with this agenda, the health care, the transportation, infrastructure issues, making sure the jobs are there and really dealing with the corruption in government. those are the things we re going to do, and we can do two or three things all at the same time, not to worry. we re going to get the job done come january 3rd, 4th and 5th. second question to you then, because earlier this year previous shutdown drama, there did seem to be the makings of a potential deal there about some money, some funding for a wall. chuck schumer offered this at the time in exchange for daca, a daca fix the democrats would be willing to sign up for. the president on twitter seemed to suggest that possibility again in the last few days. is there any circumstance you could sign off on that deal now or is that no longer operative? well, we have been very, very clear for the last five years that we do want to solve the daca problem and we re willing to put together a deal that includes border security, som
security. there was a compromise bill that some centrist republicans put forward that would have given the president $25 billion, and it also solved the daca problem that we still have, the daca fix, and some visa reform measures needed. i would say to my most conservative colleague members in the house, if the wall is what you care more about than anything, then why did you vote no this past summer for five times the amount and to solve an issue which most 85%, 90% americans think we should have solved the daca problem by now. in the land of common sense, we re not in it right now. the shutdown is because the president wanted to shut down. i dent know why he wanted to shut down, if it s over the border wall then this past summer he should have pushed the compromised immigration bill that if he had pushed we would have been able to send it over to the president. that s my frustration. the president is having lunch
nancy pelosi and chuck schumer tomorrow. mike emanuel is on capitol hill. mike, how much pressure is there on that meeting tomorrow? reporter: dana, it s huge. we ll be listening carefully to those democratic leaders, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, and to president trump and the white house team after they sit down tomorrow. so far, the democrats are talking tough. president trump wants to throw a temper tantrum and shut down the government over christmas over the wall, that s his decision. reporter: this meeting comes at a delicate time for nancy pelosi. she s trying to round up the final votes to be speaker in the new congress, and some of her base won t want her to cut a deal. a key republican leader says it s time for democrats to get serious about border security and illegal immigration. we ve had bills on the house floor to address the daca problem in every single democrat s voted no on all of those measures. oh, by the way, when nancy pelosi had a super majority, when pres
is now. sandra: the first big test will happen tomorrow. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer will meet with president trump at the white house. what do you think is going to come from that dynamic? there are a lot of things the president has been willing to negotiate on in exchange for getting wall funding. dealing with the daca problem. we ve had bills to address the daca problem and every democrat voted no on all those measures. when nancy pelosi had a super majority and when barack obama was president she never tried to deal with this problem. they don t want to agree to a solution because they want open borders on the far left. the problem they ll have is this country doesn t want a shutdown over whether or not the secure the board. they want a secure border. the president wants to secure the border. he got elected president on that platform. are they going to say they want to shut the government down because they don t want to secure america s border? sandra: the president has th
barack obama s presidency when he created the daca problem without ever trying to solve it. he said literally come to america illegally, bring your kids here illegally. he never try to fix it. when pelosi had the house, super majority in the senate, they never tried to bring a bill to fix the problem. they wanted a political issue. as you pointed out, president trump comes into office, chuck schumer initially was willing to work with him on a solution to daca that included funding for the wall. then the radical left went nuts and schumer pulled the deal off the table. we have tried to pass bills through the house to solve the interior loophole problems that you cited so many times, as well as funding the wall. not one democrat. we ve had two different approaches on this, so no matter where you are on this, there was a chance for you to vote to solve a problem. not one democrat voted. laura: could have shut down the government. the next two weeks, the department of homeland security