tax rates right now if you don't have an agreed upon number, revenue number, that both sides agree to on what should come out of the tax code changes? so if it's a trillion bucks over ten years, which seems to be halfway between the $800 billion that boehner put on the table and $1 trillion over ten years, don't you have to agree to that number first before you decide what the rate is? >> i'm not going to negotiate this on television with you, chuck, and i don't think anyone would. we have to come up with a solution to help get our kcounty back into a financially stable condition. we have a $16 trillion debt. it is unsustainable. it's irresponsible. we need to work together. the elections are over. we need to solve these problems and i believe we will do that before the first of the year. >> and just to go back to the senate, you don't want a dael to come out of the senate before it comes out of john boehner?