protecting people s fundamental rights and i don t know what he s proposing but right now we are focused on the boat that will happen in congress. is the goal of these meetings and will make us today to come to an agreement on a topline matter, could number by today? our goal is to continue to make progress and based on the morning meetings are expectation of the afternoon meeting as we expect they will do exactly that. will that be the top line will number or will they make progress? and does a meeting with a group of progressives and meeting with a group of moderate democrats, those of the two groups that disagree with each other so why would they not be together? these are serious policy discussions often on nitty-gritty details in the art duels between factions of the party. there is broad agreement actually about the vast majority of issues here so the president is basing this approach on five decades of washington which is a good guide for how to get things done and he fe
seems like we re going to hear a lot of stories like that one. joining us to discuss is richard, an aviation analyst, and at the tier group. you say to not expect precision. to be flexible and to allow slack. expand on that. explain what you mean. well, you know, remember, this time before the pandemic and you could, you know, you want to be home for an afternoon meeting, you could pretty much run your schedule like clock work, and 99.9% of the time, things would go just fine. well, sadly, we re having the sam same kind of difficult time recovering in there industry that global supply chains are recovering. it s even worse i would argue in the aviation bids. there are going to be missteps, you know. so far, thankfully, i haven t experienced them, but obviously the southwest story tells us that when things happen, they
i talked to some folks at the white house today and one thing i m being told, and i talked to a progressive member of congress, the progressives feel like they are doing, have been carrying the biden water. they want to see some help from the moderates. the moderates and the folks in the white house will say perhaps a number is one of the ways to get there. if how much are you willing to spend on a budget? if not 3.5 trillion. that s right. if they get toward a common number that might be enough for the progressives to feel like we re in this together. right now the progressives feel they are the only ones moving. that is one of the details that came out from our reporting the meetings yesterday and the afternoon meeting with the moderate lawmakers, president biden our sources tell us really press on them to come up with a number, come up with something. come up with something i can present to the other guys. and the moderates in that room refused to do it. so that you re certa
bret? bret: thanks. next up, rich edson on the north lawn of the white house. what we know at this hour. another meeting happening now. good evening, rich. the meetings do continue here in washington. the state department official tells us the secretary of state mike pompeo is now having a one-on-one meeting with the mexican foreign minister. they met here 2 1/2 hours this afternoon all trying to negotiate a way out of this. the president has given them now less than five days to figure this out before tariffs hit. i think they want to make a deal. they sent their top people. we ll see what happens. the mexican government dispatched the foreign minister to the white house for an afternoon meeting with mike pence. secretary of state mike pompeo and acting department of homeland security secretary, kevin mcaleenan. either mexico cuts migration or tariffs hit mexican products
others will raise concerns about the precedent this would set. will they actually vote this way? it really depends on the details. can the president convince them to stick with them? they re not saying yes, because they want to learn more. clearly, there will be a fight for the president to get this through congress. they need a significant amount of republicans on both chambers to jump ship, trying to prevent him from making this move. jake? thanks so much. stay with us. abby philip, the white house has put out a statement saying the president will declare a national emergency. what s next? where do we go from here? this caps several days of uncertainty, both here and in the weiss white house and also on capitol hill about what president trump would ultimately do about this bipartisan spending bill that he was unsure he would sign up until a few moments ago. the president spent the afternoon meeting with aides in