Congressman Carlos Curbelo. After being blasted by the president , buzzfeed still stands by its story, the president instructed Michael Cohen to lie. We begin with President Trumps repeated calls for a border wall along the southern border. Tonight reiterating that, but then offering what he says is a compromise on daca and temporary protected status programs aimed at reopening the foerlg end the shutdown. It is now dragging into its 29th day. Heres the president earlier unveiling the plan. To physically secure our border, the plan includes 5. 7 billion for a strategic deployment of physical barriers or a wall. This is not a 2,000mile concrete structure from sea to sea. These are steal barriers in highpriority locations. Number one is three years of legislative relief for 700,000 Daca Recipients brought here unlawfully by their parents at a young page many years ago. Second our proposal provides a threeyear extension of temporary protected status, or tps. Now, Top Democrats have rejected what the president has to say, some conservatives have already called it amnesty. So where does that leave us . Joining me now, msnbc White House CorrespondentGeoff Bennett and nbc news Congressional Correspondent mike be a ker ra. Break this down for us. Obviously the white house felt they needed to do something, they had to move the needle somehow. Are they feeling now that they did that for many republicans, yes, the speech was enough to say that President Trump is making a good faith effort to get the government up and running again and its the democrats who are obstructionists, thats the democrats who are hypocrites for supporting donald trump now. But for democrats, this speech didnt move the needle one bit. Democrats shot down the president s proposals based on initial reports before he even said one word from the diplomatic room today in part because they say they need something more than temporary protections for dreamers and refugees. They wont budge on funding the border wall and they say theyre not doing a deal until the president reopens the government. Chris, as you know from having covered previous administrations, sometimes what a president says is as important as what one doesnt say. Nowhere in the president s speech this evening was a mention of the 800,000 federal workers who are not receiving paychecks. Look, we know President Trump has never really shut down an aptitude for the pastoral aspects of the presidency. Hes not an i feel your pain kind of guy. But he has cast himself as a businessman. And according to at least one estimate by the new york times, those affected federal workers are losing 200,000 a day in wages. The direct and unintended consequences of this shutdown are enormous and theyre being felt everywhere from airports to state parks to peoples kitchen tables. The big political question at this point is whether this speech will give traction to the argument hes trying to make that democrats have been obstructionists and should shoulder the blame for what is the longest Government Shutdown in history when polls have consistently shown that americans blame President Trump who, as we all know, once said he would be the proud to own a shutdown, chris. That brings us to what happens next, mike vaquera. We know the majority leader in the Senate Mcconnell has been mia. So whats he saying now . What are people on the hill theyre not on the hill right now, but what are members of congress saying . I think Mitch Mcconnells fingertips are all over this. Mitch mcconnell recognizes the dynamic had to change, that there were some not a critical mass, but some and an increasing number of Senate Republicans who are starting to waiver who are saying lets just open the government and then negotiate all of this stuff. People forget the number one job of a congressional leader as they see it in the context of washington politics and capitol hill, not everybody sees it this way, is to protect their members and expand or maintain their majorities or numbers in congress. Thats Mitch Mcconnells first last consideration. He knows he would ask his membership to walk the political plank for no reason because the president was going to veto him. Thats the way it works. Now, nancy pelosi for her part has as you point out, preemptively shot all of this down. She has said shes going to be sending yet again bills over to the senate to see if they will vote on. They passed before christmas unanimously. President trump tweets how many times a day, six, seven, eight sometimes . Before breakfast. Mostly about the shutdown. But he used this sort of idiom of the solemn setting of the diplomatic room speaking to prompter, not a press conference, sort of the deep state trappings, if you will, that would appeal to a lot of people on capitol hill and Senate Republicans who, frankly, are tired of the way the president communicates and wished that he wouldnt just lash out and rage tweet over the course of the last several days. So were going to sit back and wait and see what kind of reaction we get from Senate Republicans, and more importantly, whos going to be feeling the political pain over the next week. Thanks to both of you gentlemen. Lets get to my panel in washington. Political reporter leigh ann cold well, gabby orr, in austin, texas, victoria defrancesco, and democratic strategist joel pane. The president says this is a compromise. Heres what he is offering. Hes offering 800 million in urgent humanitarian assistance. 