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Chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel takes a look tonight. >> despite grumblings from some conservatives, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is all in. >> i make no apologies for this deal. i think it's the best we could have done at a time with the divided government. the alternatives were much wors worse. >> treasury secretary steven mnuchin on capitol hill tried selling republicans on the budget deal he cut with speaker nancy pelosi. the agreement would raise federal spending by $320 billion with $77 billion in offsets to help pay for it. but the cbo says that number is optimi...

>> not all the democratic candidates are putting forward. >> they're not. the debates don't leave a lot of room for nuance because of the time constraints but i want to know from the candidates, okay. so if you don't support -- if you do support giving insurance or health coverage to undocumented immigrants exactly what would that look like? because that already exists. they can go into emergency rooms for example if you're here and undocumented. would you expand that? would you not? we haven't had that drilling down yet. >> they do go to an emergency room and we do have to pay for it. jeremy ...

>> the news out of washington, the big news out of congress, the president and democrats reached a 2-year budget deal that raises the debt ceiling. it gets the whole debt crisis thing past the election which is what everybody apparently wanted and it continues to be a expendable loser down there. whatever the big members now, it is $320 billion over that, what happened? >> what is that word cute you with that in the college is 80s? i got it i think. almost as good, we have to compare. we never get the spending restraint we would like to get but i must say in a difficult atmosphere today, one o...

S. and his lover lisa page destroyed after we requested them. >> i won't be watching -- >> reporter: and while mule ser front and center in front of the cameras, trump's schedule is currently wide open. the focus on mueller in washington may face blow back from fiscal conservatives and pass through congress and win the president's signature. white house officials are working over time to raise the spending deal by $320 billion over the next two years. >> it is a good deal under the circumstances. that is the way i would put it. >> reporter: and with an eye on 2020, the president is ramping up ...

Soap opera. >> neil: thank you very much. no one seems at all worried about the government spending. this from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell a short time ago. >> we think it was the best possible deal under the circumstances. when you have a divided government, both sides have a seat at the table and both sides have the ability to take an agreement and we all rose above that. >> neil: that's not the only thing rising. $320 billion beyond what is already in place, so should we be concerned about that? we have rob smith, democratic strategist kristin hawn. you could go on all day and bl...