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>> no. >> so there is no scenario in which a partial negotiation happens now, the bigger picture in the fall? >> no. >> reporter: that's a pretty definitive no there, chris. we're still in this posturing stage ahead of this meeting, where everyone has dug in in their positions. the white house saying they don't want to negotiate on debt at all. the no from mccarthy is interesting. what he's said is about trying to get in the room and have these negotiations and that same interview he made a point to say he has not met with president biden on this issue for 97 days, 97 days he's been trying to ...

For a permanent daca fix. so no longer is this an immortality that we can even countenance, it is part of a broader negotiation. the fact this this is all happening in public means we are still at the posturing stage, but that to me is some movement. >> yeah, and heidi przybyla, what are you looking at today in terms of how democrats will be moving forward with this and at this point where does the state of the union stand? >> mika, i reached out to some moderate democrats in the senate because clearly this was an attempt to move this issue over to the senate. my reporting is that mitch mcconn...

The fact that this is all happening in public means we're still at the posturing stage. >> at this point where does the state of the union stand? >> i reached out to some moderate democrats in the senate because clearly this was an attempt to move this issue over to the senate. my reporting is that mitch mcconnell picked up the phone and called the president and said, look, nancy pelosi is not going to budge on this, you need to shake things up. that's why the proposal came to move this to the senate and pressure moderate democrats. it was in short order that we heard from some of these democr...

Blamed, of course. but, still, they do feel like we talked about taxes. we're done with that conversation. let's move on. i think taxes are probably going to be off the table. and that also means tax reform is off the table which is a shame. >> the president has also said, perry, he won't even talk about the debt ceiling. won't negotiate over paying bills that, you know, money we've already spent. so when do they start talking? and what do they start talking about? if the lines in the sand are being drawn this way. >> this is how negotiations start. we're not going to talk about this. we're no...