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Yang Senate Leaders are saying tonight they have made a genuine breakthrough on the budget stalemate. But in the house, leading lawmakers say theres still all big o climb, to avert a Government Shutdown tomorrow night. Lisa desjardins begins our coverage. Reporter from a congress usually frozen in gridlock, came one of the largest bipartisan budget deals in recent history. I am pleased to announce that our bipartisan, bicameral negotiations on defense spending and other priorities have yielded a significant agreementr orter Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell announced the agreement, which he and democratic leader Chuck Schumer managed to hammer out t the paee days. I believe that weve reacd a budget deal that neither side loves, but that both sides can be proud of. Thats compromise. Thats governing. Thats what we shouloing more of in this body. Reporter the deal centers around the over 1 trillion in spending congress controls. Defense and nondefense nearly split that total, and both would have faced budget cuts. This pposal would increase both, boosting defense about 160 billion, and nondefense about 130 billion. That erases budget cuts, and adds more as well in all, its about 300 billion in increased spending over two years. About twothirds of that, most of it, is not paid for and would add to the deficit. But those in charge in congresst and he white house praised the megadeal as well worth it, for granting budget stability and strengthening the militaryd e rest of government. From the House Armed Services chairman, matt thornberry. If you vote yes, youre voting to fix the military. And ifou vote no, youre voting against fixing the military. Reporter . To president trumps press secretary Sarah Sanders this deal achieve priority a muchneeded increase in funding for our National Defense. The bottom line is that, thanks to president trump, we can now y have the strongest milit have ever had. Reporter and that is just the beginning of the deal. It includes billions to fight the opioid crisis, for Community Health centers, a longer extension of the Childrens Health insurance pro, and even a special committee to deal with miners and others pensions. But it wasnt all cheers the most conservative members, exiting thmeeting where they oparned of the deal, were enly hostile to it. Freedom caus chairman mark meadows i guess a number of us are just concerned aut the fiscal reality of a bill that will come down on our grandkids. Obviously, i consider the president a close personal friend, and even if he called me to ask me to vote for this, im afra the answer would still no. Reporter and meanwhile, on the floor of the house d like to talk as long as my leadership minute will allow. Reporter the democraticty minoeader, nancy pelosi, held an exceedingly bure sort of fier, turning her alloted oneminute of time into hours, all about socald those brought to the u. S. Ilgally as children. She said she could not support a buaet deal until there was guaranteed path for a bill to protect dreamers in the use. That is a simple request, ts that is a simple request, that house democand in bipartisan way, others, ve joined in asking them to bring bill to floor. Reporter Senate Republicans have promised a debate on the dreamers status. Speaker ryan sent a statement out urging republicans to vote fothis dal. He stressed this is the way to end this cycle of shoterm budget fix weve been in for so long, john. So, lisa, the speaker on boar o the white house is board. Why is its future in the house st wl uncertain . L, it comes down to the votes. Lets think about this, how it works with the republin party. Right now, a majority in the house, john, is 216 vote bs. Thatcause there are some vacancies. Republicans have 238 members so, they can spare 22 votes. Aowever, the conservative freedom caucuss 3040 votes. If that entire caucus votes no, the republicans will come up shoroof the votes needed t paz this bill. And tonight, we know that some members of that caucus are no votes. We just dont know how many. Nt i also wo stress this is very different than the atmosphere on the senate side. S i nning back and forth between the two. And the senate was an oasis of calm consideration, many republicans not telling where they will land, but telling me off the records they believe they will be a yes. Part of that happening notr very fay from you where youre standing right now. In your taped piece, you showed us nancy pelosi, the minority leader, from this morning,ishe till up, she is still speak, more than seven hours later. The hotuse historian says is a record. Explain to us, how is she able to expand this leadership minute into more than seven hours . And whats the significance of what shes doing . I cannot stress ho unusual this is. This is something that weve seen on the senate side for decades and decades, this kind of speaking stually, it gotten kind of out of vogue to take to the floor and do this kind of long speech she has. She is doing this, i think, for two points, she wants to extract from speaker ryan that a vote on the deerms will get to a vote on the house floor. On the other hand, she has something thn to proher own base, the creche hispanic caucus, and hispanics in general, those whore big supporters of dreamer protection, are unhappy with her and democratic leadership. They feel that they have not gone far enough, and that theyre making a budget deal without getting kind of a promise on the dreamers. Now, democratic leader says we are trustg the senate process, which will begin