elements of the problem. particularly entitlement we talked about, it's not rocket science. we know what we have to deal with. it's a matter of coming to terms. i think we talked about tax reform as being, you know, great. a wider variety of variables there in terms of trying to grapple with that issue. >> this is the great town to talk and harder to get anything to do. did you talk about how you're actually going to accomplish the principles on which you have a common ground? >> we talked about having to establish a process to move forward and i got the sense that president obama is probably planning on doing something a similar gathering with some democratic senators and he seemed very sincere in and engaged in the process and members of the administration to help us really work on, you know, the different elements of a solution to the problem. >> greta: why do you think the leaders of the two houses weren't there in the republican party? >> well, he met with them on friday and he told us they had