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Because the dynamics are different. we will not default on our debt. mitch mcconnell will get some type of price for ultimately cooperating with schumer in the process. >> and donna, what the democrats want, especially those in tough districts, they want this to be preconference, they want an agreement with the senate going in so theyre not taking hard votes now. voting for these very expensive programs that they dont really love and finding that the senate isnt going to buy them. >> well, i mea...

He in with pelosi and schumer? >> reporter: thats the expectation. the white house plans to issue their own version of how it went this evening, as well. >> see it stacked up and happening live in this hour if the changing of the guard happens from leadership to moderate to progressives and the meetings lined up. thank you all very much. we are going to leighann caldwell, theres another priority officially dead on capitol hill. this is developing this afternoon. the bipartisan police reform talk...

October 1st? >> reporter: joy, this is -- ive been covering the hill for a long time and this is one of the most complicated trapeze acts that speaker pelosi and leader schumer are trying to nav gate. they have president biden of their side, of course, so by october 1st, theyre trying to pass a bipartisan traditional infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill, keep the government open and lift the debt limit or at least suspend the debt limit. all of these things are collidi...

Presidency. first up on this set of meetings an hour from now is the two leaders, speaker nancy pelosi, senate majority leader schumer schumer. after that, a meeting with the moderates. who are concerned the party is going too far and too fast on the legislation. yes, joe biden in that meeting, by the way. then to end the day, a meeting with the progressives who are withholding their support from the bipartisan infrastructure bill as leverage to prevent moderates from watering down or walking aw...

Communities. we know from the local nonprofit organization in the past three days, nearly 1,000 migrants have been released. jake, that doesnt include the thousands of migrants who are being transported to other cities in texas for processing by u.s. immigration authorities. >> rosa flores for us, doing great work in del rio, texas. thank you. lets talk about this with sheila jackson lee from texas. she serves on the house homeland security committee. thanks for joining us. senate majority lea...

They denied the crisis and refuse to deploy necessary resources somehow in washington on saturday they deployed massive resources for nonexistent crisis. they only found one goofball in a for head to interview. >> not even moving his hands quickly. >> you dont think - >> he is fully backed up. >> could easily backup. they do not assault. >> like a david crockett party. they will never admit it but pelosi and schumer were disappointed the crowd was so small, there was no violence, the whole thing...

On saturday it employed massive resources for a nonexistent crisis. they only found one goofball in a fur hat to interview. >> they this is not sold. >> laura: looks like a davy crockett costume party. i dont know what that was. they are never going to admit it but pelosi and schumer were disappointed that the crowd was so small. there was no violence. the whole thing looked absolutely ridiculous. kind of like the resistance ride at disney, stormtroopers and all. who knows how much money all of ...

Would say, lets try to break this thing apart, take it in smaller bites, but the reality is, in the world of the filibuster, we get one bite at passing a lot of this through. and we cannot fail the american people. >> reporter: and democrats just are finishing up their caucus lunch, and before that lunch, im told schumer, the majority leader, had a conversation for about an hour with some of his moderate lawmakers, trying to get everyone on the same page ahead of that lunch. it just really goes ...

Already borrowed. with republicans, given all of the spending for coronavirus over the last year and a half, now, republicans have been saying over and over again that they are not going to join with democrats to actually increase that debt limit. here democrats are saying if you want to keep the government open, if you dont want to vote for a government shut down, you also have to vote to increase the debt limit. we of course have known for several weeks that this is the direction democrats wer...

Point. trump capped it at $10,000. people like schumer and pelosi want to get rid of or at least lift that cap. thats a regressive measure. its americans who pay this old tax and getting rid of it all together would cost $91 billion. its a massive hit to the tax payers and would exclusively benefit the wealthiest of americans. that will would give republicans -- its not decided but its hugely important and largely overlooked issue.