white house. this is not the first time they have dealt with racially tinged comments by this president. of course, one of the recent examples of that was in the wake of the charlottesville riots when white nationalists took to the streets, and of course it turned deadly in one instance. president trump in the wake of that said that, effectively drew a comparison between the white nationalists and the counter-protester. this is another instance of this which the white house is going to have to deal with. and from a policy perspe...

They need to get the spending bill by, and democrats, of course, have entangled the two issues daca and the spending bill, but the talk on capitol hill is they may be moving towards decoupling those two. what would democrats do to pushes this? would they push this to a government shutdown over their demands on daca? >> sunlen serfaty, thank you so much for that report. joining me is democratic congresswoman jiapal to talk about this, a member of the house judiciary committee. thank you so much for making the time as you talk to us from off the house floor. we appreciate it. >> great to be with...

Daca, it's about d.r.e.a.m.ers, something that 80% of the population, including in trump districts believe should get done and should not be tied to other things. so, you know, i know negotiations get tough, i know people want things to get done, but we are pushing back and saying look, this needs to be about d.r.e.a.m.ers. if we're going to have another conversation about family based immigration, that should go into the comprehensive immigration reform bucket and by the way, we have a plan, a bipartisan plan, that passed the u.s. senate with 67 bipartisan votes back in 2013 around comprehens...

Visa lottery. you said putting the other issues on the table is absurd, tell us why you think that? >> these issues are part of the larger conversation on comprehensive immigration reform. they were on the table when we were talking about legalization and a path to citizenship and the backlog and family immigration system which has been a central tenant of immigration policy in this country for families everywhere. now to add those two things to this discussion, is disingenuous and would lead to -- if you really were taking those issues up seriously, i think that would lead to this deal fallin...

Of this, joining us now from capitol hill. what are we expecting to hear from the speaker later this hour, sunlen? >> i expect that he will be asked and will provide some sort of update on the status of negotiations. we know there are several working groups up here on capitol hill going through, trying to put pen to paper on certain proposals that they want to put forward. the senate side, there is a working group of members that met late last night and came out and said that they believe that they're making progress, they're inching towards an actual proposal they can put forward but they're ...