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it. today president obama is going to take his message to the people and give a speech here. during that speech the president will outline the key components and explain what it means for middle class americans. now the speech isn t for several more hours. at 6:00 the white house is expected to release more information about the specifics of what the president will touch on during that speech that, again, will happen at 6:00 this morning. we will bring you those details coming up at 6:02. reporting live, megan mcgrath, news 4. eun, back to you. meantime lawmakers this morning getting ready for a plan to pass a budget and avoid a government shutdown. last week the republican-controlled house passed the budget that virtually defunded the new health care law. with that bill expected to fail, the house now drawing up a new plan that would instead raise the debt limit. that, though, could only delay some problems. lawmakers have another deadline october 17 where the countr ....
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guests coming in and out of trump tower. it is like a second white house right now. it really is. it is a manhattan white house in waiting you might say. and donald trump just wrapped up a very important meeting with the japanese prime minister shinzo abe. who just wrapped up his own comments on that meeting just a short while ago here in mid town manhattan. they had a lot to talk about from trade to national security issues in asia. but keep in mind as you also mentioned donald trump has had a number of very interesting at any time lysing encounters throughout the day today. encounters that suggest he knows he has fence mending to do. a signal is being sent that the president elect just might be ready to put the scorched earth campaign behind him and perhaps engage in some healing. in addition to his meetings with foreign policy heavy weights like henry kissinger donald trump has been sitting down with his rivals and critics from the primaries. nikki haley, under considerat ....
new polling tonight. significant gains it seems for trump. what exactly is changing? it is tighter, anderson. and we should not be surprised. remember the country we ve live in the last 20 years. it should not be surprising if this race gets tight into the end. a new poll shows hillary clinton up just three points. when you average out the most recent national polls we have hillary clinton with six points leading. down from eight or nine just a few days ago because the new polls coming out show a tighter race. some of the state polls get more interesting. and you say does donald trump have a chance as we have 12 more days essentially of campaigning? look at these numbers in florida. other polls have shown secretary clinton ahead in florida in recent days. a new poll trump up. does seem to indicate some trump momentum. in a state he absolutely has to win. and anderson when you look closer into this bloomberg poll, tells you a lot about the challenge for candidates heading into th ....
reporter: yeah, wolf. as you said. this is going to be a campaign-style rally here in phoenix. one of several the president has held since the inauguration. it s actually going to be the furthest west that donald trump has gone since becoming president, and we should expect some familiar faces on hand with him. the vice president, mike pence. his chief of staff, john kelly. it s also notable who is going to be absent from this rally. arizona s two republican senators. both john mccain and jeff flake, very critical of the president. both of them had very harsh words for him after his response to the violence in charlottesville at that press conference in trump tower one week ago. and the president didn t hesitates when responding to that criticism, specifically from jeff flake. he took to twitter last week saying that the arizona senator is weak and a non-factor in the senate. and praising his potential gop primary opponent dr. kelly ward. it s unclear whether or not dr. the ....