Good Friday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing

sponsored by BP. And I'm Anna Palmer. There's a new idea that seems to be picking up steam at the

White House and in some quarters on Capitol Hill, and that's to create a commission to study border

security and a border wall. Needless to say, this would be Republicans folding, according to the president's

friends and foes alike. Commissions are useless for the most part. Washington creating one

would be an omission that the administration cannot figure out how to cut a deal with Congress on

the president's central campaign promise. Look no further than the Super Committee, which wasted a lot of

people's time in

2011, trying to come up with a deficit reduction plan. Even a mention of the Super Committee is going to

send shutters through many Hill and administration aides. Imagine the White House trying to convince

its base and reporters that it's worth opening the government so a commission could study whether

the U.S. needs a wall. Hat tip to Bob Costa,

who's been talking about this idea for a few days. Let's take a step back for a minute with a look

at the year in review on Trump's immigration plans on Capitol Hill. Something is getting lost

in this kerfuffle over immigration. Pretty much every immigration plan that the president has supported has gone down.

Let's take a trip down memory lane. There were both good lap bills in the House, the four-pillar

plan, yesterday's legislation, the framework of which was unveiled in a rare Saturday's speech

from the White House. There was a benefit to the clean funding bill in President Trump's

immigration plan going down

in the Senate yesterday. Everyone got to see that neither of those bills are the way out of this.

Now Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer are talking, so that's a good sign if you're looking for this to end.

In today's You Can't Make It Up segment, the president said yesterday afternoon that he sees, quote lot of the democrats are all almost all of

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