said, but harry reid is the leader and dick durbin is the whip. harry reid came out yesterday and said he s running again and he s not even up for re-election. there is a hierarchy in the senate. it is the place where they send cra crazy legislation to cool off and become better. i think you will find the max baucuss of the world and others that come together and get a deal and get it done quickly before the christmas break. you talk about the hierarchy of the senate. let s talk about the star of the incoming freshman class, elizabeth warren. do you see her going on the obama model of things or the hillary clinton model of things to put your head down and be a workhor workhorse? i worked there for seven years. senators that come in and do what they re supposed food in their first term, which is sit on the back bench, be quiet and learn everything you can possibly learn and get into that
they re acting as though it s today. is there any news in the last 50 or so minutes since we last spoke? reporter: since we last spoke, that impromptu meeting you and i were talking about between a bipartisan group of members of the super committee, that has broken p up. as members were leaving, senator max baucuss, facing a mass of reporters, the only way to describe it, he actually mentioned that there s possibly a new tax idea being floated possibly by senator john kerry. as you and i talked, this meeting was described by one aide earlier as kind of a hail mary pass to see if they could pull anything off in this 11th hour. unclear what the details are of this tax idea, but i will tell you that it does seem that it possibly could be a long shot as one gop leadership aide has already speaking to my colleague deidre walsh on this tax idea said, at the 11th hour senator kerry offered a new gimmick, in this person s word, to get to the democrats same trillion dollar tax hike