i put vicepresident biden in charge of a process that by the way has made real progress, but these guysave me worked through all the issues. i met with every sile caucus. the for an hour to an hour and-a-half each. repuican senators, democratic senators, republan house, democratic house. i metwith the leaders multiple times. at a certain point, they need to the job. and so this thing which is just not the level where we have meetings and discussions and we are working through the process and when they decide th're not happy at the fact at some point you got to make a choice they all sit back and say well you know the president needs to get this done. they need to do thr job. >> charlie: the president asked republicans to agree to end tax breaks for the wealthy. >> charlie: if everybody else is willing to take on their sacred cows and doive things in order to achieve the goals of relevant deficit reduction, then i think it would be hard for the republicans to stand there and stay that the tax break forecorporate jets is sufficiently important that we're not willing to com to the table an