without an attorney present is the crucial question. and i suspect it s going to be an all-day affair but i suspect we ll have an answer to that pretty quickly. if she declines to talk, that will start leaking out pretty quickly. republicans may be quick to claim that this means the president s strategy is holding. we could know within the hour whether or not she s sitting for a long deposition or staying mum. these are staffers who will be conducting the deposition, but lawmakers are able to be in the room. we saw mark meadows walk in. we know that devin nunez is in washington, or at least at the studio. as we take a look now at the door entryway there to see who else may be going in and out of that room. matt, your thoughts here? it is really hard to overstate how dangerous it is for the white house to be saying that these people shouldn t testify, shouldn t testify without a lawyer present. normally when you ask for a lawyer to be present, that s to protect you, the witness. thi
reporter: so on the house side you have conservatives who say, we want this stopgap bill to go a little longer. we want to make sure we get taxes done. they are not particularly interested in keeping any of the promises that mitch mcconnell made to his senators on the senate side. but hallie, they are actively negotiating literally as we speak. i just watched mark meadows walk into speaker ryan s office just before we got on the air right now, so that is going on on the house side. on the senate side, democrats have some cards here, they are fighting amongst themselves over how hard they want to push on this daca issue. that white house meeting tomorrow is going to be a big deal. absolutely critical. we ll be there, garrett. i expect to get more from you on the mark meadows/paul ryan meeting later in the morning. thank you for joining us here. i want to bring in former republican congressman jim nance from iowa. congress can say, we are not the ones to shut this down, but