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Whether those two meet the task, i think, is the question. and there will be a repeal effort that will probably fail in the senate unless it is pushed through in reconciliation with only 51 votes anyway. the president would never sign any effort to repeal. >> people on both sides of the aisle are saying this is republicans opportunity to prove that they can govern. but as long as the president is in the oval office and promises to use his veto pen, there really isnt much republicans can do short...

Areas of agreement and weve got to be able to make that happen and thats going to involve compromise every once in a while and we saw during this lame duck period that perhaps the spirit of compromise may be coming to the fore. >> reporter: and the president identified some of those areas of possible agreement as corporate tax reform and also, infrastructure projects, but he also noted the devils in the details. of course, we know that, alex and its tough to get things done in washington. he dra...

And bridges. $1 trillion. we spent it. its gone. a lot of potholes in new york still. >> there is some evidence that stimulus package already worked. do it now when the price of gas is low. if you pegging it to infrastructure, thats sorely needed. infrastructure projects have been a way to increase employment going back to fdr. >> going back to keens this time. >> i think its worth it. >> because it was prigas prices now is the time to do it, what about when the gas prices go back up? >> the que...

>> americans are already paying on average of almost 50 cents a gallon at the pump. and of course unfortunately i think the republicans are going to go for this whole infrastructure spending m iningy because its make work jobs to try to create jobs. whats disappointing is, quote, privatizing infrastructure is not in our nations history. it is in our nations history. if you want to do something that will bring money into the government, you should start privatizing some of these airports and fede...

President obama just moments ago touched down in delaware for a previously scheduled event. later this afternoon, hes going to discuss the economy, infrastructure projects. white house officials saying at this point in time there are no plans for president obama to speak to the reports of this downed malaysian airlines flight. however, this is a fluid situation so that could change. and i would just add this one note, ronan. president obama is often quite cautious before he addresses the nation ...

Push for infrastructure funding to delaware. he will stress the needs to keep americas highways and bridges up to date. he is expected to announce executive actions for the infrastructure projects. the house improved a short term fix for the highway trust fund on tuesday. the senate has yet to vote on the issue. a state of emergency declared in 20 counties in eastern washington state as wildfires are threatening several hundred structures and forcing 800 acres. its torched 22,000 acres with 40...

They are talking to ukrainian officials about, ronan. we know this administration monitoring this situation and, of course, president obama in delaware right now on a previously scheduled trip which will focus on the economy, on infrastructure. hes going to speak in about an hour announcing new infrastructure projects. white house officials say at this point in time he has no plans to address the reports of the downed plane, but that could change. this is a fluid situation. at this point in time...

Of the economic minds at the white house. president obama and vice president bide will be host a lunch for some of the nations leading economists to discuss how to rev up whats been a slow recovery. it comes a day after congress says must act to fund infrastructure projects to save hundreds of jobs. stocks in record territory. futures are up again after a day, dow was close to 17,000. got to within two points of that yesterday. closing at a record high. the dow crossed the 16,000 mark just a f...

I think that given the transition were going through in health care, the fact that we are spending 18% almost of gdp on health care and only giving health care sw between 82% and 84% of our people through insurance and all these countries were competing with who have achieved more social mobility and higher median incomes than we have and had weathered the financial crisis better than we do spend somewhere between 9.5% and 11.8% of gdp. were spotting them $1 trillion a year that we would save fo...

They plan to do of day in the life visits across the country this summer. its just the newest example of how theyre trying to get the president out there in nontraditional ways, getting him out from behind a podium to fight the publics presidential fatigue. weve seen it a lot. may 16th it was burgers and fries. the shake shack in d.c., the president discussed infrastructure projects. three days later, it was a detour on the way to a fund-raiser. surprising some little leaguers warming up for t...