that is bad news fora deal and you suspect the longer this goes on the more likely that is what is being discussed. bret: i agree with you. this is actually a long meeting at 10:40 when you are supposed to potentially move legislation to the senate floor tonight to take action potentially for the house to act tomorrow. stephen dinal with the washington times. thank you very much. i m getting a lot of tweets from people who just are tired of fiscal cliff coverage. they just want to see megyn kelly and bill in times square dancing gangnam style or whatever they are doing. happy new year. take me out of fiscal cliff, washington. see yew in a minute, bret. happy new year. get you your feather boa ready. coming back to talk to you in just a minute. we ll be back with megyn and