thank you so much for all of you joining us today on to steve liesman and then congressman bill. >> thank you for pulling this together. some day you will share the magic. when you say jump, all the people around the table say how high? you do a marvelous job of bringing people together. it's a testament to you. we have -- there's an incredible amount of brain power in the room. we're going to lock the doors and not open them until we have a solution. that's the agreement that all of you have signed up for you here. plenty of coffee and cookies. nobody moves until there's a deal. and i hope you brought a change of underwear. [laughter] >> my mission here is to make as much use of this brain power as possible. at times to be perhaps a little bit more forward with people -- with respect -- i will apologize in advance -- i want to read one quote before i turn it over to congressman ryan. forgive me if everybody has read this 100 times, i think it's so good, it's worth repeating. it's from simpson-bowles. it says the problem is real, there's no easy way out. everything must be on the table, w

thank you so much for all of you joining us today on to steve liesman and then congressman bill. >> thank you for pulling this together. some day you will share the magic. when you say jump, all the people around the table say how high? you do a marvelous job of bringing people together. it's a testament to you. we have -- there's an incredible amount of brain power in the room. we're going to lock the doors and not open them until we have a solution. that's the agreement that all of you have signed up for you here. plenty of coffee and cookies. nobody moves until there's a deal. and i hope you brought a change of underwear. [laughter] >> my mission here is to make as much use of this brain power as possible. at times to be perhaps a little bit more forward with people -- with respect -- i will apologize in advance -- i want to read one quote before i turn it over to congressman ryan. forgive me if everybody has read this 100 times, i think it's so good, it's worth repeating. it's from simpson-bowles. it says the problem is real, there's no easy way out. everything must be on the table, w