Michael Gold

Yeah, he says there are some points that we can agree on.

There's some stuff that we're ready to discuss.

And let's come together and find a path out of this crisis and find a way forward.

And we head into the weekend.

Republicans come forward and they have this proposal, which they bring to the White House.

And they say, this is what we want to do.

We're going to fund all of the Department of Homeland Security, except for the parts of ICE that deal with immigration, detentions and deportations.

We should say that that's a pretty big concession to Democrats.

It's a huge concession to Democrats because Democrats have said from the get-go that they did not want to pass a bill that funds ICE.

I mean, this was like their main point.

They didn't want to fund ICE without these new restrictions on federal agents, and Republicans are coming out and saying, okay, we will pass a bill that does that.

We'll fund everything except the parts of this department that you don't want to fund.

Potential breakthrough.

It is a potential breakthrough.

So they bring that deal to the White House, that proposal, and it gets to President Trump, and he...

completely rejects it.

The president says, I don't want to make a deal that doesn't fund ICE.

And he goes a step further and says, I don't want any deal that you guys pass unless you also take up this separate bill, the Save America Act, which puts restrictions on voting and requires voter ID.

Right, that's correct.

And if you were listening last week, you would know that the Senate has been basically debating this for a while, and this has been their main focus, but they've also been trying to get this deal done.