nationwide is proud to join in romp iinvei fancial literacy and working to remove obstacles to economic empowerment. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions from your pbs station -- to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- tavis: mark warner is serving his first term in the u.s. senate from virginia. he is a key member of the senate budget committee, who helped organize the bipartisan group known as the gang of six. it is always good to have you back on this program. >> thanks for having us back on. tavis: is it five or six? >> we have one republican who was going to take a break, but we have congressman who wrote a letter and said, hang in there. we have got to have some bipartisan solution, so we are still at it. tavis: what is the mission? what is the strategy? how did you farmout -- how to the five or six of you get the others to see it away you see it, to find some common ground? what is the strategy? >> you hit the nail on the heads. we ha