mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer, one quick tweet before. that the president has weighed in at the very end of nancy pelosi's speech this afternoon. about the budget agreement. saying the agreement today is so important for our great military. tends the dangerous sequester and gives secretary mattis what he needs to keep america great. republicans and democrats must support our troops and support this bill. let's take a look at the speeches earlier today on the senate floor. mr. connolly: i want to thank my friend, the democratic leader, for joining me this afternoon and for the productive discussions that have generated this proposal. mr. mcconnell: the compromised we've reached will ensure that for the first time in years, our armed forces will have more of the resources they need to keep america safe. it will help us serve the veterans who bravely served us. and it will ensure funding for important efforts such as disaster relief and, infrastructure, and building on our work to fight opioid abuse and drug addiction. this bill is the produ

chuck schumer is up next by the way. making some news there saying that talks have resulted in a significant agreement. membership mcconnell says, on spending caps. and he also just added that we are building on this bipartisan momentum. so bipartisan spending deal a lot of talk about that as this shut down looms. remember, the deadline is tomorrow night midnight. >> harris: i'm anxious actually to see how chuck schumer is going to respond mitch mcconnell just called him a friend. i was hanging on every word as he put the mike on the lapel. >> maria: acting like adults like you said earlier. >> nothing brings these people bipartisan in washington like spending money. the idea that we're worried about spending or debt is just taken out the window. >> lisa: does anyone else feel like bill murfully ground hog day? >> every day. >> lisa: have these conversations about impending potential looming government shut down, debt ceiling. et cetera, et cetera. it just feels like bill murray in ground hog day. >> harris: i'm going to

i'm not implying this is just chuck schumer and his piling on. both parties have gone ahead and turned their back on sequestration cuts that they agreed to years ago that was supposed to be an automatic spend backbone in case they couldn't do it themselves. now they have said that's done. that is over. keep in mind, we're looking at a deficit topping a trillion dollars on both parties and no indication as to how they will ever address that. peter doocy with the latest. i guess this is not a slam dunk. >> it's not, neil. as you just heard, the senate top democrat chuck schumer likes this deal. he was one of the negotiators. across the capitol, the top democrat in the house, nancy pelosi, really does not like the agreement. here's how much she doesn't like it. for almost six hours she's been talking nonstop about daca protection. but because daca protections are not part of this spending agreement that the democrats came up in the senate, there's no guarantee that she will give her members in the house a blessing to support it. that's why a shutdow

president trump and senate minority leader chuck schumer hail from the big apple. they have a history. is that good or bad when it comes to immigration and more? eric shawn when searching for answers. >> two new yorkers who have noon each other for decades and happen to hold the most powerful jobs in the country. new york senator chuck schumer brings a long legislative history as democratic minority leader. he was first elected to the new york state assembly from brooklyn as a 23-year-old in 1974. before his election to congress and the senate. >> thank you very much. >> he has earned reputation as being somewhat of a camera hog. >> senator dole is responsible for a certain quotation that hounded me for many years. apparently the most dangerous place in washington is between chuck schumer and a camera. about straddling. he remains in the center whenever possible. >> veteran democratic consultant says while schumer was burned by the government shutdown come he's practical and will make deals. >> can schumer work with trump and the republicans? >> schumer has no choi

you can try to cast blame on chuck schumer. by problem is not with the vote that chuck schumer took. we are not here with a daca deal today. let me remind you, scott and let me remind anyone listening, the reason we have to have a daca deal is because of donald trump. donald trump has rendered this country and these individuals with a certain level of uncertainty. no one will deny that republicans were a hoveell of a opposition party. >> we have to have a daca deal today because barack obama issued an unconstitutional order. >> it's not unconstitutional. it's not unconstitutional. >> it's not unconstitutional. stop throwing that red herring out there. >> i believe i belong in the nba. that does not make it a fact. conservatives can believe that something is unconstitutional that was not make it a fact. the other fact is, it takes time to implement a law. and so, we're waiting up until march 6th to get something done. how long is mitch mcconnell or -- how long are mitch mcconnell and paul ryan going to punt this? march 7th has t

