street journal" that there is a bailout bill in a bill record out of the banking committee, the bart san bill that came out of committee on a party line vote. i don't think that's in dispute. >> but that bailout is funded by the banks themselves, is it not? it's not a taxpayer bailout. >> well, robert re krichlich, w bill clinton's secretary of labor, says it's a bailout fund. regardless of how the money is produced, it's a bailout fund that guarantees in perpetuity that we'll be intervening once again to bail out these big firms. the president's own secretary of the treasury toward the end of the week confirmed that they'd rather not have it in there. i think we're all in agreement that the bill that i was referring to, except maybe the president hasn't talked to his secretary of the treasury, has a bailout fund in it. >> so it does appear, and cnn has been reporting that senior administration officials have said to senator dodd take out this liquidation pool that you're talking about. okay, let's say they take it