explain. well, the party is over because we re about to have as big a change you can have in american politics. the president s the president had a successful lame duck term but you got to remember that was the old congress. that was the heavily democratic congress. he s about to get a heavily republican house and a senate that is much more republican so it s going to be much tougher for him to get anything passed. he apparently said in this new book the promise all he wants for christmas is someone he can negotiate with. in the senate, he has olympia snow, susan collins, scott brown, lisa murkowski, the list goes on. will we have those in the house or will they all be united in opposition? well, the republicans have much too big a margin. look, you need 218 to control the house. they have 242 seats. you don t have more than a handful of moderates on the republican side and the house. there s nobody for obama to negotiate with other than leadership. that s what s new for obam
israel to do something in advance of the resolution actually coming up for discussion. jamie: how pig a change is that big a change is that policy, then, of the obama administration from prior administrations? well, i think on the settlement activity itself it s not that different. what is very different, certainly, from the bush administration is using the security council or the u.n. more generally to pressure israel. that s something that we have felt in the past was not advisable. a guaranteed anti-israel majority in the general assembly in the security council which is why historically the u.s. veto has been so important and why not promising veto right at the front end really puts pressure on israel. jamie: ambassador bolton, during the period of time that there was a moratorium on building in israel in the west bank, the palestinians didn t make any greater efforts to get to the table. so now their demands that the building stop saying that s what it will take to get them an
there is talk that the democrats will try to change the rules on the filibuster when you come back to the new congress in january. i want to put up the record on the screen. so far in this congress 91 cloture votes. 112 votes in the last congress and prior to that the senate record was 61 votes in the congress of 2001 and 2002. question, whether you change the rules, will you vote in january when the new senate starts to change the rules on the filibuster and given the fact that democrats are going to end up in the minority at some point again, how big a change are you considering? there has been active bipartisan discussion in the rules committee, i serve on it. hearing after hearing to discuss how to make the senate more effective and constructive. the numbers you put up on the screen tell the story. we lurched from 30 hours of doing nothing to another 30 hours of doing nothing. more filibusters than ever in the history of the senate.
change the rules on the filibuster, when you come back to the new congress in january. i want to put up the record on this screen. so far this this congress there were 91 cloture votes to cut off filibusters and 112 votes in the last congress and prior to that, the senate record was 61 votes in the congress of 2001-2. will you change the rules? will you vote in january when the new senate starts to change the rules on the filibuster and given the fact the democrats will end up in the minority at some point again, how big a change are you considering? chris, there has been an active bipartisan discussion about the rules change in the rules committee. i serve on it. we have had hearing after hearing, to discuss how to make the senate more effective and constructive and the numbers you put up on the screen tell the story, we lurch from owuone quo call to another, 30 hours of doing nothing to doing nothing and, more filibuster hours in
make it to the shows. the fox report correspondent is live with the latest from new york. so this is about retirement age? jonathan: of 62, moving it up from able 60. the french president said that much like our social security system, the french pension system will not be able to afford to pay anybody if they do not make this kind of change and make it very soon. the french unions fear that this could be the beginning of the end of what is a very extensive welfare system in france. that s why they are mobilizing as many french workers as they can to get out on the streets of cities across france and protest. sarkozy as we have seen before during rioting is a hard-line president. he is showing absolutely no sign of backing down.