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Has had such a political overtake on me. i believe that gun control and everything just needs to change. and i think put politics aside, students need to feel safe at school. this can never happen again and just it can't happen again. >> mayor, i want to ask you how people back in parkland are doing. we are going to hear from many students tonight at 9:00 in the ta town hall. and this is the beginning of a long process. >> yeah, it is. it is a very long process. and our community is still grieving. the teachers are expected to go back later this week and the students are expected to go back ne...

Now the second year agenda will look toward bigger picture items that he can attract a fair amount of bipartisanship, the president is hoping. and on his laundry list are furtherering the creation of jobs, growing the economy, big infrastructure package, immigration, trade, national security. on infrastructure the president believes he can get bipartisan sports on they tout a plan between 1 trillion and 1.8 trillion depending who you listen to. the president said the other day 1.7 trillion. and republicans up in congress are thinking you probably have to break it into a number of different pie...

You can pretty much x that out. there's not a lot of appetite for that. that said, there are things they can do on obamacare they would like to consider. when will do those? how? they want to do them quickly. the question is, what the method or vehicle would be for doing those. the key here is in the month of january, they need to deal with must pass items early and quickly. formula one of those bigger picture items ever come to fru institution with such a slim majority in the senate and different factions in the house, there's this is question of what about the rank and file? who should we wa...

>> jeff zeleny at the white house, thank you. let's go to our congressional correspondent phil mattingly. phil, the house has now voted and it's up to the senate to follow suit. >> reporter: that's right. right now it looks like the enthusiasm to go home is besting the enthusiasm to fight. the house passing republicans on their own had the votes to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open through january 19th. the senate is now moving quickly as well and could try to speed up that process. this is a paired back government funding resolution. originally they had plans to tack on...

Sides of the aisle criticize the president's comments. but let's talk what about this does for his ability to actually work with congress going forward, as long as they're always consumed with these headlines. another week of headlines. how are they going to get anything done on the agenda in what is supposed to be a busy september? >> absolutely. this is definitely going to make the relationship between the white house and capitol hill and distract lawmakers from their long list when they get back in the fall. they're going to need to pass a budget. if they're going to pass the president's bu...