fina daysnhe tmp admistrati. re on that, plus the white house s defense in just the last couple of minutes coming up in just a bit. i want to start on capitol hl with leigh ann caldwell. we re hearing about the standoff on the debt limit. bring us up to speed on what we missed in the last 20 minutes or so. reporter: yeah, hallie. so republicans have been saying that they will offer no help to democrats to suspend or lift the debt limit which secretary yellen says expires on october 18th. what senator schumer did, he went to the senate floor and he asked republicans to let them bypass that process that forces republicans to beinvolved, the 60-vote threshold. senator schumer said, look,et us vote or pass this with just 50s votes and then we ll do it. you don t have to have any fingerprints. but senator mcconnell objected.