important discussions about wha a package that is smaller than $3.5 trillion would look like, those conversations have to happen with a range of members. those are happening both at a senior staff level and also wit the president over the course o the last several days and weeks. at those will continue. obviously we want to get to a point, we are at a point i should say, where there are choices that need to be made. that as they choice point were at now. given there will be feeler dollars that will be spent, a lot of those conversations are happening behind the scenes. did state need to make a counteroffer of what they need want this to look like? it s more of an ongoing conversation than it is a passing back of paper every couple of days so there s an ongoing discussion with senator mansion. they re is an ongoing discussio with a with a range of what thi looks like.
and he s aware that he s can t do what he did in the white house. he used it to his advantage. there are these whole other media ecosystem where things are happening and i keep going back to last year of what s the harm of letting him blow off some steam? we saw it happen over the course o of ten weeks. i understand a lot of folks on the left would like him to go away. there is a whole media environment where he has not been and had his platform taken away and there is a whole other conversation happening though. how important from your reporting, arizona is now crucial to this, this path of reinstatement that he s putting out there and some of his
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ar argued against that. they said that the tax refunds could not go out, and so now we are seeing that policy are reversed. it is really directed from the president to try to mitigate those effects of the shutdown as much as possible. now, because of this ruling, milli millions of americans will soon begin filing their tax returns, and that will be able to get the tax refunds, but it also means that irss employees who have been sent home, 90% of that workforce has been furloughed, and they will have tole come back into the work, and many of them, a significant portion of them according to the irs will have to come back to process the are refunds, be but of course o, jim, those employees will not be getting paid. jim. no fun to work without pay. jeremy diamond, thank you very much. employees at federal prisons across the country are feeling the pinch of the government shutdown. in the city of aliceville, alabama, a correctional facility for women is the driving force of the local econ
promise, and if he can t follow through with it now, they see it as the last best chance. that is why, it seems as though the president is wavering right now, and on a path forward. as you pointed out, andrea, we expect the meeting to get under way in short order. we will be tracking it closely here from the white house today, and fast-moving developments. and of course o, kristen and kasie, mark meadows who was on the short list of chief of staff he was weigh iing n and is that not the case of the freedom caucus, and the republican who is complaining about the short term deal? he was, but it is interesting that my colleague, and our colleague alex mo was here late last night, and meadows came and talk t talked to the reporters initially and railed against the c.r. and then he went out on to the floor and made a point to come back out to say he did not necessarily mean that it meant that the president would not sign the bill which is a little