>> bill: washington beat segment tonight. let's get to ace corpdz james rosen and carl cameron. what's the latest on the political struggle cammeron in congress? is there any change? i mean, they are going to have to compromise sometime. what are you you hearing? >> new talk of another short-term extension on the debt limit. the idea is it would give them more time to continue negotiating the thing that they for years have not been able to resolve. apart from that sort of alice in wonderland though what down is up and what is small is big. republicans who have wanted for years small government are now fighting to reopen it and democrats who say they love and celebrate government and want to expand it with the affordable care act are fighting basically to keep it closed. the house republicans keep passing bills to open up part of the partially closed government and democrats keep on killing him in the senate and saying they are refusing to negotiate. that's a risky part about it. >> that's my question is what about the american people here? because, if you continue to punish the folks by keeping