one that the president appeared to be on both sides of. right. in that long meeting. that s what was so confusing about it. is that the democrats their priority by far is daca. they want protection for these 700,000, 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers for good. they want these people safe. if not with actual citizenship, then with essentially the equivalent of green cards. and they want just a deal on daca, period. at one point the president said, okay, let s just do a deal on daca and we ll do other stuff later. after the meeting, he said, no, no, no. there can t be a deal on just daca. it has to include border security, which almost is certainly includes the wall. whatever the wall turns out to be. let s just watch this moment. joe johns played a little of it, but let s watch the whole moment. the president, one of the things people have said about him is he
yesterday. 55 minutes of free wheeling, frank talk, on camera, as lawmakers from both sides try to solve this dilemma over immigration, over d.r.e.a.m.ers. they are the 700,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as kids. a judge has made this hugely impact full ruling on their fate. wheat get flew that. but first let me play something you this is the president stressing any legislation on d.r.e.a.m.ers also known as daca must be tied to his border wall. we agreed to pursue four major areas yesterday of reform. securing our border, including, of course, the wall, which has always been included, never changed. ending chain migration. canceling the visa lottery. and addressing the status of the daca population. we want to see something happen with daca. it s spoken of for years.
about the notion political environment. we want to have open and sometimes critical and as they call it caustic public commentary on public figures. so he ll have more than uphill battle to change that particular law. dana, back on immigration, do you get the sense that this confusing daca stance, and i do think maybe we should give the president some credit for the line, let me take the heat. i don t know if he s getting enough credit for that. let me take the heat, blow back if he does this, does daca. are you clearer on the president s parameters, where he stands, where this is going to go? yes. the president s parameters are anything that he can sign. anything that he can sign, really, at this point. and that was the sort of idea behind that statement that you are talking about, brooke, i m taking the heat. and it s exactly as anna said, these people sitting around the
wing saying they re not happy unless it s, you know, as tall a wall i don t know how she spelled it out, but she is not happy with this wishy-washy thing. they don t like it at all. they said no daca. you come here illegally, you go. so he s got some work to do. let s see constructive compromise. see if they re capable of it. see if the president can deliver on the art of the deal. everybody will have to get a little bit. the far left and the far right will be unhappy. that s not a bad thing. they feel burdened from the 86 agreement. they feel security never happened. enforcement never happened. here is where lindsey graham can partner with the president. he said i ll take the heat off the republicans, off the democrats. let it all come on me if people don t like what we do. we have never seen him follow through on that behavior before. there s a first for everything. jeffrey toobin, john avlon,
i don t think i see a chance to get it done right now because of you. you have created an opportunity and you need to close the deal. president then takes it a step further. if we do this properly, daca, you are not so far away from comprehensive immigration reform. the democrat whip doesn t seem to like that line of thinking. there are some things that you are proposing that are going to be very controversial and will be impediment to agreement. but you ll negotiate those things. you ll sit down and say listen we can t agree here, we ll give you half of that. are we seeing the art of the deal in action? i don t care. i ll take all the heat off the democrats and republicans. my whole life has been heat. but then the key moment. i d like to ask the question what about a clean daca bill now. i have no problem. i this i that s basically what tick is saying. we are going to come up with daca, do daca, and then start