we have seen people blast the comments from both sides. democrats and one of the top democrats in the room negotiating the daca deal said these were point blank racist and we saw the black caucus leader say it s clear that president trump s make america great again make america white again. susan collins we talked about my love. we mentioned she is a republican from utah whose parents came from haiti. republicans i think on the hill know that this hurts them in the white house. there has been skin put out that this is not a big deal. people in the republican party accept this. on the hill, i think republicans see this under cuts immigration negotiations and puts their moderate swing state districts in a terrible position of having to respond to this and blast the president and distracts from everything they have to do next
amazing those friends are amazing but they come from a shut hole, the president s own words. during immigration negotiations, tweets put a national security program at risk. the president also with some bizarre claims in a new interview with the wall street journal. apparently he has a good relationship with kim jong-un and thinks an fbi agent committ committed treason by texting about him during the campaign. and in this late night tweet amid all the other drama the president claims he canceled a london trip because president obama moved the old embassy. president obama didn t move it. just one of the problems there. we have reports this morning from the white house nairobi, seoul and london, welcome back to early start this friday morning. i m christine romans. i m dave briggs. an earthquake struck haiti and more than 100,000 people were
in little haiti you are so amazing. they re amazing but come from a shithole. the president s own words during immigration negotiations capping off a head spinning day that included tweets putting a national security program potentially at risk. the president also with some bizarre claims in a new interview, apparently he has a good relationship with kim jong-un. he thinks an fbi agent kmitdcomd treason by texting about him in the campaign. and the president falsely claims he damaged a london trip because the embassy was moved. massive protests awaiting him may have had something to do with that. we ll check in there. we have reports this morning from the white house from nairobi, seoul, south korea and london. welcome back to early start. a lot to get through this morning. 32 minutes past the hour. today the president signs a proclamation honoring martin
where the president stands on immigration negotiations. here is a bit of the back story that we have learned. the president hosted these bipartisan lawmakers in this extraordinarily meeting. we ll play some of it here. he seemed to be all over the map on whether he is demanding a border wall. and any deal on the fate of dreamers. he seemed to agree on a clean daca bill without a wall but then republicans pushed back on that immediately. so my panel is back. and mave reston i want to start with you, the white house is trying to clean this up by saying he wants the generic keep using the phrase border security. but what i m not hearing is specifically saying he wants a wall. i think he does want a wall. my understanding about these conversations, you know, over the last couple of weeks with the smaller group, the working group, is that the president is very focused on having a wall, but what that wall is he s very much open to negotiation on.
needs a tax cut. everyone needs a reduction. allowing money to flow. i don t see a difference between small businesses and big corporations, both of them need to have some tax relief. bill: you are part of a group also working on immigration reform this week in fact. did you win a republican vote or two during those immigration negotiations to get them to a yes on taxes? actually they weren t really connected. jeff flake talked about wanting to make sure we would have a vote on daca. all of us want to be able to have some kind of vote on daca. the president has been clear on that. the president said obama shouldn t have done daca administratively, but-in-law. president trump put a deadline for the first week of march to have a legislation solution for daca. you can t just do daca. you have to do border security, chain migration and all the things around daca. if you work through the daca process and ignore everything