>> joining me now is republican senator tom cotton of arkansas. senator cotton, welcome back. >> good morning, chuck. >> the president struck a deal on the debt ceiling with democrats. republicans weren't in the room. he apparently seems to strike at least the outlines of what a deal on daca will look like, which apparently is no funding for the wall without republican leaders in the room. are you concerned about this? >> no. i think the president has said publicly that there's not a deal, that he wants to see a deal. in fact, he called me a couple nights ago to say there's no deal. he wants to make sure we protect the interest of american workers, in particular by ending unlimited chain migration, which is why we have so many unskilled workers coming in the country. he asked me to sit down with senator schumer and some of the other democrats. they want to focus on a package of benefits for illegal democrats. we want to put our american workers' interests first and we'll do that. but...