host: for a tuesday round table during a busy week on both ends on capitol hill, we are joined by steven dennis and jordan fabian. jordan fabian, start with you. congressional leaders from both parties are scheduled to go to the white house this afternoon. what is on the agenda for this meeting? caller: it is going to be the funding deadline that is coming up december 8. they need to get to an agreement to keep the government open and prevent shutdown, so that is what the leaders will be discussing. they have not even agreed on spending levels, so it seems likely they will pass a short-term measure to keep the government open. they might be's talking about some of the issues and holdups that could stop them from getting a long-term deal. host: remind us why we have a december 8 funding deadline. caller: in september, president trump cut the deal with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to extend the government funding from september until now, and also lift the debt ceiling. this is why republican leaders were angry about this deal, one of the reasons was that they had to re-is -- visit this thorny

host: steven dennis.uest: some democrats would tell you they wish they had more time on the affordable care act, which the original bill passed december 24 in the senate. it went through a lot of hearings, it went through a lot of scrutiny, but the final bill was put in toward the end. there were some things that ended up getting litigated in the courts. if written in a slightly better way, would not have gone through courts. house democrats wish they had had a conference before scott brown one. -- won. with this tax bill, they are trying to jam it through on the senate floor. there will be changes right up until the end. it is possible we will see changes on a bill in the middle of the night and then they could vote on it, and that could go to the house and theoretically the house could pass it. we have a lot of reporters and journalists paying a lot of attention. you can find out about what your lawmakers are doing. it is a representative democracy, not like some secret thing. even if it is behind close

here with the details is steven dennis reporting from washington. surprise, is -- is it?n mark steven: is not that surprising they want all these trump officials to be disclosing any communications involving anything involving russia. the fact this came out in october does suggest that mueller is continuing to dig deeper. this investigation may not end as quickly as the white house once. they want this thing over and done with before next year's midterms, before -- they don't want to dragging on month after month after month. there continues to be more and more news that keeps breaking that suggests it could be hard to finish all these investigations by december 31, early next year. shery: president trump now saying he will pay his own legal bills. what impacts could this have on the probe? steven: i think the president, instead of relying on his campaign contributors, which is an awkward situation, to pay his own legal bills. it is interesting. plus, they are trying to set up away from help pay for some of his staffers' legal bills. of hownds up a s

host: for a tuesday round table during a busy week on both ends on capitol hill, we are joined by steven dennis and jordan fabian.

steven and dennis, white house support for the hill. congressional leaders from both parties are scheduledre to go to the white house later this afternoon and what is on the agenda for this meeting? >> to the top of the agenda meeting is the funding deadline that is coming up on december 8. we need to get to the agreement to keepsi government open to prevent a shutdown and that's the leaders will be discussing. they haven't even agreed on spending levels so it is likely they will pass some kind of short-term measure that will keep the government open but in this meeting there might be talking about some of the issues and holdups that could stop them from getting to longer-term deal. >> remind us why we have a funding deadline right now. >> back in september president trump cut a deal with chuck and nancy, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, to extend the government funding and also that the debt ceiling but this is why republican leaders were angry about this deall and one of the reasons as they haven't revisited this thorny issue of govern

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steven and dennis, white house support for the hill. congressional leaders from both parties are scheduledre to go to the white house later this afternoon and what is on the agenda for this meeting? >> to the top of the agenda meeting is the funding deadline that is coming up on december 8.