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A myriad of different structures along that wall we expect to be secure to make sure america is safe. >> that is not -- that is not what the boss said during the campaign and not several times as president. >> this is a repeat of the decade ago. bush talking about wall by wall. i covered immigration back then. so much so familiar sounding. yeah. look. the republican party leaders were never on board with the wall. mitchell mcconnell snickered when you think mexico is paying for it. not like a leverage point with the gop, right? when you talk about where will the party push back a real question...

Whole world. according to the "washington post" president trump has a gentlemen's agreement to chuck schumer to take the debt ceiling vote out of the hands of congress. you used to be, as we talk about often, a tea party fiscal conservative congress. do you support that taking that out of the reins of congress? >> i was in the meeting with senator schumer. he'll be back again tonight at dinner and i'll participate in that as well. what the president told me after the meeting, pulled me aside, said how do we depoliticize this, stop letting this get in the way of proper management. this is a b...

On the back burner now that the president is ready for congress to focus on other issues like tax reform? >> again. i wasn't there but it wouldn't surprise me if the priorities were what are we doing in houston? what are we getting ready to do in florida to help these folks and then when do we get tax reform? it wouldn't surprise me if that dominated the discussion last night. steve: i know when he, the president and the leaders agreed on the three month deal what they were doing is they were extending the debt limit by three months. funding the government and the hurricane relief as well. the...

But on so many issues, on health care, on the debt ceiling, they just aren't really in touch with reality at this point, which in a funny way makes their own lives really difficult. >> and, adam, we know now that chuck schumer and nancy pelosi will be under tremendous pressure from their democratic colleagues to load up the next debt ceiling 90 days from now with democratic party agenda items, including a d.r.e.a.m. act. >> that's right. one of the ways in which trump really screwed over republican leaders is by setting up what will probably be a much more difficult showdown for republicans in...

Legislative agenda plans that the congressional republicans have. >> lawrence, winston churchill used to tell a story about a negotiation within the british government around the time of world war i. the admiralty wanted to fund four battleships. sorry, the treasury wanted to fund four battleships. the admiralty wanted six battleships. so churchill said, we compromised on eight battleships. that's the sort of deal that we got done today. this is not surprising. mr. trump has no intellectual ballast in the form of traditional republican beliefs. he is to apply a phrase, all sail and no anchor. ...