once again on their positions as speaker and majority leader in the senate, and i m very much looking forward to working with them. already had a chance to say happy new year to them, and i m confident that there are going to be areas where we disagree and there will be some pitched battles, but i m also confident that there are enormous areas of potential agreement that would deliver for the american people, and we just have to make sure that we focus on those areas where we can make significant progress together. so, i wish them well and i wish them well and i think we re going to actually have hopefully, a productive 2015. all right? that s not going thanks, guys. the president meeting with the governors there, and ed henry outside the white house for us this afternoon. the president said there are enormous areas of potential
is honorable compromise. the constitution of the united states and the senate itself are the results of just such a compromise. reporter: dick durbin, who you heard from there, was the acting leader today on the democratic side with harry reid on the mend at home. mike emanuel. thank you. the president will be meeting with the new leaders. in fact, he s doing that now. first, fox team coverage tins with ed henry at the white house. talk about the timing of this veto threat on keystone, which has become little more than a political football. reporter: sure. it is a political football for both sides. you ve got the left upset about the environmental concerns, you ve got the right fired up saying, look we re going to create a lot of jobs. there have been studies suggesting maybe that s exaggerated. and so both sides are fired up about it. what s interesting is that the president had been hinting at this veto for a long time, but when asked the direct question at his year-end news co
potential vp nominee you ll remember, as well. ed henry on the north lawn. ed, thanks a lot. we ll talk energy prices and especially gas at the pump. man, a lot more money to spend. the energy sector s not doing so great. the news continues after this. today s cyber attack
compromise. mitch mcconnell, the new leader in the senate, as you know ed, has said that one of the challenges is to prove that the republicans can govern. it s going to mean a lot to show that they can do that as we move toward 2016. the republicans obviously, want to occupy the white house then. sure, and it s going to be a distraction when you ve got republicans like rand paul maybe ted cruz marco rubio and others in that republican-led senate now looking at 2016. and that s something mitch mcconnell will have to manage as well. and what i think is interesting about the imagery right there is who is the president meeting with on the first day of the new congress? governors, not the republicans on the hill. he ll do that next week, but he s sending a signal to them, he s going to go around them as well, shep. you re listening watching governor mcdonnell of virginia down there once head of the governors association for the republicans, gave the state of the union address, now humi
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