you heard him keep going back to the idea of wanting the u.s. immigration system to be merit-based. and wanting to improve border security. broadly speaking, those are things that i think members of both parties can agree to. we don t know what happened when the cameras left the room but i think the people who are going to walk out of that meeting very pleased with the white house officials who have the president just sort of control that room for the better part of an hour with the cameras on and looking like he wants to make a bipartisan deal. democrats who now will see an opening and republicans have to get in the game here because as the president said, he s going to sign what they can agree to so now republican legislators have to play a little bit of hard ball here. i want to point out one stylistic thing, not a policy thing. people should go back and watch i think how lindsey graham addressed the president there. you see the difference of lawmakers who are learning how to operat