researching and writing the book is what does one president after another from ford to obama do when the issue comes us about whether to send troops abroad. what does vietnam factor into their minds? how do they think of an exit strategy? every way vietnam sits there in the oval office as an uninvited guest but it s there. have we paid less attention to it? you go back to lebanon, 1983, ronald reagan put together a document. some people are saying obama is ignoring that in afghanistan. no, i think quite the opposite. i think vietnam has haunted
nonstarter or is it the exit strategy at the end of the day? you know, andrea, everybody s looking for an off ramp. everybody wants to decide there s extra cash or you know, you can use the constitution. what everybody at home is saying is just do your job. just compromise like everyone else does. andrea, you know that there have been great bipartisan agreements to bring down our deficit to save social security in 1983, 1990 and 1997, none of them involved anyone using the threat of a default to get them done. people did their job. they compromised that s what we need now. time is running out, but we still have time. that s where the focus needs to be. gene sperling, thank you very much. good to see you. thank you. with us now south carolina democrat jim clyburn is assistant minority leader. congressman you heard what gene said. you had suggest that had the
i can tell people like colin powell are very thankful that president truman did what he did. in the current case let me ask you about the whip count you were the whip and still a great vote counter are you and steny hoyer and nancy pelosi going to give john boehner an exit strategy with some democrat votes since it s clear he doesn t have enough votes just relying on republicans? if he were to come to the floor with a bipartisan bill, i think he would get bipartisan support. right now he s running this on his own within his own caucus. he is not involving nancy pelosi or steny hoyer or yours truly in what he s doing. and so i m never going to ask members of our caucus to vote to have severe cuts in medicare,
nonstarter or is it the exit strategy at the end of the day? you know, andrea, everybody s looking for an off ramp. everybody wants to decide there s extra cash or you know, you can use the constitution. what everybody at home is saying is just do your job. just compromise like everyone else does. andrea, you know that there have been great bipartisan agreements to bring down our deficit to save social security in 1983, 1990 and 1997, none of them involved anyone using the threat of a default to get them done. people did their job. they compromised that s what we need now. time is running out, but we still have time. that s where the focus needs to be. gene sperling, thank you very much. good to see you. thank you. with us now south carolina democrat jim clyburn is assistant minority leader. congressman you heard what gene said. you had suggest that had the 14th amendment should be an
researching and writing the book is what does one president after another from ford to obama do when the issue comes us about whether to send troops abroad. what does vietnam factor into their minds? how do they think of an exit strategy? every way vietnam sits theren guest but it s there. have we paid less attention to it? you go back to lebanon, 1983, ronald reagan put together a document. some people are saying obama is ignoring that in afghanistan. no, i think quite the opposite. i think vietnam has haunted obama more than any other