mitch mcconnell is offering up a short term deal, but it's more of a maneuvering. >> the senate republicans' position i find to be hypocritical, danger and you say a bit disgraceful. >> the second option, democrats do something they don't want to do and use the budget process known as reconciliation to raise the debt limit. that's the same procedure they're using with that social spending and climate bill on the table. democrats could do this on their own unilaterally but they don't want to because they say it's too time consuming, too risky, they have to revise the social spending bill, et cetera. option 3, democrats could change the rule and carve out an exception in the filibuster. in plain english, they could vote to tweak the usual procedure a little bit to raise the debt limit on their own. >> reporter: what's the likelihood of making a change in