bret: the confirmation of bill barr, then you re going to have this defense secretary confirmation. we don t know what else. dana: the good news is for the administration on the nominations front and confirmations, that they won though senate seats for the republicans. the president will probably be able to get those done pretty quickly. bret: exactly. dana: but it does take some time. bret: not only that, they also changed a couple of those republican seats that may have been no votes or maybe votes. dana: also do you hear there are other cabinet resignations coming soon or firings or whatever we are calling them? bret: there s always a circle out there about who s going next and what s going to happen. after any midterm election, there is usually a changeover, as you well know. we assumed that come the beginning of the year, there might be some change. i talked to interior secretary ryan zinke. we are not going to run that tonight because there s just a little breaking
a whole host of cabinet resignations on the back of her approach to go riding in a deal with the european union so i think if she comes out of this comes out of this vote victorious it removes that threat of a further leadership challenge and actually helps to strengthen her position within the government within within the conservative party and i think that s really why i think the pound has taken a little bit of a move to the outside what it doesn t do however is change the parliamentary arithmetic around her deal but what it does is it removes that layer of uncertainty about her future in the short to medium term should she not survive this unexpectedly does that mean that we automatically good for hard core briggs s successor and that we re looking at a no deal breakers it briefly if you can. i think that s what the people in the european research group of the conservative party would like their biggest problem is getting the rest of the party to coalesce around
years, common fisheries policy, out of the single market. i think that is what people voted for and that is what i m delivering. reporter: and another key part of getting that brexit deal back on track, getting it in front of european leaders just about ten days away from now, was replacing some of the cabinet resignations that she had over the past 48 hours. they was able to replace perhaps the most important post of all relative to brexit, that of the secretary of state for overseeing brexit, a relative unknown politician, a leaver, someone who has supported her position on brexit so far. so from her perspective, this is somebody who doesn t appear likely to challenge her, somebody who we understand is mostly going to be sort of organizational level at the uk and rather than actually in brussels doing any of the negotiation. this of course fits theresa may s sort of track record up to
people, that does that by ending free movement, all the things i raised in my statement, ending free movement, ensuring we re not sending vast annual sums to the eu any longer but also protects jobs. let s go straight to nick robertson, who is there outside of 10 downing street. nick, i read six cabinet resignations today, including the brexit secretary himself who says this agreement has fatal flaws. theresa may says she s going to stay and fight. why? she began by saying it s an honor and privilege to serve in high office. it felt electric. you felt the precious of the past week and 24 hours in particular had just come to the moment where she was going to resign, but it was absolutely not going that way at all. she believes that the deal that
been redefined as a battle between norms and tearing down those norms, whether to stay in the home we ve built or burn it down, then you could argue that it all started with brexit, which like the trump election months after that, was the first vote that stunned the establishment, when the people of the u.k. voted to leave the eu. two years later, that hasn t happened because decoupling is complicated. the choice before the u.k. appears to be somewhere between full-on divorce versus staying good friends, versus staying together for the sake of the kids. well, tonight, the government of the prime minister theresa may is in trouble and so too is brexit. theresa may has suffered some cabinet resignations, most notably this morning the foreign secretary boris johnson resigned. respectfully, to americans who don t follow u.k. politics closely, he may be more widely referred to as the guy with the