caughtify daca. she has urged her colleagues on the democratic side to support this. she gave them permissions not to support it. the only way a bipartisan deal works is if both parties come together to support it. there s things in this deal that democrats can rally around, raising spending caps, for example. the disaster relief funding. that s why you would see potentially, politically, the blame go to the democrats because democrats and nancy pelosi have expressed they are dissatisfied with the assurances they have received on immigrati immigration. that s why they wouldn t be supporting this deal, not because of the deal itself. but as i understand it, paul ryan has not given that commitment. he has. he has. no. what he has said is he wants to get daca done and he will only bring a bill to the floor that the president will support. that s not what mcconnell has
floor or to have an open de-brate on the floor in the senate means nothing because there is this other chamber of the united states and you know this, you know the house. ilgd in of bipartisan gang of eight bill passed easily in the senate in 2013. that bill was dead on rifle arrn the house. so the house republican conference has aen entirely different attitude towards immigration on the whole than does the senate republican caucus to michael s point, you have an awful lot of republicans who are terrified of the idea of getting out in front of donald trump on this issue of immigrati immigration. paul ryan won t allow anyone between mg and thimself and the house. so until donald trump has arctic could you lated what he is for, you won t see congressional, a. and that is important because if donald trump says this is what i want, it didn t matter
kasie hunt starts us off. so day one, reset, t-minus 16 days. what are you hearing from people who are on the hill today? i want to be clear the promise that mitch mcconnell made was that in the event they can t make a deal that the white house supports, that president trump says okay i want to pass that, he will open up the senate floor and put a neutral bill on the floor. and so i think this first step that you are seeing it play out with senators susan collins at the timing us this morning that she spoke to president trump this morning about immigration and the questions i think will be what does we don t have a lot of clarity on what the white house wants and is looking for and i think there is a general feeling that this whole thing is going to go much more smoothly if they can figure out a way to come to an agreement that the president can suchtpport. and that because anything that comes out of the senate will have to pass the thousand become law and that is where the issue
republican side that s been in the background of these negotiations for months unfortunately appears endemic. it is standing in the way of bipartisan solutions. to all of the issue no before us. the it s their job to work with us on way to move things forward. but they didn t reach out once regard brshand it s their responsibility to govern and
trump who asked to us come up with a about he backed off at the first sign of pressure. we have the outline of a deal on caps, we have the outline of a deal on health care. we had the outline of a deal on immigrati immigration, the toughest issue. it was really, it was sfrrks but the dynamic of the past few weeks, during which the congressional republicans look to the president for guys and and prevailed nenthe same division and discord on the