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But look, iraq is not over. i appreciate that cover but its two steps forward and one step back. these elections coming up are pornlts. afghanistan its two steps forward and one step back. its a long hard process. >> can it be achieved in the 18-month time frame? >> the thing that worries me the most is the presidents statement about leaving in the middle of 2011. i would appreciate it if the president told these, all the way down to afghan tribal leaders who questioned me about it, to say were ...

Step aside and then they stepped aside. >> the bottom line when it comes to ethics reform is we got the -- democrats got the ethics committee moving again. its an effective process that was totally neutered under the republicans. now we have an ethics committee that is fully functioning and making sure that we take care of the ethics problems when theyre there. >> we are going to leave it there. thanks to all of you. we will talk more with mark morial about the national urban leagues century of ...

And so, what they ended up with is in order to buy votes, they did these unsavory deals. they are unsavory. to say that 800,000 people in florida will be carved out from any reduction in a medicare advantage program, 330,000 of my citizens in arizona are medicare advantage enrollees, to say that youre going to put $100 million in for a hospital in connecticut? look, these are unsavory deals. they were done behind closed doors, and it has been -- id have town hall meetings all over the place in m...

Bipartisan support. and so, what they ended up with is in order to buy votes, they did these unsavory deals. they are unsavory. to say that 800,000 people in florida will be carved out from any reduction in a medicare advantage program, 330,000 of my citizens in arizona are medicare advantage enrollees, to say that youre going to put $100 million in for a hospital in connecticut? look, these are unsavory deals. they were done behind closed doors, and it has been -- id have town hall meetings all...

Aside. >> the bottom line when it comes to ethics reform is we got the -- democrats got the ethics committee moving again. its an effective process that was totally neutered under the republicans. now we have an ethics committee that is fully functioning and making sure that we take care of the ethics problems when theyre there. >> we are going to leave it there. thanks to all of you. we will talk more with mark morial about the national urban leagues century of service to americans community. [...

Bickering beforehand. the problem i think for the president is that this is gumming up all of the time he needs to be spending on other things. business leaders are going to the white house saying, we cannot make decisions about trying to hire people because we dont know what our costs are going to be, our health care costs, what the energy plan will be, the tax reform will be. so theyre not making decisions. they are frozen because washington is frozen. he needs to get moving on these legislati...

The problem i think for the president is that this is gumming up all of the time he needs to be spending on other things. business leaders are going to the white house saying, we cannot make decisions about trying to hire people because we dont know what our costs are going to be, our health care costs, what the energy plan will be, the tax reform will be. so theyre not making decisions. they are frozen because washington is frozen. he needs to get moving on these legislative issues. >> mark, th...

Described it as a hail mary pass a last-ditch effort for the opportunity keep his top legislative priority from slipping out of his grasp. as you sit here do you have the votes to get this passed in congress? >> what the president wanted to do is bring everybody together again as he has before during this process to have an open honest discussion about whats at stake here for the american people. people losing coverage, with premiums sky rocketing. how do we deal with this. i think we achieved t...

I think we have significant advantages in afghanistan. but look, iraq is not over. i appreciate that cover but its two steps forward and one step back. these elections coming up are pornlts. afghanistan its two steps forward and one step back. its a long hard process. >> can it be achieved in the 18-month time frame? >> the thing that worries me the most is the presidents statement about leaving in the middle of 2011. i would appreciate it if the president told these, all the way down to afghan ...

Care czar nancy-ann deparle. this week "the new york times" described it as a hail mary pass a last-ditch effort for the opportunity keep his top legislative priority from slipping out of his grasp. as you sit here do you have the votes to get this passed in congress? >> what the president wanted to do is bring everybody together again as he has before during this process to have an open honest discussion about whats at stake here for the american people. people losing coverage, with premiums sk...