i think senator chuck schumer and democrats have the weaker hand here. they are shutting the government down for something unrelated to spending and have until march to address and congress has been trying to deal with for decades now. their stance is ridiculous and president trump and senator mitch mcconnell should not cave to democrats demands. daca should have nothing to do with keeping the government open and funding for our military as well as vulnerable children with the chip funding. bill: okay. marjorie, from your view in austin, texas, what does it look like there? it s sunny, that s good. i think right now what i do see that is promising is what mitch mcconnell came forward with, which has some bipartisan support. what you do see, you have a group of 20 senators who have come together both republicans and democrats to look for a path. that path is a promise by mitch mcconnell by february 8th if we
questions, one at a time here, too. lisa, do you think the atmosphere is ripe for a deal on immigration? deal on daca so you get your border security, your changes in immigration, okay, senate just went into recess. we won t see chuck schumer, hang onto that. we expect a vote at noon eastern time. do you think the atmosphere is capable to get a deal between the dreamers and border security and changes in the immigration system, yes or no? in theory, bill. again, this is something that congress and different administrations have again trying to get done for decades. in theory people would like to strike some sort of deal. what it comes down to is the details. that s why congress for decades now has had so much problems and so much difficulty coming up with a deal. bill: you aren t sold on the possibility. i m not sold. bill: marjorie, do you see an environment ripe for a big
democrats and the republicans. my whole life has been heat. julie: president trump expressing commitment to immigration reform in spite of political and public backlash. the president saying he is hopeful congress will reach a long-term bipartisan deal on daca. family based immigration. the visa lottery system and, of course, that long-promised border wall. new hurdles are cropping up. federal judge ruling last night to block trump s decision to end the dreamers program. let s bring in our panel four republican presidential campaigns, and marjorie clifton, principle of clifton consulting. thank you both for talking to us. patrick, i m going to start with you on immigration. two major hurdles to you what to do with the 2 million salvadorians to escape series of earthquakes in 2001 or millions of dreamers whose daca protection ends on march 5th. which will get priority. i think, julie, more than anything else, this issue
has been temporarily addressed again and again. daca was a temporary fix by president obama. he knew that program could be taken away. t stands for temporary tpa. we haven t addressed these things as a whole. what we saw yesterday is the border wall, border security, tpa, trying to come up with even possibly a path to legal citizenship were all of sort of on the table with the president. i think all of this stuff is now being forced in a comprehensive manner that s going to lead toward a big fix, not a series of small fixes, that even a temporary order from a federal judge can try and slow down. it s time to fix this. i think we saw that yesterday in what he call a stroke of stable political genius where the president assembled members of both parties for that 55-minute meeting to the white house yesterday. and we saw some real interesting stuff go on there. the pressure is now on the congress to send the president a bill that will fix this once and for all. july eulogy i have to say,
responsible immigration reform. he said before that he would like to include a daca resolution in that process and we hope to be able to work with members of congress to get that done and that is certainly a big priority for the administration in 2018. sandra: immigration reform emerging has president trump s top priority of 2018 and wants to work with congress. the president says they have no deal without funding for the border wall. joining me now is marjorie clifton former consultant to the obama campaign and also here kris wilson former cruz campaign pollster and chris, to that point you heard that from sarah sanders yesterday. kellyanne conway at the beginning of this show this morning made that very clear, no daca without funding for the wall. where does this fight go? it s far more complicated than tax reform was and more difficult to reach a deal because the number of votes it takes in the senate. i think the wall has become symbolic for border security at