he and chuck schumer sharing a stage at the louisville mcconnell center. it's rare to see the two outside washington, and there's been a lot of talk inside washington that their relationship is anything but chummy or respectful. not true, as shown with the chance to poke fun at each other. >> after graduating from harvard law school, chuck was elected to the new york state assembly at the age of 23. in his memoir, chuck remembered his parents actually didn't want him to run. they thought the life of a corporate lawyer would be respectable. and more comfortable. well, chuck, i've got to say my life would have been a lot easier if you had listened to your parents. >> a little fun, a little lef y levity, not a bad thing. i know pundits would be saying, how can they be in the same room together. a good gesture? >> yeah. >> certainly. they just cut a big budget deal last week so they're coming off some bipartisan accolades there. but this is a relationship that has been fraught with tension for years. in 2008 chuck schumer as dadc cut an ad going after mitch mc

what did chuck schumer say? brian: a little. steve: time for a narrow bill. citizenship for "dreamers." amnesty some would say. brian: legalizing parents, it is legalizing bad behavior. steve: no border security. just that that would not pass the house. ainsley: the problem with legalizing the parents is, they did it illegally, did it the wrong way. all the people on the list trying it do it the right way, what message does that says. brian: all the people through the right way, green cards, doing the application, should be dealt with after daca. ainsley: that's a big story. election day, president trump as you know wins. january 20th of last year. 15 minutes after she was out of a job, she was the advisor, nsa advisor, susan rice, at 12:15, she was out of a job at 12, she sends herself an email. it is very suspicious, people are wondering why did she send an email about a meeting that happened on january 5th. steve: part of this says this. president obama began the conversation. she is recounting a meeting january 5th in the oval office with a bunch of haifa

this for the reasons why chuck schumer really likes the deal. except for the daca part, there is nothing the deal the democrats shouldn't love, and there is individual spending i can defend, this amounts to a death knell messaging. >> a lot of democrat senators in red states. after they get it done, there's going to be a lot of saying i need to be fiscally responsible. you need about eight. if they get the budget they want and there's this sense they will get some type of daca deal, why do you think we can be a little bit optimistic people are going to see welfare is a mess. social security needs to be addressed. medicare. >> i've been paying attention to congress for the last 15 years. >> it's not going to happen. president trump has promised not to cut medicare, medicaid, social security. you don't -- >> he says he's going to build the wall. then he says he's going to use technology. he could pull back on it. >> chris: at least you are optimistic. we can appreciate that. next up, allegations of domestic abuse against one of the president's top

on thursday, pompeo defended in a letter to senate minority leader chuck schumer. he said he and others met with russians to keep america safe. schumer told cnn yesterday if this administration is ignoring sanctions, that's very serious. >>> a state department spokeswoman says sanctions can be waived in cases of national security. last year, russians revealed an oval office meeting with sergei kislyak. it is fair to note that past administrations have also met with russian intelligence officials. >>> nikki haley slamming russia an the republican retreat in west virginia. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. telling lawmakers moscow is not and will not be our friend. she defended the administration handling of russia although it failed to impose new sanctions as mandated by congress. here is michelle kosinski at the state department. >> reporter: rene and ryan, look at the timing of this. this comes amid all of the controversy and development around the russia investigation. it comes when the administration is seeking to meddle into the u.s. election. we see the administ

[applause] >> chuck schumer spoke on the senate floor on the parkland shooting. his remarks are ten minutes. >> thank you, mr. president. now, mr. president, in the wake of the horrific shootings at sconeman douglas high school, the deadliest school shoot can since sandy hook there has been a broad, national conversation about the epidemic of gun violence in this country. it's been led by a group of brave high school students, the friends, classmates of the fallen, who i'll be sitting down with tomorrow. their passion and eloquence have been a moral force for change. thank god for these students. to they are urging us now to have a debate in congress about something very straightforward. what can we do to stop very dangerous guns from getting into the hands offed vary dangerous people? how can we keep america safe at our movie theaters and

chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell don't agree on much in that now includes the issue. showing up in the home state of kentucky. kerry mcconnell a bottle of bourbon made in his native brooklyn saying it was among the best in the world. mcconnell defended his turf and said there's no such thing as brooklyn bourbon. and i think that might be correct. lauren: i have to say i've never heard of it. hopefully that let's you just saw between mcconnell and schumer will follow through to the senate floor today where they're about to have a rare free-for-all debate on immigration reform. >> i expect that virtually every issue under the sun will come up during this floor debate and not is fine. that is the way the senate oases to operate. that is a good way to legislate. >> is that the only way to get it done? patrice and luca and contributor john ellis join us now. good morning. is this a good way or the only way to get a deal done for the streamers? >> definitely not the only way that it's a good way. it's important to get proposals on the table and an opportunity for the white

i was impressed that chuck schumer -- excuse me, that mitch mcconnell kept referring to chuck schumer as my good friend. >> the senate is actually working. now we kick it to the house where there are a lot more problems. this deal does present a problem for nancy pelosi. a lot of the congressional black caucus wanted these community health centers funded. the disaster funding included in this bill. i think it's going to be hard for some of these democrats to say no to this. >> money for puerto rico, for example, is included. for texas and florida as well. >> yeah, this is how compromises used to work, which is if you're the majority, you sweeten the pot. things like domestic spending, nonmilitary spending. you give some while getting some. the issue is we live in a politics of extreme polarization. the question is, is good good enough f enough. for the liberal wing of the democratic party and, not really the tea party, but the fiscal deficit hawk wing of the republican party, there's some overlap. >> just to be precise, the republicans will like the $160 billion increase in defense sp

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chuck schumer says this is a slap to the hardliners. those are comments you say about something when you want to end a conversation. >> this rhetoric from nancy pelosi, there's a lot of democrats in the heartland, democrats running for the senate from purple states. they understand the american people do as i say want something done about the dreamers. if immigrants go into a mode of total resistance, the blame will start falling back on them. i might add one more thing, senator - - at the republican retreat said this should be really simple. do the dreamers and for the security. leave the lottery and chain migration out of it. that's as much as we can pull off and i think he's right. >>paul: i agree that that's a deal that could get to the senate. not sure that could get through the house. you might have to put more on the restrictions i to get through the house. still ahead, president trump touting the state of the economy and his address tuesday night. how much political credit can he take? >> two words i don't think we were here ton

the senate minority leader chuck schumer saying that would be like barreling head first into a dead end if the house sends over that short-term spending bill. and likely they would strip out that federal funding, wrapped up into all of this, and as the talks continue, about potentially trying to broker some broader deal is, of course, getting a deal for dreamers, addressing daca, which many senate democrats are pushing for. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said he intends to bring immigration to a floor debate next week as long as the government stays open and funded past the thursday deadline. but what form that is, what is the base of that bill, right now it is very much an open question. lawmakers are throwing up their hands saying we don't even know what that base bill is. so certainly a lot to iron out, very short amount of time. >> sunlen serfaty, thank you. >>> joining me now, republican congressman claudia tenny of new york. good to have you with us. obviously sunlen laying out for us, we know there is a busy not just today but next few days ahead of you here, in terms

as crying chuck schumer, the chuck schumer shut down, the democrats suffered. the president rose in the polls and american people said we don't want the government shut down. i think it's a mistake for the president to do that again this time. he has -- he is on a good move right now. but he keeps getting in front of him sflt and calling for a shutdown that he criticized two weeks ago is not going to advance his cause. >> martha: karl rove, always good to see you, carl. >> thank you, appreciate it. >> martha: remember when the g.o.p. was ridiculed for having such a crowded presidential field there were 17 of them. remember those days way back then? so now is it the democrats' turn? ever growing list of surprise hopefuls that could be trying to jump in for 2020 next. ♪ ♪ there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who embrace it. the future is for the unafraid. ♪ ♪ the future is for the unafraid. smile dad. i take medication for high blood pressure and cholesterol. but they might not be enough to protect my heart. a

jeff, why is chuck schumer taking his case straight to the white house? >> here's why. white house officials already signaled an openness to approving the release of the democratic document. but we haven't heard yet from president trump himself about whether he will declassify it. that's one reason why chuck schumer is now stepping in leveraging his stature, personal relationship with president trump, to apply what pressure he can. as you know, senator schumer and president trump have known each other for a long time. they have a good amount in common. schumer, a new york democrat. the president, a former new york democrat. but what we're really seeing is the process of how the public relations battle surrounding all of this is playing out. remember, republicans on the house intelligence committee voted last week to only release the gop nunes memo, effectively giving them a head start in framing the public debate. senator schumer in his letter says it's aatter o fundamental fairness that the american people be allowed to and i can tell you, david, i've just confirmed th

