reached out to family and friends via facebook. reporter: charles wants to focus on other inmates who are ready to make a serious change. the have changed in their heart and to their children and grandchildren, to come back out to society and say i made a mistake. 2500 other inmates in similar situations will be eligible for these sentence reductions because of this new law. a bipartisan law coming up. tonight we will be featuring another interesting report from a dreamer, a young immigrant whose deportation under the obama administration who supports donald trump s border wall. a message for congress on daca and for the president. next. - in a crossfit gym, we re really engaged
a lawmaker? you represent a border state in california. especially now that the talk between the president and congress on daca and immigration matters, they ve certainly stalled. they have. and alex, i don t know that the president fully understands the nature of the united states of america. we re a nation of immigrant, one generation after another coming here just to experience the american dream. that s who we are as a country. we shouldn t change that very fabric of the diversity of america. now, the most urgent thing is let s figure out how to protect these kids, these dreamers, and you ve got bipartisan legislation. one of my colleagues, jeff denim, is trying to push something on the house floor and get a deal to give us a chance to vote on something. you have got plenty of bipartisan pieces of legislation. let us have a vote. okay. i want to ask you something about the mueller investigation. you heard the president saying on friday he d love to sit down with special counsel
the latest to avoid a shut down. phil where do things stand right now? it s a high wire act right now for republican leaders. they need a lot of things to go in their direction in a compressed timetable. to give you a sense, house republican leaders struggling to secure the votes on their own for their short term funding bill bill. in the senate no idea where republicans leaders are for their own votes. democratic help is required for this. they re not willing to bail out the majority leader, republicans and still pushing for the idea that they want their issues addressed. most notably daca. it s clear to everyone involved the republicans aren t going to consider any daca solution any time soon. as it s scheduled, house republicans wantd their short term funding bill on the floor
he s not yet indicated what measure he s willing to sign, as soon as we figure out what he is for, then i would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels going on this issue on the floor. so what needs to be in the bill for the president to sign? i think we ve been crystal clear with congress on that why is he confused? ch that s a good question. we ve been clear. we said we need a physical barrier, end chain migration, end the visa lottery program and we re willing to address daca. those are the four pillars we need and we put forward our plans in each of the areas. lindsey graham the republican senator who is trying to come up with a compromise to allow the 700,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers to stay here, there was a tuesday trump as opposed to a thursday trump with the president rejecting the compromise. which version is congress
republican votes for it to pass. amid the threat of a shut down, both parties are pointing fingers over which side is to blame. paul ryan is saying they re being unreasonable with the daca deal. they ll cut off states by playing these political zbams tying them to unrelated issues. a point also said by sarah sanders. if it happens, there s only one place to look and that s the democrats. reporter: some democrats are insisting any bill must drefs daca and d.r.e.a.m.ers for their sport. two days to go, our republican colleagues have been complicit in the lack of leadership that s been demonstrated by the white house. reporter: even more criticism of president trump today coming from his own party as jeff flake