president is tweeting about. trump said that he had better meeting with putin than nato. while i had a great meeting with nato, i had a better meeting with putin, but sadly, it is not reported that way, and the fake news is going crazy. i feel like we are living on earth one and earth two. well, that is going to be the president s challenge here in a couple of moments and whether or not you believe that he is going to be clarifying the remarks like laura ingraham suggested, and she is a conservative talk show host and has close ties with the president. but can you do that without contradicting yourself, and that is the challenge to him sh, the pool is behind me and about to head in and press the president on this very question. the white house has made it clear that he wants a little built of the do-over and address his comments in helsinki. you know, you covered him so well in the campaign and one of the hallmarks of the trump campaign was the authenticity and another challenge toda
deal, that it doesn t go beyond 2025. and then there s the real prospect of iran being able to go very rapidly for a nuclear weapon without sanctions going on. but i think we can do that and i think we can meet the president s challenge and be tougher on iran which is what we ve got to do. but without throwing away the heart of that iran nuclear deal. because what it does and it s worked so far it has stopped the iranian s getting a nuclear weapon. and we ve got to ask ourselves how else would we do that? and what s happened over the last few years is that we ve had, i think, 400 inspections of iran by the atomic international atomic energy organization. they ve been able to verify that iran has reduced its enriched uranium by 95%, it s cut its centrifuges by two-thirds and
house correspondents, he was out. the white house even though the white house was continuing a cover-up, it understood that there are certain rules. this administration doesn t seem to care. they re blowing through these rejecting these norms. normally it would matter. i think the question is the president s challenge is that if you look at his poll numbers, they ve improved a little, but we re talking about a small improvement in the 40s. this president has not been able to move above the lower 40s in approval, i m talking about on the average. yeah. for since the 100th day of his presidency. yes, his supporters, his base don t mind apparently that he lies. but the rest of the country minds a lot. if he wants to build a winning coalition for this november and two years from now, he s got to do something because the lying isn t working. errol, let me come back to
larger changes to the immigration law in the daca negotiations? the president made it clear on the january 9th meeting, he agreed with us there should be two phases. let s deal with the problem which he created on september 5th by eliminating daca, deadline march 5th. just a few weeks away. let s sol that have problem now and not all the problems of immigration. and, yes, we did include a provision related to family reunification which breaks my heart. we have said only applying to this population. that s right. they say it should apply entire immigration system. you re going do have senator cotton wants to reduce legal immigration into the united states. i m not one of those people. my mother was an immigrant to this country and i m very proud to be serving in the senate under those circumstances, but what it comes down to is this. lindsey graham and i accepted the president s challenge, produced the bill he asked for. gave it to him 48 hours later, and the infamous white
authorization for construction of 6 to 700 miles of a fence along the border. another issue is family-based migration. this will be very minor and limited and it will change as it pertains to d.r.e.a.m.ers and their families. and, finally the visa lottery system. and that will probably end. and this group of six senators continued to meet after the white house meeting. and they merged from an afternoon meeting yesterday saying they were pretty optimistic. we have some sound of senator richard durbin, a democrat from illinois talking about this. we re still working. we feel very positive we are moving in the right direction. it s time for us to meet the president s challenge and to create a law which solves this problem. reporter: and after the amount of optimism they have in the senate is pretty promising, they said they could announce a