boehner urged the president to call on harry reid to appoint negotiators to this conference that we now are talking with so much about to try to hash out the differences between the house and senate. as you well know, senate majority reid has no intention of negotiating and as he read in a letter to speaker boehner, along with speaker boehner and all congressional leaders and the white house, they want that deal and senator reid says not until they have the assurance that the tax cut will not lapse come january 1. so they are pushing he is again pushing as well as the white house, to put to push through the two two-month extension. but bottom line, where do things stand? talks are not happening. there isn t any real progress because there aren t real talks happening. both sides are very dug in. they all seem to want the end goal but absolutely talking with each other at this point. let us know if that phone call manifests into a meeting. thank you. appreciate it. let s