was not the breakthrough that we were all anticipating earlier in the day. as you mentioned earlier, perhaps house republicans will be making that statement over at the capitol. we'll have to wait and see units sometimes they prefer going back to capitol hill. sometimes they're willing to go to the microphones in the driveway outside the west wing. we saw that little bus leave with the republican members of the house in that bus we earlier saw the speaker leave as well. we'll stand by to see what they say, if any, on capitol hill. let's go to capitol hill. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash is standing by. i don't foe if we can real too much into no comments, no statements from the leadership directly. may be good news, may be bat news, but we do know what the offer was that the speaker put on the table earlier today. >> >> reporter: that's right. that offer was to agree to pass what they call a clean debt ceiling, or at least what