[laughter] chuck schumer of course is from brooklyn. born and raised. his dad owned an exterminator business. one of chuck siblings remembered that we always associated the smell of triple x roach spray with love. [laughter] it was his hard work, day in and day out that took this kid from brooklyn to the world's greatest deliberative body, the united states senate. it is also why last year, time --azine named him one of the to its distinguished list of 100 most influential people. after graduating from harvard law school, chuck was elected to the new york state assembly at the age of 23. about the same age of the graduates of this program. in his memoir, chuck remembered his parents did not want him to run. they thought the life of a corporate lawyer would be respectful. [laughter] and more comfortable. that my life would be a lot easier if you had only listened to your parents. [laughter] since that first electoral victory, he has kept a perfect batting average. never losing a single election. andame to congress in 1981 has served in both the house and

going through historical record, in 2006, then senator barack obama, you had chuck schumer, forgive me, hillary clinton, nancy pelosi, i believe, here we go here is the whole list. joe biden, all saying we needed a fence. they called it a fence as opposed to a wall back then in 2006. >> you know who else agreed ending chain migration? it was actually feinstein, it was schumer, all part of the "gang of six" or eight, you know, that couple out during the senate in 2013. there were plenty of democrats agreed there was need to end chain migration, end diversity visa lottery program. there is a lot more bipartisan room to grow there. i think president is saying let's get a solution done, for the sake of daca recipients, for the sake of americans, let's get to a point where we have a generous compromise and really get this done. the question will become, are democrats simply going to play politics. are they will to be come up with a true solution that would benefit daca recipients as well as insure we secure our border. trish: i think he might be able to get it done, really. tax reform went

chuck schumer is not ready to go there again but would nancy pelosi? trish: that is the question. the republicans are forcing their hand. they may have the upper hand on this one. adam, thank you very much. joining me with reaction, we have adam johnson, the author and founders of the "bullseye brief." we have gary kaltbaum, the president of kaltbaum capital management. good to see you both. gary, i got a big chuckle out of your response to this you wrote, i want to vomit. tell us how you really feel. >> i'm sorry. trish: you do not like it. explain why. >> i just think they're taunting the future. our debt has skyrocketed throughout the years and in order to enable it, they printed money to get rates way down. i think there is one day rates will look at 21 trillion headed to 30 trillion, they will explode to the upside. if that happens the economy will head south in a big way. the market will head south in a big way. then all heck breaks loose. when i sit here listening to schumer say this is a win for the american people when this insures that every day for the next two years ov

elizabeth warren, chuck schumer, all voted for the priorities we have laid out in this legislation in the past. except we have gone further on the diamondbaaca component than ever offered. this is what democrats should be asked. what are you not supportive of and why aren't we moving the ball forward? >> is he open to extending the deadline or has that door closed? >> i'm not getting ahead of the process. we are hopeful to get there before the deadline hits. jennifer. >> thank you, sarah. when we have asked in recent days about vice president and whether or not he would be interested in meeting with north korean officials while traveling in south korea for the olympics and they doej said, we'll see, are they trying to inspire interest in north koreans? >> i don't have any or announcements than we'll see. i will echo vice president and secretary of state. i'm not getting ahead of either of them. >>. [ inaudible ] >> i think the answer is the same. we'll see. jim? >> can i get back to chief of staff saying that dreamers may just have been too lazy to get off their asses. just on the fac

