tax cuts or not, of course i'm going to vote for them. that gets lost in the whole discussion. is the problem here that boehner may have sort of given away the store before they started to bargain. he tipped his hand too early rather than what he said? >> that's exactly the issue. because republican sources say this may be where the debate settled in the end. but they felt they had a winning point. and as you know, candy, when it comes to taxes, this is an issue that republicans consider a win for them and democrats say, yeah, we can't beat republicans on taxes. and what you also have is a lot of democrats, especially the vulnerable one in tough races who weren't siding with their democratic leadership on this for these tax increases for those making $250,000 or more. and so, you have republicans telling us that they feel like maybe they can't really take as much advantage of that argument and the fact that there is some disunity among democrats on the issue. >> thank you so much. it's going to be an interesting couple of weeks on capitol hill.