they say it's too close of a debt ceiling extension coming up january 31st, 2014. they want the government to be funded longer than march 31st of 2014. they are having lunch right now, there's a republican lunch and a senate lunch. we'll know more at 2:00 once they are out of that. they are ping-ponging ideas back and forth, but it looks like the senate wants to be a bipartisan agreement that would fund the government and extend the debt limit. we don't know what it's going to look like, but they want to get something they hope by tonight, at least announced, and then we'll move to a procedural process forward. the way the senate works, it is ted cruise or mike lee or rand paul, if those guys want to derail this deal because they don't like it, they can put up some sort of a fight. i talked to one aid, if you have a long-drawn out fight could push this all the way to thursday, the day of default. it's a fluid situation with a lot of things going on. as of right now, any deal to fund the government and extend