next week. Theres an entire different debate on immigration. But nancy peosi has to show her stamina and dedication to this issue. John, her real test will come in the next day when we thing budget deal will come to the use and she is going t have to decide if she will vote yes or no, or if she will have her caucus vote yes or no. Those votes may be needed to prevent a shutdown. She talked about her vote. She said shes likely to oppose it. But is she likely to bring the caucus with her . Thats the main question. Again, vote counting is just under way. Its not clear how Many Democrats will be needed to prevent a Government Shutdown. So shes being careful in her wording, too, because its not clear how many of her members will be needed to walk the plank, as they say, up here tonight. Theres a in flux. Lets go bck to the deal struck behind you in the senate. What cels in this bill besides e spending . All right, so i want you and everyone at home to maybe look at your watch because im goitog apologize. This is going to take a minute. This is an enormous, enormous deal. We only have three pages of a summary. Orting and talking to dozens of members and staff who have worked on this, sit back. Isres what else is in t deal, other than a spending agreement. 90 billion disaster aid thats for florida, teixeira the virgin islands, puerto rico. Ll 20 n for infrastructure, 6 billion for the opioid cries, vall of thoseer two years. And theres more. The Childrens Health insurance program. That has a 10year extension. Thats four more years than eviously. Community Health Centers two years of funding. Med medicare, theres a part d donut hole next year. That is closed in this deal. Also a repeal of ipab, an ard designed to cut spending in medicare, some consumers dont like it. That is repealein this deal. And, john, theres even more i feel like some strange game show host. This bill would raise the debt ceiling another year until 2019. Thats incredibly significant. And it wouldlso form new budget supercommit. Thats a word we havent heard in a while, when the last supercommittee did not complete its mission. Er the ideais to try to reform the entire budget process. Bis a noing committee, but there are ways in which whatever they come up with could get vote. I think the big point, john, here, is information havent really seen this bill theyre still working on a summary on the senate side. And we expect a vote potentially within hours, maybe tomorrow morning, on the senate side. Its quite a lot thats in here. Weve got about 30on sec left, lisa. Explain to us the significance of pulling off those budget caps r two years, which is what the senate deal would do. Redibly significant i ran the math on this, john, and, essentially, based on current law, this we a doubledigit, over 10 increase in government spnding, and expansion of the u. S. Military, and, also, an expansion of much of the rest of government. It would protect the arts, sciences, social programs some of them that the democrats have been worri but it would also be a big boost to the military. Of course, theres a lot of concern about all at red ik as well. Lisa desjardins. Everything you could possibly want tknow about th Senate Budget deal. Thanks a lot. My pleasure. Yang in the days other news, the tumult on wall street eabit, as the market spent the day trying to get its bearings. The dow joneindustrial average dropped 120 points at the open, then rallied back before finallo settlinr. In the end, the dow lost 19 points, to close 893. The nasdaq fell nearly 64 points, and the s p 500 slipped 13 white house aide is resigning after his two exwives accused him of domestic abuse, including punching and choking. Rob porter is staff secretary, overseeing scheduling and document flow in the west wing. White House Press SecretarySarah Sanders praised his job performance. I can tell you that rob porter has been effective in his role as staff secretary. Thffpresident and chief of s have had full confidence and trust in his abilities and his performanc yang porter called the allegations against him outrageous and simply false. He said hell st on long enough to ensure a smooth transition to his successor. Reports of Sexual Assault doubled at west int in the last school year. An Associated Press review of records found there were c es at the u. S. Military academy, nearly twice the number from the Previous School year. Officials cited increasedto effortncourage victims to come forward. Assault reports increased only sligly at the naval and air force academies. Vice president pence warned today that north korea will soon face even more punishing economic sanctions, although he gave no details. The Vice President spoke in tokyo, at a joint News Conference with japaneme minister shinzo abe. Im announcing today that the United States of america will soon unveil the toughest and most aggresse round of economic sanctions on north korea ever. Atd we will continue to is north korea, until it abandons its nuclear and ballistic ogram once and for all. Yang mr. Pence is in the region to lead the u. S. Delegation to the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in south korea. He has not ruled out meeting with north korean officials at the games, but he also said hell rend the world that north korea is the most tyrannical and oppressiveth regime on e in south korea, two days before the opening ceremonies, olympic organizers are scrambling to contain an outbreak of the norovirus. So far, 32 security workers have been treated for the highly contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea, and 1,200 guards have been quarantined as a poocaution. 