her are well baked in, too. she s obviously a polarizing figure. it is difficult to move that a lot without some new information. i think, you know, in our book we ve got some new information. we ve already seen republicans grasp on some of it including behind the scenes work on health care. some of the stuff we ve put out there lately. you know, it s a difficult challenge for republicans to find new things to say about hillary clinton that will convince independent voters or democrats if they don t want her as president. look at something now, this was john mccain last night on piers morgan. let s watch what he had to say. this is so fascinating an admission at this point. i would bet, my friend, as much as i hate to admit it, that right now this is why we have campaigns, but right now if the election were tomorrow, hillary clinton would most likely be the president of the united states. andrea, what do you make of that? they got together they got along very well when they
question. is this arithmetic ahead of us or does one side have to do better than the other in terms of closing in on the middle ground? reporter: all the dance we re seeing does give us some signs of optimism. both sides seem to be making some concessions. the loudest voices of complaint tend to be coming from people not directly in the room. we re hearing good things from the white house and the speaker s office about the potential for a deal but still it s tense. what you have with republicans is a change sort of in tone when they are now framing this issue as tax increases will happen january 1st as being baked in, in the words of the speaker, so the strategy for republicans is to try to save as many americans from a tax increase as possible. that s where you get the $1 million threshold. the white house came back, of course, at $400,000, and perhaps you can see they aren t in numbers that far off. the details, of course, are difficult.
of optimism. both sides seem to be making some concessions. the loudest voices of complaint tend to be coming from people not directly in the room. we re hearing good things from the white house and the speaker s office about the potential for a deal but still it s tense. what you have with republicans is a change sort of in tone when they are now framing this issue as tax increases will happen january 1st as being baked in, in the words of the speaker, so the strategy for republicans is to try to save as many americans from a tax increase as possible. that s where you get the $1 million threshold. the white house came back, of course, at $400,000, and perhaps you can see they aren t in numbers that far off. the details, of course, are difficult. we expect that there will be a house vote on the ideas put forward by the speaker, the so-called plan b on thursday. that s a way to sort of put a marker in the sand of what can be passed through the house. that is both a message idea as wel
you all got a tax cut. bill: then can a $3 trillion bailout help save your pension in charlie gasparino is author of the book bought and paid for , and is a senior correspondent with the fox business network, $3 trillion, in 31 states. lots of overpromising and underdelivering and the problem is there is not much you can do other than negotiate with the unions and my father worked for the new york city sanitation department and i come from a union background and have family members in the educational department and they cut contracts, in those contracts there is the stipulation for pensions and it is sort of baked in, now, is there a way for the municipality to deal with it, they have to bring both sides of the table and negotiate and you cannot do it unilaterally. bill: you have to change the contract. the contract negotiated a year ago, ten years ago, 30 years
law. a federal law called the hatch act. not supposed to get involved in federal aftertivety. republicans view him as a hack. final act, retiring after the campaign. does he believe that or trying to generate partisan reflex? partisan reflex. the whole democratic strategy. focus exclusively on james comey. reid and other leaders praising james comey just a few months ago for not recommending to bring charges against hillary clinton. so long ago. the challenge going after comey and painting him as a partisan actor, even though if the comments are question about al this point. that was so july. so back then. sit tight. for donald trump, giant new opening and a huge old challenge. finding a state or two to erase the blue.