this to under cut his relationship with his base. ask it looks like that has happened tonight. jil, what about using this new bipartisan spirit for something like infrastructure. that s the pitch he s been making, that he s been frustrated on republicans ability to come behind him, and we he might as well work with democrats on infrastructure and also on his tax plan. today making promises that potentially rates on the rich might go down, or at least the amount their paying in tax might go down. he s trying to figure out how to govern here and come up with a coalition that s actually going to be able to pass things and at least put one check mark on the board. jill, you work for the associated press, which is really the forty-first draft of the first draft of history. so if you were in the headline business, what do you think summing up tonight, post dinner, post dinner spin, the reaction of the post-dinner spin, what do you think the reaction is going
house. the president made clear he would continue pushing the wall, just not as part of this agreement. their headline tonight, trump caves on daca. jill, luckily it s going to be your job in the next 12 to 24 hours to explain this, what was going on? is that just too rosy a statement by the democrats? well, it seems that s something that was premature here by chuck and nancy as the president has taken to calling them. the president also sat down with a bipartisan group from lawmakers from the house. and during that meeting the president made clear he was comfortable with a deal in which continuing the daca protections would be separated from funding for the wall. he told them they would be okay
along with what donald trump and chuck and nancy have agreed to tonight. in theory, although there may be enough republicans who want to get a fix on daca and don t have to deal with it where the leaders aren t relevant. although, i don t see it getting to that point. although, one thing is certain. when sarah huckabee-sanders had to go out and reassure everybody that donald trump was a republican, that showed just how much he had undermined his own party. donald trump may be a republican in name, but there are no tangible benefits that republicans have to show for any of their republican leadership across washington so far. and there is it is very little in the way of a functioning republican majority ipeither house. so, jill, all the evidence points to you that this is a thing. this is going to be the president s new mode, do you think the. i think for the time being,