a myriad of different structures along that wall we expect to be secure to make sure america is safe. that is not that is not what the boss said during the campaign and not several times as president. this is a repeat of the decade ago. bush talking about wall by wall. i covered immigration back then. so much so familiar sounding. yeah. look. the republican party leaders were never on board with the wall. mitchell mcconnell snickered when you think mexico is paying for it. not like a leverage point with the gop, right? when you talk about where will the party push back a real question is who knows the base better? a real testament. does trump know his own base better than the members of congress? if he is right making this play on daca and put egg on the faces of members of congress who think they have something to push him on here. especially now that bannon just left the white house a real test point because if he can do this and not lose the faith of his
a imminent. but then again the question becomes is this what the republican party wants to spend their time doing in 2018. in a town where out in america and around the world people say why can t they do more than one thing at a time? we know the history of washington. they can t. one of the interesting parts is the president saw the backlash and no, i m getting the wall. i ll insist on the wall. the deal the framework of the deal with the democrats let s dot d.r.e.a.m.ers first and then i ll worry about the wall and made conservatives mad. fountain president was cutting that deal get something for it and get and force the democrats to sign out on the wall money and they are mad. this is the white house legislative director the president says he ll get hit wall. define wall. i think that what the definition of a wall is something we need to have a serious conversation. some cases a ballard fence which was, in fact, appropriated last year and we already begun.
this. my question is more is there a price? a price? when you re trying to do tax reform, when you re trying to do other republican initiatives when members of the republican party don t trust the president? i think there may well be. not just democratic leaders but republican leaders have an advantage over the pez president on this issue and they understand what these terms and specifics mean. i think we will learn a lot in the next week. white house says they will come out with principles for immigration reform. is there not a path to shape? are they going to do something about chain migration? that means cutting legal immigration levels and a lot of democrats will recoil and not able to do this deal. if they are the question is are republicans going to be there for him on the harder issue? hard issues on tax reform will they vote with him? i think when is this happening? right? i think with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer coming out of that meeting and him talking about a deal,
i don t think there is much more it. an approach that works and you mentioned the president likes wins. for eight months he is transactional. who knows what next week will bring. he did this deal and backlash from republicans. listen to him, yes, i started with the democrats but this is fine with republicans. we are not looking at citizenship and not looking at amnes amnesty. looking to allow people to stay here. we are working with everybody. republican. we are working with democrat. i just spoke with paul ryan. he s on board. everybody is on board. they want to do something. we are not ntalking about amnesty. serve on board. the votes have been there for a long time for this. it is a minority but a very vocal minority in the republican party that says if you doesn t matter when they came here. that it s amnesty. the question is the president was so active campaigning on