those bonds and build up those friendships like there used to be in the past. a longer week, people were less likely to fly home to their districts. in part because you weren t necessarily painted as a washington insider in a lot of ways in congress used to be a good thing. it used to be something that meant you could get things done for your district. now it s looked at as a bad thing. people want to be out of here all the time. scalise is a member of leadership. sorry to keep doing this, but i m going to keep looking over my shoulder. he s somebody who s going to have a lot more contact with members particularly on the republican side. but on both parties, many members would have themselves. so if you re a republican from texas and a republican from california, may not have as much to say to each other. but steve scalise. how was it? it was awesome. reporter: well, very brief comment there from speaker ryan he s working his way through the hallway not talking. but he said it was
i am hopeful that even in an anti-immigrant climate from the last election when it comes to coming to this problem, we can find common ground. bret: so what is going to happen? how is it going to happen? let s bring in our panel. tom bevan, jesse antal, columnist for the washington times. and byron york, chief correspondent of washington. there is a decision here, it seems like it s going to be a walking in the middle, somehow. a caveat that the dreamers can stay. but we don t know how it s going to play out for what congress is going to do. right. that s the question. trump really doesn t want to do this. you can tell by his expression and the signals he s been given, he does not want to repeal this. he s going to try to punt. i think he wants congress to handle it. we heard from speaker ryan he wants congress to handle it. we will see if congress can handle it. to handle it, they will pass make some sort of specific
people? i am hopeful that even in an anti-immigrant climate from the last election when it comes to coming to this problem, we can find common ground. bret: so what is going to happen? how is it going to happen? let s bring in our panel. tom bevan, jesse antal, columnist for the washington times. and byron york, chief correspondent of washington. there is a decision here, it seems like it s going to be a walking in the middle, somehow. a caveat that the dreamers can stay. but we don t know how it s going to play out for what congress is going to do. right. that s the question. trump really doesn t want to do this. you can tell by his expression and the signals he s been given, he does not want to repeal this. he s going to try to punt. i think he wants congress to handle it. we heard from speaker ryan he wants congress to handle it. we will see if congress can handle it. to handle it, they will pass make some sort of specific
things. that s going well. interesting thing here is the history of parties in america is fringe groups work on parties and the parties in the case of the democrats it appears the fringe group of resistance has taken over the party and the senate democrats can t act independently. we saw that with judge gorsuch most clearly. they couldn t act independently. they were told they had to obstruct him. that s a sad thing. he was a very good man and a person replacing somebody who had the same philosophy he had. it was strange that would become the situation. bill: take that on. what dave worked for speaker ryan he became speaker ryan. the republicans objected and obstructed and resisted every single thing barack obama and the democrats did. look what happened? they got the white house, house and senate and they still can t get anything done. as a strategy to win power it works. they can t deliver on their agenda and can t get it done and we ll see what happens.