made affirmative statements. yes, he has, indeed. now, john, john brennan has 25 years of service at the cia. he s expected to be questioned rigorously on the issue of torture or enhanced interrogation techniques as they re known by some. does this present mr. brennan with some real challenge given his oversight of enhanced interrogation techniques under the previous administration? well, i mean, since he was there in the previous administration, if the senate wants to ask him those questions, then, yes, they will provide some discomfort for him, but remember when president obama came into office, it was he who said we are no longer doing this. this is not who we are as a country, and so if the senate wants to litigate past battles that even the president of the united states doesn t want to litigate, then that s on them. okay. final question to you, jimmy, how do you think his leadership, mr. brennan s leadership, will
budget better than anyone in washington. this is. john baoehner would say come to a meeting and don t bring lieu because he knew he was running circles around him. you remember in early 2011 when they almost had a government shutdown, the republican thought they had cut all of these social programs and after the deal was done, they found out lew had outfoxed them because lew being a progressive democrat and having confirmed that over many years is committed to protecting these vital social programs. so he did work briefly at citibank, but he s not a creature of wall street and it s just a distortion to say that he is. jared, one thing i have heard said about the man is he is concerned about the poor, and he s committed to the poor. now, you and i have often talked about the absurd budgets
that this idea that the senate last night had an 89 members voting together in a bipartisan way, that this was missed on his colleagues in the house does does this mean? eric cantor said he was not for it as it currently was. he wanted to see an amendment. john baoehner has been silent about this. i m hearing harry reid would essentially laugh at that and say are you kidding me? we spent this time, joe biden and mitch mcconnell spent all this time trying to get an agreement. what are we supposed to do with this? this leaves the question out there, could we go over the fiscal cliff entirely? we are teetering on the edge from where we stand now, it s a good possibility. i will say though, if john boehner wanted to take this bill and put it to the floor without amendments, essentially having a p profile in courage moment t would probably pass. from the republican i spoke to in the room, they said if
have our very own krystal ball coming on. she s on phone with us to weigh in on this whole thing with just a few minutes left to go until we go right over this fiscal cliff. hey. good to be back. just give me a quick overview of how you think this is going to go in the next hours and couple of days. it s looking good in the senate. it s democrats look like they re all on board. looks like mitch mcconnel has republicans on board. it needs to pass with large margin. the big question mark is the house. john ba john baoehner has had this marker. he said no to his own plan b bill that had the tax rates
greenberg are here in the studio to tell us what every politician should be saying right now. and the whole world s buzzing about a north korea mystery woman. she s always by the side of the new leader there. nobody seems to be saying who she is. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. president obama s been hammering mitt romney for sending u.s. jobs overseas during the years he rain bane capital. this afternoon in colorado romney turned the tables labeling the president as the outsourcer in chief. our white house correspondent, brianna keilar, is following all this back and forth. is the obama team worried about this new romney line of attack? reporter: wolf, i think they would much rather be talking about tax cuts for the middle class. that s why president obama went to iowa today. and certainly this new republican attack line is stealing some of that spotlight. president obama took the fight over the bush era tax cuts from the white house to the mclaughlin