brianna keeler is on duty at the white house. good evening to you, brianna, what can you tell us about this meeting between the president and his top party leaders in congress? >> reporter: as far as we know, the president is meeting right now with senate majority leader harry reid and with leader pelosi from the house, the leader of the minority in the house. and we don't have details on this yet, it's a closed press meeting, meaning we didn't even get our pool cameras inside to get a glimpse of this, but we know from a white house official that they are meeting here at the white house and we're hoping to get at least a notification when that all wraps up. white house officials saying this is to update the president on around these debt negotiations and what we're really seeing, and this is part of it is a flurry of negotiations going on and this all kind of follows some cab book i can theater playing out on the bill. we saw the house vote on the boehner bill and the senate picked it up and the boehner bill failed in the senate a

. >>> let's go to the white house where we find brianna keeler and we also understand, brianna, both nancy pelosi and harry reid, maybe they're at the who is by now, they were called to go to the white house shortly after making appearances on capitol hill. are they there yet? and if so, what kind of discussions are taking place. >> reporter: we don't know fredericka if they're here yet, but according to a white house official, this was supposed to begin at 3:30 p.m., we're not always privy to seeing them come and go, we just find out if they're coming and it was senator reid who said he was comi coming over here to the white house, why? he said i know this may seem very obvious but to give the president an update involving these debt negotiations. also this is going to be what we call closed press. that means that our travel pool cameras will not be allowed inside so we're not even going to be able to see a picture of this. but you heard kate mention those back channel negotiations, it seems very important to coming to an agreement here. vice president biden has been very involved a

we remember with brianna keeler, the heat and the humidity is literally affecting our equipment. you go outside with a camera, it will fog up, and that means that photographers have to give themselves about 20 minutes before we have a live shot to help it defog. here our live shot location on the north lawn, we're dealing with the heat index at 113, also these concrete risers just radiating the heat upward. and these hot tv lights, they don't really help either. so what we're trying to do is above all stay hydrated, wear cotton and when all else fails, my photographers have been nice enough to set off fan down there to help keep me cool during our live shots. >> we have one very special block that's finding a way to stay cool. today we opened up the fire hydrant with this giant wrench. we also have a sprinkler cap to keep the water down, we're not usinging a lot of water, but it's keeping everybody cool. >> they are having fun, but you know what? as we said, it is down right dangerous. joining us now with more on the nation's heat wave is jacqui jeras. like you said, it's dangero

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let's go to brianna keeler. who is, who was there? what are they arguing about?ago, and this was president obama again with these top eight democrats and republican s in the house ad senate. two from each chamber. we knew going into this president obama told those in negotiations, i want you to come with specifics about what could be in an agreement, but there is no break through at this point, brooke. president obama, despite the fact that republicans ended up pulling out of at least the discussion point about a $4 trillion in deficit savings over ten years, they said, you know we're not going to go for that over the weekend. president obama saying he's still pushing for that. republicans and an aide to the speaker telling us what house republicans are really looking at now is a $2.4 trillion in deficit savings over the course of ten years, and the things we know generally they're discussing, of course, tax increases. democrats want some. republicans are insisting that there shouldn't be tax increases, also entitlement reform. medicare, medicaid, social security

cnn white house correspondent brianna keeler joining me now. can you hear me?: i cannot hear. >> she's having a little bit of trouble hearing us there. we will get to her, though, as soon as we can and get the very latest. we have a live picture, though, for you in the meantime. this is the medal of honor ceremony that is going to begin here in just a few minutes. president obama will bestow the nation's highest military honor on an army ranger. we will bring you that life as soon as it happens. s in meantime brianna can hear us now. we're glad you're with us. we were talking about one of the republican presidential candidates who seems ready to give up his day job. what are we talking about here? >> reporter: that's right. it's nice to see and hear you ran randi, so good to do both. we're talking about ron paul. he announced today he's not running for re-election next year. he has served in the house of representatives for almost 24 years representing texas's 14th congressional district. he's currently in the middle of his third bid for the white house. he twe