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

The president meets with congressional leaders to try to strike a funding deal.

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Congressional leaders are returning to the Capitol.

After spending the afternoon negotiating with

President Biden at the White House at stake funding for Ukraine, Israel, and

additional border security measures.

This as Congress faces a separate funding deadline Friday and a potential government shutdown.

Lisa DeJardan is here to help us understand what is standing in the way of a deal.

Lisa, good to see you.

So this White House meeting on Ukraine funding and border funding,

who is in the room and are they making progress?

This was all the heavyweights on Capitol Hill,

not just the party leaders in each chamber, McConnell, Schumer, Jeffries, and Speaker

Johnson, but also the heads of all the relevant committees.

So these are the heavy hitters altogether in the room.

And I want to just remind people of the simple problem here.

One, Ukraine our allies now been at war for almost two years,

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