I want to start with garrett haake, you are in the center of the action. Weve been hearing from lawmakers. To my ears, i dont hear any break in this gridlock. Whats your take at this hour . Reporter yeah, you with choose your own news here at this point, depending on who youre talking to. Im outside a meeting thats been going on Susan Collins office and the democrats coming out have said no comment, on made vague comments like theres been progress. Lindsey gram just left. Hes been probably the sagelemost key negotiator. He sees some of the dynamics as potential something to be optimistic about, specifically this idea that the senate would be able to move forward sometime
optimism their close to turning a corner. The work will continue at least until tomorrow. Just to drill down on the point you make, they are considering essentially the deal that seems to be gaining the most team is this shortterm threeweek deal. So the question is why would democrats go for this deal when they Wouldnt
and this is a sort of a larger issue of the tribalism we face in america. independents are starting to move away from him, though. yeah and that s the thing. going into a re-election, you know, whatever happens in the midterms is going to happen but going into a re-election campaign, he does have to have credibility with more than just the republican party. he needs to capture some percentage of democrats but a larger percentage of independents, and so hopefully the president will pivot back towards that as he has to his own re-election campaign. back to the truth? right. but i would just say, politics is one thing, but where this really where the rubber really hits the road is if you had a national crisis and when the president speaks, you need to be able we are in a national crisis. we are in a constitutional crisis, we re in a truth crisis. we are in a national security crisis. and when you say the republicans believe him, i don t think so. you had house speaker ryan
on tv, and say their political enemies don t care. cnn got very upset when dana lash said cnn doesn t get upset. anchors or reporters may challenge something. that s not a network-wide thing. but reporters need to challenge. i need again, the reporters are the representatives of the network. when i tune in there is a reporter on cnn and the cnn insignia is in the bottom corner and there is nothing i can do by say, cnn may have a bias here, especially if that bias all runs in one direction. it s not like members of the cnn are pushing one agenda. if there is a bias it is universally to one side, and that s what people on the right are seeing. the agenda of being pushed is gun control by interviewing students who are scared to go back to school. is that how you perceive it? the agenda being pushed is gun control if there is no pushback on questions asked to other guests. that doesn t confer for expertise.
two ex wives and other concerns. is that even appropriate? i think any way you look at this it s a tragic situation that has been mishandled and continued to be a week and a half of coverage on this. and everybody runs to their corners on this and they go to their political corners and you rather talk about this than what s happening with the economy and legislatively. i think general kelly will be safe there and we ll continue to hear about this especially when you start to see chairman gowdy and speaker ryan say they re looking into it. eric: it is a major issue with accusations of abuse. some things aren t political. this should be one of them. multiple women come forward and say they were physically abused. picture evidence, rob porter was just about made the deputy chief of staff. time for kelly tofmgt he is out. he has the confidence of the white house. we ll see how it plays out. thank you. julie: u.s. forces have
government over daca. what do you make of those numbers? well, look, it s the only chance we ve got because the president ended daca. remember, this didn t happen because time line ran out, the president decided to end daca. and this is the only leverage we ve got to get it done. so what is so hard about it. if everyone is for it, and i heard speaker ryan say, we re all for giving the d.r.e.a.m.ers protection. well let s do it now. let s get it over with. but governor rendell, but we know that president obama did this via executive action and he said 22 times, i lack the authority to do this and he did it, these daca recipients are in this position because of president obama unconstitutional action. if everyone wants to everyone wants to do it and everyone claims they do, what is the big deal. let s do it now and keep the government open. caylee, does he have a good point. what is the big deal democrats say let s stop kicking the can down the road and deal with this