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♪♪ it is the top of the hour. i'm katy tur and we're starting again on capitol hill with the question: deadlock or a deal? what will happen today is anyone's guess. the house reconvenes in one hour. will the seventh vote be the charm for kevin mccarthy. he's made even more concessions. what they are and will they help? earlier they said they think negotiations could drag on until next week. >> i think we're making progress. i think people are talking and that's -- i think that -- very good. >> look, we're all working together. find a solution. >> do you have the votes today? >>...

Could seek asylum. what they're saying is now, they're allowing 30,000 individuals from each country per month to apply for asylum. they're encouraging them to do this from their home countries through a system that's been put in place and as long as they have a sponsor here in the u.s., they pass a basic security vet and they don't, again, do this by crossing illegally at the border, they would potentially qualify for two years of status here in the u.s. now what the white house is saying, this is based on what has been a largely successful program for venezuela asylum seekers that cut down t...

There's no reason in the world why we should not be extra careful after we get the americans out that anyone who comes are indeed ones who helped us and the security vet can -- >> you're jumping the issue. the issue to get out everybody agrees on. the issue of vetting, everybody agrees on. >> right. >> the harry issue that we all agree on at this table, i think, is that they did it in the most hasty and unsafe way they could have. 13 servicemen are dead, men and women are dead, because they were like sitting ducks in an open air in a cosmopolitan city instead of the bagram air base because the...

Referenced 9/11, the four countries that were of origin for the 9/11 attack, none of them are on this list. i would argue that we should go towards a discussion about a pathway in which there is absolutely no screening. right now, people can come to the united states from europe through the visa waiver program. we know they have extremist cells, if they are citizens in europe without almost any security vet. and the europeans have been miserable at sharing information with each other about threats inside that continent. so i would go towards -- towards a sort of european vent in looking at scr...

At the outset, i think that was appropriate. but a lot of us have believed that that number should get bigger rather than smaller, so long you can do a tight security vet, which we do. >> on syria, you've seen this administration open the door to cooperation are russia and syria. if russia were to come forward and saying we are willing to work with you to focus on isis in syria is that a step you think this administration should take to partner with russia on the ground or in the air? >> russia has said before to cooperate with us on fighting syrian but they bombs civilians and killed thousand...