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Even if it philosophically runs into something that they -- you would think they would normally be for. so this was an attempt by the president to depersonalize this a little bit and say, no, no, no. there was a question id asked some senior aides when they did a back ground briefing saturday. i said, would we be here if it wasnt for the presidents red line comments? theyve been adamant that they would be. aides believe that there might even be -- wed be in the exact same place that were in toda...

More of that. the senior obama team. >> they are flat. >> they were all in washington last week doing a back ground briefing for 40 and one of the points was we think there ought could be more scrutiny of bean. testifies kind of a popular cry from them. >> has the romney campaign comforted themselves too much? they dont like the attacks? they dont seem to be trying to fix the larger issue. how does he prevent the campaign from making him look like one of the bombs from office space. >> the romne...

The house in particular. im not going to expose them. some of them want to back hand this, to offer solutions in constructive ways forward. but those conversations are happening at several levels in the white house to see if we can find a way forward to get the number of requisite votes. the president continues to work hard. he is having the conversations. members have reached out to him to make their suggestions known. so thats -- we continue to feel optimistic in the sense that there is a lot ...

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