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For small businesses. we've about 2,000 approvals now. 172 million dollars and we're working through our call centers, through people on the ground, in dallas, ft. worth, at our processing center and call centers in buffalo and sacramento. they are humming and busy and we're bringing more people on to handle the calls and do the loan processing reaching to the private sector for additional help with that. it's an all-out effort as the numbers are approaching katrina coming in. florida is light in calls because they're still digging out. >> shannon: the white house is fighting to push forward w...

Bipartisan meeting set today. this afternoon's meeting includes democratic and republican members of the so-called house problem solvers caucus. in all, eight democrats and five republicans. it follows the dinner the president hosted last night with three red state democratic senators. heidi heidt gam, joe manchin, joe donnelly along with three republican members. afterwards the democrats released hopeful statements describing the get together as a good and productive discussion. listen, after the meeting chuck schumer and nancy pelosi had last week they were ready to dunk. the president tweet...

Frustrated by the way their efforts to repeal and replace obamacare went with republicans. this time the president is reaching across the aisle to democrats and goosing them on twitter as well, writing with irma and harvey devastation, tax cuts and tax reform is needed more than ever before. go, congress, go. putting a little of his own political capital in this effort, which is notable as we anticipate he'll be traveling to talk about this topic of tax reform in the weeks and months ahead. right now he's making that push on his home soil here at the white house. >> kasie, on tax reform, house...

Is something for the dreamers, protection for the dreamers, those immigrants for not just the next six months but beyond that. there is a tweet from where you are right now from the president. with irma and harvey devastation, tax cuts and tax reform is needed more than ever. go, congress, go. so he's in a completely different gear right now. >> reporter: i completely different gear, and there is some frustration, i can tell you, on capitol hill as they await the all-important details. what is this tax reform proposal going to look like? what are the specifics? of course, we know initially the...

Week and a half, and people do not talk about it as much pride we want to see if we can do something with regard to immigration and the 800,000 people that are now young people, not children anymore. they were children, now they are young people. we need to see if we can do something in a bipartisan fashion. we our country w competing worldwide, nothing that will stop us. >> sean: notice about the poor daca, he was echoing everything he promised to you in the campaign. he also wrote on twitter earlier today, the approval process for the biggest tax cuts and tax reform package in the history or...