. >> chuck schumer wants to narrow the focus to just hundreds of thousands of dreamers brought here as children. >> now is not the time or the place to reform the entire legal immigration system. this is the moment for a narrow bill. >> senators feel this act plans the best chance for success addressing the president's goals. >> the president's framework is not an opening bid in negotiations. it is a best and final offer. this is the only bill that can become law. we have a plan to pass a law. >> passing citizenship for the dreamers for border security, includes a wall. it places a new limit on chain migration, key points conservatives consider a nonstarter for democrats. it would toughen interior enforcement including implementing easyverify and cracking down on visa overstays. we will see if they are making progress. only a few legislators for the march 5th deadline for dreamers fast approaching. there is not one bill debating. it is open-ended as they make the sausage. it could go on all week long, will be back at 10:00 this morning. >> a chance to see how government is supposed to

and chuck schumer lost on this. he shut down the government, held the american people's government hostage for 700,000 illegal immigrants, putting 8 million children's access to healthcare funding on the line and he got nothing. this is a deal that ends sequestration. a deal that doesn't include daca. this is a failure for democrats. they catered to their radical leftist base and got precisely zero out of it. >> harris: michael? >> kailey is fundamentally wrong yet again. let's be clear, have you funding that is happening over the next two years. have you funding in terms of what is happening for community programs, community health centers. funding that was not happening at the levels that they were happening before. let's also be clear that sarah sanders actually conveyed that the president's stance has not changed from yesterday. that he directly stated that the government should be shut down if he does not get a wall. there is no more confusion anymore. move past the last few weeks. the president said yesterday

. >> chuck schumer spoke at the university of louisville about his relationship. this is 45 minutes. [applause]

we'll be hearing from the minor leader chuck schumer. we did get word from our crew, that he did just land at the airport, so we are expecting this event to begin a little later than scheduled. maybe in about ten minutes or so. let you know though in the meantime, that this week in congress will be working on immigration issues, one. things that chuck schumer will be working on with mitch mcconnell as well, as there are plans for a rare open-ended debate on the issue. they'll expect a plan from trump, no chance of passing. the president might be the most influential in this according to the associated press. and a proposed white house budget proposal and a new infrastructure plan. again here at university of louisville just waiting for remarks by senate minority leader chuck schumer. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

chuck schumer on the senate and nancy pelosi on the house side. chuck schumer will vote for the a grooming josh agreement.>> there is some dissent between the top 2 democrats. chuck schumer is part of the senators who drafted the agreement. we need to keep the government open and tackle it later. nancy pelosi said they want to have some fix for daca or debate about these young illegal immigrants and in less that is included she is not sure that paul ryan will open up debate. she is a no on this bill if it does make it to the house but schumer is saying keep the government open.>>> today the white house defended the handling of domestic violence allegations against rob porter. he announced his resignation yesterday after he had reports he abused both x wise. he spoke as part of his clearance. the background investigation was ongoing and he was operating under a clearance. john kelly know about the allegations since last fall but did not take action. you would have said he only became fully aware yesterday. >>> coming up, a wild day on wall street a

that is chuck schumer's position. that is unacceptable to republicans are now. where the solids up is hard to say. someone is going to have to back down. mcconnell is daring the democrats to take the republican offer. it is all most of take it or leave it offer at this point. that is what it appears to me. we will see what the democrats do. given how sort the debate is going to be, mcconnell at the size of this is only going to go on through the weekend. they're not going to take it after the president a resource. it is hard to see them arriving at a solution. >> my me ask you about the headline on the senate. pieceadline of your earlier on the senate leaders meeting, you talked about mcconnell. " senate needs to move on on immigration" what is the timeline for moving ahead on the immigration debate? >> this debate has been delayed as of tuesday evening. the senate is not on the shell of the bill yet. the democrats had not yielded their time. -- the senate will finally be on the bill. can start proposing amendments to that. that means that, unless there is a bip

tonight, senate minority leader chuck schumer speaks at the university of kentucky. after that, attorney general jeff sessions. >> chuck schumer spoke at the university of louisville about his relationship. this is 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. i want to express my gratitude to you for your service. view, a done, in my seamless job of plugging the gap . -- when this program started in the early 1990's, i had no idea it could develop into what it had become. i hope you'll join me in thanking him for the good job. [applause] we've had a lot of interesting speakers over the years. there might be none more interesting than our guests -- this morning. -- you brooklyn.mer is from always associate a smell of triple x roche sprayed with love. it was his hard work day in and day out that took this kid from brooklyn to the united states and it. it is also why last year time magazine named him one of the most influential people. he was elected to the new york state assembly at the age of 23. in his memoir, chuck remembered his parents actually did not want him

