wolf hears from our photojournalist tim garrity, who was watching house republicans leave the white house have left without making a statement. we don't expect them to come to the microphones at this point, wolf. we're just going to have to wait to see what that means. it could mean that perhaps there was not the breakthrough that we were all anticipating earlier in the day. as you mentioned earlier, perhaps house republicans will be making that statement over at the capitol. we'll have to wait and see units sometimes they prefer going back to capitol hill. sometimes they're willing to go to the microphones in the driveway outside the west wing. we saw that little bus leave with the republican members of the house in that bus we earlier saw the speaker leave as well. we'll stand by to see what they say, if any, on capitol hill. let's go to capitol hill. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash is standing by. i don't foe if we can real too much into no comments, no statements from the leadership directly. may be good news, may be bat news, but we do know what the offer was that the

retired colonel tim garrity commanded the peacekeeping mission in lebanon. >> the past three iranian ministers of defense, including the current one, selected a few months ago, all have peacekeepers' blood on their hands and are leading the iranian lockstep march for the acquisition of nuclear weapons. >> reporter: at camp lejeune today, marines marked the 30th anniversary, the deadliest single day for u.s. marines since iwo jima. donald was outside the barracks. his brother was killed instantly. >> i live with survivor's guilt. we were the beginning of the new war. we were its first casualties. but we survived and we lived. and we're here. >> the attacks on the marine barracks in beirut really define the beginning of what became known today as the war on terror. >> reporter: radical islamists realize the power of the suicide truck bomber for the first time. osama bin laden referred to it as a model for future attacks. >> the united states, the italians, the french, the brits, everybody pulled out and that was the lesson that was learned by radical islamic terrorists. >> reporter: it