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Will they release them publicly? will they summarize them in some way, put out a report? but the time is limited because congress, of course, turns over. the house will be turned over to republicans come january 3rd. and this is expected on to the last week the house will be in session. so it's decision time for democrats. and we'll see when they come out what they decide to do. >> all right, manu raju on capitol hill, thank you so much. let's discuss with my august panel. kevin mccarthy desperately trying to get the number of votes he needs to become the next leader in the house. he is threat...

>> what's interesting, anderson, is that there is possibly the best possibility we've seen in a long time, over the last couple of weeks, senators kyrsten sinema and tom tillis, now an independent, caucuses with the democrats generally, and a republican came together on a framework related to both the title 42 issue and related to the so-called dreamers, those who were brought here by parents who were undocumented immigrants. or were born here or are in a state of limbo, still, the side despite all the updates on that. front there was a push to -- try and attach that and dana knows this better...

21st happening and they're planning for the administration response. first of all, they're asking congress for an additional $3 billion in border enforcement needs and hope it comes in the spending package that is still being worked through on capitol hill. but absent that, they found some other potential measures, including what's called a trans it ban, something controversial, it comes from the steven miller play book as our colleague julie ainsley reported, which would prevent individuals from claiming asylum at the border here unless they have already been denied asylum from a third party ...

Bills and what lawmakers need to work out for the longer term spending package. >> reporter: they have one week to figure this out. the deadline has been extended from tonight to next friday, december 23rd. lawmakers are finalizing a massive government funding bill they expect to pass by next week and go home for the holidays. the negotiators have held their cards close to the vest. we expect a $1.5 trillion boost. republicans received a victory by getting defense funding at a higher level. democrats said they wanted parody, but these are president biden's numbers. the major question is what o...

That always makes a huge difference. i also want to point out that in the house of representatives, nancy pelosi has just two democratic votes that she can lose. that is significant. they're going to have to get some republicans. as we talked about extensively, kevin mccarthy, the top republican in the house, is opposed to this larger spending package. he wants to create some kind of scenario where lawmakers in the republican party would have more power to negotiate this next year and punt this process. that could lead to a major potential shutdown if you had republicans in the house and democ...