washington post, and an msnbc analyst. robert, i see you re up on the hill. anything you can add to our reporting? what they re doing in the capitol, is they re trying to figure out can they do a short-term bill in the coming hours so these negotiations can continue. i spoke to senator graham and others and they think the white house can come together and have some kind of promise on the d.r.e.a.m.ers vote or something like that. they just need a few more days. so the question tonight is will they tweak that house bill that goes for a month and just make it for a few days? robert, i m going to interrupt you only to bring in a member of the u.s. senate. senator jeff murkily, a democrat from oregon has joined us off the floor of the senate. why did we just see the leaders