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Days. now we have another deadline, pressure coming from the white house to get this done before next week's break. >> kevin, shifting gears, one of basically say we didn't get a bad deal. this spending bill they have to extend government to keep a shutdown away, republicans, the leadership has been criticized because a lot of people have said democrats won on this, including the democrats, who said we won on this. you house leadership was very, very defensive. what is the reality as far as you see it? >> well, i think it was emblematic of how tough the challenges are that they kept shifting t...

All right. we're watching the dow at this hour, it is down about 43 points right now. just minutes away from closing. if it closes down, that will be the dow's longest losing streak since 2011. for more, i want to bring in cnbc's dominic chu tracking the markets for us today. dominic, we're hearing it's about uncertainty of a government shutdown. what are you hearing? >> reporter: eight straight days. a pretty big streak here. we're seeing if he can get a little bit of positive momentum. i should point out earlier on we were down 18 o-some points. we've gotten a lot of that back. again, like y...

>> foreign minister wong and i had a very extensive exchange on north korea and foreign minister affirmed again china's long-standing policy of a denuclearized korean peninsula. we exchanged views and i think we share a common view and a sense that tensions on the peninsula are quite high right now and that things have reached a rather dangerous level. and we've committed ourselves to do everything we can to prevent any type of conflict from breaking out. >> reporter: now, the trump administration says it wants a new policy on north korea, but they have so far not provided any specifics on how...

Particularly to russia to be processed into something much safer, can't be used for a nuclear weapon, the iranian side over the weekend said, you know what, we're not going to do that. i talked to iranian officials as well that said that's not on the table. you heard a lot of back and forth as to whether it still was. clearly that issue had not been decided. i think what you'll hear, general statement, we've made progress, here are issues we've made progress on. other issues need to be resolved. we'll take advantage of the ensuing three months. this later june 30th deadline for a final agreeme...

Cancer? >> you know, for decades we've been talking about the war on cancer. the truth is our death rates are about the same as they were a decade ago. sometimes we need to think of cancer as something to manage, not just try to cure but also to treat almost like a chronic disease in certain circumstances. we can cure cancer when it's in one spot and inject it or cut it out. but when it spreads through the body that's what we've not made much progress on. >> the study does link cancer with stem cells and then there's the controversial issue of stem cell research. if your stem cells are copying...