what they did they put on a show. the president set up a show to show he was fit. there was no. mentally. what type of security measures you would have and what your what year daca would come in ahead of times, those are the nitty-gritty na allow a bill to become a law. what we saw yesterday was a display, a lovely display. i enjoyed it as much as willie did to show they were having a conversation and to a certain degree to show the president was there and was competent. but what was most remarkable. i ll leave it here, when he said, my position is what the people in this room come up with. that to me is just a remarkable admission from a president to say, i don t actually have a position on one of the post-important domestic legislative items in front of me. you tell me what i should sign. not even a conviction.
so, heather, it s willie, do you believe the president when he said he had the jeb bush-like comment coming from a place of love. it s got to be an act of love. he said in the past, this is difficult for him, this daca issue it has to be done with a lot of part. as you watch the moves he makes, dual like he is actually torn, he sides with daca but also in his head, believes that he has to stick with his hard line right wing conservative guys like steve king and live up to the promises he made during his campaign? you know, it s been very tempting from the moment that trump walked onto the national political stage to try to square the circle, of all the different places that he s been, all the different comments he s made, trump the reality show star, trump the leader of trump university, that defrauded students of and was settled for $25 million. trump the person that bankrupted atlantic city, you know, is he a
president he needs to be in order to be successful as president and in order for the republican party to survive the 2018 elections. so, what i thought we saw yesterday in that meeting, both in the visuals and in the conversation was a president really trying to be and sound reasonable on a compromise around the dreamers, on daca. but we re coming up against a very difficult deadline that i ll remind you he created. and we ve got nearly 800,000 young americans who are really at risk of losing their place in our society. and there is a big gap between the right in the republican party and the majority of the country on immigration. we passed a broad bipartisan immigration bill in the last congress in the senate by an overwhelming bipartisan vote. never got taken up in the house. the politics of immigration are very hard. but if the president chooses to make this not just a one-day photo-op but to show real leadership here, he could actually move us forward by
jonathan, this isn t the first time the president showed switchiness on daca. he said we got to do something with heart, that was almost a year ago if february. he said. that as you watched the congressmen and the senators in that room. you saw kevin mccarthy to jump in to sort of correct the president, if there were a thought bubble over dick durbin s head sitting next to president trump, i would have loved to have seen it. he said when i came out of the meetings, my head was spinning. i don t know where the president stands, where this stands. i go those joe s point the question is, what is the follow-on today, what does president trump believe? does he hear this press coverage that was confusing and say, no, i m a hard-liner again on daca, on immigration. i think we saw a lot last night, hey force deal is happening without a wall him he sort of went bab to that last night. i think it s important to take a half step back and real use how unusual this is. a white house meeting lik
base, has pulled back. do you think this one will be any different? he already tweeted the insistence he would require a wall as part of any deal and, of course, that s inflammatory for a lot of democrats. secondly, there s been a lot of discussion did this meeting happen at all as a way for the president to push back against criticism that he may not be up to the job? i want to get your sense that have from what you saw yesterday. well, the proof will be in the pudding. we ll see in a matter of days whether what happened yesterday was simply a publicity stunt that allowed the president to once again change the narrative so that today everything we re talking about on television this morning is about this promising start to bipartisan conversation around daca and immigration reform rather than the president s fitness for office. is he just trying to change the conversation for a day or is he trying to demonstrate real leadership? it would require real political sacrifice for him to s