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In toward to low this is not a mandate in the numbers or in the way he campaigns. he did not campaign on any ideas. anything charge, anything important. he didnt address entitlements or anything like that. i think he has -- he would go back to who he is. people have said he should have auk successful cover term. he is not a moderate he will try to push his agenda through. >> you heard krauthammer reference clintons stint to the center. we will hear analysis on that when former presidential counc...

this "american morning.". busy weekend. good morning, august 1st. a lot going on today. >> it was an agonizing weekend and we were all up late last night. e-mails flying at midnight. >> it was busy. >> but things are a little brighter today than they were last night and saturday night and a little brighter. >> tiny bit. we start with that possible break-through in the debt ceiling crisis. in a few hours the house and senate are expected to vote on a plan by president obama and congre...

Health care costs on them. look, matt, i think the key is going to be as we roll forward here, as the president speaks, as the leadership in both the house and the senate speak, we talk about a comprehensive plan that takes into account everything. and i think it can be done. i think its just a matter of rolling up our sleeves, working together democrats and republicans, doing our best not to politicize but doing our best to work for this country and putting them first and foremost and moving fo...

That means spending whereas if youre saving the money, why turn around and spend it and well ultimately spend more than were saving. >> this will cut the deficit that the president inherited in half. it will take it from 10% of the economy down to 3% of the economy. thats a huge amount of deficit reduction. it is the most deficit reduction weve ever achieved in history. >> right. >> and i think that its important to focus on the fact that weve agreed, theres a consensus that we need to tighten o...