a bill he said he wouldn t sign? who knows. with david plouffe senior adviser to the president in a few minutes to find out about that. on wednesday senator reid insisted over and over that boehner s plan wouldn t pass the senate but he held out hope that there would be a deal before next tuesday. today or tomorrow or friday, magic things can happen here in congress in a very short period of time. kelly o donnell is nbc s capitol hill correspondent. what s surprising to me is apparently how little conversation actually is taking place behind the scenes between reid and mcconnell, reid and boehner, as much as we thought there would be say a week ago when we would have been at this point? well, it s one of the things that aides don t necessarily want to shine a big bright light on. what we have been told is that certainly the senior level staffers who, as you understand, are critically important in that, they do a lot of the heavy
commenting on the latest developments with the michael cohen situation. and of course we ll be able to measure if there is any movement on that in the briefing if sarah huckabee sanders engages on any of those questions. as you pointed out, the white house certainly would prefer to shine a big bright light on. some of the developments from foreign policy where the president today talked about the announcement that he made first via twitter then talking during his cabinet meet being the fact that the americans who have been detained by north korea were safely released, presumed to be in fairly good health, and are in transit back to the united states. the secretary of state mike pompeo also making that journey back with him. here s a bit of how the president sort of he built up the anticipation and as he so often does, there is a showmanship quality to how he talked about this in the cabinet room just a short time ago.
a bill he said he wouldn t sign? who knows. with david plouffe senior adviser to the president in a few minutes to find out about that. on wednesday senator reid insisted over and over that boehner s plan wouldn t pass the senate but he held out hope that there would be a deal before next tuesday. today or tomorrow or friday, magic things can happen here in congress in a very short period of time. kelly o donnell is nbc s capitol hill correspondent. what s surprising to me is apparently how little conversation actually is taking place behind the scenes between reid and mcconnell, reid and boehner, as much as we thought there would be say a week ago when we would have been at this point? well, it s one of the things that aides don t necessarily want to shine a big bright light on. what we have been told is that certainly the senior level staffers who, as you understand, are critically important in