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They brought on themselves. >> sunlen, thank you very much. we have been listening to different members of congress in response to the impasse. here is virginia democrat tim kaine. >> i think my critique of this place is everything is run by the caucuses. of course i want the caucuses to be strong. i strongly support my caucus leader. there's got to be noncaucus space where people can work together not just with folks in the same party. all of us in the room felt the same way. we are sitting around in susan's office again and again, dispatching to talk to the leaders, coming back, doing the sa...

That -- many of the demands the president put on the table and yet the white house pulled it back. that didn't clear things up for me at all. i think it made them, if possible, a little bit more muddy. >> what do you think, chris? >> no commitment on a pathway to citizenship as it relates to daca. republicans believe they won here. i don't think donald trump did a lot, candidly. maybe it was a strategy. i'm skeptical to give strategy credit when he often just does things. he was not heavily involved and told cnn that was a good thing. >> right. >> i think if you look at this, dana and i were t...

Miller. when was the last time we saw president steve bannon. no, when you want to needle with the president, that's the kind of thing that you do. >> yeah, cannot be out shishine. we have seen so many people have gone when it has. >> alex, i want to ask you on the passing and clearing and opening the government back. how do you see from the perspective of republicans, are they secretly saying, chuck schumer, we got you where we want you. >> look, this was a big short term win for the republicans. we got basically everything we wanted to get here and the democrats have nothing to show for it. ...

Scenario now. there is total republican control. but there is a history and an ability for mitch mcconnell along with his republicans in his caucus who want to get a deal and democrats who also want to get a deal to make it happen. i go back to the point that i have made so many times and one that sarah sanders didn't clear up today which is how is the president going to get it over the finish line? they can pass what they are going to pass, even with a big giant majority. it's going to be up to the president to help give house republicans cover for anything that passes the senate that looks a...

Capitol hill. he was on the phone -- >> chuck schumer said in the statement on the floor announcing an agreement had been reached, i haven't talked to the president since the meeting on friday. >> let's call it what it is. the president stumbled into a political victory here. >> right. >> he did and he did it with the help of mitch mcconnell working with chuck schumer and the pressure chuck schumer was feeling from democrats in his caucus who wanted this resolved because they felt they were losing the battle. >> he needs to do more than stumble into victory in three weeks. >> particularly in t...