for there to be losers in there. there can be all winners. i m optimistic and i believe that a divided government is the right environment for this type of compromise to take place. neil: usually markets are the same way. what is your thought on mitt romney and his comments about the president, by the way? you know, it s not the way i would have wanted to start my senate career. i rather help the president and our country be successful. but mitt romney is not a rookie. he might be a freshman but not a rookie. i suspect he s positioned himself for something. maybe that s the way it flies in utah. that wouldn t fly well for me in north dakota. neil: a lot of people are surprised here he is entertaining becoming the president s secretary of state and now he s zinging the guy. you think he s phony? i like mitt romney a lot. i ve gotten to know him. he s obviously a strong leader. he s very strong feelings and
as you can imagine, it did not take very long for democrats to reject that offer. nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, my understanding the way this went is it was chuck schumer who picked up the phone to call mitch mcconnell and say this wouldn t fly. i ve been talking to senators in both parties over the last 30 minutes or so. democrats in particular said this was never going to get off the ground. to put it simply, that s not how this works. the president doesn t just get a billion dollars to spend on whatever he wants. that s why we have a committee process. that s why we have the congress here controlling the power of the purse to spend money as congress sees fit, not just the way the president sees fit. but the bottom line here, talking to especially republicans, there s just no energy for this fight. there is nobody up here who seems particularly excited about the prospect of blowing through their christmas break, of shutting the government down to fight for the president s wall. there
grave. jedidiah: this is the guy who withheld information from the fisa cord. he s a joke. he s the only person i ve seen up there that s less self-awareness than hillary clinton. he has no sense that he comes off so antagonistic, takes no responsibility. someone asked him a question about the fbi, about whether he felt at all responsible for its reputation going south. he came flat out, no, not me. immediately shifted blame to the president. think about it. if a private citizen went into one of these forums and had to answer these questions and gave 200 plus versions of i don t know and i don t recall, when they were involved into enormous candles, that wouldn t fly. i don t understand how he gets away with saying he doesn t remember and doesn t have to provide some answers as to why he withheld all this information with respect to the dossier, the fact it was unverified, the fact it was funded by the hillary campaign. numerous questions he s on the
can because normally if you summits decisions are taken consensually which means that spain could stay and it would still pass but if they actively say no we do not want this deal then it will not pass and by the way this this dimension the magnitude of this whole topic is such that anything else and unanimity would wouldn t fly in this case. max hoffman there with a view from brussels on whether spain cantle pito the bedsit deal but even if it does move past madrid concern it doesn t stop there for timmie s and may you see if you need a sign off on how bread the draft deal on sunday the british prime minister still has to push it through her own parliament in face of strong objections from within her own conservative party the question is will she resign if the bedsit plans are rejected by m.p. s next often again with this report. what would we all do without drugs is the story of a lifetime keeping thousands of politicians public officials and journalists most
because if it was. from all i m joined now from brussels by my colleague max hope on next spain is saying that it could go peter the cement even vetoed the whole briggs the deal over gibraltar and actually do that you know there s that s a question we asked ourselves all week it s the most asked question of brussels at the moment and we came to the conclusion here in the studio brussels then yes they can because normally at these summits decisions are taken consensually which means that spain could stain and it would still pass but if they actively say no we do not want this deal then it will not pass and by the way this this dimension the magnitude of this whole topic is such that anything else than unanimity would wouldn t fly in this case so clearly gibraltar is very important but is gibraltar the only issue in today s talks between me and you commission chief. it s the biggest chunk of what remains there are other contentious issues for example