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Is only bill in town. no other bill. but now another republican senator says no, at least not yet. let's get to the halls of congress and phil. what's going on? >> clear as mud which is how we operate a lot of days. here's kind of the behind the scenes what's going on. this gang of six, three republicans and three democrats working for months to try to figure out some solution to the daca issue. they have been working on a bill or proposal that has the broad parameters that the president says he needs. four pilars he talks about. and i'm told they have reached general agreement on where they a...

Legislative calendar. phil mattingly knows it like the back of his hand. he has more from capitol hill. >> reporter: members of congress, as of today, have five days left where they're expected to be in session to deal with a raft of major issues. and based on what's happened so far this week, what happened on wednesday, they are not just not closer to finalizing some agreement on that, they're actually further away, on the daca issue. instead of one group working towards a final solution. it's splintered into multiple with diversionary ideas on the policy issues. without agreement or resoluti...

Moderate republicans, not to mention most of the democrats. it addresses immigration enforcement. that's going to be quite controversial. it cuts overall immigration levels and also it would build a wall. now, while all of this is going on, just to give you a sense of how messy everything is, there is also bipartisan efforts to try to come up with a plan that would more reflect the tone that president trump used earlier this week at the white house meeting, would address daca, would touch on border security and possibly a couple of other issues. now, the biggest sticking point going forward fo...

Reform as a bipartisan issue in a midterm election year. they plan to sell the plan to reduce crime and save money. nick mulvaney can temporarily conserve as director of the consumer protection bureau. that's a win for the president and the white house which now controls the nation's financial watchdog agency. judge thomas kelly denying a request for a preliminary injunction filed by the cfpb's deputy director, who was appointed by richard cordray when he resigned to run for governor of ohio. mulvaney will hold down both jobs for the time being. >> and a proud irish american as you can see f...

I have not read the opinion yet. i think the daca issue can only be resolved by congress. i don't think it can be resolved in the courts. i think it ought to be resolved, but i also think it ought to be resolved in the context of larger security issues. i was not at the meeting at the white house but i understand, maybe, from some points of view there's confusion that the suggestion was made by the president and others that we address daca, we address the chain migration, and we address the diversity lottery issue, we address the wall or different versions of what people perceive the wall to b...