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In exchange for protections for daca. he threw that deal in the trash. and now it's two years later when the democrats are about to take control. and he had a republican-controlled house and a republican-controlled senate and he did have a deal on the table. it seems like the reason he's got no deal now has more to do with him than it does with anybody in congress. >> well, i'd also tell you there was a federal court ruling that reinstated daca which took the leverage off the table in terms of the fact that it needed to be done. if that gets overturned i think that deal comes back and there ma...

Republican-controlled house and a republican-controlled senate and he did have a deal on the table. it seems like the reason he's got no deal now has more to do with him than it does with anybody in congress. >> well, i'd also tell you there was a federal court ruling that reinstated daca which took the leverage off the table in terms of the fact that it needed to be done. if that gets overturned i think that deal comes back and there may be something long term in that respect. but also as you know while, yes, technically republicans do control the senate, when it comes to senate appropriation...

Process you go through. fast forward five years. there is no line item for daca in the spending bill. that is now how it works. when you begin to pair spending bills and these types of issues that don't go through the normal appropriations process, a lot of people come out looking bad as a result of that because you are kind of making requests unusual and difficult to satisfy from the justification of going through the spending process. appropriations process. it is strange all around. it has been for a while. >> perhaps why chuck schumer in 2013 called this very tactic they are using, the pol...

>> you only have 51 votes in the senate. you have to have democrat support to keep the government to fund the government. that's the answer to your question. >> it seems like the whole process was blown up by the president's comments. >> when republicans tried to ada discussion about obamacare to the funding process in 2013 we were accused by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer of inserting a non-financial issue into the spending process to shut the government down. how is that not exactly what is happening today? there is no reason you have to deal with daca this week over before the end of februa...

There's one big difference. president obama wanted a shutdown. he did not engage. he did not call republican leaders or conservative members of the house who were involved in that debate. he didn't walk the the precursor. he wasn't engaged like the president is. it is he wanted the shutdown because he thought republicans would get blamed. this president is trying to make sure the government stays open. >> you saw it in the tweet where he thought maybe a shutdown would be good. >> the president is just as frustrated then. we go from precipice to precipice, from shutdown to shutdown. the primary...