and i can tell you that it s not in the best interest of our country to raise taxes during this difficult economy and it s not in the best interest of our country to ignore the serious spending challenges that we face. now, i want to say this is a serious debate. and it s a debate about jobs. it s a debate about our economy. and, frankly, it s also a big debate about the future of our country. you know, until recently, the president was demanding that the congress increase the debt limit with no strings attached. as a matter of fact, the treasury secretary sent me a letter two days after we were sworn n january demanding that we give him a clean increase in the debt limit. i immediately responded and told the treasury secretary that the american people would not tolerate clean increase in the debt ceiling unless there were serious spending cuts attached and real reforms to the way we
us to do what s in the best interest of our country. and i can tell you that it s not in the best interest of our country to raise taxes during this difficult economy and it is not in the best interest of our country to ignore the serious spending challenges that we face. and i want to say this is a serious depate. this is a debate about jobs. this is a debate about our economy and frankly a big debate about the future of our country. you know, until recently, the president was demanding that the congress increase the debt limit with no strings attached. matter of fact, treasury secretary sent me a letter two days after we were worn in in january. demanding that we give him a clean increase in the debt limit. i immediately responded and told the treasury second that the american people con tolerate a clean increase in the debt ceiling unless there were
interest of our country. and i can tell you that it s not in the best interest of our country to raise taxes during this difficult economy and it is not in the best interest of our country to ignore the serious spending challenges that we face. and i want to say this is a serious depate. this is a debate about jobs. this is a debate about our economy and frankly a big debate about the future of our country. you know, until recently, the president was demanding that the congress increase the debt limit with no strings attached. matter of fact, treasury secretary sent me a letter two days after we were worn in in january. demanding that we give him a clean increase in the debt limit. i immediately responded and told the treasury second that the american people con tolerate a clean increase in the debt ceiling unless there were serious spending cuts attached
seven killed and 90 injured in the downtown explosion. at least ten shot to death at the summer camp shooting spree. but up first, stunning new drama in the debate over deficit spending in washington and the prospect of a historic government default just ten days from now. republican house speaker john boehner tonight calling off negotiations with president obama saying the democratic white house is too gung-ho about raising taxes and too timid when it comes to squeezing money from social security and medicare as speaker boehner sent his colleagues a stunning letter explaining his decision, an angry president came to the white house briefing room with a passionial rebuttal. this was an extraordinarily fair deal. if it was unbalanced, it was unbalanced in the direction of not enough revenue. but in the interests of being serious about deficit reduction, i was willing to take a lot of heat from my party, and i spoke to democratic leaders yesterday, and although they didn t
how donald trump would solve the debt crisis and what he would do to keep america great. and remember the uproar over president obama s birth certificate? honestly, i m very proud that i was able to bring this to a point. nobody else was. i ll ask him why he says the race to the 2012 white house will be the nastiest in history, and why the white house pays too much attention to wall street. and a candid conversation with tafis smiley. this is piers morgan tonight. donald trump says america s economy has gone from bad to worse and now he is joining me on the phone. hello, piers. congratulations on being a grand father again. your daughter had a beautiful girl arabella rose. thank you. if we were to describe a good future for arabella, what would you do? the debt limits have to come down. the whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. we have to create jobs, and we have to create them rapidly because if we don t, things are go