will do anything to help the situation? i am not familiar with the report. i know some of the issues we have of course is the economy lower there. we spend a lot of money over there. we need to make sure it s spent correctly. of course the issues at the very end or the burden falls on washington and we keep telling them take care of business. piecemeal it. do daca, do the gift worker program and finish off something. start doing something and they re not. dana: looking for a comprehensive response. thank you, mayor. bill: from there to l.a. county now. mandating weekly covid tests for all students and faculty whether or not they are vaccinated or not. school district getting set for a return to in person learning in two weeks. bill is back in l.a. with the latest. jumping through hoops again, bill. good morning to you. l.a. unified school district announced a new policy
blood in the soil pure that s what a lot of americans see. will congress get it done? i don t think so, because both political parties benefit from this controversy. the president has caved on the issue a little bit. he said, look, i will give you citizens for daca people. i don t think democrats are willing to cave because of the optics of the wall, even though many of them previously had the position of supporting the wall, a lot of them don t support it now. i think we democrats would benefit from a compromise. do border security, do the wall, do daca, and try to get a pathway to citizenship because these issues hurt the democrats and it s clear it would help the republicans too. trump made the whole campaign about immigration, about the caravan. it didn t do so well in the congressional elections. for him to broaden his appeal for 2020, a deal would help
congress in a bill that would be signed by the president. so this may allow congress to kick the can down the road a little bit. but i mean, you could be talking about a matter of weeks until this ruling is overturned. so the heat still is on congress and the president to reach a deal on daca. so they started that process and we saw it in that remarkable moment. normally, as it s been pointed out, we normally just see a spray of what s happening. here are the players in the room. no, president trump said, hey, you guys can staeurbgs the media. is and we watched the actual negotiations. just yesterday when we were on the show we said nothing will really happen in this meeting. no. they actually took the opportunity to express themselves and sort of fight it out. and that was great. it is great for people to be able to see what chris calls the sauceage making spectacle. it is about civics. the president is showing he is in command. he can oversee a negotiation, the long promised art
immediately on the phase 2 which would be comprehensive. wow wow wow. mr. president, you into he had to be clear though. i think what senator feinstein is asking here, when we talk about daca, we don t want to be back here two years later. you have to have security as the secretary would tell you. i think that s what she s saying. no, i think she s saying something different. then a serious idea from the president that gets some laughs. maybe all of you should think about a form of going back to earmarks. president gets nostalgic about deals over dinner. you can say what you want about certain presidents and others where they all talk about they went out to dinner at night and all got along and passed bills, when was the last time you took a republican to dinner? why don t you go out and have dinner today. we can usually get bipartisan when the other guy buys. lindsey graham, he ll drink to that. with dinner plans in motion, time to wrap.
everything everything else. he said, wait. that is totally not our position, right, mr. president? there actually seems to be some personal will to get daca done. but if it is combined with border security, and that is the key as jeffrey toobin pointed out. for democrats, what s the difference between border or security and a border wall? as jeff flake said after the meeting, maybe they can compromise on the definition of the wall. several is hundred miles, let s say, and the rest is security. the democrats have been strengthened by this overnight. the stars may be aligned and there is a deadline for daca in the d.r.e.a.m.ers in march. well, that s the problem, though. even though there is a date certain they will say it will end, there are problems every day. as these application for renewal have come up, they haven t been processing them. the court said you can t do that. we will see if they appreply wi