live inside that room in washington sandra: another big story this morning the senate expected to open the debate on the gop s latest immigration proposal allowing a path for citizenship for 1.8 million dreamers and funding for the border wall. republicans claiming this offer as the best chance to pass in the senate. the president weighing in on twitter this morning saying negotiations on daca have begun. republicans want to make a deal. democrats say they want to make a deal. wouldn t it be great if we could finally after so many years solve the daca puzzle? this will be our last chance. there will never be another opportunity. march 5th. john roberts is live from the north lawn. the president referencing the deadline coming up to fix the daca situation. john. that is coming up fast. you seem to float for a long time and all of a sudden here is the ground. just 21 days to go now before
trying to bring people in and get down to the fine print. we ll see what comes out. he is not promising to do that. he wants more funding for border protection. he would compromise whether it s a total wall across the entire border or whether there are different measures of security but he is clear he wants to have border security as part of any compromise. jon: you mention nancy pelosi the house minority leader who held the house filibuster if there were such a thing speaking for eight hours about the daca situation. she is also criticizing paul ryan when it comes to protecting the dreamers. she writes: in return, the speaker refused to make a real commitment to schedule a vote to protect the dreamers who have the overwhelming support of the american people and a bipartisan majority in the house. in contrast senator mcconnell
domestic spending they want and the funding to help with disaster relief. a lot of money being put if play. jon: people on both sides are unhappy about this budget as well, which might also be a sign of bipartisanship. on the democrat side many are still upset that daca was not pressured into this, right? they wanted to use the leverage they thought they had and now by the way, that leverage has gone for two years if you talk about a government shutdown in theory. on the republican side, there was a number of people not just rand paul but many in the house as well concerned this marks the end of fiscal discipline which they have long championed. jon: one of those not upset about the daca situation is the president. he said costs on non-military lines being budget lines will never come down if we do not elect more republicans in the 2018 election and beyond. this bill is a big victory for our military but much waste in order to get dem votes. fortunately, he says, daca not
recently with the republicans in our retreat with general mattis and secretary of state rex tillerson about the importance of predictability and funding for defense. my son is an active duty marine officer, who has described to me how devastating this is for our military and how much it puts our security at risk. i wish chuck schumer would recognize that as a fellow new yorker. as we look at what happened on funding, we know this is obviously intertwined when it comes to integration. i know you have gone actually it is not. there is really no immigration has nothing to do with this. the daca situation has been extended by the president. we have until march 5th originally. president said we ll move on and i thought it was incredible that the president offered the democrats basically more than what they wanted and chuck schumer, dick durbin and senator feinstein voted for everything that the president offered in his state of the union speech, which i find incredible. i think the
to manipulate election results yet, but that may be the next thing they try. yeah. let s switch gears here and talk about immigration reform. we have this march deadline approaching with daca. you hear from the president that they want to get daca figured out, they want to get immigration reform figured out. but we also know with daca comes the attachment to the border wall funding, which a lot of democrats obviously are not on board with. do you think we re going to see a fix on this? well, the fix that seems to be available is a fairley narrow one in which he gets some border security money. president trump can call it a wall if he wants to. and you get the daca situation resolved, the legal status, the young children who came here without legal status, that all gets resolved. but if the continues insistence, what i hear from the senate is