ordinary tissues burn when theo blows. so dad bought puffs plus lotion, and rescued his nose. with up to 50% more lotion puffs bring soothing softness and relief. a nose in need deserves puffs indeed. talks still underway right now on capitol hill. heads being counted, arms twisted and a crucial vote possibly looming, although congresswoman jayapal when we talked earlier said she didn t think it would be tonight. the president averting a government shutdown for a couple weeks. what is the feeling at the white house right now? congresswoman jayapal said she thought most of the heat right now was in conversations between
talks still underway right now on capitol hill. heads being counted, arms twisted and a crucial vote possibly looming, although congresswoman jayapal when we talked earlier said she didn t think it would be tonight. the president averting a government shutdown for a couple weeks. what is the feeling at the white house right now? congresswoman jayapal said she thought most of the heat right now was in conversations between the white house, the two senators and speaker pelosi. reporter: yeah, anderson, that s where the heat has been the last several days. congresswoman jayapal saying she doesn t think a vote is going to happen tonight, and if it does, it could fail. i think the fact president biden did sign that government funding bill earlier tonight that funds the government through december 3rd is really a sign of how fluent things are around here. they had him consider doing that on camera, that means he s going
spending. it doubles the number of border agents to 40,000. let s bring in cnn s dana bash. she has more. dana, the extra $50 billion, was that enough? they think this is it now? reporter: well, if you listen really closely, chris, you can probably hear the sound of gop arms twisted by republican colleagues now. because the name of the game is to get enough votes in the senate on immigration reform, to give momentum to the bill heading into the house where it is a very tough sell. now, supporters from capitol hill to the white house hope this new change on border security will help. a frustrated vice president making a push on immigration reform before a group of latinos in las vegas last night. i m sick and tired of being defensive. i m sick and tired of us acting like we have to apologize for doing the right thing. reporter: for republicans, in particular, it s all about border security. that s why they call an immigration deal to beef it up a
quote, be sidelined the next time, you know. and i think that they would say, hey, look, we needed to get something done. and if mcconnell was only going to deal with biden, fine. mcconnell and biden can do that. i don t think that s the model going forward. i think reid feels as if, hey, i got 55 votes now. i don t have 53. i m not a dwindling majority leader as some people thought i was going to be. dwindling a number of democrats and therefore not as much power. i don t think so. and don t forget, this isn t checkers at this point. the white house doesn t want to get harry reid too alienated or they ll never get their gun proposals going because harry reid is not excited about dealing with this gun issue in the senate. he ll do it if his arm s twisted, but they can t keep beating him up on other issues. david, it s heilmann here. i want to know from you i want to try to take us from the low and mundane and the meh-teh
sean: jason altmire is one. i don t blame him. at that point, if he doesn t do it, then he probably will lose. i mean this was interesting, during that health care debate, i remember saying that a lot of these democrats are going to be brought into the majesty of that oval office, arms twisted, they will be promised the president will campaign and raise money for them. now they don t want him near them. they control every lever of law making in washington. they control the measures they are running against. they ve been in control, when their brand, their party, began its rapid descent down the drain. i think when i said this before, when you treat the voters like they are too stupid to add one plus one, i don t think it will work. we are already seeing ed of the reform passed, new laws passed over the past two years. we are already feeling the s faster than president obama and his administration