In the last couple of days that time is not unending, these talks can t go on forever, they re not interested in that. so you hear a little bit of the impatience and the frustration growing. part of that is because this major u.n. climate summit is going to be taking place in scotland, cop 26. the president will be there, the former president obama will be there. half the cabinet is going. and they were hoping to really tout some major progress on these climate initiatives, when really at the exact same time what might be happening is maybe they ll be stripped out of this thing entirely and then votes may not even take place by the halloween deadline. congressional leadership is aiming for all of that to come together around the same weekend, october 31. it s going to be quite, quite a huge test for this administration, alex. 100%, there s a certain unwelcome irony in the fact that this would be the issue at this time that would be withdrawn from the bill overall. okay, monica, thank
You because you re so involved with all of this. quickly, the halloween deadline, before we figure out how to get there, is that realistic? are we able to get something done by halloween. i say we, i mean you. it s always great to see you. we are trying to get this done as quickly as we possibly can. now, you know, i think deadlines are often arbitrary. if you remember, the bipartisan bill took five months to negotiate. all said, though, we re trying to get this done as quickly as possible. it does rely on those two senators, the 2% out of the 1%, because 98% of us agree that $3.5 trillion was the number. all the programs that are in there, the president agrees, 70% of the american people agree. but we have two senators, democratic senators, who are still not onboard. a lot of this depends on the two of them getting together, because they each want slightly different things, and coming back with a proposal of what it
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Instead, they vote for an amendment, which in a way circumvents this decisive action on johnson s vote. in essence, it says you need to have everything all set up legally, all your ducks in a row before we make that decisive action, so there s no squelching on the deal later. that, in effect, makes sure that johnson now has to go back to the european union to ask for an extension on that halloween deadline. he does not at all want to do that. he said he would rather die in a ditch than have that happen. but in essence, in a way, it is happening. here s though, what he said about negotiating that delay, negotiating that extension. he says he won t do it. listen to what he said in parliament. i will not negotiate a delay with the eu. further delay will be bad for this country, bad for our european union and bad for democracy.
Uk out of the eu. he said just today in the uk his justice minister his foreign minister has gone on tv to say, well, it s a bad law. we ll look at it and decide whether we need to implement it how to follow it. and the former director of public prosecutions in the uk said if boris doesn t follow the law, he could be arrested. i think that s highly unlikely. the idea we re talking about a conservative prime minister being arrest forwaed for defyin law. we re in real crazy town in the uk and in the u.s. where does this end? can boris johnson get away with what donald trump can get away with which is they don t have a constitution in britain. it s a different system. can he get away with it? and where does this end? god knows where it ends, but i think that, in fact, boris johnson will end up with a very short term as prime minister. everything is going to come crashing in on this in october as the deadline, as the halloween deadline approaches.