thank you. no, really. you sound like a peace corps guy. it s really good. well, hey, man, you got to look on a positive side and there are some good things going on around here, and, you know, there may have been a time a few years ago where that group would have said, okay, the whole party is going to vote no. and they re going to sustain the filibuster. i think the fact that the party broke on this and there were significant number of votes for cloture, that s progress, man. senator angus king of maine, a true independent. thank you for coming on, sir. coming up, president obama s sister soldier moment some are calling. he s doing what a leader does, actually telling his side they re going to have to give a little. in this case, that means telling democrats they re going to have to make concessions on programs like social security and medicaid. my question, are republicans ready to seize the moment? or are they simply going to rely on cheap shots like saying as one did yesterd
by itself? the recognitione have common hopes and dreams won t end all the gridlock or solve allroblems or substitute for the painstaking building consensuscult comprs needed to move this country forward. but that commo bond is where we must begin. president obama calling for unity and bipartisanship in his speech last night and so dguest. maine governor and now senator-elect, true independent potentially, angus king. first of all, congratulations on your victory, a majority in a three-way race not just a plurality there. actually it was a six-
saying i speak for the entire world? i think he speaks for his own cause. i think that happens quite a bit when people come out and talk. you look at the actors that come out and went crazy over bush with the war in iraq and the wmd s that were supposedly supposed to be there but not there. the uproar was huge in commercials, but you don t see any of them speaking out about benghazi for instance? it s a huge scandal in my book. so they re dishonest, hypocritical. i think that rules the day, and i think we all can be, you know, guilty of being hypocrites here and there, but it s amazing to me the number of people that want to push their agenda on you just because they re so-called superstars. and in hollywood they re always talking about power. but they don t have tolerance for anybody that doesn t agree with them, and as the freedom of speech goes alwell. they they will push freedom of speech and cream for it until they die, but they don t want to give you the same freedom of