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Senate Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Trump for dinner at the White House. "He likes us. He likes me anyway," Schumer said in the audio captured by C-SPAN and broadcast live, Thursday. He elaborated further on the conversation. "Here’s what I told him. I said, 'Mr. President, you’re much better off if you can sometimes step right and sometimes left. If you have to step just in one direction you’re boxed,'" Schumer said.

Longtime Roger Stone has agreed to meet with the House Intelligence Committee for a closed-door interview on September 26, according to Stone and a committee source. "I will voluntarily testify for the House Intelligence Committee on Sept 26," Stone confirmed in a statement to ABC News.

President Donald Trump is going to be asking for a lot of action from Congress in the coming weeks and months, and this week he's already hosted two dinners at the White House as a way to talk things out. Whether it's relaxing in his Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this year with the Japanese prime minister and later the Chinese president, or bringing bipartisan groups of congressional leaders together for dinner at the White House, Trump appears to know the value in breaking bread. Unlike formal state dinners, where the menu is

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THE TAKE with ABC News' Rick Klein If you think this will be an easy, clear path toward a tidy compromise, we've got a wall to sell you. For starters, deals depend on trust. If Sen. Chuck Schumer said on a hot mic, sounding like more than a few would-be Trump dance partners before him.) What Trump likes is a deal, not any particular policy. And now the policy will be scrutinized and savaged, with more voices getting in his ear.

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