i don't want to see default. i don't frankly want to get anywhere close to. >> chris: you are close to it? >> we are bad for our economy and bad for our country. i'm trying to find a common ground that's doable in the time that we have remaining. >> chris: let me ask you and that's the last question, sir. how disappointed are you. according to the plan we understand now and it may change trillion dollars in spending cuts in the short-term. how disappointed are you that after months of talking after this urgent deadline that it seems now that maybe the most that washington can come up with when you are going to spend $46 trillion over the next decade is $1 trillion in spending? >> after over six months, conversations with the president, about doing the big deal, about taking a big step in the right direction, it's pretty clear to me that they are just not willing to do it. that the next election matters more than doing what's right for the country. i'm not worried about the next election. i told the president months ago forget about the next election