805 million for drug detection to secure ports of entry. 75 new Immigration Judges to reduce court backlog, relief to 700,000 Daca Recipients. On its face, someone who doesnt look at this every day who doesnt do a deep dive can say look, the president is out there trying to make a deal. Whats your take on this . Let me start with the last piece, chris, which is the one were talking most about, which is the daca relief, the tps relief. We have to remember that President Trump was the one who took that away. We already had the daca protections. Two years ago he came in and said im going to scrub that. Now he says hes going to give some protection back. This notion of only providing three years and not allowing for permanency is what is so bothersome. When youre looking at immigrants themselves, dreamers are saying for three years im not going to take it, id rather hold out for something more permanent. This is probably the most sensitive piece. The other pieces, the increased funding for Immigration Judges, the increased funding for Border Patrol agents, i think most everybody, republicans and democrats, would agree thats reasonable. But the elephant in the room is for the wall. And the wall is something that the democrats are not going to budge on. It is something that is a permanent wall for a temporary fix for these dreamers. That temporary and permanent fix is whats really getting in peoples frustration. Gabby, whats your sense of this . Is this legit, the white house thinking they are going to be able to put something out there now that could lead to a deal . Or is this a hail mary . I think its a little bit of both. In the one sense were reaching the 29th day of the shutdown today. There was really no offramp for the president to take unless he declared a national emergency. This is a lastditch attempt to bring democrats back to the table and find some type of compromise. Of course, ahead of this agreement even before President Trump laid out the terms, we already heard from congressional democrats, including house speakers nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer, who said this was basically just a compilation of recycled. No, maam, that have already been rejected by both sides, that this daca for border wall funding trade was rejected a long time ago and theres no reason to believe that it would now be politically sufficient in this situation. So i do think that although this was an attempt to bring democrats back to the table, its not necessarily guaranteed to work in the coming days. Joel, obviously the republicans think they may have something here and there was this call with House Republicans who basically came to the conclusion that now the American People are going to look at this and say that the president is willing and eager to get a deal done. Is there a danger here for the democrats . Well, i think democrats actually did a good job of reacting swiftly and in a unified fashion. The last thought out here that this is a real attempt by the president and the white house to include democrats and engage democrats. Its not. I actually think its twofold. Its to shore up his base and the republicans in the senate and in the house as mike said earlier. They were getting a little wobbly, getting a little shaky. I talked to one senior republican believe it or not, and they said this is a reasonable deal, they expect mcconnell to put it on the floor and they think this is something they can work with. This is a republican from a very vulnerable state, someone whos up in 2020. So that was very interesting to me. Also, i think it was meant to engage democrats who are from some of those trump states, places in the middle of the country that tend to support the president s ideas. However, i dont think its going to be as effective as pulling those folks in. Some of those democrats are saying this is a nonstarter. So i think the president s primary audience was his caucus and to bracket some of those democrats who might be vulnerable. I think he might have been successful in unifying this caucus but he might have struck out in bringing on some democrats. Where does this leave us, leigh ann . Thats the 6 million question, before we went through a pay period, the thought was all you have to do is see people standing in line trying to get food for their families or talking about how they cant pay for their medicine. Well, that has already happened. Theres talk about whether or not it would take the super bowl being postponed, whether there would have to be a walkout by tsa agents. Where is this going . Has this changed anything right now . Well, chris, what i will say is the House Republicans did hold a Conference Call after the president spoke and Senate Republicans did as well. What im hearing is that zo mcconnell is expected to put this on the floor tuesday. From what im hearing from some of these republicans, more moderate republicans, that they think that this is a little bit of progress, at least these theyre saying these negotiations have now officially begun. The president put something on the table, the democrats earlier in the day added another billion dollars for Border Security. And so while they know that