as well who wants to have the d.r.e.a.m.ers kept in the country. so he looks like someone who can t lead, can t control his own staff, who may not know the issues well enough, which then creates an opportunity to build on this meeting with schumer and try to get something done. i think these issues are close enough in terms of how the republicans view it that they push now to get this through rather than defer it. you heard luis gutierrez, from the chicago area, say if we have to pay money for this watch, which we don t believe in, maybe that s a price to pay to secure the d.r.e.a.m.ers deal. that may be the kind of opening that is needed. this poll, make no mistake, is a real caution for democrats. what they are selling to the majority of the american people
charge, saying as long as graham is on the side of those in the country illegally instead of u.s. citizens, they are going nowhere in terms of negotiations. in three hours they will gavel back to session and they will huddle to see if they can make any progress before the noon vote. chris? part of the problem is, suzanne, we don t know what the sticking points are. thank you for the reporting. trump is playing politics here. they are refusing to discuss a d.r.e.a.m.ers deal until democrats agree to end the shutdown. you see how pointless that is. they are holding firm because they want to negotiate the d.r.e.a.m.er deal. the president is urging senators to pull the trigger on the nuclear option to get a spending bill passed. kaitlan collins live at the white house. controversial enough that even the republicans don t like the idea. reporter: that s right, chris. it has been rejected by republican leadership. the main question today is where has the president been in all of
controversy as maricopa county sheriff, arpaio sent prisoners to an outdoor jail known as tent city, one of the nation s most outspoken critics of illegal immigration. donald trump, our next president of the united states. a misdemeanor that president trump would pardon a month later. arpaio, one of trump s earliest and strongest campaign supporters. but voters tired of sheriff joe after six terms handing him a double digit loss in his 2016 campaign. the once immigration hard liner now softening on daca, as long as the president does. it should be a bill of love. truly, it should be a bill of love. do you have a problem with that?
out? i don t know. i don t think we ought to do it piecemeal. i understand sometimes you have to inch along as opposed to gallup along. if we do the daca bill first, we will never get to the rest. it just won t happen. you have hundreds of thousands of lives, though, senator. this is not just money we are talking about, these are lives. every day people come up for recertification and they don t get it, and the court ruled on that and said you have to keep processing the applications until this comes to pass, and it s not just about money and these people are left in a lurch because you can t figure out what we do. everything we do in congress affects lives. that s why what we do has to be taken more serious, sometimes more seriously than we take it. i think the problems we have today, the genesis of them started 15 or 20 years ago. i have not been here but i
president trump s former chief strategist, steve bannon, is nontkpwrauda in politics. josh is the author of the devil s bargain, and you are our resident bannonologist, josh. all of a sudden we are seeing things, and the president seemed to agree to a clean bill on daca before he was stopped. we have seen the shape shifting on the wall and maybe it s not going to be many thousands mile-long real brick and mortar wall. and he s going to the summit,