they had an unhappy, tense meeting with jack lu yesterday afternoon. lu is the white house budget editor. he didn't do much to reassure the democrats that they weren't being led down the path of huge spending cuts and very little in revenue. host: they are careful to say nothing has been agreed to at this point, but if they do announce a deal between the president and the speaker, is there any guarantee congress and the two bodies will find the votes for it? guest: that's a good question. the answer is, absolutely not. there is no guarantee that if boehner and the president walk up to a microphone together and announce that a deal has been reached either today or over the weekend, that that will guarantee passage of the house and the senate. you have to look at the challenges that the leadership faces in getting any deal through. it's most problem matic probably -- problematic probably in the house. we can't county on a lot of the republicans. as we discussed, democrats are weary of this deal and feel the president may be abandoning his base in search

but even though they are good ideas, earlier this week a few days ago i was sitting talking to jack lu, office of management and budget and rob nabors and we talked for an hour and a half about a different trigger. >> sean: harry reid along with dick durbin and new york senator chuck schumer after the united states senate has tabled the boehner bill that passed by a margin of 218 votes to 210 votes. earlier tonight, we heard the majority leader say it is time for the republicans to step forward if the u.s. senate they haven't passed a bill in 8 hyundais and haven't put forward a bill in the entire debate and went on to say we should be allowed an up or down vote but the two bills that the house sent over to the u.s. senate they weren't given an up or down vote. they were tabled immediately. we check in with the host of "special report." our good friend bret baier is here with us. we should be allowed an up and down vote. did that happen on the two bill bills the house sent over? >> bret they basically tabled those and killed those right away. republican senator mcconnell's office sendi

but even though they are good ideas, earlier this week a few days ago i was sitting talking to jack lu, office of management and budget and rob nabors and we talked for an hour and a half about a different trigger. >> sean: harry reid along with dick durbin and new york senator chuck schumer after the united states senate has tabled the boehner bill that passed by a margin of 218 votes to 210 votes. earlier tonight, we heard the majority leader say it is time for the republicans to step forward if the u.s. senate they haven't passed a bill in 8 hyundais and haven't put forward a bill in the entire debate and went on to say we should be allow an up or down vote but the two bills that the house sent over to the u.s. senate they weren't given an up or down vote. they were tabled immediately. we check in with the host of "special report." our good friend bret baier is here with us. we should be allowed an up and down vote. did that happen on the two bill bills the house sent over? >> bret they basically tabled those and killed those right away. republican senator mcconnell's office sending

but even though they are good ideas, earlier this week a few days ago i was sitting talking to jack lu, office of management and budget and rob nabors and we talked for an hour and a half about a different trigger. >> sean: harry reid along with dick durbin and new york senator chuck schumer after the united states senate has tabled the boehner bill that passed by a margin of 218 votes to 210 votes. earlier tonight, we heard the majority leader say it is time for the republicans to step forward if the u.s. senate they haven't passed a bill in 8 hyundais and haven't put forward a bill in the entire debate and went on to say we should be allowed an up or down vote but the two bills that the house sent over to the u.s. senate they weren't given an up or down vote. they were tabled immediately. we check in with the host of "special report." our good friend bret baier is here with us. we should be allowed an up and down vote. did that happen on the two bill bills the house sent over? >> bret they basically tabled those and killed those right away. republican senator mcconnell's office sendi

>> well, we had jack lu, the head of the office management and budget at the caucus today.e said there has been no agreement struck. i don't believe there has been one at this point. clearly there are active negotiations. we know that it's not been determined what the way forward is at this point. but i think at the end of the day it's going to have to be something very close in terms of dealing with the debt, to what the group of six has come up with because it is the only bipartisan plan that has been developed that really gets the debt under control. and at the end of the day, i believe any plan that is agreed to in terms of dealing with debt will have to be pretty close to what we've done. >> woodruff: senator chambliss, what are you hearing? and are you hearing anything that leads you to believe it's close? >> first of all, i don't get that many calls from the white house, judy. so i'm not sure what's going on down there. but we are-- i think there is an indication that because we're getting to the end of the road, i mean gosh, we're looking at tuesday week being d-day

meantime, the budget director jack lu has been sitting the sunday talk shows saying there is time to get something done and that is the president's goal. >> president made clear he wants the largest deal possible, most we can to reduce reduce the deficit. >> he is going into areas that he has not in the past he has not been comfortable. >> reporter: there has been talks behind the scenes but we got an indication from him. >> gregg: where do republicans stand at this point? >> reporter: there is a growing division among republicans in the senate over mcconnell's measure for a stopgap measure to keep the country from defaulting it would allow the president to raise the debt ceiling in three phases but without spelling long term solutions. that would come later. >> i'm not going to support the mcconnell plan. this is kicking the can down the road. american people sent us here to make tough choices. not to set up a commission and do a veto. that is not what they sent us here to do. >> reporter: with gop divided on that issue, mcconnell measure could pass the senate but facing a tougher b

jack lu told meet the press there is still time to get something big done.o something substantial. >>> casey anthony is a free woman. she left jail just after midnight. she was found not guilty of murdering her daughter caylee less than two weeks ago. >>> a british newspaper executive arrested in the news of the world phone hacking investigation. rebekah brooks was taken into custody this morning. news corps which also owns this network has come under fire the allegations that news of the world hacked cell phones of crime victims. >>> the woman admitted to grabbing the breast of a female agent thursday but there is no word on why she did it. the woman no you faces a felony count of sexual abuse. and those are the top stories right now, shannon. back to you. >> shannon: peter, thank youngsters you very much. peter, thank you very much. >>> heat advisories stretching across the midwest today. sweltering temperatures in the region. rick reichmuth is in the fox weather center with all of our forecast for today. hi, rick. >> to give you an idea how hot it is, the

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