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Best bipartisan agreement the president will also support. the plan on immigration, president trump says he would support, would provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants under daca but also $25 billion for border wall, hardline enforcement and substantial cuts to legal immigration. lawmakers admit it's a bit of an uphill climb to try to find a plan that at least 60 senators will support. >> seems to me the consensus is to have big border security and big daca, that the president will get his border security money and we'll do a 1.8 million pathway forward to break the chain, we're going...

>> again, i would push back a little bit because these were children that were brought here. no fault of their own and the 1.8 million is an approximate number. we know that there are daca-eligible young men and women out there that did not come forward and register, so to make sure all of them are included, if they would like to participate in a pathway forward, then they would need to come forward. the large number, while it may seem large to some, we are thinking at least it's all inclusive. and we won't have to go back and readdress some of the concerns later on. but again, these are membe...

>> again, i would push back a little bit because these were children that were brought here. no fault of their own and the 1.8 million is an approximate number. we know that there are daca-eligible young men and women out there that did not come forward and register, so to make sure all of them are included, if they would like to participate in a pathway forward, then they would need to come forward. the large number, while it may seem large to some, we are thinking at least it's all inclusive. and we won't have to go back and readdress some of the concerns later on. but again, these are membe...

That. >> chris, i got to the point -- so many good people up here, both democrats and republicans. they're all my friends. i work with them. when you get us together, it sounds like we make sense. we want things to work. and all of a sudden all the power transfers to two people, the majority leader and minority leader who makes a decision what moves and doesn't move. the majority sets the agenda. i keep thinking my be loved robert c. byrd laying in his grave, he's got to be twisting and turning thinking how did we get to this. we've got to come back to regular order and where other senators ha...

Sat in his office. myself and doug jones sat with the president. i can tell you he believes these children need a pathway forward. there might be people around him that aren't quite as sympathetic as he is. my gut tells me the president wants to get this done. i'm willing to continue to keep working with limb in a bipartisan way, be an honest broker, tell him what i think we work and won't work. reneed to get past this. the rhetoric is what it is. the president is going to say what he's going to say. that doesn't upset me as long as we have a final product and a pathway forward. we can do this...