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Staff or has his mind changed by the next person he talks to. keep trump far away from chuck schumer. they fear he will agree to something overly generous with the democrat. the president thwarted that himself saying he would be fine with inviting him back to the white house. >> if you don't have a wall, you don't have daca. >> are you going to invite senator schumer back to the white house? >> i like him. i like him. i grew up with schumer. >> senator boxer, to schumer's point, part of what i think makes this entire scenario impossible and i don't want to be hopeless is the person that you ne...

I grew up with schumer. >> senator boxer, to schumer's point, part of what i think makes this entire scenario impossible and i don't want to be hopeless is the person that you need to negotiate with is the president, and you can't negotiate with the president, because the president doesn't actually have a position. >> well, i would say that he does. we all saw him make a pledge to write a bill out of love. it was on television, remember? and he was in that big meeting and my colleague said it, my former colleague, senator feinstein said let's do a clean daca bill. so i take the president at hi...

Drooemers. >> senator chris koontz. please keep us posted. >> thank you. members in both parties are telling us that they don't want to be here. and they're also not sure how we got here. so how did we? let's walk through that critical day, friday. it started with a 10: 45 a.m. call from president to schumer. over cheeseburgers he told the president he could fund the border wall to the tune of $18 billion in exchange for protections for dreamers. he headed back to the capitol but shumer her kept the cards close to the vest. >> we made some progress but we still have a good number of disagree...

Right now. >> that's very, very disturbing. all right, phil, thank you very much. phil mattingly on capitol hill. >> joining us now from the white house, the white house principle deputy press secretary raj shah. >> he campaigned on the notion he was a great deal maker. he said the only way to deal with a shutdown is for the president of the united states to simply get everybody in a room, all the major players, and make a deal. so why has he been holed up in the white house today, not meeting with schumer or mitch mcconnell, not dealing with the leaders in the senate to try to force a deal? >...

To chuck schumer to invite him here to get a sense of what the hold-up was. so the president did that. reached out to schumer. brought him here. now we don't know whether or not they'll -- the two will arrive at a deal or even if that was the point of the meeting, david. we're told by the source that this was really a way to show that the president is engaged in this issue and is doing what he can to find some resolution. >> remind us what we heard from mark short and from the director of the omb and the cfpb, mick mulvaney, about what would happen in the event of a shutdown. we're getting clo...