>> reporter: well, carol, i hate to sort of be a downer on this morning of pomp and circumstance here, but, no, the short answer is, no, it won't happen at least in the short term. the reality, as manu just said, there's a democrat in the white house, republicans now control congress, of course. so, in the short term, i don't expect a lot of bipartisan agreement. we're in the waning days of president obama's time in the white house. and do not expect any big deals, any big agreements to come in this final period. of course, this is happening in the middle of a raucous presidential candidate as we saw last night in the debate. paul ryan will have time to chart a course on his own. as the white house campaign works itself out here. i do think governing will be different. he's a very serious legislator. i do think he'll try and tackle some entitlement reforms. some of those things that really are breaking the budget here. so, he's a very, very serious legislator, 45 years old, the