it was one side. and the president continuously gets it wrong. and he comes down on the wrong side of justice, on equality, and fairness and he continually disparages individuals, he mocks people, he mocks individuals, disparages gold star mothers. he s got to understand, this is a grown-up job. and he s got to start acting like it. on friday, the president rejected a deal from the senate so-called gang of six. he tweeted, the daca deal presented yesterday to myself was a big step backwards. wall was not properly funded. chain and lottery were made worse and usa would be forced to take large numbers of people from high-crime countries that are doing badly. i want a merit-based system of immigration and people who will help take our country to the next level. now, there are roughly 12,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers in your home commonwealth of virginia, recipients of this program, daca. should democrats make the deal with the president, give him money for the border wall, make some changes to the
and all of this, the timing, is really extraordinary because of how this could affect immigration talks. democrats want to protect d.r.e.a.m.ers, hundreds of thousands of young people who came to the u.s. really through no fault of their own, only know this country, america, as their home country, and republicans have been trying to get more on border security. in light of the president s comments, where does this negotiation now stand? yeah, that s the big question. i think you can say these talks were very delicate before and they re even more so now with this splash of controversy thrown into the mix. an issue that was certainly very highly charged before. we have senator dick durbin who today, the gang of six, that s working on that negotiation, saying we re going to push forward even though that proposal that they put forward to the white house yesterday was all-out rejected by president trump. he s saying they are going to push forward. we know behind the scenes the leadershi
sure. they can t do it with just the base. it is everything you said. it gives them a chance to push back against the president. i don t see this as an opportunity so much as a nightmare. fair enough. that s not wrong. they can go behind the agenda and now get to say well, tax cuts, yes. but race baiting comments, no. this all happened at a meeting where he was being shown a proposal and briefed in a gang of six. i will call them a more moderate group. what they gave the president was not terribly out of line with what the president said he was willing to except in the rare event earlier. we talked about this as an act of love. the president said go away. has he been listening to the backlash from the base? absolutely. president trump is hearing from two camps. the hard line immigration hawks and republican establishment types who want to fix daca and find a solution to this. i think the comments under cut
bipartisan yesterday. nancy pelosi making her own controversial comments talking about leaders working on an immigration deal. open a hamburger stand, that could have been done four months ago. why don t we get four white guys to do this? the bipartisan gang of six, and a deal before the next week s deadline, senator menendez defended it. an issue of getting that through. a small run through. don t consider it a run through. we are letting it with other colleagues. reporter: the plan doesn t seem to be getting traction. there has been no deal reached on the future of daca, it isn t
luther king address while this was breaking. the news was breaking that he described these countries this way. one thing we know for sure after yesterday is this immigration issue at daca will not be solved by the so-called gang of six. i think one thing we learned is that graham miscalculated with the president. he s been flattering the president to no end playing golf with him, complimenting him on his golf courses and game and buttering him up. people speculated as to why. one policy issue he wants to bend him on in immigration. this deal is dead on arrival. the people who pitched it i do not building will take the final deal across the line. right, this bipartisan group happened in the oval office. they said they had a deal. then they walk in to find other senators like senator cotton and