more than $300 billion that could be in play because that is the deficit reduction number. there are goodies that can be passed out to some, that may not bring over the more hard-line fiscal conservatives, though, you got rand paul who is one of the leaders of that pact at the white house right now. kristen, there is going to be arm twisting and a lot of dealing, wheeling and dealing there too. absolutely. don t forget the president has been working the phones on this over the weekend. yesterday we anticipate he will today as well. and vice president mike pence, andrea, has been such a central figure in trying to get this health care bill over the finish line. he s going to be hosting a dinner with conservatives this evening. so the arm twisting is on both sides of pennsylvania avenue and i think garrett makes a very important point, you can never count mitch mcconnell out. he s better at this than almost anyone. so this remains a moving target, andrea. so thanks to kristen and to
issues on immigration reform like what to do with the 11 million immigrants already here illegally until the border is secured. what i ve done is say we need to secure the border. once we do that then continue to work on whatever happens. frontrunner donald trump plainly insists all illegal immigrants must be sent home. walker tweeted for clarity truly secure border and enforce laws. nothing else matters on immigration issues if you don t do this first. that s my point. rye values including jeb bush, marco yub yo, john kasich and others say some might be given a path to legal status. lines will be long in alabama for trump tonight. 22,000 have rsvp d. trump has faced fiscally in 2009 when the president signed a $1 trillion stimulus package loathed by fiscal conservatives, trump praised obama and the deficit spending. i thought he did a terrific
ended up with a trillion dollars at the end of the decade, with the help of newt gingrich and the republicans i might add. bill clinton is a pretty good model whereby partisan approach gave us fiscal conservatives and surplus that s an important message to republicans to embrace. laura: i think lanny touched on interesting point. bill clinton understood at some point he had to actually work with the politics as it faced him. right? the republicans on the hill. he actually had to work with them. now we have reports that president obama hasn t spoken to republic leadership in a real way in about a year. and pretty much isn t talking all that often to democrats either. it seems like is he just going forward campaigning, raising money doing his own unilateral moves but not working for that financial consensus that i think president clinton did. well, yeah, it wasn t just that bill clinton was willing to talk to them. i think he was actually to meet in the middle and even sometimes come
ended up with a trillion dollars at the end of the decade, with the help of newt gingrich and the republicans i might add. bill clinton is a pretty good model whereby partisan approach gave us fiscal conservatives and surplus that s an important message to republicans to embrace. laura: i think lanny touched on interesting point. bill clinton understood at some point he had to actually work with the politics as it faced him. right? the republicans on the hill. he actually had to work with them. now we have reports that president obama hasn t spoken to republic leadership in a real way in about a year. and pretty much isn t talking all that often to democrats either. it seems like is he just going forward campaigning, raising money doing his own unilateral moves but not working for that financial consensus that i think president clinton did. well, yeah, it wasn t just that bill clinton was willing to talk to them. i think he was actually to meet in the middle and even sometimes come
is thalment. don t you think mitch mcconnell, who is a serious guy. at least the adults in the republican party say we can t let it happen in the meantime. i m so sick and tired of the adult-child metaphor. obama is the adult in the room. anybody who agrees with obama is the adult. anybody who disagrees with him is a child. used to be you were a racist, now you re a child. now if you are a tea party, i ll give you a rattle. the tea party is responsible for house going republican in 2010. they promised not to raise the debt ceiling. is mitch mcconnell, the established republican throwing the tea party or the ultra fiscal conservatives under the bus? no, i don t think so. i respect for senator mcconnell. to not be such a partisan issue. i don t know a single republican who says we should just go ahead and not raise the debt limit.