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Question. >> reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell today will mirror a plan put into place by the president saturday, which is temporary protection for daca recipients, temporary status for daca extension. millions for humanitarian and drug detection program, all for his border wall. the democrats don't see it as a deal. as of now, he doesn't have any votes, maybe one or two, but this will probably fall apart in

Full funding for his border wall in exchange for three year of protection for daca recipients as well as immigrants with expiring temporary status. but the plan is pretty much dead on arrival in congress because even as mitch mcconnell says the senate will vote on the proposal this week, the message from democrats remains clear. open the government first and then we'll talk. >> we just also made clear that what the president proposed yesterday increasining border security, looking at tps, the dreamers, i'll use that as a starting point, but you have to start by opening the government. what we ...

Votes in the senate without giving something up for the democrats as well. he said, though, despite again, he left the meeting feeling very encouraged at the same time he could not say when the shutdown might end. here is a little bit of what he had to say. >> what i mentioned today is outline of potential breakthrough would be $5 billion for wall/border security, to bridge act and tps reform, that's in the realm of possibility. temporary status, given to individuals who are here who are not u.s. citizens for whatever reason unsafe or unable to return back to home country and he also talked a ...

Wall/border security, democrats have voted for more than that in the past, we have about 400,000tps people who came here from natural disasters and war-torn countries decades ago, their visas are running out, so basically 5 billion for the wall, plus the bridge act, tps and some legal changes to do away with magnets might save the day in the senate. >> negotiations are at impasse, two very different takes on what's happening here, both from republicans. >> right, it's going to depend on what president trump wants to do. the democrats, it's interesting to hear lindsey graham sending balloon try...

In that sense. that's really unfortunate. especially coming off a day where he said, any sort of daca deal which should be a deal of love, a deal that deals with people who are here through no fault of their own, which includes people who are protected by this temporary status, who have been here, are going to school, are working, and so it's just a terrible way to refer to a group of people. i don't know how else you dress that up. >> an official response from the deputy press secretary. the statement, michael steele, certain washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries. presi...