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Agreement to move forward. so i voted against the proposal at that time. in the intervening time, we have worked with the majority leader to have a shorter time frame, which has now been offered. that of february 8th. that's longer than i would like, but it's shorter than a four-week cr. also have an agreement that the majority leader has just announced that if an agreement on immigration has not been reached by that time that the majority leader using his discretion and his authority as majority leader will move to immigration and that time we can deal with the daca issue and broader immigrat...

For these, you know, the average age of these people when they came to the united states not of their own will was six years old, right? so the president says no daca deal until i get wall funding. where does this go? >> well, poppy, the message from the white house has been a little more opaque than that. you do have the president's folks around him saying you will need to give us something like the wall in exchange for resolving daca, and the president also suggested that march deadline might be flexible in the event they can't get a deal and that's not how leverage works in negotiations, an...

Compromise on in that earlier bill? did they concede anything earlier? >> it's not entirely clear there was much of a compromise at all. the one thing they are saying is is they agreed to extend the children's health insurance program that authorization is set to expire and they agree to the six-year extension of the c.h.i.p. program. that's a bipartisan deal. that's something that has been supported on both sides. what you're hearing a lot tr republicans is everything that's in this bill to keep the government open is things that people on both sides already support. when the democrats are co...

Just the movement and what you're hearing and seeing earlier? >> this was pushed by senators who are trying to get a consensus around the various things they are saying. let's keep the government open until february 8th and we'll negotiate these other matters separately. we won't even talk about these issue others. we need a commitment to see if these issues like daca and disaster relief and we need to make sure there's a commitment that these will become law. not just a vote. not an assurance, but actually could get on president trump's desk. behind the scenes, this group of more centrist mem...

Then the president had the terrible meeting. he said we have a deal. come over to the white house. we don't know which member of his staff whether it was steven miller, but somebody called in hard liners. people whose views don't represent the consensus in this kocountry. they came in and changed the president's mind. by the time that durbin and graham came in, hen wasn't interested and used really rough language. so you can imagine how the bipartisan team must have felt, which is, wait a minute, this process is dead. there are real world consequences to not doing something about daca. march 6...