of ten people think the super committee will fail to reach a deal over a trillion dollars of deficit cuts. luke, they're running out of time. do we have any reason for optimism, though? >> no, not right now, thomas. reports from aides on both sides are that they are at the kuwait a stalemate on the super committee. the committee as a group has not met together for some time. it's basically going into little sort of side groups. few republican here, few democrats here may meet cross party within the super committee itself. the main issue is the one that's plagued this congress for so long. democrats don't want to move and republicans don't want to see their taxes raised. one thing that's leaked out over the past weekend is, okay, perhaps the super committee could agree on a way to raise taxes, create new revenue, agree on a number but not necessarily how that would be implemented and carried out. that responsibility would then super committee would instruct that to be fall on the house ways and means committee and