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From where at this very hour Senate Leaders are scrambling to try and figure out how to avoid day three of a shutdown. In a sign of progress, Chuck Schumer and Mitch Mcconnell met at the capital. The first time theyve spoken since friday, under pressure to end this. That came on the heels of a bigger bipartisan meeting earlier in the day. When was the last time you saw 22 senators meeting day after day, and the number of senators keeps growing with each meeting that we have . And each one of them is committed to getting to a solution. It is absolutely our goal to make sure that there are discu...

>> john kor anyone said now do plessy versus ferguson later he is adding those are over turned. he is saying that was also pres dent that was over turned. >> i'm as outraged as he is and every american should be outraged. it's been a conservative republican minority that has plotted for decades, chipping away at a woman's right to choose .

>> trace: a lot of drama on capitol hill over the dreamers, immigrants whose parents brought them on the u.s. without documents a lot of conflicting statements from senators on whether they have reached a bipartisan deal. let's bring in senior producer for capitol hill, chad pergram. if i'm reading the e-mails correctly, people say there is a deal, are standing by their stance, there is a deal. those who say there's not a deal are standing by their position there's not a deal, correct? >> absolutely it. what you have is a bipartisan group of six senators who say they have an agreement in princ...

and amphibians. >> i want to be an engineer and technology engineer and i'm going to have to go to mit. >> ifill: margaret warner talks to diana nyad after she was plucked from the florida straits today, ending her fourth attempt to swim 103 miles from cuba to florida. >> three single things we were up against was an obstacle, a huge tropical depression storms. the jellyfish each night i was stung badly. no matter what. >> brown: and judy woodruff sits down with former congressman mickey edwards. his new book blasts both parties for a dysfunctional government and offers solutions for...

>> brown: from seattle, hari sreenivasan has the story of a year-round program that asks students as young as ten to commit to graduating from college. garance franke-ruta. jon ward. ted schadler. sylla. diana nyad. mickey edwards. >> brown: i'm jeffrey brown. an epidemic of whooping cough and briz winning whnchs i grow up. i want to be a paleontologist because i want to study reptiles and amphibians. >> i want to be an engineer and technology engineer and i'm going to have to go to mit. >> ifill: margaret warner talks to diana nyad after she was plucked from the florida straits toda...