>> dickerson: mr. speaker, thanks for being here. >> congratulations. dickerson: we turn to white house budget director mr. mulvaney where the administration stands in this impasse. welcome, mr. director. >> it's a pleasure being here. congratulations on the new gig. >> dickerson: thank you, the president said this shut down would be a present for him, his son, eric trump, said this is good for the administration. why is it good for the administration? >> i don't think it's good for the administration. the president's comment is correct that i think one of the reasons you asked mr. ryan one ofhe questions why are we doing this, why are we here right now. i think part of the reason is that this is the first anniversary of the president's inauguration. i think the left wing of the democrat party is extraordinarily disappointed with how the first year has gone because the president has good many successes, the tax bill, success in the stock markets, advances that we've had...

together to reopen the government. we we again today with house speaker paul ryan. welcome, mr. speaker. >> thank you. dickerson: where are things in this negotiation as of right now? >> first let me just say, your last show hanging out with the likes of ryan and mulvaney, you're in for serious upgrade, congratulations on that. to the serious point, we're still in shut down, we're waiting for the senate democrats to open the government back up. that is solely done by the senate democrats, it's absolutely meaningless. they shut down the government over a completely unrelated issue and the bill that they're opposing is a bill that they support which is just baffling to us. children's health insurance, funding for our troops are keeping the government going they shut it down over unrelated immigration issue with a deadline weeks away, what's so baffling about this was, we were negotiating in good faith, on daca all the same. we want to solve this problem so it's not as if we were saying...