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Negotiating these big, big budget issues in terms of the bipartisan infrastructure plan and, of course, that expansion of the social-safety net which there is a big impasse around. so, they aren't solving any problems here, let's be very clear about that. they are essentially just kicking the can down the road so that the country avoids a default. but the problems here are still going to exist. >> all right, ryan, thanks very much. back to the breaking news we reported earlier. cnn has learned the facebook whistle-blower who released thousands of documents she says shows the company knows it...

This negotiation looks like before democrats agree to it and before they can finally move forward with getting this legislation moved on and avoiding that calamity of the debt ceiling being eclipse the. >> so it's a short-term solution. what are the next steps? >> reporter: we don't know what the next steps are, frankly, anderson. this is only a temporary fix. once they pass this and -- and get over this hump, this same exact problem that they're dealing with right now is going to be a problem again at the end of november as we head into december and the christmas holiday. and it's going to co...

Open, but it runs out of money again in 16 days. between now and then, senators have a lot of work to do, and it's going to have to be bipartisan. they're going to have to take on big budget issues. they're going to have to deal with immigration, on defense spending, and it's not just how much. it's when and how. so will they be able to do this? one person who definitely says yes is republican senator susan collins of maine. she led a bipartisan group of senators and talks to reopen the government and she used a now-famous talking stick. senator collins, good to have you. thank you, chris. goo...

Past. it's ultimately unproductive. but if you have a bipartisan group of 30 that's going to support you, we need to move forward, we still have big budget issues. >> today we open government, we got six years of government for c.h.i.p., which is deeply no reason to virginia. and we have the guarantee we'll take up the issue of the d.r.e.a.m.ers on the floor, which we haven't had. we didn't get it friday night. there will always be critics about shutting the government who are deeply afraid of the social security disability check or whether they would have a job to go to. one of the senators, ...

Bill: let me come back to that. here is house speaker john bainwer bill cunningham on 700 wlw cincinnati just yesterday afternoon. >> listen, we've been locked in a fight over here trying to bring government down to size, trying to do our best to stop obamacare. we fought the good fight. we just didn't win. bill: monica, pretty plainspoken there. apparently was the same message he delivered to his members day 1/2 ago. >> yeah. bill: winning the next fight, how do you do that? >> i'm not sure that you can, bill. this gets to my original point about the current batch of actors. we've been down t...