Jon . Reporter diane, the Top Republican leaders just left the white house about 30 minutes ago. They had met with the president for over an hour and an extraordinary development, they left without saying anything. Now, what were just hearing in the last few minutes is that the talks will continue through night. And the rue morse of progress before the meeting had given wall street its biggest day all year long. Returning to capitol hill the House Majority leader sounded optimistic. We had a very useful meeting. It was clarifying, i think, for both sides as to where we are. And the take away from the meeting was our teams are going to be talking further tonight. Reporter earlier in the day, Speaker Boehner made an offer that would at least postpone the worsecase scenario. A u. S. Government default. Temporary increase in the debt ceiling for his willingness to sit down and discuss with us a way to reopen the government. Reporter the temporary increase would delay the d. Day of default
A way to get the government running and the debt ceiling maybe raised. What are you hearing wendell . Reporter the president s meeting with Senate Republicans went longer with yesterdays meeting with republicans from the house. That may be because the president likes the proposal more than the one than he does in the house. Republicans in the house want to hike the debt ceiling but they want talks on spending before ending the shut down. Harry r areeid said that is not going to happen. A driving rain here a short time ago, none went to the cameras. But they said they will start work on a bipartisan solution. They will need to sell it to republicans in the house and they dont want to end the shut down without concessions from the president. We are not doing that. This is an offer that is predicated on serious negotiations and it is a limited offer. It goes out six weeks but it says lets not have the country go into default. Lets try and work this out. On the senate side, however, some r
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