anything. elisabeth: to the contrary. you just spoke with selise who was there in the room and he said the exact opposite. he said the republicans do have it together. brian: that was one of my questions to him because i see harry reid quoted everywhere. he says poor john boehner, he can t get his point across because he s being held hostage by those terrible tea party. he said no, i think a lot of it is congressman ryan is asserting himself again. many are impressed because he s front and center. the white house says they promise to look at the republican proposal. that s why they re optimistic. it lasted 90 minutes. that s why they re optimistic. and the president is going to have a hard time walking away from this becaus debt ceiling raised and you didn t give anything up, technically, which jay carney keeps saying. but they do promise to talk without big changes. here is jeb hensarling out of texas. he was there.