barbara comstock, a republican who was in that meeting saying, mr. president, we actually don t need a government shutdown. we do need to deal with this issue. she really confronted him face to face, hallie. then of course you were in the briefing room with me when sarah huckabee sanders tried to clarify, walk back those comments a little bit. she said what the president was really saying is that he wants congress to do its job. we need to point out that as part of this spending deal that kasie was just talking about it doesn t deal with the issue of immigration and with dreamers. there is still a lot of pressure on congress to get that done by the march deadline, but again, it doesn t look like as of right now it s going to be a part of this continuing resolution. yeah. reporter: we have a little bit of break in news, hallie, the president just tweeting about the stock market for the first time. of course he s taken credit for gains in the stock market. we ve seen big dips, this w
why they will watch closely. and the idea that daca has become an urgent matter was entirely of donald trump s doing. this didn t have to be something with a march deadline. the president could have extended this after dealing with the wall. right. he could cancel it right away in september and then have the debate over whether it should be enforced or whether the people who were eligible for daca should be the priority for deportation and that sort of thing. i think what trump is done is useful in that he separated the daca applicants or the d.r.e.a.m.ers out from the broader pool of illegal aliens. democrats don t want to do that, to see it confirmed at once to give them more leverage and as you see it was rejected and legalizing the d.r.e.a.m.ers because they say it is not enough, we want to bring parents in and all of the other people in. there is a difference about how this should be structured but it comes down to the wall. and that is a core campaign
to have right now is to get a deal for the dreamers which they do deserve and get the borders secure and fix the most broken parts of the immigration system and regardless of the politicians and the fringe and the party that you come from, and that should be be the total focus of the congress and the president, and the fact that the president was willing to throw out a compromised proposal to start this negotiation should be encouraging and not discouraging and i hope they don t try to sandbag this into failure. maria, we know that the pressure is on to reach an agreement before the march deadline, but the president is open to shifting the deadline as well. let s listen. well okay. we have daca more than myself and the republican party, we want to do what is right, and when do what is right, and solve the daca problem and i don t think that democrats want to pull a shutdown, but if we need a little more time, we will take a little bit more time, because
funding. greg: if you start screaming, you re going to look incredibly thankless. as jesse said, the narrative is a factual story. the dems put undocumented immigrants, illegal aliens before citizens. that s not a narrative. that s actually a documented fact. juan: how so? greg: they tried to stop the bill based on daca. what do i got to do? we have been talking about this for months. kimberly: what do you want him to do, hit his head? juan: the situation where donald trump undid daca and said i m going to set a march deadline and then refused to negotiate and then wouldn t pass a budget. jesse: we are not at the deadline. dana: we have three weeks. kimberly: i think this bodes well for the president.
of republicans want to get a deal done on this issue. they have americans on their side. it s up to republicans to cut a deal. so they didn t want to kick the can of this legislation, and that s why they wanted to proposal to be inclusive, keeping the government running, keeping the funded going and at the same time addressing immigration. so if it means keeping the government running until february 8 and then promise on delivering immigration before the march deadline, will democrats come to the table on that, dave? i think you might be able to peel off some democrats. there s other issues that the children s program which is vital to our society. democrats want a permanent funding solution. the house bill put together a