lisa, what happens now? right. a couple of things happen. first of all we ll get the official announcement as you re talking about, saying that may come tomorrow, discussions under way. as the super committee fails that would trigger across the board cuts of 8 to 9% to most every government agency and those would not go into effect another year. a lot of speculation to whether congress will pull that back. but let s get back to sort of where we are right at this moment. behind the scenes, we have many, several sources republican and democrats, telling us they re planning for the end. but what s interesting, it ted, i want listeners and viewers to pay close attention here, publicly members of the super committee aren t saying that yet. they still have a date day to work out a deal. sounds like they don t want to admit they basically have stopped talking. let s play some sound from the sunday talk shows and listen closely to kind of double messages here. first from a democrat