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Anything with the house. both sides saying that a few days to cool off over the holiday might be helpful, but there are no signs they re closer to a deal. patti ann: chief white house correspondent ed henry joining us now live in honolulu, hawaii. so, ed, what is the latest? any progress to tell us about? reporter: or well, patti ann, really no progress. as gregg was saying, a lot of people thought, well, a cooling-off period, the holidays, maybe this ll get everybody to work together, the president even joking last week about figuring out a way to move all of this forward, but we ve been told by white house officials there have been no real phone calls between the president and speaker boehner over the last few days, very little staff contact. so the bottom line is the president is leaving hawaii here tonight, as you suggested, just to try and jump-start things. he s going to be landing because of the big time difference, a long flight from hawaii, he really won t hit the ground ....