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Complaining about the process. i think that is all they have left. does that mean that the president is never going to participate in these hearings, brin brian. i think he is drawn to the biggest ratings show he could imagine. the facts are overwhelming, and they re corroborated by people who are not deep state plants. you have ambassador sondland who gave him a million dollars for his campaign, and he was hand picked to be a ambassador. when they try to discredit the process, they should be aware of the evidence against them being introduced by the white house, and that is a big problem for them. this is all happening while the president goes to london for ....
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 ....
Benghazi. he and the president were never close initially during the transition period when the president was running for office and then during the transition when he was coming into office. and brian, david petraeus has been a star and a star player, but this has been an awkward transition at best over at the cia. anything you want to add to that are or check? some of the initial coverage when he was named a few people were surprised that this was, given the world he comes out of, and given the fact that we really have not minted all that many four-star generals especially in the modern era, i think this marriage of a man and title and bailiwick, still surprised some people. and relationships are tricky. so i ve i have been following this overnight and into the morning with great interest and ....
Important cabinet position is a full-time job in and of itself. but traditionally the treasury secretary when jim baker was treasury secretary he was the chief negotiator. depends on the individual and relationships. brian, i know you got to go and start working on nightly news but your thoughts about how the president reaches out to congress and to the business community, whether that s one of the agendas that he should assign himself? well, chris raises such an interesting point because i think what we re trying to say is, do you want someone in your service who, when they walk into the room, they people feel it. a big character. jack lew is a kind of guy with the demeanor at a reception or in a large room of the late marvin. he s kind of a he s a fellow well met. don reagan you ll recall there was no way you could be in a room and not know when he entered. that s a different brand and ....
Trying to hint at it saying i m not wedded to every part of my plan. you talk to republicans and they say, if he is willing to do structural changes to social security and medicare, and the structural changes they all point to, the first one has to do with age, they simply that the president goes along with raising the age on social security, which won t will he ll lose half of democrats, 100 democrats in the house, he ll get almost all the revenues he wants. assuming that minimum floor is $800 billion, the president would have almost took with boehner and that deal on july 11. that s going to be the dance here. right? what s the most the president s willing to do on entitlements and how many democrats does he lose and how many republicans can boehner keep if he gets something on entitlements as he moves up the revenue number. now, while we ve all been sitting here and talking about the fiscal cliff and all of that urgency, another story that is brewing in washington, brian and ....