look, let s do daca. let s do a bill that protects these 800,000 young people. a clean bill. and a clean bill. and then let s move o. the president said, yeah, let s do that and then we ll do deal with the security issues. that s when kevin mccarthy, republican leader of the house said, wait a minute, mr. president, we can t do that. we have to do it altogether. that is his interest in a deal over the doctrine. that gets tricky. it turns into a point of what can you believe about trump? the good explanation is he s not dog mattic. all right. but you have to have principles. he insisted that the wall was real. there was nothing she man particular or metaphorical about it. so yesterday he quit on that. he was open to go the wall meaning different things. remember him attacking jeb bush when jeb bush said, hey, listen, this isn t a criminal act.
it is is an act of love. he said, oh, please. bill of love is an extension of act of love. do you remember how the republicans assailed president bush for saying comprehensive immigration reform. no, no. you can t do it. it is too big, too scary. he used the exact same phrase. and rick perry saying the people who aren t for protecting the people have hate in their heart. he got criticized for that. it marks our point marks the huge chasm between the rigidity that donald trump ran on particularly as it relates to immigration and the border and everything else his life suggested which was a massive fu fungability. he s pro-choice, pro life, pro gay marriage, anti gay marriage. everything suggested he be this dealmaker.
that s different than paying for a take like a gossip columnist. you re painting it unfairly. what we saw is no proof, after nine hours of questioning, that fusion was doing anything other than its job. it was looking for information on trump, just as it had been asked to do by republicans and democrats. a chris steele job was not intelligence gathering. it was political opposition research to win a partisan election. calling this intelligence is just a misnomer and spin. he was murdered because he was working for christopher steele. we know hillary clinton and the democratic national committee paid millions of dollars to fusion gps who paid a lot of money to steele, we don t quite know how much yet, to work with a retired kgb general was murdered and never worked for free in his life.
there was an issue, a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being black mailed. now, in addition to this, he testified that steele told him the fbi had similar intelligence from an internal trump campaign source to help back up the dossier. we now know that is in reference to information passed on to the fbi about the former campaign adviser george tpop tkpapadopouo has lied about his russian contact during the campaign. they say this shows the investigation has reached a partisan impasse. i think it s really unfortunate that the majority and minority have really come to an impasse in terms of being able to make progress. i think in some ways this is the the signal of the end of bipartisan cooperation in the senate judiciary committee. reporter: during that
fusion gps, which is a washington private investigations opposition research firm, which hired christopher steele to gather information on trump, initially for a republican supporter i believe of jeb bush and then later for the clinton campaign. so the committees are doing things but not necessarily things that complement each other, shall we say. mark hosenball, national security correspondent for reuters, i respect your work immensely and have for a very long time. thank you for helping us through this. thank you for having me. jodi kantor, who broke the harvey weinstein story, started this whole thing happening that has blown up the news cycle for the past weeks, she joins us next. stay with us.