900 have been brought in to help secure the olympic venues until the grds are cleared to return to work. Germanys ruling conservive party clinched a deal today, ending a political deadlock. They reached agreement with the centerleft social democrats on a new coalition government, more than four months after the election. Ha in berlin, cellor Angela Merkel hailed the new deal as a new awakening for europe. translated the people had two justified demands for us. Firstly, do finally form a government, and a stable government. Secondly, during the negotiations, do consider the nes and interests of the people. I am convinced the Coalition Contract which we have agreed eon can be exactly that, foundation of a good and stable government which our country needs, and which, by the way, many in the wo us, too. From yang the deal is subject to approval by the sdeial crats party members, a process that could take several weeks. Os the ngeles times is getting a new owner. L. A. Billionaire physician Patrick Soonshiong will buy the paper from chicagos tronc incorporated. Hes paying 500 million for the times and several other california publications. The times has been beset by budget and staffing cuts. And, it now appears the earliestknown britons looked very dferent from their modernday descendants. Scientists emined d. N. A. From a 10,000yearold skeleton. A reconstruction based on that data indicates he had dark skin, curly hair and blue eyes e finding underscores the growing evidence that the lighter skin tone of modernday europeans is a relatively recent phenomenon. Still to come on the nshour two views from capitol hill on the proposed deal to avoid a Government Shutdown. The president s plan for a military parade, like the one he saw in france. The fall of a casino mogul amid Sexual Misconduct allegations. And the implications for the hospitality industry. And, much more. Y g we return now to the Senate Budget deal, and a look at its uncertain future in the house. We get two views. First, i spoke a short time ago to california democrat pete aguilar. Hes a member of the congressional hispanic caucus, and says the deal is incomplete. You know, we havent seen the complete deal of whatthe seate agreed to, but weve heard a lot of wide reports, obviously, thet e going to change the c. R. That was sent their way, and add the budget caps deal. You know, we just think its incomplete. We think that there needs to be a daca fix included in this, or at least the concrete commitmene by the sper that this will be addressed. Mitch mcconnell made that commitment to Senate Republicans and democrats, and we want a similar commitment that we will address this daca issue. We have a bi, a bipartisan, willeral bill now, that put this behind us, and thats what wed like to sea degrees. P how secific of a promise do you need from the speak tore get to yes . Do you need a promise that al specific bll come to the floor, that a process will be in place in terms of the rule and what will be considered, what amendments will be considered . All we want say fair process if it is a fair process that is open for debate and opefon r discussion, you know, what we think . We actually think, put allhese immigration bills on the house floor, and let us debate these, and let us talk to the American People about whats at star. And confident that a good, strong, bipartisan bill wilsul , something similar to what understand representative will herd and ihave put together. So put a conservative bill on the floor, but our bill on the floor, but them all on the floor and lets vote on them and show the American People t can solve this issue. I know youre active in the hi anic caucus. U think the caucus is going to take an official position on this, on this bill . I do. On the bill or on what senate sends . On whats coming over from the senate . Sure, i think that they are. I think that the hispanic caucus is going to joia growing course in the Democratic Caucus that will oppose what the senate is sending our way until have a solution to daca or a commitment from the speak tor put this on the floor. Now, i know ur district in the inland empire east of los angeles, youve got hard hit in the real estate crisis. T there are a f things in this bill that would help your district the Community Health, childhood heogth insurance m. Is putting those saying no to eose things you think worth the fight that youyou want to have here . Well, we made a commitment to these dreamers. Wee got to address this issue. Theres a lot in this bill as i mentioned, theres a lot in this bid and the buget caps agreement that is good, that is good for our communities, but at the end of the day, its still incomplete. We need a process that will address daca and move past this. But, look, the republicans control the exphowts senate. Ns its their resility to govern and to put a bill that will pass both houses if th want to pass a c. R. , which, by the way, is only a patchwork that the management leaders and our defense leaders dont want. They want a real solution. This isnt tha so in the meantime, lets continue to have this discussion. Lets continue to fous on daca. While there are many god things in this bill, it is still incomple. Youre e House Appropriations commit nepdeal thats coming over from the senate, tas off the spending caps for defense and domesticng spenor two years. Isnt that something that would help things on the propriations committee . Well, it would offer certaintiy for the appropriations commioee. Thats ately true. What we dont have are all the cat