you there. i ve got my thick rubber soled shoes on. excellent. good to hear. thanks so much for your time. earlier today i spoke with chuck todd and i asked him what do you expect today as the senate considers harry reid s debt measure. there s sort of two paths here, he s going to get his 60 votes. i promise you that. there s already enough republicans who sort of are exhausted from this on the senate side. the question is does he just get barely enough where it s 60, 61 votes out of the senate and then we see this drama play out in the house and it is one vote at a time and it makes it very difficult to get out. or do mcconnell and reid strike the kind of deal today that could attract 25 republicans, 30 republicans. they send a strong bipartisan message, and it makes it that much harder for anybody in the house really, any credible member of the house to vote against it, because at this point we re too close to the debt limit. i wonder how you could put reid and mcconnell i
well, bill nelson of florida, hope you have some comfortable shoes on. it s going to be a long day for you there. i ve got my thick rubber soled shoe on. excellent. good to hear. thanks so much for your time. earlier today i spoke with chuck todd and i asked him what do you expect today as the senate considers harry reid s debt measure. there s sort of two paths here, he s going to get his 60 votes. i promise you that. there s already enough republicans who sort of are exhausted from this on the senate side. the question is does he just get barely enough where it s 60, 61 votes out of the senate and then we see this drama play out in the house and it is one vote at a time and it makes it very difficult to get out. or do mcconnell and reid strike the kind of deal today that could attract 25 republicans, 30 republicans. they send a strong bipartisan message, and it makes it that much harder for anybody in the house really, any credible member of the house to vote against it, beca
one vote short in the 90s. meaning just an up or down vote on taxes. no provisions or taxes, harry reid is dangling the idea maybe he would amend his bill to promise that kind of vote on the balanced budget amendment in se the next 90 to 120 days. and that might satisfy some republicans. again, there s two paths here alex. he s going to get his 60 votes. there s enough republicans exhausted from this on the senate side. the question is does he just get barely enough and then we see this drama play out in the house and it is one vote at a time, or the they strike the kind of deal sometime today to attract, 25 republicans, 30 republicans, they send a strong bipartisan message and it makes it that much harder for anybody in the house, any credible member of
meaning just an up or down vote on taxes. no provisions or taxes, harry reid is dangling the idea maybe he would amend his bill to promise that kind of vote on the balanced budget amendment in se the next 90 to 120 days. and that might satisfy some republicans. again, there s two paths here alex. he s going to get his 60 votes. there s enough republicans exhausted from this on the senate side. the question is does he just get barely enough and then we see this drama play out in the house and it is one vote at a time, or the they strike the kind of deal sometime today to attract, 25 republicans, 30 republicans, they send a strong bipartisan message and it makes it that much harder for anybody in the house, any credible member of house to vote against it.
he has resigned from the imf. we ve been watching this drama play out with dominique strauss-kahn, certainly proved irresistible to the folks at saturday night live. last night show the former head of the imf confronted by opinionated inmates at rikers island. probably not the high accommodations you re used to but make yourself at home. did you hear what i heard? we best introduce ourselves. hey, we heard all about you on the news. mr. dominique strauss-kahn, former head of the imf. well guess what, mr. strauss-kahn, i have a question for you. what s the imf going to do about the debt crisis in greece? they had other stuff, too, that was probably a little better than that. also you probably surely