a bill he said he wouldn't sign? who knows. with david plouffe senior adviser to the president in a few minutes to find out about that. on wednesday senator reid insisted over and over that boehner's plan wouldn't pass the senate but he held out hope that there would be a deal before next tuesday. >> today or tomorrow or friday, magic things can happen here in congress in a very short period of time. >> kelly o'donnell is nbc's capitol hill correspondent. what's surprising to me is apparently how little conversation actually is taking place behind the scenes between reid and mcconnell, reid and boehner, as much as we thought there would be say a week ago when we would have been at this point? >> well, it's one of the things that aides don't necessarily want to shine a big bright light on. what we have been told is that certainly the senior level staffers who, as you understand, are critically important in that, they do a lot of the heavy