confident we re within days of seeing his departure. i remember one of these kids saying to christiane amanpour that he was upset because he had to get a lawyer because he likes to go on safari in africa and he couldn t believe he wasn t going to be able to do that. absolutely. crack that clan and he s done. those elite units will fall apart. the tribe will defect. and it will all be over. nic, very briefly, only about 30 seconds left, has saif gadhafi appeared i know i saw his daughter potising with troo in some areas. is he still around? reporter: we believe he is. certainly there are other members of the family around. again, these are details i don t want to go into. but there are other members of the family around. and i can say recently, assuredly that they haven t
and on that there is increasing pessimism, too. this was mitch mcconnell. it could be done in a very, very effective way, and for those who are concerned about the 2012 elections, survived politically because both sides will have embraced t. i haven t given up hope but frankly i m not optimistic. reporter: republicans are all but daring the administration to come to the table and discuss serious entitlement reform, attacking the long debt and it sounds like they are not going to pass any spend measures for the short term this year unless some spending is reduced and there s no signs that democrats on capitol hill are bog to blink, which means a shutdown this time is much more serious. jenna: that said, there are votes this week. what should we be watching for? reporter: what they re going to do, democratic majority leader harry reid has plans to house votes object the house version with the 61 1/2 billion dollars cut in the senate as