>> she said she will put her home state of tasmania first. dealing with that on a case-by-case basis and she said she is willing to deal with anybody. we got a bit of a preview of what sort of thing will get knocked back having previously voted in favor of reforms that would've licensed regulation of financial advisors. last week, she reversed her position and those reforms have died. other than she opposes our with her key measures included in the in may.ay back they include, she is it is the deregulation of university fees and will vote against the seven dollar charge for visiting the doctor. she will vote against changes in pension and vote against tony abbott signature. a reallyng to be difficult few years for the abbott government getting things through the senate. there is a solution to all of this up but not for the weak hearted. tony abbott could call a double dissolution election. it would be in place for five years. that's a choice between bad and worse. 2015 will be a really tough year of horse trading for the government now. chris

going to win through and form this government to going into those 17 days, the independent from tasmania, i have never met in my whole life, anything and about him is he the, politically to as a person in our intelligence community who had objected to the way in which the howard government had used intelligence to justify us in gauging in the iraq war. kind of a familiar story, the star year and a store in the uk. even the start of the 17 days i didn't know them well. i dealt with them once over a student income support issue when i had a change agenda as deputy prime minister, and that was really it. with all of the weight of can you form a government, in the moment it was really extensive studying of these people in person, what can i get to know about them, all of the things that have ever said public, ever sit in parliament, voting record, what can i get to know about how they saw the world, and could i find some connection points between us and them which would make it viable? and over 17 long days, and they certainly were long days, i managed to get. it was and it describes in the

but actually going into those 17 days the independent from tasmania, andrew willkie, i had never met in my whole life. anything i knew about him is he had become politically active as a person in our intelligence community who had objected to the way in which the howard government had used intelligence to justify us engaging in the iraq war. so a kind of familiar story, a story here and a story in the u.k. and then the two country independents. whilst they became very good friends over the three years -- they actually came to the launch of my book in australia which was very generous of them -- even the start of those 17 days i didn't know them well. i'd dealt with them once over a student income support issue when i had a change agenda as deputy prime minister, and that was really it. and so, i mean, you know, with all of the weight of can you form a government, in the moment it was really extensive studying of these people in person, what can i get to know about them, all of the things they'd ever said publicly, they'd ever said in the parliament, their voting records, what could i

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returning to tasmania and going to go back and do great things there, no doubt.it time to bring up another aussie into the field of nascar? >> marcus is a great part of our sport and a fungi to race and been fairly successful on the road race side of things as he's coming to nascar so he's going back, you know, obviously race the australian v-8 super car series and a fun guy and would love to have another aussie. >> how would you change nascar, kevin. >> somebody asked me that earlier. >> i'm falling in line with everybody else. >> i'll tell you. i didn't tell them. >> thank you. >> you know, for me, i think it would be the schedule. i think, you know, not the number of races. i think we should run some midweek races and really try some different venues here and there to shake things up and if we could run four or five midweek races and shorten that season up by a month it would do everybody good. >> you would have a thursday night in kentucky or something? >> absolutely. wednesday, thursday night, put it in prime time and our guys are going to work at the shop r

possible government shutdown from john thune, a guy that doesn't go around the capitol like the tasmaniaevil. >> that was two weeks after the election when we had peace and harmony for a couple of days. now we talk shutdown again. >> i think it has to be taken off the table. they have enough power. they have enough authority. they run the house. they run the senate. they have the checkbook in the house. they have a lot of power in the senate. they could do a lot of things and still be able to say there will never be a government shutdown. we will not do that. we will not play with the faith and full credit of the united states of america, no, no, no. the answer is no. we have a thousand other things that we're looking at. government shutdown, no. i have been there. put my hand on the stove. you were there it not so long ago. you may remember your approval rating dropped to the lowest level ever and if you want to know why the tea party candidates that you endorse did not win in the primaries, it's because you shut down the government. okay. so you shut down the government and you basical