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Running through the halls all weekend with the rest of our capitol hill team. garrett, what is going on? what is the latest? we know that mcconnell and schumer met earlier. did anything come out of that? >> its a waiting game. this they struck a deal, theyre not talking about it. i have to tell you, theres a disconnect between the rank and file senators, particularly the ones who are part of that group of 20 to 25 bipartisan senators who met earlier today trying to come up with solution to this....

Forward. but they dont have any leadership. where is it president of the united states on this? >> well, the first point, i think there is a fight. youll see it online tonight in the social media. theres going to be a big debate about whether this was a smart move by schumer and by durbin to go along with this commitment that there will be a vote on the d.r.e.a.m.ers act in early february. thats a commitment mcconnell made and that schumer and durbin and the others accepted. so theres going to b...

>> there would never be any public binding of the house, but you do want to take a temperature check before announcing any potential agreement to make sure theyre not going to blow it up immediately. >> sounds like we have leanne caldwell reporting on this. what do we know about what we may hear from mcconnell on the floor? >> im not sure exactly what mcconnell is going to say. but we are hearing details about the contours of a possible deal that schumer and mcconnell might have agreed to. we kn...

Backs a deal like this. with the promise of a vote. he would need ashurps from the white house about what an immigration bill is going to look like. and im not sure schumer will really believe him. after he had sit down with president trump on friday, they talked about things that a daca beel would like and president trump basically the white house said everything they talked about wasnt true. i think its going to be a difficult position for schumer to say he backs this deal. i can see him oppos...

Better for democrats, who are still getting a lot of pressure from their base not to agree to anything that doesnt include a concrete plan for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> we have a little bit of new reporting as well from alex moe. he says that i think the mie minority leader wants to give everyone a chance to chew on the deal and understand it. thats why he didnt want to have a vote tonight. its better to have a successful vote tomorrow at noon than a failed vote tonight. it sounds like republicans a...

Victor, yourself would support. >> im not here -- my personal views are irrelevant here. >> they are because the american people are seeing exactly what schumer is doing. >> democrats have said its not what is on this bill that they dont support its the lack of a long-term spending plan and dealing with the other issues. >> we are working with budget caps right now but nancy pelosi and chuck schumer will not allow us to talk about anything because nancy pelosi says whatever we spend on military ...

Broken. its broken on the republican and democratic side. >> politically, who needs a compromise more? democrats or republicans? >> i think both sides need to get -- i dont think in the end that both sides benefit from an extended shutdown, but if this energizes republicans -- they have the edge. this is one unifying opponent and having donald trump in the oval office is energizing them, but if this gets republicans like schumer and pelosi are blocking the president, it could get them to vote, a...

You saw president trump being the deal maker that he is asking chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and the leaders to come to the white house every time -- >> why wasnt a deal made? >> i tried to work with them and have them come to the white house. to make anything work two parties have to work on it. the its a schumer shut down. its there because they want to put immigration reform in front of the american people and the president has said these need to be two separate issues. even though he was en...

The democrats want something ironclad to make sure these issues will end up on the presidents desk, and thats what mcconnell and schumer are ironing out right now, and the white house has not been involved in these negotiations. even members from the presidents own party expressed frustration with the white house staff as these negotiations have taken place, and heres lindsey graham raising concerns about one key member of the presidents staff. >> i have talked with the president. his heart is r...

Few weeks. our senior congressal correspondent is on capitol hill right now and our white house correspondent joins us from the white house. we begin on the hill with you, manu because there are people and deals that are to be had, we hope. the meeting between mcconnell and schumer was not long. what came of it? >> were still trying to get a sense of whether or not they came to a consensus. right now, were not getting any sort of suggestion there was a deal that was cut in that closed door meeti...