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Pass a bill which would have given the president funding for the wall, but there is no way democrats are going to get on board with that and they are days away from taking control of the house so where might you and other republicans be willing to give? >> there the senate republican majority, there will be house democratic majority coming in on january 3rd. at that point, negotiations will have to be made to get anything done. kristin: one specific point you might be willing to compromise on? >> the president has compromised on the amount of funding but democrats refuse to negotiate. republic...

Something. people may say this is just verbiage because it puts the honous now on republicans and the white house to do something about daca. now the democrats -- >> that's true because it wasn't a back-door deal that was said in private. this is something he put out before the american people. >> i agree with ron. it's just the nature of our government. it's often a winner take all system. the republicans control both houses of congress and the white house. if they don't want to help daca recipients, it's not going to happen. they say they want no and that's why the democrats and flake and gr...

Let me bring back tim. the head line there is mitch mcconnell the majority leader wants to take a vote at 10:00 tonight. e we heard schumer reject that. so it's unclear if that's going to happen. initially, there was a vote scheduled at 1:00 a.m. we'll wait and see what happens. mitch mcconnell laid out some things that appears to present there's some movement in terms of what republicans are willing to do to try to bring democrats to their side to pass this short-term funding bill. that is to make it a shorter funding bill than ishlly had been proposed. so this one would expire on february 8t...

Are holding the government funding hostage to resolving daca. there's an argument for that. on the other hand, the president is holding resolving daca hostage not only to board. er security, but to an issue that's very different. reductions in the level of legal immigration. it's important to understand that's the biggest hangup at this point. certainly in the senate on resolving daca because you have had them move significantly toward the president saying they would be willing to put more money into border security and the wall. but the hard liners and this is where graham gets so frustrated,...

Leader say that. that's why i stood up afterwards to reiterate to make sure people understand what it is and i'm sure there will be some other people going to the floor tomorrow to reiterate that agreement. >> 10:00. >> thank you, senator . >> that was senator jeff flake, he was a no on the additional spending bill on friday, he's now saying he will vote yes when they take up the bill tomorrow. let me get back to you and let you finish your thought or react if you would like to what we just heard. >> it's very much in point with what senator flake was mentioning. he was optimistic that he woul...