The Reid staffer isn’t speaking off-the-cuff. They’re being instructed to taunt us, because the outcome is predetermined.
Grassley is also publicly signaling the forthcoming capitulation. The writing is on the wall.
I agree with Whistling.
This is scripted.
Get it out there, lay low for a few weeks, then leak the next concessionary statement.
In that way dismantle the firewall brick by brick by brick.