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In the capitol and the house. >> meeting behind closed doors hasn't worked so far, so why not? do it the old-fashioned way, put it on the senate floor and see what gets the vote. thank you for that update, phil. back to the table here. let's start with this new sort of wrinkle in the senate. chris coons, a democrat, john mccain obviously a republican, coming together to put forward even what senator coons says he understands would be just the base bill, possibly for the debate this is going to start next week. listen to what senator coons said about it this morning. >> it needs more border inv...

Durbin proposal, but this is actually worse. dana, the reason why aides in both parties expect the government to remain open beyond thursday because they said if the government is still open, the senate will take up daca on the floor. here's how you need to view this bipartisan proposal. as one of the proposals the senators are trying to put on the table, service either a base bill or some type of amendment to that process on the floor. there are a lot of questions going forward, most notably, no matter what the senate does, what are house republicans going to do and will they bless whatever t...

The next question is what mitch mcconnell does with the promise of the open floor debate. that can go anywhere. it doesn't look like there will be a pre-agreement. now you have the senate having a bit of a free-for-all on amendments. we don't know what the base bill will look like. that is the next looming step. >> inspiring. the president at the congressional retreat today. let's talk money. janet yellen as head of the central banks is over. she was the first woman to run the central reserve. jerome powell inherited a healthier economy than yellen. powell will face the opposite. the fed exp...

I believe people can see that, feel it and see it in their economic optimism. >> neil: senator, while i have you here, i'm hearing the talk of a gang of 22 or something similar to address daca and immigration. can you update me? what is that about? >> gangs are not generally a very good thing. >> neil: that's a big gang. >> a big gang. you know, one of the things that made the tax bill work so well, it came through a process that actually -- every step seemed to produce a better result. but what we need here is a base bill that works towards solving two big problems, how you deal with kids who...

Narrow solution or are they added in? it will have to be a balanced approach and as one side brings in an issue i think the other side will bring in an issue that creates that sort of structure and that sort of balance. i'm hoping we can get a solution that obviously solves daca and does some border security and what happens beyond that i think is a negotiation and remains to be seen. >> here's the problem with not knowing what the president's position is, as it was spelled out by leader mitch mcconnell. listen to this. >> i'm looking for something that president trump supports, and he's not y...