take control of the house, when they have many more seats in the senate. and that's, in many ways, what this is about. and we've obviously been talking about president obama, but the person we also should be talking about is harry reid, who is the senate majority leader. he is somebody who has had trouble, a lot of trouble, getting republicans on board with some things, but he realized, just as the white house did, it's now or never on the don't ask, don't tell bill. it was maybe now or never on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty in terms of just the basic numbers that democrats had. and that combined with the calendar, the fact that they really pushed and made clear to republicans, we mean it, we're going to do it, and that helped to bring republicans on board. >> and he did express a lot of frustration, and deep disappointment, david gergen, that he could not get the congress to approve what was called the dream act, that would allow young children whose parents came here illegally to serve in the military, to go to college, to become legal residents of the united states. listen to that frustration come through in this clip.