[Blitzer:] The White House is now correcting the official transcript of that meeting that the president had yesterday with Democratic and Republican lawmakers dealing with the so-called DREAMers, the DACA legislation. But they say a line, a critically important line that was omitted in the official transcript was not, according to White House officials, they insist, an attempt to scrub what the president actually said. First, let's listen to the exchange, a very sensitive moment during that 55-minute conversation at the White House. Listen to what Dianne Feinstein, the Senator from California, what she said about the DREAMers and legislation and the president's response. Listen to this.
[Sen. Dianne Feinstein, , California:] What about a clean DACA bill now with a commitment that we go in to a comprehensive immigration reform procedure, like we did back on remember when Kennedy was here. It was really a major, major effort, and it was great disappointment that it went nowhere.
[Donald Trump, President Of The United States:] I have no problem. I think that's basically what Dick is saying. We're going to come out with DACA and do DACA and then we can start immediately on phase two, which would be comprehensive.
[Feinstein:] Would you be agreeable on that?
[Trump:] Yes, I would like I would like that. Go ahead. I think a lot of people would like to see that. But I think we have to do DACA first.
[Blitzer:] That was the actual video. We saw it exactly here 24 hours ago. It was live. It was on tape. We saw the whole 55-minute exchange. The initial transcript released by White House omitted that critically important line from the president when he was asked by Senator Feinstein, would you be agreeable to that, meaning a clean DACA bill. The president said, yes, I would like I would like to do that. That was omitted. That line, "Yes, I would like to do that," omitted from the official transcript. It was later corrected. They put that line in. But there's a lot of suspicion as to why that most sensitive line during that 55-minute conversation in the official White House transcript was initially deleted. David Gregory is still with us right now. David, you've covered the White House. I've covered the White House. Those White House officials who transcribe these kinds of meetings, they're very, very specific. And when, all of a sudden, that most sensitive line was deleted when the president said, "Yes, I would like I would like to do that," meaning a clean DACA bill. By the way, that was followed by Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader, who said, Mr. President, you need to be clear though, I think that Senator Feinstein is asking here, what Senator Feinstein is asking, what we're talking about, DACA, then he says, you've got to include security.
[Gregory:] I remember listening to that. He was so unusually broadcasted with the cameras in there. He kind of bellows from across the room, hey, wait a minute, Mr. President, before you do that. Yes, that seems fishy to me, as I'm sure it does you. We know the transcribers who work in the White House who are terrific. This is something the president wouldn't want out there to be consumed and to be scrutinized. And maybe they felt like, well, he didn't really mean that. They corrected it. You shouldn't be messing around with the transcripts. The point is that the president seemed committed to do something until, you know, Republican leaders said, no, no, you're not thinking this through all the way, which, again, suggests some level of lack of preparation.
[Blitzer:] These are official transcripts. Historians study them. When Feinstein said, would you be agreeable to that, meaning a clean DACA bill, and the presidents said, "Yes, I would like I would like to do that." That was deleted. But they fixed it and corrected it.
[Gregory:] Right. The other question is, they talk about doing this in phases, and that first phase is take care of the DREAMers and then get to how do you get to this other stuff, including the wall that the president wants?
[Blitzer:] All right. Thanks very much, David, for that. Republican Senator Rand Paul is standing by. He will join us. We'll discuss this and a whole lot more right after a quick break.