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>> so what you just watched for the last 55 minutes was to a degree the sausage getting made. at the same time, nobody in that room forgot they were making sausage in front of tv cameras. that doesn't typically happen so it wasn't truly a closed door meeting. that said, it was clearly i think to any political reporting fascinating to watch the die namics, dynamics, to look at the interactions. this is not where the ultimate finalities of the deal get hammered out. you would need leadership there for that. obviously kevin mccarthy was there. you would imagine paul ryan, nancy pelosi and others....

Point would be bob goodlate who has done a bill and i understand you're ready to submit it and you're going to take that and you'll submit and they'll negotiate in congress and the house. and then it goes to the senate. they'll negotiate. both republican and democrat. it could be a good way of starting. if anyone has an idea different from that. i thing starting in the house. i think starting in the house might be good. you're ready. i think you're ready to go. >> we are. >> i would like to add the words "merit" into any bill that's submitted because i think we should have merit-based immigrat...

We should remind listeners and viewers that this is a president who insisted it would be mexico that would pay for the wall. but, two thoughts here, your general take aways from what we just saw and do you get the sense that the president is still as committed to this wall as he was during the course of the campaign? >> i think he is absolutely going to continue insisting on the wall. we have seen the price tag go up. he has talked about 18 billion. that's absolutely going to be -- that was signature campaign promise. i think he will keep going on that. my big take away from this and you guys ...

Any moment. the president is due to sign an executive order on veterans. we may see even more of him. we'll be bringing you more on that. i'll let you go to garrett because i do want to talk a little bit about the actual policy pieces that the president put into play here. >> garrett, what are they saying on the hill, specifically with regards to the president's suggested approach to how all of this gets done? >> well, i think democrats walk away from this meeting feeling very good. the president absolutely wants to get a deal done on daca. and you hear him talking about the idea of maybe spli...

Certainly start comprehensive immigration reform. the following afternoon, okay. we'll take an hour off. and then we'll start. i do believe that. because once we get daca done, if it's done properly, with, you know, security and everything else, if it's done properly, we have taken a big chunk of comprehensive out of the negotiation. and i don't think it's going to be that complicated. >> mr. president. >> yes. >> we have to be very clear though. >> go ahead. >> in my opinion, we'll be right back here either five years, 30 year, whatever. the chain migration is so insidious. it is the fundamen...