harry reid in this is what happened with the talks: keep the government open back in april. and, ultimately the talks have blend up. there is nothing else going on. i spoke with the top democrat on the budget committee and he said he had no indication that they would withdraw from the talks. this is really critical at this juncture, and everybody has said that the talks were going very well with one caveat: early in the week, the majority leader, a republican negotiator in the room, said he wanted the president to get more involved. today he placed it on the president and said, look, the problem here, the problem here is taxes. he says democrats are not willing to give up raising taxes, and democrats say, look, we have do have a revenue razor. there is no way we can cut, cut, cut, and get a deal. and another dynamic people are asking whether they could sell this to the republican leadership. one source said to me early