The TAKE with Rick Klein
How much heat is he ready for? And who’s going to bring it?
President Donald Trump may test those questions, coming out of an extraordinary chat session that could reset the conversation around immigration – in ways he may welcome, and other ways he may not.
The president seemed to agree to a “clean” DACA fix that only muddies the water on what he actually wants – while conceding that he’ll basically sign whatever Congress wants to pass, only to later say that he needs to get his wall.
Along the way, Trump angered his hardcore base on a signature issue, and seemed to open the floodgates to the swamp by endorsing the return of earmarks.
We’re a long way from a “bill of love.”
Trump has veered leftward before on immigration, only to return to big, beautiful walls and crackdown policies. Tuesday’s summit came just hours after former Sheriff Joe Arpaio declared his bid for the Senate race in Arizona, vowing to fight for the Trump agenda – wall very much included.
But it’s worth noting that this presidential jaunt also coincides with the downfall of Steve Bannon. The president signaled that he’s in the mood to make a deal – “country before party,” in his words.
The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks
It is unclear -- and probably unlikely – that so-called ‘DREAMers’ across the country felt better going to bed last night.
Despite an hour of unusual, bipartisan, open-door negotiations at the White House on their fate and immigration policy, it seemed nothing concrete was agreed to in the end.
The president said he supports finding a long-term solution for the nearly 800,000 immigrants who were brought to the country as children, and even went as far to suggest that'd he sign a bill that did that and only that during the meeting. By the evening, he had tweeted that any deal right now still had to include money for a wall.
The president seems to have a split personality on this issue, collegial with Democrats when they are around and then much more hardline afterwards. He has tweeted about almost every possible legislative path over the last few months.
The official line from the White House was that all sides agreed to talk more. To be fair, the fact that all sides are talking, is probably comforting to many. The president said specific deals will be left up to Capitol Hill.
Republican and Democratic Senate leaders disagreed publicly about when and in what form an immigration bill for dreamers should come up. Neither men, after all, were invited over to the White House meeting. Do they really care? The ground will likely shift again.
The TIP with Serena Marshall
After President Trump’s marathon meeting Tuesday with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on immigration, it seems like the contours of a deal may be in the works.
A bipartisan group of five senators that have been working on a DACA deal, Flake, R-Ariz., Bennet, D-Colo., Durbin, D-Ill., Graham, R-S.C. and Gardner, R-Colo., are trying to pull together a meeting today to hammer out the details of a potential quid-pro-quo on some elements of immigration reform like border security and the visa system.
While there are still some sticking points on the compromise, both sides are optimistic after Tuesday's meeting with Trump, saying they are closer to, not further from, an immigration deal.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Proverbs 26:11 admonishes us not to repeat past failures, warning 'like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly',”former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint wrote in an op-ed on FoxNews.com warning about the return of congressional earmarks, after President Trump expressed an openness to returning to the practice.
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