on wednesday, pompeo defended the meetings to chuck schumer. he declare he and others met with russian officials to keep america safe. he told cnn yesterday if this administration is ignoring sanctions, schumer said that is serious. >> the spokeswoman says sanctions can be waived in cases of national security. last year, russians revealed an oval office meeting with the president and then ambassador sergei kislyak. it is fair to note that past administrations have also met with russian intelligence offici officials. >>> in a headline that should not get lost in the russia news, the u.s. government is set to run out of money next week. the house will vote on another short-term spending bill through march of 22nd. the beltway version of groundhog day. this is hopes to give enough time to strike an immigration deal, but there is not much movement on the issue. >> the president tweeting about it last night. he tweeted the democrats just aren't calling about daca. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer have to get moving fast or they'll disappoint you again

nancy pelosi was party to the budget deal that was made with chuck schumer and mcconnell and ryan to bus to budget and create $500 billion in spending over the next two years total. almost $100 billion in disaster relief. she was party to that end when it came up yesterday she said i am not going to vote for this deal i helped create because it doesn't include daca. a couple of points. it speaks to the left-wing base of the party. it speaks to the dreamers which is an important part, pro-immigration people, and important part. she is 77 years old and there is growing talk about maybe we need a younger face. what will be a more effective way to push back on that than to stand on the house floor for eight hours and deliver an unprecedented speech and say i am plenty vigorous and i can handle this. >> harris: chris wallace, okay. thank you for helping us break it down. you saw senator thune, the senate feeling strong that they can get a budget deal through on their side of the chamber and a ghost of the house. a fox news alert. we are waiting to hear from the white house on the latest r

chuck schumer tweeted that this that trump would stop torpedoing bipartisan efforts. talk to us about what got torpedoed. >> there were four votes in the senate. all of them ended up failing. none of them got the 60 greatest there were to bipartisan buddy so-called common sense coalition . the senate got 54 votes. there was another one by senator thatmccain from arizona got 52 boats. have issues -- they would billion for$25 trump's builder wall -- border wall. 60 senators opposed it. republican leaders are not going withoutrt a bill .resident trump's support democrats don't want the legal immigration cuts. we are stuck. >> you put it perfectly. when you look at the different options here cap there are certain aspects in clearly given the few votes, we have a real problem here. what next? what, if any of this is salvageable? >> it is far from clear what happens next. i think president trump is the key. he has to support a proposal that can get more than 39 votes in the senate. seen, a daca fixed border security. president trump has said he wants to protect the people w

chuck schumer tonight pounced. he said the president's double standard when it comes to transparency is appalling. the rational for releasing the nunes memo, transparency, vanishes when it can show information harmful to him. millions of americans are asking what is he hiding? the next step for house intel is to either except the president's decisions, make changes and send it back to the white house or they can try to override the president in a secret session of the house. there has been only six of those in history. very rare. regardless of how they do it the bottom line. we're told the democratic memo does not dispute the key point of nunes's memo. f.b.i. and d.o.j. personnel got the fisa warrant to spy on carter page after not telling the judge the dossier was paid for by the dnc and clinton campaign. that will be a key issue moving forward. >> this was not expected at all. i think all of us thought it was going to be released. that basic underlying premise as you said nothing is out there, is there, that refu

senate minority leader chuck schumer says lawmakers need to do more. senator schumer and other democrats are calling for universal checks. >> it's outrageous that so many guns are sold with no background checks whatsoever. whether you're a felon, an adjudicated mentally ill, spousal abuser. outrageous. we should close those loop holes and close them now. >> the white house says the president plans to meet with lawmakers tomorrow to talk about specific changes to gun laws. let's go back to john roberts at the white house. john? >> we're told by sarah huckabee sanders the press secretary a short time ago at the briefing, the white house will have specific policy proposals to announce later on this week. the president does support the cornyn-murphy bill to improve the reporting system for background checks and supports the stops school violence act. what is unclear is his idea on raising the minimum age to buy a long gun, which would include rifles and the various incarnations of those and shotguns as well from 18 to 21. the president tweeted about it las

