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Important issue. the idea they'd final lie a compromise proposal by the end of the week, that's now gone. they are sending different drafts of proposals, but anybody who thought republicans could finish this, lock this up so they would be prepared to vote when they came back, they would be wrong. >> let's be honest, phil. i think what happened with the president and the demands for gop electeds to step up and talk about it hastened their exit out of town. we couldn't find anybody to come on this morning, and it wasn't just because they had longstanding vacation plans. phil, enjoy the holiday, ...

216 votes needed for passage. >> i don't see how that would work. >> reporter: and that means leadership cautious behind the scenes sits in a very similar place with one senior gop aide telling cnn that any talk of a final deal is, quote, premature and the best way to describe the new talks would be very early discussions. with only one goal. any compromise must add net votes. >> now we're throwing around concepts to improve the bill. that's occurring right now. but that is not to say that we are ready to go. because we want to make sure that when we go we have the votes to pass this bill, we'...

Now the president -- the white house just sort of shrugged. >> principal stand rolling back wall street. a year ago the president, jay carney, others said they were hostage takers. >> they shut down the government. >> democrats tried last time. >> what democrats said that they would not be willing to support this compromise proposal because they had concerns about specific provisions. the president disagreed with that. what they would have done and what speaker boehner said he was prepared to to was to put on the floor a three-month continuing resolution. >> what a difference a year makes. las...

Didn't like one law. >> reporter: now with one faction of the democratic party at least flirting with the shutdown, the white house attacks on republicans are a distant memory. >> jay carney and others said they were hostage takers e terrorists basically. >> but they did shut down the government. the democrats said they would not be willing to support this compromise proposal because they had concerns about specific provisions. >> now concerns about provisions over wall street reform, democrats said that was a principal stand in the white house. the price of gasoline has fallen to the lowest...

Priorities that will benefit the middle class. just to take one pertinent example, there is funding in that that is continued for early childhood education programs, something the president will talk about across the street in less than an hour. we are certainly gratified that there continue to be, that there is a commitment of resources for that important priority. on other side of the ledger republicans identified as their priority to try to undermine's the president's effort to reform our broken immigration system using executive actions and to cut carbon pollution. again based on a cursory...