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Its sort of a reset for him on national security with people who might question him, lets say, independent voters and people who didnt see him as a strong commander in chief. >> lets take a quick look at the economy because no matter how people feel about the taking down of osama bin laden, look at that. more than half of the people in the country disapprove of the way the presidents handling the economy. what if anything can he do to change that in the short term? >> as you know, theres very li...

Lawrence. >> alex, im not sure the president is going to convince republicans to preserve pell grants by telling them that thats the kind of thing that got him through college and without that sort of support he would not be president today. >> right. yeah. pell grants breed obamas. its not exactly a convincing argument for those on the other side of the coin, but i dont think that president obama is necessarily speaking to republicans. i think, you know, this is part of his whole new campaign a...

Hes presented to the american public. today we saw him in northern virginia talking about education at a community college. were going to see him at facebook hq later in the week where hes going to presumably talk about innovation. then hes going to nevada, also a battleground state in 2012, to again talk about clean energy. this is the second half. he understands theres a deficit question in the air that

Interview and it wasnt full of gotchas, there were some spots i would have liked to have heard more from him about why he didnt endorse his own deficit commissions report. >> bill: you wanted me to talk about the deficit commission at 4:45 on super bowl sunday? >> yes, i do. i would like to know why he hasnt come forward and sort of made some of the tough choices, but i concede your point on that. maybe super bowl audience isnt the same as me on the deficit question. >> bill: maybe if we go on t...

Interview and it wasnt full of gotchas, there were some spots i would have liked to have heard more from him about why he didnt endorse his own deficit commissions report. >> bill: you wanted me to talk about the deficit commission at 4:45 on super bowl sunday? >> yes, i do. i would like to know why he hasnt come forward and sort of made some of the tough choices, but i concede your point on that. maybe super bowl audience isnt the same as me on the deficit question. >> bill: maybe if we go on t...

Interview and it wasnt full of gotchas, there were some spots i would have liked to have heard more from him about why he didnt endorse his own deficit commissions report. >> bill: you wanted me to talk about the deficit commission at 4:45 on super bowl sunday? >> yes, i do. i would like to know why he hasnt come forward and sort of made some of the tough choices, but i concede your point on that. maybe super bowl audience isnt the same as me on the deficit question. >> bill: maybe if we go on t...

Axis of evil for president bush. by tomorrow or the next day, these things tend to be forgotten. >> they do, except for those moments. and i think the white house would like to think of this as sort of the sputnik moment, if we remember it that way. but i think what they went out of their way to do this time, with a great degree of success, is to not make this just another laundry list of were going to pass this or im going to do that or veto this, although he did say he would veto earmarks. the...

Of their way to do this time, with a great degree of success, is to not make this just another laundry list of were going to pass this or im going to do that or veto this, although he did say he would veto earmarks. they wanted to elevate it, and i think coming after tucson its important, to more of a philosophical discussion about how we cant kick the can down the road anymore. how we have to think about americas future. i do agree with david, because i think it did fall short on the deficit qu...

By tomorrow or the next day, these things tend to be forgotten. >> they do, except for those moments. and i think the white house would like to think of this as sort of the sputnik moment, if we remember it that way. but i think what they went out of their way to do this time, with a great degree of success, is to not make this just another laundry list of were going to pass this or im going to do that or veto this, although he did say he would veto earmarks. they wanted to elevate it, and i thi...

This broadcast before is deflation, not inflation. and that goes to this whole deficit question, which is to say are prices ultimately going to start coming down? are people actually not going to go out and borrow because theyre worried that things are actually going to get cheaper? and i have to say that is on the tip of everybodys tongue this weekend. its almost been an almost sea change in the past seven days on that very topic. >> okay. meanwhile, president obama is vowing to stick to his pl...