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show. he s on capitol hill. what is the mood like up there? speak out the clock is running, so they re trying to figure out where they can get their votes. the latest thinking is adding $5 million for border security and $8 million in disaster funding. hurricane damage, wild fire damage, hoping to see if i will get some more votes. spoke after the white house meeting with president trump. we believe there is still time to add border security. that is what america is asking for. one of the fundamental jobs for our president. we had a great discussion with him. what the senate sent over, kicking the can down the road. we want to solve this problem, make sure to keep the government open. have that done. conservatives told me earlier their phones were literally blowing up. their supporters demanding that they stand up and fight, a message that they deliver to
procedural vote, then a vote on the actual bill, if that passes, it is more likely the government shuts down. we are getting word from the senate side senators have been advised they may need to come back tomorrow. most of them had already left town, expecting this to be over and done with, but that s not the case. if it fails, that will show the president, forget it, we can t do this, then it is back to square one. i don t mean to sit here and parse the answer to you, but to me it sounded like he was trying to say we are going to pass a continuing resolution and come up with an idea to deal with the other stuff. sounded like he was thinking two separate bills. reporter: i can see why it might come across that way, but that s not what we re seeing unfold. what s going on here is it is going to be an amendment basically to the cr. now, you could in theory see something where the amendment goes down, what they ve done, they put disaster funding, there are some democrats for whom the
giving up any leverage they might have to ever get the thing built and there are other issues, too. there s no disaster funding in this cr, which some members want. right now, things are just a mess as a retiring republican congressman just explained to me downstairs. take a listen. let s optimistic leaving this meeting than i was coming in. i think there s no consensus right now on what the best way forward is, at least among house republicans. did he say if the president supports the cr if he would actually sign it? that s unclear. reporter: getting this thing through the house, the reality is most democrats will support it. they re perfectly happy with a surrender on the wall and then convincing the president that this is something he should sign. neither of those are a foregone conclusion as i stand here right now. cool. awesome. good news. merry christmas. reporter: super, duper awesome. let me ask you about those two big issues. what you re hearing from the
disaster funding would be helpful, there are republicans that want it for their districts, they married it to the border wall. they ll force democrats to vote against disaster funding if they vote against the wall. if it is attached to the cr, that bill goes back to the senate and who the hell knows where we are. let s see if hallie jackson has a better answer. reporter: don t do that to me, chuck. epic meltdown on one side of pennsylvania avenue. apparently the president was in a tail spin earlier. did he not realize that ann coulter, rush limbaugh took him seriously and literally? reporter: apparently that s a realization that hit the president hard around midday today. if it is an epic meltdown where she is, it is a hot mess on this end of pennsylvania avenue. yeah, that message clearly got received, not just from ann coulter, but i am told that mark meadows spoke with the president last night, this morning, was a