Michael Gold

And this is the first time that the president has come out and linked these two objectives together.

Huh.

So that brings us to Monday morning, and negotiations are frozen.

And that is when Trump decides to send ICE agents to the airports to help out the TSA, relieve the long lines, try and relieve the officers of all this work they're doing.

And Democrats are a bit confused because to them, they now see Trump reminding everybody that this crisis at the airports was all about ICE to begin with.

Right.

And then there's one other thing that I think is really important.

John Thune, the Senate majority leader, has said to the senators, hey, I know you guys thought that you would be leaving on Friday for a two-week recess.

If we can't get a deal done to get us out of this crisis, you might have to stay here until we do.

Mmm.

And senators are just like us.

They like their weekends, and they like their breaks, and they like to go home.

And so now there's all this pressure to make a deal at the same time that Trump has basically said, don't make a deal.

Right.

Yeah, so with all this going on, a group of senators who are pretty closely aligned with the president, people like Senator Katie Britt from Alabama and Bernie Moreno of Ohio—

Lindsey Graham, they go to the White House on Monday to try and convince the president that he should be more open to this deal that they've pitched.

And they managed to convince him to at least hear them out.

And so now things are back on.

And while that sounds really positive, as of right now...

I just want to be clear, the two sides are still really far apart.