cotton, lankford and grassley
and senator tillis of north
carolina and a separate meeting
with joe manchin, a senator
from west virginia and doug
jones from alabama.
the first time the president
has met with senator jones.
they are taken to be moderates
on the democratic side.
people the president believes
he can work with.
the white house says there has
been progress in negotiations
over daca.
there has been a realization on
the part of the democrats that
they need to provide more money
for construction of the wall
and that at the same time the
white house is willing to give
a little bit on the number of
actual daca recipients there
might be out there.
melissa, the current number
that folks are working with is
690,000.
the democrats contend there
could be as many as two million
because a lot of daca --
potential daca recipients
haven't come out of the shadows.
the white house indicating that
two million number may be a
little on the high side but
willing to go up from the
number of...