is the deficit? >> yeah. >> i think we have been struck, tom, by exactly what you said. not that there hasn't been more across the aisle work performed on this, but that the troops internally are so divided on it. it's as though it were sprung on them, members of congress, senators, and they said whoa. this is not referabsembling any we would vote for. if you're rob portman in ohio you like the medicaid expansion and don't want it pulled back in two years. there are all of these these that should have been worked out behind closed doors before this rollout that we saw. >> rand paul is on television more these days than any of us. and he is going after it one chapter and verse on every program that he can get himself on to. that is within their own party. i do think the republicans made a mistake and should have learned a lesson from the obama chain is that there had to be some cross aisle consultation going on. the democrats are now saying, we