working behind the scenes. do they feel they've made any progress? >> reporter: at this point, not really. i will say one of his top deputies, mark short, the head of legislative affairs, he's been um on capitol hill talking to senators. he just came out and spoke to reporters a few moments ago and said he still feels like there's a chance they could get a vote on this c.r. tonight. as you heard from phil mattingly, it is becoming exceedingly unlikely they're going to have the votes to get that house c.r. passed. then it becomes let's make a deal. can they find some other alternative that is going to reach 60 votes? and it's just unclear at this point where whether they do that. we should caution our viewers even though there's a clock at the bottom of the screen ticking down to midnight you know, balloons are not going to fall from the sky, what have you, at midnight if this deal is not reached. they could go into the wee hours of the night and try to fashion together some sort of compromise come back tomorrow. in the view of this administration, nothingramatic is going to happen. however, i should point out in the last several minutes, the white house has posted its own