economy. but our immigration system is stuck in the past. reporter: you saw the outline of the plan last night. this is just the start of the president and his team making his pitch for these immigration principles. dana? dana: the president is talking about what chuck shumer said, but what are other democrats saying? there are some things in it that they want. reporter: absolutely. they are all for the idea of making legal status for 1.8 million people, but they are critical of some other components of it. some suggesting that some of the dreamers brought to this country illegally by their parents are being used as political pawns. senator corey booker, a democrat from new jersey, said the idea of using that much money for a border wall is something that is unacceptable to him. booker suggests it s money for 19th century technology at a time when the u.s. should use 21st century technology to protect our borders. the house democratic leader launched an attack of her own. they
congress, directed his cabinet to manage their shutdown in a way that, unlike 2013, how does little impact as possible, and stood firm on there were public and position. democrats say the shutdown resulted in a commitment from sin or and leadership to consider immigration next month. republicans say that they were planning to do that anyway. while this short-term funding measure opens the government for a few weeks, the policy differences that started this all still remain. it will be continue negotiations to protect from deportation the nearly 700,000 dreamers, those brought to the united states illegally as children. then, there s the white house s immigration principles, ending family-based or chain migration. the visa lottery system, and funding for a wall on the u.s. border with mexico. in a government funding bill, there are also differences on government funding. democrats want republicans to plan to increase military spending, to also include a boost in domestic spending, as we
can t trust the president to come up with a reasonable solution, he s not going to get everything, but you have to compromise in washington. wolf, wing the president s willing to compromise. tell me where it is where you re continuing to extend the bailouts for something we have in 332 waivers. that s not a compromise. we re willing to worken to but we have to reduce health care costs. are you willing to work with the democrats on the dreamers, daca? the president has expressed to work with the democrats on daca. we provided what we think are important immigration principles, and we re continuing to have those conversations. will those 700,000 or 800,000 dreamers will allowed to have legal status and stay in the united states and eventually, eveningly way down the road apply for citizenship? the president is anxious to provide them with legal status and he has made that offer and we re anxious to see what congress comes back with. and eventually, eventually be able to apply
not be part of this agreement, the president made clear he intends to pursue it at a later time. and we made clear we would continue to oppose it. we are talking about taking care of people, people that were brought here, people that have done a good job and were not brought here of their own volition. importantly, what we want, we have to have a wall. we will only do it if we get extreme security. if we don t have the wall, we are doing nothing. bret: that was september 14 and 15. now it is october 9 and the trump administration releasing its immigration principles, among them funding and complete construction of the u.s.-mexico border wall. block sanctuary cities from receiving certain federal grants, and asylum and extend family chain migration, establishing a point based system for green cards and the pushback from democrats was reacted this way by the administration. they should be calling their friends chuck and nancy and say are you going to give up the
shann shannon. it seems like it was just last month that democrats are sounding optimistic that they had a deal on dreamers, what happened? i don t know how much the president was involved in drafting these immigration principles because we were told that steven miller was on the main lead on this policy that was put out. to the idea is what is the bigger strategy here. you don t have republicans unified and you don t have bob corker coming out and saying i am not going to work with this president. he cannot win over corker, you are alienating democrats by doing things like dissing the immigration. i don t see a clear path to do that or members of congress. for the people who voted this president because they want to see the economy grow and lower costs and healthcare, he s not getting that done either. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi came out quickly, here is part of a statement that they