$500 billion over 10 years is going to hurt the pentagon. what is interesting, no one is talking about something the gang of six came up with, from a republican senator coburn, he was talking about how simply by raising some of the health care premiums of retired veterans could bring billions inization and they have not gotten into the details of what the defense cuts will entail and that will be the hard work. shepard: thank you, jennifer. mike covers capitol hill for us. mike, at some point, speaker boehner will attempt to get unity in the party and in the caucus to try to get done what the tea party folks want while trying to move this forward. it has proved to be difficult. i wonder if there are points of new found agreement? reporter: it is interesting. i heard a sound bite from