initially asked for a meeting a matter of days ago the White House and I was there

they brushed it off and said basically what is there to meet about we have told

them all there is to know as it relates the aid needed for Ukraine and the like

then speaker Johnson on Monday goes down.

He spends the day on President's day with the former President Donald Trump at

Maralago and President Biden cracks the door open to a possible sit down with Johnson saying if he has anything to say.

So what gives and what's the likelihood these two finally sit down together and discuss?

That's a great question, Peter, and I'll note, as you know well, that Speaker Johnson did meet

with the President back in January when they had the whole host of 22 key congressional

leaders around the table with Biden to figure figure out just that a path forward on

Ukraine aid a path forward on securing the border since that a lot has

blown up of course but in the moments after President Biden floated that

he'd be open to this meeting yesterday.

We did hear from Speaker Johnson's spokesperson who posted on X in part saying they welcome the

President's reversal and openness to meeting with Speaker Johnson. I'm told that that is the very

latest. I checked in a couple of minutes ago there has been no movement on such a

meeting one-on-one between the present between Speaker Johnson but certainly the clock is ticking Peter as you

noted and this isn't the first time that Johnson had requested on one-on-one

meeting. In fact, last week when we first broke the news that Johnson wanted

this to even move forward not only on that Senate

Pass Supplemental Aid Package but on any aid to Ukraine any aid to Israel and

potentially border security provisions that he had asked President Biden he had asked via his chief of staff as

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