>> senate minority leader chuck schumer spoke on the senate floor on the parkland, florida, school shooting that killed 17 7 people and the need for gun control. his remarks are about ten minutes. mr. president. now, mr.je president, in the wae of the horrific shootings at stoneman douglas high school, the deadliest school shooting since sandy hook, there has been a broad national conversation about the epidemic of gun violence in this country. it ised being led by a group of brave high school students, friends, , classmates of the fallen. who i will be sitting down with store. their passion and eloquence of been a moral force for change. thank god for these students. they are urging us that have debate in congress about something very straightforward. what can we do to stop very dangerous guns from getting into the hands of very dangerous people. how can we keep america safe at our movie theaters and nightclubs and concerts and churches, and above all at our schools? we need to get something real and significant accomplished. the problem of gun violence in this country is to be meeting for

steve: chuck schumer from new york says we'll not beç abe to get reelected, based on the resistance. we have to have a message. and money. suggests that donald trump's and republican tax cut is working. >> that's right. you can't beat something with nothing and that is what the democrats frankly have offered. if you look at which party, which, which president's ideas are getting the economy moving, it is this president's. it is tax cut bill that is leading to hundreds of companies announcing wage increases, increasing investments in this country. giving 401(k) benefits to their workers. people are seeing it in their bottom lines. unemployment is low. overall the stock market has been rising over the last year. so we're very proud of that president's economic achievements. we think republicans will be able to support it as they go to elections next fall. brian: right, senator schumer went on to say he is getting his agenda done on some spending in the two-year budget you signed last week. let's move on to something youwe can't quite figure out, maybe you can. in investigating senator

so by doing that, the president does have a relationship with chuck schumer. there is a personal connection there, but again, it's about making it public in order to try to bring the pressure about. we have heard from the white house that they are willing to consider the steps that are necessary. what's involved in that? you'd have to get the house intelligence committee to vote to make public the memo written by democrats. it would have to go through a process where it is scrubbed, the word they used, making certain no sources or methods that would be revealed publicly and then it goes to the president, with the unique power to declassify and have a period of days in which to do that. this could drag out all week, right as we're going up against a new deadline for budget funding. a whole other issue that congress will have to deal with. but this is a battle to persuade the public about which side has it right. each side wants to be heard and democrats say beginning tomorrow they want the committee to release their memo. alex? >> top of line there. thank you s

. >> the minority leader chuck schumer says he has a commitment and we heard the majority leader mitch mcconnell say they will take up border security, daca, the dreamers, all of that immigration-related issues immediately following this. >> i want to solidify that assurance. we've seen assurances before. i want to make sure that promise is going to be iron clad. that we will address the daca issue to protect the dreamers if mass deportation. >> so you confidence in chuck schumer when he says he has a deal and he was very praiseworthy of mitch mcconnell and he called him his good friend? you don't trust these guys? >> not only do i trust chuck schumer, i believe he strongly and unequivocally wants to address the dreamer issue. the 30 days, it doesn't just kick the can down the road and that we have assurances on the timing of taking up the dreamer issue. >> you don't have much time. when will the vote take place? >> almost certainly tomorrow. >> tomorrow you'll vote? you'll to have make up your mind by then. what i hear you say, you're inclined to vote yea. and then it will go to the h

i've not seen a lot from tom perez and chuck schumer. you would think something of this magnitude would have a party amification effort behind had. >> by all indications it was a spontaneous decision by nancy pelosi to take the floor and driven by pressure from her base. she's feeling from the house democratic -- >> as we heard from luis gut guiterrez. yesterday he said senate democrats melted like a candle in the heat, and now he's colluding from trump. they went from melting to collusion. >> right. so this is -- this is driven in part by the pressure she feels to hold firm and not to go forward with the caps deal without a commitment on a vote. chuck schumer got the commitment to move forward and he could bank that and move forward, if she doesn't get anything it is a tough situation for her. and as congressman guiterrez pointed out, the defense caps are the last major piece of leverage they have. it is something this republicans have been eagerly asking for more months, if they give that up and speaker ryan said no, i'm not going to p

