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Fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody is going to care about, then don't vote for me." in other words i'm planning on getting stuff done, yo, from the get go. now, news, we know what elizabeth warren wants to do first. senator-elect elizabeth warren planted her first flag in terms of what she wants to do with her new job. it's direct and to the point. on the first day that the senate is in session and only on that day, there's something important to happen. the senate decides its rules. right now if any one senator wants to block legislation, they can say that and it's blocked. instan...

Hard-line position against a pretty distinguished diplomat w was a bit premature. i'll leave it that. >> senator-elect, it's s.e. cupp. i'm wondering if you can talk about the way you view your upcoming role in the senate. do you think that mainerds elected you to represent a new kind of compromise and coming together? what's your sense of what your job is in d.c. now? >> there's no question that it was the latter. as i campaigned throughout the state over eight months, the number one issue that i encountered that people wanted to talk about was the broken congress. why can't they talk to each...

Road. the real question is are we going to have a big deal? are we going to agree on the major spending restraints that we need as well as the tax stuff in order to actually get the deficit under control? and i think the betting on that is less than 50%. i think we have a great shot at it. but it's going to be really, really hard. >> is that the view from wall street, too? they're not totally confident that this is going to happen? >> what you see in the stock market at the moment is that wall street is not totally confident. that's for sure. >> all right. steve, thanks so much. >> pleasure. ...

Part of his constituencies. a group, interestingly, that right before the september 11th cairo protests which were the first sign of real trouble, real trouble occurring in egypt in at least recent weeks and months, there was a delegation of 100 ceos. that would interest you who speak to the wall street component. morsi is desperate for outside investment. and so you had the head of general motors and people from ge and these ceos going over with the deputy secretary of state, tom nides, on a mission. people said if you would have closed your eyes, you would have thought you were listening to ...

Mystery. >> do we really still want men to pick up us in the factory and carry us out. >> no, i want them to pick me up and give me a raise. >> thank you. this conversation is not over, is it? >> no. >> thank you very much. to politics now where democrats are getting a double dose of good news. now, we told you nancy pelosi wants to remain democratic leader in the house. and just last hour, maine senator-elect angus king says he will caucus with the democrats. he won his seat as an independent. >> i'd like to repeat that. by associating myself with one side i am not in automatic opposition t...