Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amna Navas on the news hour tonight.

Congressional leaders meet President Biden to negotiate a spending deal and try to avoid a government

shutdown in days.

Michigan Democrats wonder how many will vote uncommitted in the state's presidential

primary tonight to protest President Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamais war.

And outrage over the alleged murder of a university student by a Venezuelan migrant fans the flames of immigration politics.

We need to pay attention to broader factors that contribute to this kind of senseless violence

rather than simply aiming our targets at immigrants. Welcome to the News Hour. The top four leaders in Congress met with President Biden

in the Oval Office today to discuss how to fund the government

and what should happen next for U.S. support of Ukraine.

Congress faces a number of crises this week as leaders race to meet deadlines, including one that could spark a partial government

shutdown. Funding runs out for parts of the government late Friday, and as we've been reporting,

Ukrainians say without more U.S. support they will lose the war.

Lisa Dejahardin has been following it all and joins us now.

So Lisa, this meeting was significant, especially for House Speaker Johnson,

who of all the people in that room in the Oval Office is likely

the one who determines how things progress.

Give us a sense of what happened.

Well, it was significant, you're right.

What happened here was a meeting that was serious. We know all the

leaders came out. They said it was positive discussion, but it was in some ways

intense. It wasn't a classical meeting in the sense that it was a little bit

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