in strange way his negotiating position was strengthened. he's got a deficit cutting plan and the republicans do. the only plan he's put in writing that they could score washings plus 3 trillion dollars in debt and deficits over the next decade. he's making the problem worse in what he proposed. >> do you think that speaker john boehner basically agrees that this is the exit strategy if it comes to this and can't say so publicly yet? >> he he may well, because again, he has so many of these members who are demanding that there be some giant, you know, again, the whole tea party crowd, they were going to go in there and they were going to force the president to do this. now, john boehner is not dumb. he knows that you can't run washington from one house of congress. and so, there's going to have to be a way out of this, but he has got to-- his big challenge has always