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Was taking the request seriously and i'm also pleased that a number of other individuals including four prominent senator s led by senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley later also joined us in calling for the appointment of a special counsel and i've been told by many people including some who were skeptical about the earlier call that i and others in the house made for the appointment of special counsel now agree that because that counsel has powers separate and apart from the department and the bureau and because they can look into matters that go beyond the department, there are allegati...

Leader chuck schumer doesn't want to negotiate on everything. democrats want to narrow it down to daca. >> now is not the time, nor the place, to reform the entire legal immigration system. rather this is the moment for a narrow bill. reporter: whatever they come up with, has to have 60 votesç to pass. it has to clear the house. president has to sign it. so a group of seven gop senators led by chuck grassley feels their plan stands the best chance for success. >> if you can't get it through the united states senate it doesn't do much good. we start with what is possible here. the ultimate is...

Senat senato senators led by senators graham and senator durbin, he blew it up in a volcanic meeting at the white house. the same script played out with myself and the president yesterday. the president called me in the morning, asked that i come to the white house and of course i accepted. we had an extensive negotiation about every single outstanding issue. we came close to a tentative agreement on the budget. after i offered the pentagon's full budget request. on the thorniest issue of immigration, the president said many times he would take a deal that included daca in exchange for the wal...

Families and children all over this country. this isn't what folks want us to be doing in washington to have yet another cliff hanger and possibly a government shutdown. no one wants to shut the government down. i don't want to shut the government down. when the president has a meeting at the white house at his own invitation and brings together bipartisan leaders and said you go find a deal, i will sign it, anything that helps solve this daca program, and they come back with a deal and he blows up the meeting and the deal, it's hard to understand that this is anything other than intentional s...

Change. there's a story about why he's not going to have a meeting with our closest ally in the uk. he has bad information about that that he's putting out and now this, mika with the morning off, we have national affairs analyst for msnbc, john heilemann, donny deutsche, eddie gloud junior and heidi przybyla, and walter isakson, kimberly atkins and andrea mitchel. we have a full house. good morning to everybody. here is the context of the president's reported comment that joe referenced at the top of the show. a bipartisan group of senators led by lindsey graham and dick