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morsi is addressing and speaking to all egypt shuians. he has a message for muslim, christians, coptics, mothers, fathers. our ben wedeman is there overlooking tahrir square. it is nightfall. there are cheering crowds and fireworks. it is like a sea of egyptian flags there. people are feeling very celebratory. is it being punctuated by the words of the president-elect? do they get a chance to hear him as he is speaking right now? reporter: yes. you can hear that loud speaker putting out the speech. what s interesting. he is very much trying to stress that he is not addressing his supporters. he is addressing all egyptians. interestingly, he specifically addressed the army which he called my brothers and my son. he addressed the police, interestingly, these were the same police that jailed him under the regime of hosni mubarak. he said he was addressing the judges, the judiciary, which just recently dissolved the parliament that the muslim brotherhood was dominating. h ....
This is going to go. what do you have? reporter: forgive me, steve p i m not exactly sure where you are as far as what you ve told our viewers about the latest here. we can say nbc news has confirmed that democrats at this point are going to give republicans enough votes to reopen the government today. they have 60 votes. democrats were huddling inside the caucus room over in the capitol. i came straight over from there. i ve talked to one source who was inside that room, another who has been in constant touch with those who were meeting inside the room. again, this was a senators only meeting. and while chuck schumer went right by all of us reporters and said, look, you re going to find out pretty soon what we re going to do, at this point we do have what i would say is a pretty seismic shift from just a couple of hours ago. this morning as we were on the air, the thinking was, no way, this vote was going to fail again. we were going to be at the stalemate again. but over the course ....
Produce in the senate? and what would happen in the house? the house would still have to pass that. that raises the question of president trump s role in all this. peter alexander is at the white house. peter, look, this weekend as th this shutdown played out, the president was active on twitter, not on television, not at public events. if those terms emerge from the senate ultimately, a big question here is can you get a daca plan through the conservative republican house? the president would have to play a role there. do we know if the white house is on board with that? yeah, steve, that s a good question. that is the outstanding question, assuming, as kasie reports, that the democrats will give republicans enough votes to reopen the government. to give you a little color behind the scenes, the marine guard is standing in front of the west wing, which means the president is in the oval office, the first time we ve seen that guard out there. the president is at work right now. behin ....
Meeting where something was getting hashed out. that was the story, you know, a few years ago when i was first covering capitol hill. that was how things happened here, and they would come out and say, hey, we ve cracked a deal. but it hasn t been how business has been operating lately. it s all been conversations among republicans or among democrats. so a real breakthrough here, steve. we ll see what the house is going to do later on today. i would say assuming that, you know, this moves as quickly as we think it s going to, the house could vote later on this afternoon, and we could see government reopen. okay. kasie hunt with the latest on capitol hill . again, waiting for this vote on the senate floor. we ll keep monitoring the senate floor. let s find out more about the contours of this deal, about what would come next if, in fact, this vote does reopen the government in the next few minutes. sounds like the government would then be open at least through february 8th. there s som ....
That we saw held up in in close government. that would potentially protect these immigration provisions from the hardline conservatives in the house. there s still a pretty significant and important line of thinking that the house potentially will sink anything that the senate sends their way and that the president will have to be bought into whatever is going on on the house side. otherwise, people like mark meadows, jim jordan, that will snowball and potentially sink legislation there. so again, steve, i want to take a step back and refocus on what has caused this, what are the stakes for those dreamers, those kids who on march 5th are potentially losing their status. this is why democrats brought us to this point. this has been why the conversation that they ve been trying to force. at this point, they re still in limbo. we don t exactly know how the process is going to play out, but we do know mitch mcconnell has made a very public statement ....