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and mary, senate republican leader mcconnell promising democrats they will tackle the dreamer issue. more than 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants brought here by their parents. but tonight, house speaker paul ryan making no such pledge with that march deadline approaching? reporter: and david, that s why the pressure is on to act. if no deal is reached by march 5th, those dreamers could face deportation. it s also why this is such a political gamble for democrats. they took a stand here, shutting down the government over dreamers, and it is unclear if they re ultimately going to get what they want. we re told schumer s message tonight to disappointed democrats you have to play the hand you re dealt. it is what it is. david? mary bruce leading us off again tonight. mary, thank you. we do have one more question on this, so, let s get right to our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl with us live tonight. jon, so much attention was paid to that meeting between presi ....
that s that this is a question of presidential leadership. at the end of the day, it will come down to the president of the united states being willing to lead in a big picture and in a more macro sense, make a decision what he can support and pull the trigger on it. here was lindsey graham in our conversation just a few minutes ago. what the house sent over is unacceptable to me. the cres can i the militar chs kill the military. i appreciate house colleagues but we need to get this done. we re inside the 10 yard line. we need a white house that can make a decision and stick to it. and andegreeia, lindsey graham has cultivated his relationship with the president and the attempted skill of talking to the president through the television. and i think there s a lot of message sending going on that look, the way out of this is for the president to live up to what he talks about as the tuesday version of the president from last week when he seemed to embrace willingness to deal ....
stories of democrats who worked with the russians in the 2016 campaign. president then turned his attention as i mentioned to attorney general jeff sessions. this is important when you consider that this is the individual recused from an ongoing probe of potential obstruction among things and donald trump saying it s too bad that sessions recused and then asked an intelligent question. the reporter asked donald trump to compare jeff sessions to the previous administration s attorney general eric holder under obama and donald trump said this. i don t want to get into loyalty but i will tell you that i will say this. holder protected president obama. totally protected him. when you look at the things that they did, and hold proer tekted the president. and i have great respect for that. i ll be honest. i have a little more on that in a moment. trump also asked here in this very newsy interview whether he would order the justice come to understand can be seen as a triangle with th ....
1980s. that s how fox reports this january 27, 2018. watters world starts right now. jesse: welcome to watters world. i m jesse watters. building a safe, proud, strong america, that s the message in president trump s state of the union address. deputy press secretary roz shaw joins me now. the white house is putting this on the table giving amnesty to 1.8 mill people and phasing in getting rid of the lottery and chain migration, how does that make sense? thanks for having me on. i think the president is showing leadership. he s presenting the proposal that democrats can wrap their arms around parts of it. he s trying to fiction the immigration system to provide border security. and ending the visa lottery program, and fixing our legal immigration system by ending extended family chain migration. it reaches across the aisle. jesse: people say the president ran on a strong border policy. one thing people are upset about is dreamers getting voting rights. a lot of people wh ....
reporter. she is the co-author of our exclusive nbc news report from just last night on robert mueller asking witnesses if trump knew with these hacked democratic e-mails before they were released. also back with us, jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. and we welcome back to the program, cynthia alneya, a federal prosecutor and a justice department veteran. welcome to you all. carol, about tonight s story, what is its central impact the your view? well, as you mentioned, this hacking and leaking strategically is the worst part. so this is significant in the sense we knew this was happening. but if mueller decides to move forward with an indictment, to me the key question is whether or not there are any americans that are tied to this. it s one thing for him to indict russians who will probably never be extradited and come over and stand trial in the united states. it s an entirely different ball game if there are americans named or unnamed should he d ....