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Okay, the house and senate both said okay we're going to go ahead and move forward in conference to figure out the differences. put forward and appoint negotiators to do this. that process should have been simple but it was held up by more than two dozen or so conservative members who said look, we don't want to move this forward and why, had nothing to do with the tax plan itself, it had to do with the spending bill, a real difference with the gop leadership. they want to extend it, the stop gap two-week extension to fund the government, the freedom caucus, conservatives did not agree, they w...

Out of money next friday. weeks go by pretty fast. do you think that there's going to be some sort of stop gap measure to push it forward a little bit? >> i believe there will be. most importantly the president came to capitol hill to meet with republican members of the policy committee to talk about the economy, to talk about what we need to do about tax relief, to talk about the consumer confidence that's at an all-time high right now. and what we need to do to continue this incredible economic growth we've had, because of the regulatory relief that's been provided by the trump administratio...

The white house with congress facing a very busy week and month ahead, right? >> right. you think it would be a crucial time for unity within the republican party we may see a vote in the senate on tax reform as early as thursday. the president have actually set to meet with congressional senate republicans on tuesday. he is heading to capitol hill for the third time in a little bit over a month. and later that day he set up a meeting with the white house with not only republican leaders in congress but also democrats. as you recall they gathered together and came up with the three month stop ...

Be there. >> you have a wonderful thanksgiving. thanks for joining us. >> reporter: you, too. >> welsh president trump set to met with congressional leaders next week after the dinner today. but topping the agenda is going to be avoiding a government shutdown. lawmakers are up against a december 8th deadline to pass a spending bill. democrats insisting it could include a fix to the daca program for illegal imgrants brought here as children, something that would complicate things with republicans. let's bring in beckett adams. good to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> it is all coming ...

Let's go to tom. he did say let obamacare collapse. pull the money out, that's what it will do. >> that's right. look what is happening this week though. that's what is funny about this. now he's in negotiations with the two senators trying to put together this stop-gap, temporary, however you want to call it measure and looks like there's some possible traction for it. very interesting comments there from senator graham to peter doocy. this obviously is an important player. he's an important player in this. worth noting that senator graham is very recently the president's golf buddy. so i thi...