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Proposal. a compromise proposal that had broad bipartisan support and harry reid rejects it out of hand. let's get off the immediate term for a second. i think that was exceedingly i think i have over and over again. let's stipulate that threatening to defund obama care and shutting down the government is a poor thing and let's move on and say this, i negotiate a lot of deals in my life. i'm sure you have. i'm sure all of you have. when you are actually wanting to make progress, you have to empower your opponent. when president obama, we talked about all the things republicans have done wrong....

Deal. >> well, that's problematic, but what i think we could do and the reason that i have included a provision that requires a budget conference, a long overdue budget conference, is there could be a substitution of some of the mandatory spending cuts such as the farm bill, which saves $23 billion over ten years, for some of the cuts in defense and biomedical research that are very troubling to me personally. >> have you spoken, either one of you, spoken to senator reid since he rejected this compromise proposal? >> well, i have talked to a number of people in our leadership, and i think you ...

What i think we could do and the reason that i've included a provision that requires a budget conference, a long overdue budget conference is there could be a substitution of some of the mandatory spending cuts such as the farm bill which would save $23 billion over ten years for some of the cuts in defense and biomedical research that are very troubling to me personally. >> have you spoken, either one of you spoken to senator reid since he rejected this compromise proposal? >> well, i have talked to a number of people in our leadership. i ti you'll see today as negotiations continue, elements...

All afternoon we've been following developments in washington, d.c., you're looking at a live picture of the white house now where congressional leadership of the senate is meeting with the president to figure out where they go from here after harry reid, the senate majority leader, objected and rejected a compromise proposal from republican susan collins of maine. we don't have a read yet on that meeting, but we expect to and you will have a full update coming up as soon as we do. now, from krispy kremes to monogamy, "sanjay gupta, m.d." has it all. brooke baldwin has it. >> we're calling h...

Until now, because the politics of his own primary challenge, mcconnel has been on the sidelines. you're seeing this week, a lot of movement among senate republicans. while this is going on between the white house and house of republicans, there's a peril action with a new compromise proposal or two being created among the senate republicans with mcconnel still in the background but authorizing its and propelling it to boelth deal with the shutdown and debt ceiling. i think at the end that's the piece of legislation ultimately that would be a vehicle to resolve this. >> i suspect a switch on t...