republican members as they try to work out what could be the goldie lokts deal here. graham has been talking for at least the last couple of days at length with me earlier today about the idea that this 30-day cr was just too long. it was too much of a kicking the can down the road thing. the other concept that has been floated repeatedly is a blink, a short cr, three, four, five-day effort to keep the government open. that was too short. so what s the conversation has been about to the best that we can tell is the length of time to allow to try to keep the government open. it appeared earlier on, again, from the smoke signals that we get used to reading around here, like they might be closer to announcing something. when mitch mcconnell came back to his desk and set the lectern up, when we started to see movement around the idea that there would be an actual speaking here on the senate floor, which has been stalled since this vote stalled. but now you have this continued huddle arou