may practically begged the european commission president for help during a dinner last week the european commission president today denied that the prime minister s office though has been signed or today the prime minister went to parliament with a positive attitude about the next stage of breaks it talks here s part of what she said and what she had to hear. he talked about us making real progress but we haven t reached a final agreement but it s going to happen. i do have a degree of confidence i don t have a degree of confidence that we ll be able to get to the point of sufficient progress by december off of the floor speech that is a new momentum the florence speech was a step forward on that should be a positive response to the willingness to work on the interim period and that has been established a momentum now as it happens those aren t my words though the words of chancellor merkel the t.v. show. the swedish prime minister the italian prime minister the polish prime
month off? press the number 1 for yes. press the number 2 for no, and i ll bring you the results later in the show. i ask that question tonight for this reason. we re in the middle of an economic crisis in this country trying to recover. there s a lot of good things that the congress can do to set the table for better economic recovery, but what do the republicans want to do? hell, they want to take more time off. they are talking about a lame duck congress. they are talking about, well, you know, after the election i suppose we could go take the rest of november and december off and come back in january. this is how they want to govern the country. they don t want to do anything when people are suffering. is that what you voted for? i don t think so. i think the democrats need to put it in high gear. now is the time. you ve got a very unsympathetic populace out there across the country. they feel like enough is not being done. well, if you ve got the power and you ve got the majority,