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Still unclear whether or not this time that they are now giving themselves, or forced to give themselves, is going to make a difference. the goal among senate republican leaders and those involved at the white house is to get a deal by week's end. still, by the end of this week. to have it in place before leaving for congressional recess because next week is july 4th. they're all going to be home in their home states all week. that is the goal, but, you know, anderson, the alternative was definite failure. you know, we started talking about this last night as we started getting the senate repu...

On what happened this afternoon. so what do we know about what happened behind closed doors? >> reporter: anderson, first of all, it was extraordinary this meeting was really even happening. the president has taken a pretty much a hands-off approach to this bill in the senate, so different from the house version as c as dana and you were talking about. by design. senator mckochbl aconnell and o asked the president not to be deeply involved. he hasn't been until today. anders anderson, talking to aides in the room as well as senators in the room, it was largely, you know, a free-flowing listeni...

Classified information. i can't go into the details of what flynn said to the russians. >> we believe he's part of the fbi investigation. she has to be careful what she can say. >> there's no hard evidence that the white house did something terribly wrong like a coverup. when coverups happen, you get something that comes out, it's the first time you get a contradiction, stories unravel very quickly. >> you have a former cia director, said earlier that it seems like general flynn was fired not because of what he had done but because what he had done was going to be made public. do you think if ...

Administrator nominee also has his hearing. and nikki haley for the u.n. ambassador post. there are still three posts that have not been scheduled yet for treasury, health and human secretaries nominee as well as labor. so we don't know the dates of those hearings yet. back to you. anderson? >> pam brown, thanks. just ahead, president obama gives vice president joe biden a surprise sendoff. and as you'll see, it's kind of a real tearjerker. microsoft clos infinite scalability. the microsoft cloud helps our customers get up and running, anywhere in the planet. wherever there's a phone, you've g...

Stories for libel and sean spicer told reporters that the president-elect would like to move on. i mean, i think that there's something worse than fake news and that's the denial of real news. and beyond that, anderson, something that might be worse than that is they're just not in command of the facts at this point. when you listen to kellyanne conway go sort of all over the place on this, they're just not in command of the facts. but i will tell you that this has been a pattern for the trump campaign and now the trump transition where they don't like the news that's being reported and they g...