process started tonight. he hasn t had a chance to make a single visit to any senator s offices yet, we haven t had hearings yet. this is a great nominee. going to be very, very hard to oppose. so don t filibuster this nominee, they didn t even know who it was yet. sean: new mexico one what about the schedule? the senators got a lot going on, big fights over approving the president s candidate well, want to fight over everything these days, but a fight worth having, we intend to win. bret: elaine chao, your wife, now confirmed as transportation secretary. congratulations, i assume they senate minority leader voted against her. you would have to ask him about that. he said she would dance about the extreme vetting.
the point is, the whole process started tonight. he hasn t had a chance to make a single visit to any senator s offices yet, we haven t had hearings yet. this is a great nominee. going to be very, very hard to oppose. so don t filibuster this nominee, they didn t even know who it was yet. sean: new mexico one what about the schedule? the senators got a lot going on, big fights over approving the president s candidate well, want to fight over everything these days, but a fight worth having, we intend to win. bret: elaine chao, your wife, now confirmed as transportation secretary. congratulations, i assume they senate minority leader voted against her. you would have to ask him about that. he said she would dance about the extreme vetting.
i was thinking about writing it because i kept a journal. why don t i write about these two big irish guys firing with each other? then i realized, that s not what s interesting about those guys. it s true, they fought. they found a way after the 12th round or 15th round to make a deal. they did it on social security, tax reforms, northern ireland. on so many areas they found a way to reach agreement. they were real grown-ups and respected each other s offices. the country felt better. you look at tip. he left at 67% job approval. today that s unimaginable. ra unimaginable. today we re talking about the congress at 8% approval. so i did think that was the salutary thing about the story. it was not the donnybrook, which i was going to call the book, but the pollices it worked. they are what they are. that s the beauty of it. one is a hollywood guy. the other is a local a towny.
democratic leader, i watched them go back and forth to each other s offices and they do appear to have a framework of a deal. what is it? it is effectively to fund the government, reopen the government and fund it until january 15th, but make clear that budget negotiations have to be finished to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year, which is what congress is supposed to do every year. that has to be the middle of december, and then the debt ceiling, which of course we re going to bump up against this thursday. that will be raised until february 7th. interesting little note there, piers, it was supposed to be a week later. but i was told that on the one hand it was moved up because that is a little bit of a give to republicans. because they want to have it closer because they think it is good leverage for their position. another is, remember the next week is president s week here in the united states, which is a congressional recess so they don t want to bust another
down the greatest country in the world. and it is on your shoulder. tough words from suze orman. and more on the number one movie, gravity . and well, he wanted to turn the anniversary of sandy hook, into, i m quoting, gun saves lives day. and on let s make a deal in washington, chief correspondent, dana bash, the world s hardest working woman right now. dana, are we nearly there? we re getting closer, but i m definitely not going to predict we re there, because we ve seen these things die several deaths before they come back to life. but piers, all day long we were hearing from democratic and republican sources that the republican leader, the democratic leader, i watched them go back and forth to each other s offices and they do appear to have a framework of a deal.