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Him up on some senators like rockefeller and tom harkin and they hope to get a bunch more on a 1 to 1 spending tax hike ratio? were they backing that? were they backing the new stimulus? what? >> they weren't getting into the details at all. they were voting mainly on the basis of partisan identification more than anything else. the details are being hashed out between the president and congress, and obviously, neil, this is a negotiating posture. no one thinks what the president is saying will be the final deal. that one is thinking that what some of the republicans are saying will be the fin...

I am to say that they have a mandate from their constituents to keep doing what they have been doing. particularly in not raising taxes, which is such a thorny issue over the past few years. notwithstanding the fact that when you survey the majority of americans, they want to see taxes go up on the rich. the question is whether the republicans do and whether they will go in and start a meaningful negotiation if the starting point is $1.6 trillion in tax hikes. reporter: is this just a negotiating posture to move up from $800 billion or to get 800 billion again? or is this just a line in the sa...

could we be next? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." today we're coming to you live from cnn's jerusalem, israel. he left there live earlier today. he's now in poland with the president-elect. we're going to have a live report in the next hour from pole land. we begin this hour with my one-on-one interview with the republican presidential candidate. governor romney, thanks so much for joining us, in jerusalem. what a beautiful city. i'm sure you've been moved by what you've seen so far. >> it's a holy city, a city of a great and courageous people. my wife and i first...

Is this a kind of negotiating posture or is this something to really worry about? >> well, i think part of the reason to really worry about iran no matter what is, it's very hard to tell. i think the iranians are really worried going into 2012, and they should be. first of all, i think america becomes a harder counterparty in an election year, and that makes things more difficult for the iranians. i think the geopolitics in the whole region is changing, in ways that are not that great from the iranian point of view. and then, finally, if you were the iranian leadership, i think this would be a...

Is this a kind of negotiating posture or is this something to really worry about? >> well, i think part of the reason to really worry about iran no matter what is, it's very hard to tell. i think the iranians are really worried going into 2012, and they should be. first of all, i think america becomes a harder counterparty in an election year, and that makes things more difficult for the iranians. i think the geopolitics in the whole region is changing, in ways that are not that great from the iranian point of view. and then, finally, if you were the iranian leadership, i think this would be a...