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Back to senator demint who has held a very hard line, a tea party line, on spending at all. what do you say to him because that does not sound the like the beginnings of a bipartisan deal? >> chris, republicans on a broad basis feel that we do need to engage in tax reform in closing loopholes and that truly revenue comes from economic growth. that is something that we all believe in. but for us to get to a big package where we're not only going to have to have tax reform and get growth in the economy, but we're going to have to have entitlement reform and find savings as well. the important po...

Bernard is president of the bernard center for women. politics and public policy.ç michelle, let's start off on that central question -- we had john hoeven, north dakota republican senator, on earlier. he said we need to do a big deal. then when you have the jim demints of the world saying no, how do you sell tax increases of any sort, closing tax loopholes, to a republican party that does not seem to want them at the moment? >> the question is to me at least is who is it within the republican party that's really ready to sort of ignore party orthodoxy at this point in time and explain to th...

A senator, you were a governor. before that the president of the bank of north dakota. you're used to executive positions. how frustrating is it to be on the outside looking in at the super committee process? >> it's challenging. he again that's what i'm saying. we need to get everybody involved. we need to do it on a bipartisan basis. we have a responsibility to the american people to start reducing the deficit and the debt. but remember, a big, big part of that is fostering economic growth and getting people back to work. so that means creating a legal tax and regulatory environment that sti...