individuals in charge of that investigation, suggesting that he does not have that much confidence in the mueller probe. but he thinks at the end of the day mueller is going to treat him fairly, whatever that means. the second thing here is about timing. the white house, the president s lawyers have actually told him they believe this investigation is wrapping up, that it is coming to a close. here the president suggests he has no idea where it is going to go. this is unusual considering how often we hear from him tweeting angrily about this probe on social media. and also he just took to twitter this morning, tweeting about doca or a deal for so-called dreamers saying there is a line and really making clear where the line is for him on this. that s right. the white house has been talking quite a bit about bipartisan ship. this is one of the issues they will have to work with democrats on. but the president this morning making it clear he is not going to come to the table unless he
they should come to me on doca. they should definitely come to me on health care because we could do bipartisan on health care, doca. he just tweeted this morning and said no doca deal without a wall. i mean, is this genuine hope for bipartisan ship? i do think the president hopes the democrats would come to him to strike a deal. no one is coming begging and groveling to donald trump asking him to do something. the republicans are in charge of both chambers of congress. the reason that nothing has gotten done up until tax reform has been because republicans couldn t get their stuff together, not because democrats were obstructing. democrats are more than happy to work with administration. they say things like we want
bipartisan ship and then they say we want to overhaul and get rid of obamacare. they say we want to work on we want to save the dreamers and then donald trump tweets about a border wall. democrats are not going to vote for a border wall in conjunction with saving dreamers doca recipients who this is the only country they know. so i think the president needs to retool his negotiating skills here. but democrats are more than willing to come to the table. that s why nothing is getting done. is that a correct or i mean, alice, just when you think about the calculation, the president saying no doca deal without a wall, you do have 83% of americans polled want to see a solution for dreamers here. it is more than just his base. sure. and i think one clarification. i think we started out this year, yes, the gop was all over the map and they didn t work together. i think they have learned they
gets that wall funding. he says the democrats have been told and fully understand there can be no doca without desperately needed wall and end to the chain migration and ridiculous lottery system of immigration. we must protect our country at all costs. everyone knows the president wants to get that wall built. but at the same time, democrats have made it clear they want doca to be fixed on its own, separate from all these other immigration issues. the president making it clear before they come to the new year he wants those issues to be married together. it is unclear how that will affect how things go with that issue. what about this expected shake-up in the west wing? what s happening staffing-wise? well, we have been hearing a lot of complaints over the last several months about the white house political office and the need for that office to be beefed up. we have learned in the last few minutes that the aid currently
have to get something done. the gop now is united at working together, especially with house and senate members working together. that s why we have tax reform. it is critical with a lot of these issues moving forward, whether infrastructure or doca, they do work for closely with democrats and doca is an important issue. but the president has made it quite clear. anything that has any remote connection to national security with regard to immigration, he wants to build a wall. and if he has to tie that in with doca, he s going to do that. also think if we re talking about doca, he s going to be talking about putting an end to chain migration. so i think everyone is going to have to be willing to concede and work together if you want doca. you also have to consider the wall and chain migration. but there is something important to be said here. the dreamers and issues of immigration, phrases like chain migration negate the fact these are real people and real families we re talking about