getting the american public to a point where they start getting angry with the republicans for stone walling it. they want the republicans to drag it out in congress and they want all that to happen, because i mean it was almost like this subliminal weird thing he was doing during the speech where he kept saying pass this bill, pass this bill. he s trying to get the american people in this frame of mind where he says it s armageddon if he don t pass this bill. what s interesting if we haven t heard a word from the republicans yet. jamal, it does seem rinse have said they d like it piecemeal. they d take this piece, that piece. they are not interested in handing him a giant win, per se, but at the same time, they do the leadership reads polls. to me eric cantor and john boehner, they get it. they know they re a little bit under pressure here but is the president setting himself up here for a fight with congress that really only as someone said to me when you lie down with a
is capped and going into the next coming months, it means bad news for the president, and of course, for democrats going into the election. jon: interesting, he was on tv this morning, in a televised interview. here s what he had to say. he s acknowledges that a lot of parents are not a lot of americans, i should say, aren t too happy with the way things are going, he says what i m prepared is to be held accountable for the policies i have put in place but americans don t have selective memory or they re going to remember the policies that got us into this mess as well. well, that s the president setting up the debate he wants to have in november. he wants to say look, i inherited this huge mess, don t the republicans created it and now we re trying to get out of it, don t blame me for the last year and a half, blame the guys who were there two years ago. jon: it is interesting, though, americans do seem to have sort of selective memories or very short term memories when asked in
stated she thinks they should do a clean daca bill, handle the d.r.e.a.m.ers and then handle border security as part of comprehensive immigration reform. is the president setting him up here for a situation where the democrats say no let s just do daca and security on the other side. i think the president is setting himself up to achieve what everybody in that room agreed they wanted to see happen, and that is a deal on daca, a deal or border security, talking about about chain migration, and visa lottery. that s where we are in this process, those are the four principles. matthew. thanks, two quick questions if i may. the democrats said of a the meeting that they support border security measures and their understanding is that the president uses the wall wall and border security interchangeably. is that true? we certainly believe that the wall is part of border security. that s one component of it. we firmly, again, believe that border security has to be part of this negotiation
so we got up at 2 a.m. in the morning to go to our event we could not get our car we had to take a cab. ainsley: you went a little later than i did. it takes me long allot longer to get worry. brian and i are waiting on the valet guy to bring the rental car around and we couldn t find him. we found him at the bar at the motel. anyway. steve: do you know what i did? i actually walked. it was only a mile. anyway, thank you very much for joining us on this very busy wednesday. ainsley: president trump is pushing forward in his fight to repeal obamacare. brian: the president setting up a luncheon with republican senators today. everybody is invited, expect 52 to show. steve: griff jenkins is not invited. he though is reporting on the event that happens today at noon 30, right, griff? that s right. good morning, steven steve, ainsley and brian. the repeal 86 replacement define as president trump says it s time to let obamacare
extends his hand and comey s arms are really long. he extends his hand kind of preemptively and trump grabs the hand and kind of pulls him into a hug. but the hug is entirely one sided. so one guy in the hug is shaking hands. comey was just completely disgusted by it. disgusted? disgusted by the episode. he thought it was an intentional attempt to compromise him in public. you re going to hear a lot more on that fascinating interview in a moment. let s get straight to joe johns at the white house with more. good morning. reporter: good morning. the president setting out in just a few hours on that nine-day foreign trip. first off saudi arabia, then israel and then the vatican. that s just the start of it. the president leaving the white house, but not getting away very much from the controversy. the president telling reporters just yesterday that he believes