with his take, wyoming senator john barrasso. thanks for coming back to the show.always appreciate your time. >> thank you, melissa. melissa: what do you think? are we getting closer? to me 23 dal billion, that is a little money. but to you guyuys that is coins in the couch cushion. >> i want to find a solution. i want us to get to an answer on this. some democrats said we should go over the fiscal cliff. i think that would be a mistake. i met earlier today with the same ceos that the president is meeting with at this hour. we need to find a solution. it has to be a he had consider credible solution as well a long-term solution that is the markets can look out and have some confidence in that the cuts are real. that the spending is under control. and that our country is on fiscal --. melissa: are we 23 dal billion away from a solution? is that right? >> i'm not sure that is right. i have not heard those numbers and i have been in a lot of the meetings. to work toward a solution we need presidential leadership and need to work towards the best interest of the countr

joining me now wyoming senator john barrasso. he joins me now. senator, let me ask you this straight-up question. who is in charge of negotiations on behalf of the republican party with the white house? is it john boehner? >> i think the president is the only with one that can sign the agreement. john boehner needs to have an agreement that the house of representatives will pass, and i think whatever the two of them agree on will pass the senate. but expect it will be john boehner working along with the president. i'm sure mitch mcconnell will be very closely involved in the discussions with leader boehner. >> you don't believe a deal should come out of the senate and then be introduced in the house? >> well, i think the elections are over. we need to find solutions to help our country move forward in a positive direction and as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staffs says the biggest threat to our national security is actually our debt. we need to get this spending under control and get people back to work. >> i want to talk about this issue o

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about john kerry and whether he would be more suitable in the secretary of state role and susan collins basically giving a ringi ining endorsement saying confirmation would be much easier. senator barrassoked about the fact he thinks john kerry would have a sailing time getting through confirmation hearings for that role. is this a transparent attempt to get john kerry in that role so the seat opens up in massachusetts for scott brown? >> reporter: i don't know if it's that transparent, and there's some talk that scott brown would forgo his senate bid in order to run for governor there. i think obviously that's part of the calculation. i don't think there's any doubt about that, thomas. >> let's talk act what we are waiting for now. the president is going to be addressing people from the auditorium of the white house. we can show everybody the shot we're waiting on right there. talking about the fiscal cliff as he takes the case to the american people kind of getting this groundswell of support that he can then take to our elected leaders to say, hey, the american people are on board, why aren't you. what is the sense or the behind-the-scenes talk because mitch mcconnell and others on t

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joining us now, john barrasso.a committee meeting about the pentagon attack later this afternoon. nice to have you back on the program. >> reporter: thank you, jenna. jenna: what should you know later this afternoon that you don't already know now? >> reporter: this has been called in a bipartisan way so republicans and democrats working together. we're going to get briefed today by the fbi, the cia, the department of defense, as well as the department of state. i think that this is something that could have been prevented, the murder, the death, the ter terrorist attack that affected four american heros. we are starting at the beginning as to how is it that these folks on the ground asked for additional help in march, in april there was an attack, in june there was an attack. in july they asked for additional help, again denied and their whole security team got pulled out in august, and then come 9/11, and this assault occurs, a terrible tragedy, we want to start there. we also want to find out what happened that

senator john barrasso, he said excessive spending has to stop. according to the national institute for strategic studies, the united states military budget was 740 billion. much more than the next nine largest military budgets combined. in fact, not one of the nine even broke a 100 billion-dollar mark. taken together, they amount to about two thirds of the total u.s. military budget. do we really need a military that is seven times larger than any other nation? barrasso: we need a military keep us safe and free. the whole goal about when you look at the expense and the amount of money, i'm not the ones make one to make that decision, but we were asked to vote on it. we are making sure that we have what we need. as the leader of the free world, we are under attack in ways that no other countries are. i think it is a mistake. i think we need to continue to fight for the national security keeps us safe, especially after 9/11. even today. we see what happened on 9/11 of this year in libya. >> moderator: do we need one that is seven-time larger than t

personal thanks to my friend, senator john mccain, who's on the floor at this moment for making this a bipartisan effort. i also want to thank senators barrasso, harkin, tom udall, moran, and coons for their bipartisan support and dedication to the passage and ratification of this important treaty. now is the time for the full senate to affirm our nation's leadership on disability issues by ratifying this important treaty. and we should do so with strong, bipartisan support that has always characterized the efforts we've had on disabilities. the support 2340 for this treats strong and bipartisan. it is supported by organizations including the united states international council on disabilities, the american association of people with disabilities, the disability rights education and defense fund, and the national disability rights network. in addition, it is supported by 21 different veterans groups including the wounded warrior project, the american legion, disabled american veterans and veterans of foreign war. president george h.w. bush, who signed the americans with disabilities act into law, has called for ratification of this treaty. th