joining us is the reporter who broke this story about this guy who was tweeting all this stuff, josh roginining us from "the daily beast." josh, good work. thanks very much. so how did you do it without revealing any confidential sources or anything? how did you break the story? >> sure, for years now, lots of us in the journalist community and the foreign policy committee have been searching for mit industries tweeter, and he had managed to insult so many people of so many stripes that eventually there became sort of this underground community of people putting together evidence from his tweets and in the things he said and the evidence that he did put forth searching for him. and eventually, someone in the administration cracked the code. and fireded him upon the spot. once he was fired, it was only a matter of time before the name was revealed to some sources who then revealed it to me. >> so his identity was broken by presumably someone on the national security council staff or within the administration, right? >> right. it's not exactly clear how they did it. there's been reporting so

josh rogin, a senior correspondent for the daily beast, molly ball and keli goff. molly, i want to start with you because you've been talking with certain republican lawmakers and there's this chatter about the potential of a grand bargain. so we're back at square one over something that everybody thought was extinguished. is that the way out for republicans? >> well, a lot of them seem to really think it is. as you know the grand bargain is this sort of dream that never dies in washington, hope springs eternal. they seem to think that they're in a blind alley, there aren't a lot of options out of the current stalemate, although i think you could hear from what the congressman was just saying that there are some hopes that they can at least turn the politics of this around. but with democrats not budging, speaker boehner and some of those close to him seem to feel like one option might be for them to go big, to make a big deal on the budget, wrap in the debt limit since boehner certainly feels like he can't surrender twice, he can't surrender on the cr and then sur