those are good question, and that is why we have people like tom forman who work here at cnn. hese types of things. hi, tom. >> hi, don. you are so generous to use the term dream team and people talk about being in the hot seat all of the time, and no hotter seats anywhere in washington than those on the special joint committee, because it is actually being designed to recreate in close quarters all of the fire and the fury we have seen on capitol hill in the past few weeks. and here is the nuts and bolts of it. take a close look. what we will have is a committee comprised of 12 member, and three of them picked by the speaker of the house, john boehner, and there are three of them picked by nancy pelosi as a minority leader and the head of the senate here and the majority leader harry reid will pick three and mitch mcconnell will pick three, and in theory, these 12 folks will come up with $1.5 trillion in additional debt reduction plans and that is what they are putting on the thanksgiving menu, because it is due right before thanksgiving day. they have to put this turkey on th

tom forman has that part of the story for us.ns revealed their picks today. >> they're have. jack has been tough on them. let's look at the people and see what they have. here's the republican picks on the senate side and the republican picks that are revealed with the senate and house. on the democratic side, we are waiting on nancy pelosi to introduce her three people down here. here's the question when we looked at the folks here. where do they stand and can they reach a deal? put it simply, what they picked are people who by and large are economically conservative. if we had to rate them from blue to red to purple, they will be pretty much over here. on the democratic side, you would be more towards the middle. based on her district and political record, probably you are going to be more hard core democrat. you will end up with a parallel where you have republicans over here and democrats way over here. how can they work? look at the players. this really does matter over here. sure you have patty murray who created a stir. sh