government with susan collins and he, too, responding saying tone it down, cooling it down, delivering this message to the president about the issue of whether or not there is even going to be a daca deal. the deal of making sure these daca children can stay in the only homehey know as america, is very much on the table. that s very much the whole catalyst of what we re doing here. i don t think there s a democrat or republican. i spoke to the president two days ago. he s very much committed, very sympathetic. he wants this to happen. it s just all the things they want to put on everybody wants to go with the grand fix of everything behind. john and poppy, you should also know the house is in recess, the senate is also going to be in recess this afternoon. many of them are going to be going home. i asked manchin about that. why aren t people sticking around? you ve got deadlines here, of course. he says he doesn t necessarily think it s a good idea. he and a small group of
bipartisan folks will be working together in the next couple days. suzanne, appreciate the reporting. our panel is back. alex, you first. schumer says no wall. trump says no wall, no daca. i think we ought to be very skeptical of both of those hard lines. schumer is under a lot of pressure from activists on the left. i don t want to say it s all smoke and mirrors. this is a lot of positioning for an event negotiation. if we take a step back from the day-to-day trading of blows here, there are three potential outcomes. they could strike a deal that trades daca protection for some ramped up border security. the president could bump the deadline for a deal past march 5th, further into the spring. say we re making more progress but we need more time, or you could deport hundreds of thousands of kids protected by daca.
800,000 daca recipients who have until early march for the government to figure out whether they stay or go. yeah, chuck schumer took his marbles and went home. he decided that s not the game he s playing right now. and yeah, we are back to square one. i mean, i think that i m of the lindsey graham school that the president has to kind of tell people what he will accept and what he wants, and then you ll get to yes sooner because then republicans and the house will be able to see if they can live with it. but the president just kind of sitting back now, these guys are going to be children all over again. at the end of the negotiations to reopen the government, schumer was on the record saying, yes, we ll support the billions and billions of dollars for the border wall in exchange for the dreamers. i guess there was a question about whether he was willing to authorize it versus actually pay for it. i have this math teacher in high school who would say, i can t take knowledge from
still, this is an opportunity for the special counsel to either answer some questions that make the issue go away or to certainly press the president about what he specifically was involved in and what else he s being told. so it becomes very important. and you know, the president has been telling his friends that he would like to, in fact, talk to special counsel. he s done this many times. don t forget, he s a serially litigious person. and the s lots of people cocky enough to think i can deal with these lawyers and their questions. i ll just put it all to bed. doesn t always work out that way. i think his lawyers would like a take-home test. that applies to a lot of people. i don t think a written q&a is going to happen. everybody, stand by. there s much more we re following. no wall, no daca. the president is blasting the senate majority leader chuck schumer after the top democrat takes funding for the border wall off the negotiating table. plus, as the russia probe
he hasn t been a legislator. he hasn t faught in these wars over immigration. so he pops off during the campaign about we re going to have a wall and mexico s goi toay for it,ouingike a populist and nativist. then he turns around in front of the ceras and says we want a bill of love and i ll take the heat. i think he has the potential as an outsider to pull off something really big. but you know, former president bush got a lot of heat on immigration and plenty of other matters. he understood this issue. if not for 9/11, he would have had it and gotten it done. i think lindsey graham is right. he s got to commit to what he thinks about it, what he s prepairpr prepared to do. the only thing he really committed to in the campaign is wall, wall, wall, wall. so there has to be something so he can go to his base and say i kept my campaign promise. that s what the democrats have to kind of figure out. i think that s fair enough for him to do. exa exactly. and the white house press