and holding mitch mcconnell from his commitment to the floor. do you think it will change? that s what i m saying. i don t think it will change. i hope that the president will say, here s what we need and here s what we ll stick with. but if we don t, we ll come to the senate floor and the senate will be the senate again. and we ll pass something and then see if the president likes it. will you get a deal for the d.r.e.a.m.ers today? we want to get a deal by march 5th. i think the worst outcome would be to get to march 5th and then try to jam something through that would look the legislative equipment of daca. there would be no settlement for these kids and they would have to wait for something certain again. that wouldn t be good. i m convinced a deal can be done, it just won t be permanent. do you think a deal can be done with trump? it s a victory for everybody when the government opens back
republican conference and the house and the senate, shepard. they disagree with the ranks of the moderates after a few years of obamacare in place grow fond of a medicaid expansion and the fiscal hawks like paul ryan and the freedom caucus who say their goal all along as republicans and conservatives was to shrink the federal government, get it out of healthcare and reduce the deficit and debt. there really in a fix right now because not only did obamacare grow so popular, president trump defended entitlement spending, doesn t want to cut back on medicare, social security but the white house is pushing for an unpaid deficit-funded tax cut that won t be as deep and won t last won t be permanent. that s going to be another battle between the conservative wing and the less conservative win of the republican party when they get to tax reform in the fall. that starts after labor day? after labor day, shepard. you know there s 12 legislative days in september before the end