reporter: chuck schumer urged president trump to back democrats effort to get their own a memo out. house intelligence chairman republican devon nunez said his committee will vote on it once democrats memo go through all the normal review procedures. >> molly in washington for more on this list bring kelly jane morrison, editor at the weekly standard thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. the point molly made at the end of the report is into the new week seems to be the question in terms of what is next. there are reports that there may be formed in memos another subject still to come but to molly's point of the question is what about the democratic memo, the so-called rebuttal? to see that at some point? it sounds like the will and there will be dueling memos back and forth over and over. the democrats have the committee has voted to not release it but that committee is controlled by republicans but it does look like there's a very real possibility that they will finally relent and let it go. president trump has to review it and make the call himself whether he will let it sta

coming up will hear from senator mcconnell, minority leader chuck schumer along with majority whip, john cornyn and minority whip, richard durbin. >> it is now wednesday morning the week the senate set aside to debate daca, border security, interior enforcement and other immigration issues. i promised i would clear the way to debate these matters this week and i have. i promised i would ensure a fair amendment process in which both sides could offer legislation for discussion and vote and i have. yesterday the congressional hispanic caucus released a letter thanking me for keeping my commitment and urge the senate to resolve this issue quickly. but we haven't even been able to get started yet. haven't even been able to get started. yesterday i tried twice to open debate and start the voting. both times my democratic colleagues objected. i'm a little for text frankly by the holdup. my democratic colleagues spent months months as we all know demanding the senate take up this issue and even shut down the government shut down the government unnecessarily i might add in order to secure this v

chuck schumer and nancy pelosi have called on you to remove chairman nunez from his position on the intel committee. what is your response? speaker ryan: they are looking for a political distraction. tax cuts are working. isis is on the run. things are going well. economic confidence is at a 17 year high. devin nunes help shepherd through the reauthorization of 702. he is focusing on national security. they are trying to sidetrack us with some political game. where do you stand on the cr? speaker ryan: we have been both talking about it. the reason we are having this in the first place is because the democrats have been holding this agreement hostage for an unrelated issue. if we would've had the agreement in place by now, we would not have been having to do this. that i think we are making progress on an agreement, and even if we get everything figured out by tuesday, we have to have a cr because we have to for the writing of an anonymous appropriations bill. we are still negotiating the content and the duration of that. tool thatnell: one has been eliminated, i don't think we will see t

chuck schumer has been on the senate floor talking about how important it is to not only having more money go to v.a. choice and the private health care sector program but also across the health care spectrum for veterans, including mental health care. democrats have said they will make sure this entire budget for the v.a. goes up. we do not know we do not know what the breakdown is going to be because we just have the top line spending levels. it is a significant increase in the domestic program levels. you you can expect big increases in every department here. greta jasper is watching and : bethel springs, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. i was calling and i'm hearing about the budget and all that. well, i got disabled back in 1988. for nearly all of my life, since i was a kid. in the last year i've had two strokes and two heart attacks and three back surgeries. now i'm disabled. my wife, she draws $160 a month. it doesn't cover her medicine bill. they say that's all she can draw. they're so much money out there wasted and the guy about the v.a., he's right. he is 100%

that's not what chuck schumer wants. it's difficult to see where the overlap is. 60 votes in the senate, 218 in the house and the president's signature. >> shepard: the research shows the biggest problem is in the ports of call. >> right. >> shepard: but there's not -- i haven't heard anything about what to do about that. and then the way most of them get here is -- it's weird. they buy an airline ticket and don't go home. >> right. it's a more difficult thing to message. remember what the president ran on. the wall is a compelling message. you can run for re-election on the wall. it's much more difficult to run for election on visa overstays. look for a lot of political messages here. >> shepard: one of those is a problem and one is a message. >> that's another issue to deal with in congress. >> shepard: what is the reporting on how long we think this process plays out, this debate? >> mitch mcconnell hasn't put a deadline on it. it could go fork weeks. there's nothing pressing. the deadline for dreamers is in march. be