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Days. now we have another deadline, pressure coming from the white house to get this done before next weeks break. >> kevin, shifting gears, one of basically say we didnt get a bad deal. this spending bill they have to extend government to keep a shutdown away, republicans, the leadership has been criticized because a lot of people have said democrats won on this, including the democrats, who said we won on this. you house leadership was very, very defensive. what is the reality as far as you se...

All right. were watching the dow at this hour, it is down about 43 points right now. just minutes away from closing. if it closes down, that will be the dows longest losing streak since 2011. for more, i want to bring in cnbcs dominic chu tracking the markets for us today. dominic, were hearing its about uncertainty of a government shutdown. what are you hearing? >> reporter: eight straight days. a pretty big streak here. were seeing if he can get a little bit of positive momentum. i should poin...

>> foreign minister wong and i had a very extensive exchange on north korea and foreign minister affirmed again chinas long-standing policy of a denuclearized korean peninsula. we exchanged views and i think we share a common view and a sense that tensions on the peninsula are quite high right now and that things have reached a rather dangerous level. and weve committed ourselves to do everything we can to prevent any type of conflict from breaking out. >> reporter: now, the trump administration...

Particularly to russia to be processed into something much safer, cant be used for a nuclear weapon, the iranian side over the weekend said, you know what, were not going to do that. i talked to iranian officials as well that said thats not on the table. you heard a lot of back and forth as to whether it still was. clearly that issue had not been decided. i think what youll hear, general statement, weve made progress, here are issues weve made progress on. other issues need to be resolved. well ...

Cancer? >> you know, for decades weve been talking about the war on cancer. the truth is our death rates are about the same as they were a decade ago. sometimes we need to think of cancer as something to manage, not just try to cure but also to treat almost like a chronic disease in certain circumstances. we can cure cancer when its in one spot and inject it or cut it out. but when it spreads through the body thats what weve not made much progress on. >> the study does link cancer with stem cell...

The challenge for the united states is when tomorrow we still have to wake up and work with them on syria, north korea, on getting supplies to troops in afghanistan. theres a whole bunch of other issues we need to continue to get progress on, arms control reduction, aside from this. that is what makes this so complicated. we need a strong response and that includes sanctions and that includes diplomatic isolation, but theres a limit. >> and could we -- you mentioned syria and iran -- could we ha...

Chief political analyst and john fabro, former barack obama speech writer and karen hughes former bush campaigner adviser former white house communications director as well. john, you just came from the white house. you were kind of looking over the speech. there are a lot of different audiences for the speech. theres progressives within the presidents party, there are republicans who he has to try to work with particularly on immigration reform the theres a lot of different audiences for this. ...

Everything they want. but also the president can say to the country he is not going to wait. he has a pen and a phone. hell use those to move the ball forward to create opportunity. >> but presidents before -- ronald reagan, a number of them -- have dealt with congresses of the different party and have been able to get things through -- a lot of serious stuff through. why cant this president. >> we have made progress. we have a budget this year. the president has the legislative record that stan...

That it doesnt necessarily address the underlying civil war, the underlying problems in the region. i know thats something you have written about and i want to wrote from something you wrote. from the rae reagan era on, u.s. forces covert operationives engage in hostile actions. not to mention iraq and afghanistan. consider them altogether what you have is a war for the grater middle east. professor, to this point, yes, we will take out the weapons, these chemical weapons. assad at this point is...

the path. from ohio to new york this morning and airlines are playing catch up after 900 flights were canceled. another severe storm watch in effect today. lets get the very latest from meteorologist rob marciano live in olympic park in atlanta. rough night for us up here. >> reporter: it was. not just for new york city, it was a massive storm system, christine. yesterday morning at this time we said the atmosphere was primed to explode and mother nature certainly took the cue yester...