these conversations and he told us today that his conference of republicans will follow. he said that definitively. all of the talk about he won t be able to bring the votes, today he said if there s a deal between himself and the president he will be able to deliver. bring in brian williams and chuck todd joining us. brin brian you have watched the transitionings take place. this is it seems to me an inflection point a moment where the american people have clearly voted for some sort of deal making for bipartisanship as olympia snowe told me yesterday and the president is trying to draw upon that account. will the hill respond sh. it was interesting, and forgive me if you ve already knocked this around, we were over on the network doing the coverage on that side, the first appearance, our first kind of official background glimpse of him, it is not a press conference to take questions. it was enter the room thunderous applaud, hometown crowd, the