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Possible consideration of legislation related to border security and immigration so timing totally up in the air. one on the most conservative plan, the most conservative members in congress favor and house judiciary committee chair bob goodlatte which does not include a pathway to citizenship for daca recipients brought to the country as kids and the compromise package and the horsetrading on that is favored by republican congressman jeff denham to drop the plan to work with democrats on immigr...

Has a very big megaphone, though, on social media and the president himself in person. theyre going to try to sell, sell, sell this assuming they do get the final votes. >> absolutely. the president has been making his final pitch throughout the week, including on wednesday when he gave that big speech here. we asked him, peter alexander, my colleague, if he had actually seen the final bill. he said, yes, hes seen it. it will do very well. i asked him if he would be willing to increase the child...

Money would be spent flying to charlottesville. >> the white house is out with a list of demands for any deal to protect so-called dreamers including proposals that are drawing rebuke from some democrats. joining us now from the white house, kristen welker. i thought they had a deal with chuck and nancy. it was all going so well. >> reporter: thats right. it started off on strong footing, but the white house is saying this represents a compromise. democrats are saying this is a nonstarter. heres...

Sanctions and take the idea of a possible military attack off the table and what kind of signal sending to iran to select somebody who believes that. basically president obama is signaling them, i dont really believe in the sanctions that much and dont worry well never attack you. >> sean: how do you interpret this in a broader picture. were going through the president or joe biden is talking about executive orders to advance their gun control initiative. we have nancy pelosi saying lets use the...

Sanctions and take the idea of a possible military attack off the table and what kind of signal sending to iran to select somebody who believes that. basically president obama is signaling them, i dont really believe in the sanctions that much and dont worry well never attack you. >> sean: how do you interpret this in a broader picture. were going through the president or joe biden is talking about executive orders to advance their gun control initiative. we have nancy pelosi saying lets use the...

Part of the tea party faction and the party to try to form a coalition of democrats and moderate republicans. couldnt he lose his speakership by doing that? >> he is not going to lose his speakership this term by doing it. the vote comes up on january 3rd, which is a thursday. hell be re-elected to speaker. but what ryan got to was this really interesting sort of tug and pull on -- within the republican conference right now. there is this effort to be as conservative as possible on every single ...

That are coming out of this meeting, constructive, optimistic. there seems to be a little bit of movement. you always hesitate to say that because, of course, these talks could become derailed at any minute, but president obama set to address the press and the nation hopefully to give us a little bit of a better sense of how that meeting wrapped up. >> kristin, how do we square the sense of optimism and everyone saying that the talks were constructive when theyre still stuck on the same points? ...

They are going to be crucial as well as, of course, house speaker john boehner, but really theres going to be a lot of focus right now on the senate because, as you remember, house speaker john boehner tried to get his own bill passed through the house. that didnt happen. he didnt have enough votes, so essentially everything shifts right now to the senate. so harry reid, mitch mcconnell, nancy please elosi on the house to say here are the number of democrats i could get if you offer a compromise...

Cliff. with the deadline rapidly approaching, both sides are hoping to pressure the other into giving up some ground as they hammer out a compromise package of tax hikes and spending cuts. treasury secretary tim geithner meeting with all four party leaders in the house and senate, but instead of sitting down with everybody in one room, geithner is meeting separately with each of them. our chief congressional correspondent, mike emanuel, live on capitol hill right now. whats the latest on those m...

Wealthiest americans at a time when we have massive deficits to address and when we have real challenges to grow our economy. people get that, john. i think the american people understand whats happened. they know it has to be fixed. it has to be corrected. >> david, you had a chance to end the bush tax cuts a couple years ago. chuck shumer suggested you end them at least for millionaires. you didnt because a lot of people believed it wasnt wise to raise taxes when the economy was weak. >> as th...