TODAY IN A TELEVISED MEETING WITH BOTH DEMOCRATS AND
REPUBLICANS PRESIDENTIAL LAID OUT A VAGUE ROADMAP FOR HOW
THEIR IMMIGRATION REFORM PROCESS IS GOING TO GO FORWARD INTO
THE FUTURE.
HERE IS THE DISCUSSION ABOUT ONE OF THE PRIME COMPONENTS THAT IS
GETTING A LOT OF COVERAGE, THE
NEED TO NULLIFY DACA.
HERE ARE HIS THOUGHTS.
I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WOULD FEEL ABOUT THIS BUT I WOULD LIKE
TO ASK QUESTION, WHAT ABOUT A CLEAN DACA BILL NOW WITH THE
COMMITMENT THAT WE WILL GO IN WITH CONFERENCE OF IMMIGRATION
REFORM PROCEDURE.
I THINK THAT IS BASICALLY ñ WE ARE GOING TO DO DACA, THAT
WE CAN START ON PHASE 2 WHICH WILL BE COMPREHENSIVE.
I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT.
BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO DO DACA FIRST.
YOU FOLKS ARE SUPPOSED TO
HAVE TO COME UP WITH A SOLUTION.
WE HAVE A LOT OF SMART PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM.
WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THESE DACA KIDS AND WE ALL AGREE
ON THAT.
86% OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC AGREES ON THAT.
WHEN THIS GROUP COMES BACK, THIS GROUP AND OTHERS FROM THE
SENATE AND FROM THE HOUSE COMES BACK WITH AN AGREEMENT, I AM
SIGNING IT.
I'M NOT GOING TO SAY I WANT THIS OR THAT, I WILL SIGN IT BECAUSE
I HAVE A LOT OF CONFIDENCE IN THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM THAT YOU
ARE GOING TO COME OUT WITH
SOMETHING REALLY GOOD.
MY GUT IS TO SAY HE SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT NEGOTIATOR BUT
THIS PERHAPS IS HIM RECOGNIZING THAT HE DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING
ABOUT THIS TOPIC.
IS ALSO COMING OUT OF THE CONVERSATION WE HAD YESTERDAY OF
HIS MENTAL CLARITY.
HE SEEMED
ON TODAY.
I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT.
HIS BASE HAS NO COMPASSION FOR THE DACA RECIPIENTS.
WHEN HE
RESCINDED THEIR PROTECTION THEY WERE CELEBRATING AND SO IT'S
INTERESTING TO SEE HOW AT LEAST FOUR SHOW HE SEEMED SUPPORTIVE
OF PROTECTING THEM.
IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A CLEAN DACA BILL.
WHAT YOU SAW IS
DIFFERENT FROM WHAT TRUMP IS EXPECTING FROM DEMOCRATS IN
ORDER TO GIVE THESE DACA RECIPIENTS WHAT THEY NEED.
HE WANTS TO FUND THAT BORDER WALL AND THAT WILL BE FUNDED
IF CONGRESS SIGNS ON TO IT TO THE TUNE OF TENS OF BILLIONS
OF DOLLARS.
BUT THE POINT I WANT TO MAKE IS THAT HE KEEPS RENEGING ON THINGS
HE PROMISED HIS BASE.
AND THEY STILL REMAIN LOYAL TO HIM.
WITH THE WALL HE MIGHT STILL WANT TO FIGHT TO CONSTRUCT
PORTIONS OF THAT WALL BUT HE SAID MEXICO IS GOING TO PAY FOR
IT, OBVIOUSLY THEY WILL NOT.
ALSO IS TALKING ABOUT PROTECTING DACA RECIPIENTS WHICH I HOPE HE
DOES BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT HIS
BASE WANTED.
SORRY JOHN, YOU'VE BEEN INTERRUPTED THREE TIMES, MAKE
IT FOUR.
OF COURSE THERE IS A FULL CONVERSATION AND REPRESENTATIVE
MCCARTHY FROM CALIFORNIA WAS SITTING TO DOWN FROM TRUMP.
AFTER HE SAID WE HAVE TO DO THIS IN PHASES BECAUSE ñ HE WENT ON
AND INTERRUPTED AFTER TRUMP AGREED TO IT VERBALLY AND SAID
I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CLEAR THIS UP.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT SHE JUST SAID, SHE JUST SAID WE ARE GOING TO DO
DACA, I DON'T THINK YOU WANT TO DO THAT.
AFTER THE CAMERAS ARE OFF, THIS IS WHERE THEY CAN SAY LET ME
POINT THIS OUT TO YOU.
YOU ARE AGREEING WITH DEMOCRATS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT
IS BEING SAID.
HE
NEEDS TO BE REMINDED OF WHAT HIS POSITION SHOULD ACTUALLY BE.
AT THE END OF THE DAY HE CAN SAY WHATEVER HE WANTS BUT HE IS ALSO
SAYING WHATEVER YOU GIVE ME I
WILL SIGN WHICH I CALL LEADERSHIP.
AND ALSO DOES IT MATTER WHAT PROMISES HE MADE.
THE COULD ALSO BE A
COMPLETE DODGE.
THEY COULD SIMPLY DO A CLEAN DACA BILL, IT WOULD BE POPULAR.
BUT THEIR BASE IS NOT WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO NEED IN THESE
MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
BUT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DO THE POLITICALLY POPULAR THING.
HE SAID HE WANTS THIS TO BE A BILL OF LOVE, THAT IS WEIRD.
HE IS DOING A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU WOULD NOT NECESSARILY EXPECT
BUT THAT IS WHAT YOU GET OUT OF A PERSON WHO DOESN'T REALLY HAVE
ANY THOUGHTS OR POSITIONS.
I THINK HIS BRAIN WAS DESCRIBED AS NINE FIREFLIES BUZZING AROUND
IN A GLASS JAR.
I LIKE TO THINK OF HIM AS A BRANCH ON A WILLOW TREE DURING
A HURRICANE.
JUST ALL OVER THE PLACE.
ALSO YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS, AND OPEN
CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT AND DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS
FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THEIR MEETING.
BUT IT IS ñ
THE PRESIDENT IS FINE, THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO SAY.
BUT THAT IS ALSO DANGEROUS BECAUSE THE MORE THEY DO THAT
THE MORE HE IS LIABLE TO FORGET HIS MENTAL STUFF AND MAKE
MISTAKES LIKE HE MADE TODAY WHERE HE SEEMED SHARP.
IT'S INTERESTING, USUALLY COMMUNICATES IN SUCH A
QUESTIONABLE WAY THAT WATCHING THAT MAKES IT SEEM AS THOUGH HE
IS LUCID AND NOT INSULTING PEOPLE.
ANY OTHER PRESIDENT, THE MISTAKES WOULD BE GLARING.
THERE IS A RISK, IN A MEETING LIKE THAT.