we need to get to jessica yellen our chief white house concerned correspondent the president came out a short time ago and said it appears a deal is in the works. not the perfect deal but one that will keep america from going into default. >> that's right, don. i have more information about how it came together. i came from a briefing with senior white house officials who say it happened between 8:10 and 8:20 when the vice president and the president, i should say and the vice president called the congressional leaders and individually affirmed with them that they do, in fact, have a deal. this all started, we are told, after the boehner bill was voted on on friday. and once that went through, once they had the vote in the house of representatives they say things started rolling. they began negotiations here. as we have been reporting, vice president biden was actively engaged, as was the president, in talking back and forth with the leaders throughout the past few days. the white house has a slightly different figure they are putting forward. they say it is a $2.1 trillion deal to ra