tax cuts for the middle class, not the wealthy. going to bring in our senior congressional correspondent dana bash. you've been talking to sources on the hill. what do you make of whether anything can happen before election day? >> reporter: on this issue it is really unclear in talking to democratic sources who are trying to figure out the answer to that question themselves. it's mostly because of division among democrats. we do understand that the president's idea and what he campaigned on to do away with taxes for people who are families making $250,000 or more and instead keep those tax cuts for those making less, middle class americans, so to speak, that is something agreed upon by both the house speaker and the senate majority leader. they believe and they hope that politically that's a good strategy to deal with what they are very worried about and that is the lack of enthusiasm among the democratic base. they think going back and saying, look. we are doing away with something that we think was unfair from