think the public's a little more aware of this now and i think we're more aware of the fact that beyon thriseswe need to really address our national debt in a meaningful way. >> charlie: last question. when you get up tomorrow morning, where will be the focus? what is it you will be working on tomorrow? >> i'll be working with senator harry reid and senator mcconnell to see if there's a way we can avert this crises with the debt iling. i ho tha we can do it on a bipartisan basis. if the senate shows bipartisan leadership on that, i hope that we can get through at least this challenge. e ahead. it would be better the we had a bipartisan agreement to deal with this deficit. i hope the president can achieve that. >> charlie: did you or anyone else have anything to do with encouraging mccoell to do this? >> no. senator mcdonald did this on his own volition and it was a little bit of a spris he called senator reid and said i hope youon't comment on it. senator reid agreed yesterday to do this so at this point they're trying to work together to at least have this as a back up plan if the esidential