get funding deal that s closer to what conservatives want. any deal has to go through the house. i get the speaker, john boehner, and republicans there really want to hold the line on spending. with senators reid and mcconnell meeting today and all ears and eyes on what might have come out of that meeting, how critical are the two of them to a resolution? absolutely. if the two of them can agree on something, this will be something similar to the mcconnell-biden deal that helped resolve the last big debt ceiling fight. this time it s reid. it ll be reid and mcconnell. they ll work something out. if they can move something through the senate, that will put so much pressure on the house that you re more likely to get a deal through congress. remember, the house and senate both have to agree on the same bill for it to get out and become law. if something passes in the senate, what that does is put a whole lot of pressure on the house to do something. that s what s happening right now.
u.s. senate. nbc s casey hunt was there. she s here with us now. before ashley judd said she was not in the race, mitch mcconnell s people were after her. so here these are two official challengers, and they don t seem threatened at all. are we seeing that same kind of push back from the mcconnell camp that we saw with ashley judd? absolutely. i mean, there was a tape that was leaked of a mcconnell meeting. one of the interesting things on that tape was that at the time they actually didn t have too much on grimes, who has since then announced she s going to make this run. the mcconnell folks at this point are particularly focused on bevin. while mcconnell is ignoring him in public, he didn t mention either one of his challengers by name in his speech at fancy farm, his campaign is already on tv. they re sending mailers out and going after bevin. a super pac is running newspaper ads against grimes. talk to me about the threat of bevin. he s a millionaire, right? we re not quite