Moved from the house to the senate. The majority leader harry reid says he is hopeful for a compromise soon, one that will break the budget impasse before default. I want to bring in al jazeeras john terret joining us from capitol hill. I hope you have a record player because i have a record i would like to sell you, albeit a broken record reporter i am going to go get one after this broadcast in the light of what you said. Thats for sure. We could lead a long playing record into the we small hours. There is a lot happening, but there is no real progress. The headline news, i think, is we just heard in the past few minutes with harry reid, the majority leader in senate had a telephone call with his republican counterpart, mitch mccog. We are told it was cordial. We know they met face to face yesterday. Today, we are told they simply agreed to keep on talking. We are also told that nancy pelosi, the minority leader in the house had a telephone call with president obama today at which th