but they haven t sold the bill to all the members who have to vote on it. jenna: byron, i m glad you brought it up. we talk about this moving closer to something, but what that something is we still don t know. you are skeptical here that we will have a deal? i m skeptical that we ll have something today. i think we may go much closer to the deadline. look at the trouble that speaker john boehner had selling his bill to a lot of his members. and he still lost, i think, what 22. couldn t sell it to them. you re going to have to he is going to have to sell the bill to his membership. of course, he will have democrats voting for it, too, so he won t have to have the whole republican caucus, but both sides will sell it to the membership. that is not in any way done yet. jenna: what about us, byron? we talk about the back and forth between the two parties. all of these decisions really affect the american people. we were just talking about this earlier in the program whether or not
so the next few days and weeks will be, you know, the answer to that question. bill: is the department of state of washington in contact in some, at some significantly lower level? that would give iran what, possibly? the assumption is that the united states institution, state department or others through third parties have been discussing and negotiating if you want, quote/unquote, with the iranian regime. not in an official manner. what the iranians would want from the united states, many reports have spoken they say we have iranian detainee terrorists. others are talking about we re now escalating with the ira iranian intimidation of iraq. what would they want from us? is to give them a pass in iraq. would that allow us to give them back? i don t think so, because our policies are not deferment negotiating with the terrorists.
lot of long faces from the key leaders when you look at harry reid and the democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi. they had come back from the white house and they really didn t have much to say. they looked like they were pretty unhappy with where things stood. this morning with the clock ticking, senator dick durbin, a key democratic senator sounded a little bit more upbeat. take a listen to him. i a much more positive feeling than i did 24 hours ago. there is an active negotiation underway. bottom line, i talked to a lot of members both senators, congressmen, republicans, democrats. they recognize time is running out. they also recognize a lot of their constituents are just sick of this and just want washington to get something done. so they are hopeful talk of a tentative deal actually means there will be a deal. bill? bill: it sounds like those folks need a nap down there. i guess they ll get one eventually. mike, thank you. thank you. bill: they convene in 28 minu
forward? i think so. i think we are tracking and working to get something close to the boehner bill that came over from the house. and, we have been working very hard on that. i talked to a lot of house members yesterday, and i think we are very close. a trigger. what is being talked about. a trigger is a mechanism congress would establish for additional cuts that would be tied to an increase in the debt ceiling, again. in your view is that a good idea? i think it will work and wield have a passage that is $3 trillion in savings and we need to. i mean, we need to get this fiscal house in order. and the way it will work is in two pieces or two tranches and the second tranch of roughly $1.8 trillion in savings that we need to get, we have got to know that those savings are going to be there, for any increase in the debt ceiling. so, the trigger mechanism is very important, and, it may be tied to a balanced budget
there is no way for the administration than putting significant legal pressure on them. national law. walid, thank you. thank you for coming on sunday. appreciate it. thank you. jenna: think about the families, waiting to see and now have to wait another couple days to find out what is next. what s next is the question of the day on a lot of our stories. lawmakers may be close to a debt ceiling deal. if they don t reach an agreement or even if they do, we can still see the country s credit rating downgraded. that has a lot of effect for all of us. we ll find out what it means for our families straight ahead. bill: in new hampshire, there is a search for a missing new hampshire girl. what police are now doing to leave no stone unturned. we re watching developments out of northern new hampshire. you will hear about those in a moment. the word is out, the more of a chance of her coming home safe. there is no other option at this point. she is going to be okay. [ p.a. announcer ]