one week after the midterm elections. and on the world stage a critical face-to-face meeting between president biden and chinese president xi jinping lasting more than three hours, both leaders laying out their position as tensions flared. we begin in washington this hour. serious political jockeying is underway to determine who will lead the parties in both the house and the senate, but before all that, the senate has a big to-do list. cnn s jessica dean joins us from capitol hill. jessica, what are democrats hoping to accomplish before the new congress is sworn in? ana, they ve got this tight little time frame between now and when the new congress is sworn in. they re hoping to make the most of it. they ve got a pretty packed to-do list. the most important is the funding program. it runs out on december 16th.
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reporter: it s a big to-do list, and the president is dispatching top officials to work with the leadership on this, and his top aide and mark mulvaney will be here meeting with congressional leaders to talk about what is the top of the list here. republicans are divided, and you have on the house side, republicans led by speaker ryan, and it cuts to welfare, food stamps and medicare overhaul, and mitch mcconnell says they don t want to have anything to do with that and they don t have the votes and it s a razor-thin majority on the senate side and they have to reach out to democrats to figure out how to pass legislation, because it s a super majority, 60 votes, and they are looking at a general broad spending bill, and the budget and immigration reform and what to do with daca, what to do with the d.r.e.a.m.ers when that expires in march,
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