go stew in the corner and you ve heard that stewing occur over the last 24 hours with miller and others in the white house. and what the president, i think, is doing, is triangulating a deal with nancy pelosi to bring the democrats to the table in the house to get the bill to the house and the bill is going to be fashioned in a way that it gets to 60 votes that it needs in the senate. he want this is to be a part of his legacy despite what everybody else thinks, what he said about wall, doesn t matter. for him, this is something that s almost personal. he wants to get it done and i think he s willing to sacrifice a bit of the base to do it. just my gut on that. it s kind of amusing, he s acting like nixon with miller but trying to go to china on immigration. but i think the problem is not negotiating with nancy pelosi. the problem is still negotiating with the freedom caucus and are they going to give that to him? that s not relevant the president sent that signal with his rema
four divisions of border security to it and the dreamers are component of what they were talking about. that is big news. let s bring in republican senator lamar alexander of tennessee, he is part of that immigration group that s been working on this legislation. i take it that there has been some movement you can tell us about that may be positive. first, the president s statement as a positive movement, that s real presidential leadership. i said earlier this year, mr. president, president bush couldn t do it, president obama couldn t do it. you could be nixon to china on immigration. this isn t something the nashville city council or state can solve, you can do it and i think his comments yesterday were an important part of presidential leadership to solve a problem. harris: it so interesting to me when you talk about the president s role in all of this. as you put together this