we have there been marshall students going to john o'connell, so we have a lot of students at risk of not graduating. those students go to school right in the bay view. most of them live in the bayview, too. instead of saying that the students -- the students were actually directed, i think -- some of them to john o'connell, also. i wonder if we were able to capture some of those students that actually go to bay view high school's in this program. i know that a lot of them were not directed to lowell high school. students that went to washington high school i think were directed there, and they sort of said that these high schools would go to john o'connell, or these would go, so if you would not mind looking into that. i know thurgood marshall had many students treated to discredit recovery, too. >> in conversations with janet, she explained the breakdown. a good concentration of youth in district 10 would be at all well and o'connell, so we did take that into consideration. a lot of the constraints, and this is the first year in a cut program, we had was the timing and the funding w

john boehner, issuing a staement moments ago, if the white house won't get serious, we will. the speaker pledging to work through the weekend with senate counterparts and both mr. boehner and mitch o'connell saying they won't meet with the press. and a press conference conference 2 p.m. eastern time. with the rank and file where things stand. this keeps percolating. and reports that the president moved the goal posts after the gang of six revealed a plan earlier this week and a big reason why the talks broke down. and one of those six, he joins me now. senator, the gang is famous for trying to bridge republicans and democrats and democrats didn't like the fact that you didn't offer enough spending cuts, republicans didn't like the fact that among your ideas was revenue enhancements. what they called automatic tax hikes. but still, it was a bridge. is that bridge now burned and destroyed? >> oh, no, i don't think so at all. as a matter of fact, our plan does not raise taxes. we actually cut the taxes dramatically and the revenue that we allocate is revenue from growth in the economy. which is exactly how we ought to approach it. this is the-- >> wait a minute, wait, didn't that include get

fair and balanced debate, ford o'connell and democratic strategist mary ann marsh, former adviser to senator johnry. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> good morning, jamie. jamie: mary ann, the highest wage earners in our country, that's who the president pointed out last night. yet the reid plan doesn't call for new taxes, higher taxes. did he undercut his own party's plan? >> i think everyone's undercut everybody, and as a result undercut this country. the fact is, without revenues we're not going to hit $4 trillion in cuts, and that's what it's going to require for goldman sachs and standard and & poor's not to downgrade our credit. so we're now in the unbelievable position of perhaps avoiding a default only to have our credit downgraded, and that just shows you this entire debate is politics at its worst because people are putting their own political interests before the best interests of the country, and that is just wrong. jamie: what do you think? >> well, i definitely think the president was playing class warfare last night, but the bottom line is taxing the rich is not a long-term