Schumer on hot mic talking about Trump relationship

Sen. Charles Schumer offered a personal explanation for the sudden (if not quite nailed down) deal with President Donald Trump on DACA: ‘He likes us.’

Schumer made the claim on the Senate floor Thursday morning, just hours after he and Nancy Pelosi made the stunning announcement they had move toward a deal on the Obama-era immigration program.  

‘He likes us. He likes me anyway,’ Schumer told a person out of view in a comment picked up on a microphone on the Senate floor. 

Then he laid out what he told the president, who has known Schumer for years from New York circles.  

‘He likes us. He likes me anyway,’ Schumer told a person out of view in a comment picked up on a microphone on the Senate floor. ‘He likes us. He likes me anyway,’ Schumer told a person out of view in a comment picked up on a microphone on the Senate floor

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‘Here’s what I told him. I said, ‘Mr. President, you’re much better off if you can sometimes step right and sometimes step left. If you have to step just in one direction, you’re boxed,’ Schumer said.

It sounds like Schumer then says, ‘He gets that,’ adding: ‘and it’ll make us more productive too.’ 

The statement came after Schumer and Pelosi had talked immigration and border politics with Trump over Chinese food.

'He likes us. He likes me anyway," Schumer told a person out of view in a comment picked up on a microphone on the Senate floor

‘He likes us. He likes me anyway,’ Schumer told a person out of view in a comment picked up on a microphone on the Senate floor

They announced afterward the two sides were close to agreement on dealing with DACA, in a compact that was ‘excluding’ the border wall.

‘We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides,’ Schumer and Pelosi said in a statement Wednesday night. 

LIKABLE ENOUGH: Schumer shared his impressions of Trump in comments that got recorded and broadcast on C-SPAN

LIKABLE ENOUGH: Schumer shared his impressions of Trump in comments that got recorded and broadcast on C-SPAN

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 04:  Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) (C) is joined by fellow Democrats from both the House and Senate, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (R) following a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol January 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. Obama came to Capitol Hill to encourage his fellow Democrats to work to preserve his signature health care law, also known as Obamacare.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 04: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) (C) is joined by fellow Democrats from both the House and Senate, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (R) following a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol January 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. Obama came to Capitol Hill to encourage his fellow Democrats to work to preserve his signature health care law, also known as Obamacare. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump proceeded to make a series of conflicting statements.

 ‘Ultimately, we have to have the wall. If we don’t have the wall, we’re doing nothing,’ Trump reporters from the tarmac when he landed in Florida for a briefing on Hurricane Irma Thursday morning.

‘We’re not looking at citizenship. We’re not looking at amnesty. We’re looking at allowing people to stay here. We’re working with everybody, Republican, we’re working with Democrat,’ Trump said while touring Florida.

Trump tweeted Thursday that there was ‘no deal,’ but then sent out a tweet expressing sympathy for people brought here illegally as children.

‘We’re working on a plan for DACA. People want to see that happen. You have 800,000 young people brought here, no fault of their own, so we’re working on a plan, we will see how it works out. But we are going to get massive border security as part of that, and I think something can happen,’ Trump said.

 

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