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You can get something done in the next couple of days. up next, best selling author, wes moore joins the conversation and live from the white house, our good friend, savannah guthrie. the latest on the president's efforts to strike a deal with republicans. bill karins, a look at the forecast. >> good morning. nice quiet weather day. don't expect big airport delays, one area of rain you may have to take your umbrella out a couple seconds, about it. forecast, kind of cold start in new england and mid-atlantic and showers moving in philippine and new york. the morning is completely dry. the rai...

The biggest cohort are middle-aged white men who work. we already have two drug policies in this country. we have one if you're white, rich, one if you're poor and black, what we're doing on so-called crime policy is pr. it doesn't actually work. what people count on us to do in this country when you lead is make them safer. what makes us safer is focus on serious crimes. 40 years ago, before we started this massive increase in locking up low level drug offenders, the fbi said we solved 90% of the homicides in this country. now, they say we solve 60. what's the difference? we used to have our ...

Savannah guthrie. >> i like her. >> she's very good. >> she is. >> and best selling author, wes moore. how's the book selling in paper book? >> really well. excited. >> "the other wes more," let's talk about the budget. president obama called the parties to the white house yesterday, apparently didn't make much ground. what's the plan today? >> reporter: the president might call them back here at the white house for another meeting. this is an interesting development. on the hill, we're hearing from aides and actually senator schumer right now on the "today" show saying there's a glimmer of ho...

Leader reid and chuck schumer are talking about glimmers of hope potentially this shutdown could be avoided. it comes down to speaker boehner, whether or not he can get republicans in line behind the deal that he cuts. whether he's willing to lose some republicans, how many is he willing to lose and moderate democrats to get this across the finish line. >> we're getting word across the wire, the white house may meet wednesday before leaving for pennsylvania. wes moore is with us, has a question. >> hi. >> i have a question, budget director once famously said a budget is not just a collection o...