negotiations to reopen the government and voted yes. gentlemen, good to see you both. good to see you. angus, what can you get done in the next two weeks? first i want to say the one single factor that probably pushed us over yesterday is you wore your lobster tie and that gave us the mojo. thank you for the tie. i wore it in the spirit of bipartisansh bipartisanship. it worked. where do we go from here. i think it was important to have this group of 20, 25 senators that basically were pushing on the leaders in both directions to try and find a solution. now as you say, we ve got three weeks to put up or shut up and it s going to be hard. i ve had two meetings yesterday afternoon on border security. got another one scheduled this afternoon. we re serious about trying to make this happen. it s not going to be easy. we ve got people on both sides, both caucuses that are suspicious of what s come out. then we have to deal with the house and the president.
you know, as a tight team. he ran a very tight ship. it was not loosely run. he held people accountable. he put in a lot of the metrics systems that are there, he reform the the entire intelligence function. if you remember after 9/11, they wanted to take counterterrorism and intel basically away from the fbi and it s because of mueller are s success that that actually stayed. and he started just a couple days before 9/11.are s success actually stayed. and he started just a couple days before 9/11. tara, the one criticism that some have are is that ultimately he can can still be fired by the president. well, i think that is perhaps a legitimate criticism as can sort of many officials in government. but this is a good choice for three main reasons. what this individual needs is bipartisansh bipartisanship. he has people on both sides of the aisle praising him without even orchestrating talking points. you know you made a good decision when both parties are supporting it.
where ll talk about chairman nunes step b aide sigh in a money. what you re looking at now. live pictures on the senate side. this has an impact for the next 10, 20, 30 years. has ab impact the decisions being made in the senate today. impact on the senate, gloria, forever. look, the senate is supposed to be the place that thinks about legislation a little bit differently than the way the house does. thinks about judges in particular. let s talk about that. the house is majority, right. you know, you get a majority, things pass. that s it. the senate is the place that s supposed to work towards bipartisansh bipartisanship. this is a difficult thing for a lot of senators to see go away. started with harry reid, when harry reid said, okay, for judgeships, now you re only
bipartisansh bipartisanship, and is that going to be your next book? i think there s things you can do in order to make your message appeal to people who think very differently than you. for example, liberals often full of ambiguity, full of knewence and a scentive likes communication that is more direct. that doesn t beat around the bush. it s a different in cognitive style. journalist and author chris mooney. the book is on my nightstand. it s a great read. very interesting. thanks for joining me today. i appreciate it. thanks for having me. that s going to wrap things up for me. i ll see you back here at 2:00 p.m. on news nation. i ll be back on monday. until then you can follow me on. now with alex wagner is coming up with a special friday the 13th edition right after this. f, a great clean doesn t have to take longer. i m done. [ female announcer ] unlike sprays and dust rags, swiffer 360 duster s extender can clean hard-to-reach places in less time.
toast, bacon, ham, sausage, chicken sausage, wheat or rye toast, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, no substitutions. rollout out. take you out to your car and put you on a treadmill. this morning i m going to stick with the tater tots because they re easy to eat to anchor a show. hello, everybody. cnn s political analyst roland martin is with us this morning. it s a bad start if i can t get through roland s name. david frum is back with us. nice to have you in person. chatting by satellite. and also this morning, norquist is joining us, president of americans for tax reform. you re going to be our tax expert this morning as we sort through mitt romney s taxes. it s nice to have you. thanks for being with us. mitt romney we know now officially released his tax returns. we re expecting that in about 90 minutes. but there is a preview. the preview is roughly 550 pages long. romney made $21.6 million in 2010. paid over $3 million in taxes. and tesktive tax rate as we mentioned is 1