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Tech fang-type companies like facebook, apple, amazon, those will be a magnet for increased investment. those will be there fore targets that can cause a big problem if something went wrong from a terrorist perspective. >> one more wild card at you since you dismissed the ones that i did. one could be the debt ceiling argument and the fact that democrats might want to try to hold it hostage as well by limiting tax cuts. we'll raise the debt ceiling for you if you go slow on the tax cuts. you don't do that, then all of a sudden we run out of money sometimes in the next month or two. what do you...

Boehner over the weekend when he was on abc, we heard him move a little bit beyond the obama care, obama care argument. and into the larger argument about a discussion he would like to have with the president about entitlement programs and entitlement spending. which is generally what raising the debt ceiling becomes. that's what happened in 2011 when they had their debt ceiling argument. and we have heard the president say today he is willing to have that discussion, but only after we get over these particular hurdles. one other thing, i talked to a senior house republican over the weekend wh...

They canter exert leverage again. i think what is going on, along with what he said, there's talk of whether or not you can't roll this up into the debt ceiling argument as well, where the president has been willing to negotiate in the past. you get some sort of sequester as a leverage. you get some sort of budget reblican side. and then maybe something smaller on health care that satisfies those who have been pushing to fund. >> that's the strategy that paul ryan and some of the other house leaders would like to get to as an exit strategy if they can. it takes two things. one, the president h...

Conversation starts tomorrow. i know you're watch and waiting to see the debt ceiling argument and what the rhetoric is around that. that will be the first salvo of how they frame this new conversation with the new and improved barack obama 2.0. >> let me ask by medicare and social security. >> please. >> there's. >> what would you like to know? >> there was a lot of talk during the latest round -- the last round of negotiations as to whether republicans actually wanted a grand bargain, asking whether democrats wanted a grand bargain, and the answer was perhaps. the white house was happy to le...

Tax rates. i was able to salvage the dividends tax rates. i was able to shave off 400 to $500 billion in tax hikes that the president wanted. and on top of that, i was able to secure a promise to do comprehensive tax reform within a year. all from the president's first offer. wouldn't that be at least a little bit palatable to some of the republicans in the caucus? >> i think your word choice is perfect, a little bit palatablp. >> that's all they need. >> the attitude of let's make specific concessions now with regard for other concessions to come down the road, that player to be named later y...