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Approval rating for congressional democrat is 29%. republicans are even worse. 22%. the president is at 43%. recent bcs/"new york times" poll found the congress has approval rating of 9%. teeing up the white house to suggest in addition to presidential candidate herman cain's mantra. >> i know nine is a popular money in the republican party, but this can't possibly be the kind of nine they want. >> this new fox poll was taken after the president's recent bus tour. while people seem open to his ideas, he is not making the sale on the actual bill. we asked if you were a member of congress, would...

Still seeing such a deep divide. it's not even clear and that's a question of course for republicans if the speaker can get this out on the floor and get it passed. what private negotiations, re-assure us that there are some conversations going on between the so-called grown ups and some daylight between the house plan and the harry reid plan? >> it's good to be with you, andrea. i think where we are right now is congress has to go through the next day. the house is going to have to take up the bill that they know sun acceptable to us and i believe is unacceptable to the senate. then the house...

C this morning on "world news now," deep divide. just how far apart are the house, the senate, and the white house on the budget? the political muscle being flexed in the federal program cuts that could hit home. it's friday, april 15th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, everyone. i'm peggy bunker. >> and i'm mike marusarz in for rob nelson. well, the budget battle is putting republican paul ryan against president obama and his democratic supporters in an intense fight over the federal money and the deficit. >> yeah, a lot of fighting words there bet...

Egypt. >> egypt's vice president warned of economic damage to the country in an interview broadcast on egyptian state run television. saying the country lost a billion dollars and blaming outsiders for the unrest. but the turmoil exposed an economy with a deep divide. it's estimated 20% of the country's population lives below poverty, and the unemployment rate is high. ian bremmer runs a consulting firm. >> we have over 800,000 young people coming into the worse force in egypt every year. so the middle class was shrinking, poverty was increasing. 5.5% growth didn't do it in terms of making the...

On health care. now they're going to let them do tax code reform, just get us something. but at the same time, they intervene in little piddling measures, like now we want this funding for a wall. they had many opportunities to claim a victory there. they had the opportunity to go for a border tax. whatever you think of the border tax. it would have paid for the wall, and mexico sort of would have paid for it. they had a couple of billion dollars for border security. they could have claimed victory there. but instead, they're robbing themselves of victory and saying, we want more. >> so, john,...