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Rome a bit later. first up tonight, the breaking news, it looks like the plug has been pulled on this vote tonight which is a huge deal, congressional correspondent chad pergram with, let's call it, fast-paced legislative chaos or really ugly sausage making. good evening, chad. >> all of the above, bret. the president came to the capitol for the second time in a month and failed to close the deal liberals are not satisfied so despite the stage craft of a presidential visit this morning, nothing is settled. this is why a verse version of the bill appeared today, it's far from final. it's a fram...

Who seems to be on his own path. he's doing things in his own country. they're still doing this sort of diplomacy that puts country in debt. china respects strength. old school diplomacy, stage craft, if you will, is not what works with them what are your thoughts there? >> china is on a roll. you know, economically, you know, politically and militarily. just look over the summer. the bad news that came out in the advances in the intercontinental missile program. china is building 250 new icbm silos. it was -- we found out about this through open sources when civilian researchers found it usin...

Kevin cork tells us where the negotiations will go from here. hey, kevin. >> great to be with you. happy friday. a presidential trip to crap toll hill proved a bit more stage craft than substantive. they continue their intraparty war on what will or what will make the cut on the infrastructure and social program spending continues here in the nation's capitol. the top-line takeaway at this hour, congressional democrats need more time, that from house speaker nancy pelosi who penned a dear colleague letter tonight which reads in part, while great progress has been meat in the negotiations to de...

Flooding is he has ample opportunity. we've been spending the last three days up in the air flying in military helicopters, getting a sense for where the flooding is the worst, and the consistent message we're getting from all officials is the wind hasn't been as bad. there is some flooding, but it could get worse, and that's why in a lot of these briefings we keep hearing yes the response so far has been good, but we don't know what's going to happen in phase two. the president is there doing a little bit of a victory lap. i don't know if it's premature or not. i also think it was notable the...

For this, and part of it is geography, and part of it is planning. ali and stephanie. >> what we are seeing here is the president seem ts to be in front of cars, and he is then handing the meals to people, and i assume that someone has vetted this and that there are people driving up to getting meals and move on and chatting with the president. you mentioned earlier, hans, there is a good amount of stage craft here, and when the president went to puerto rico and started to throw out paper towels that did not work out well for him from the coverage perspective, but one has to the assume that th...