could be enough to get a deal but that was also the hope with bipartisan immigration deal that president trump made last year and today on face the nation, senator john tester wasn t optimistic this time around would be any different. i think we have been here before. i was in the room when the president said if congress passed something i will sign it and then he moved back away from that and so i think ultimately in the end we do need comprehensive immigration reform. there s no doubt about that, but in the end we need to know what the president wants and hopefully he will stick to it. senator lindsey graham is one of the lawmakers working behind the scenes to come up with a deal, the problem right now democratic leaders aren t interested in negotiating or trying to reach a compromise. the bottom line is they want trump to win more than they want the country to win, i fear, at the end of the day there s a fear to be had, everybody is changing position here and most americans ar
that they have not been invited in the white house really in the last week for the negotiations, i asked why democrat wasn t with him today and if any had been invited an senator graham said it s difficult for democrats to come to the white house when they are vacationing in hawaii. yes, no such thing as a slow news day over at the white house, ellison. thank you so much for the report. you bet. eric: laura, the back and forth over the president s demand for the border wall and the shutdown of course the two top, lawmakers may not be working on capitol hill but seems they have no problem run to go tv studio to talk about it. garrett tenney has more. negotiation from party leaders haven t been happening as you typically see during shutdown, behind the scene, lawmakers are trying to work out a deal, current proposals include funding for wall, fix or daca and provisions that democrats support, the idea was the hope that those additions
maintain control of the senate and even his own job in 2020? it is immensely entertaining. it is possibly effective in certainly in certain areas and i think at points profoundly disturbing especially when he continues the attacks on the press as the enemy of the people. this is the type of thing his base likes. this is the type of thing that got him elected, that got him media attention where other candidates couldn t get media attention i think his thought process is it worked for me before it probably will work for him again. certainly i m sure when he was especially in the local press in montana, i bet you that they covered nothing else than president trump s comments. and, you know, you had john tester, the senator there, he tried to kind of get on president trump s coattails, he put a big ad in the newspaper saying of the things that he and president trump agreed on, but, you know, president trump julie: that backfired. took the opportunity to point out the fact that on t
maintain control of the senate and even his own job in 2020? it is immensely entertaining. it is possibly effective in certainly in certain areas and i think at points profoundly disturbing especially when he continues the attacks on the press as the enemy of the people. this is the type of thing his base likes. this is the type of thing that got him elected, that got him media attention where other candidates couldn t get media attention i think his thought process is it worked for me before it probably will work for him again. certainly i m sure when he was especially in the local press in montana, i bet you that they covered nothing else than president trump s comments. and, you know, you had john tester, the senator there, he tried to kind of get on president trump s coattails, he put a big ad in the newspaper saying of the things that he and president trump agreed on, but, you know, president trump julie: that backfired. took the opportunity to point out the fact that on t