democrats are not going to prove or support the president s proposal, theyre hoping that nancy pelosi, when this gets to the house, puts up a counteroffer. And so they say that this is a little bit of progress and i think that who the audience was of the president tonight, hes getting public pressure. Its American People, not just his base. He was getting pressure to do something. Now it looks like hes willing to compromise and that is the pr image that he wanted to put out, chris. In our last minute, victoria, do you see any circumstance under which nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer say, okay, we can make a deal without reopening the government first . I think it would have to be a permanent solution to these dreamers. That is the only one. Even then, i dont think its a sure thing. It has to be something permanent and then some money would be loosened up for the wall. Gabby orr, thank you so much. The rest of the panel will stick around. Joining me is steve cohen. Congressman, good evening. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you. Is there anything you heard from the president that has moved the needle for you . No, not at all. I guess he suspects were all judy holiday and we were born yesterday. But none of us were. This is a crazy deal. Three years for the dreamers and 5. 7 billion waste for a wall. So what is it thats going to break this log jam, as had he put it . I think the president needs to sit down with speaker pelosi, not with jared kushner, pence, and mcconnell and work with the other side to come up with a compromise. He came up with a compromise with his own team. Thats not a compromise. He said it was fair, reasonable, common sense, straightforward. If its fair, reasonable, common sense, and straightforward to give dreamers and tps individuals three years, why has he not been for it in the pasta. He needs to sit down with speaker pelosi. Were not going to have a wall. We might have Additional Border protections. Its the 21st century. Its about drones, technology that ferret out drugs and weapons, increase personnel on the boarders. We need to put our people back to work. He has the federal employees as hostages. There havent been more hostages taken never by an american president. This is something that happened in iran. This is something that happened in lebanon. Something that happened in russia. Thats where you have hostage takers. And the president of the United States is right there in the same boat with those people. Its immoral. The walls not immoral per se. You can do something with walling, but keeping American Government officials as hostages, thats immoral the things that you just mentioned, tech, had he put in there 805 million for drug detection tech, 75 new immigration judge teams. He has sort of walked away from some of the conversation on the wall. He said a steel barrier in highpriority locations. Did you hear anything that says to you, well, maybe if the government reopens, we actually could get a deal here . The governments got to reopen first. I dont think hell do that. With trump you got your stuff on the front end. What about the workers . Theyre in a bad position and theyre in a bad position because their boss, the president s job is to run the government and to make it operate. He is not doing his job. His job is not to take federal Government People hostage. We had an agreement at 1. 3 billion for Border Security until Rush Limbaugh and laura whatever her name is told him it was wrong. Now he wants the whole 5. 7 billion. Hes had two years hes built not one inch of wall and hes not used monies weve given him that he has in reserve. The fact is we have a president that cant operate and do the job of president of the United States. He needs to resign. He talked about violence, rape, and the drug problem and didnt say anything to address the 800,000 workers who are coming up on a second paycheck theyre not going to get . Most definitely. He doesnt care about the workers or understand what its like to live from paycheck to paycheck, to have a house note, a car note, tuition for kids in college. His father gave him 560 odd Million Dollars and he never paid back. Even then he went bankrupt with his casinos. The problem is he doesnt care about that. What he brought up about the rape and prayer rug in the desert, thats all fiction. The sad thing is you cant believe anything this president says. He does not have a grip on reality or any concern about the truth. That makes negotiations difficult and it makes our government and our politics very difficult because the man is a pathological liar. Congressman steve cohen, thank you so much for your time. How are you things in memphis . Its starting to snow a little bit but the memphis tigers whooped up on smu by 30 points. That was good. I went out with our government workers, theyre stable noble but theyre having problems. Memphis is moving along and dr. Kings birthday is monday and thats a big day in memphis. Civil Rights Museum is open and have tons of tourists. Congressman, good to see you. And a big basketball game monday too. Thank you. Thank you. A lot more to come when we return. Well get a live report from the border. Gabe gutierrez and President Trump once again targets migrants on twitter. 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