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>> football first. we have owners, most of whom are worth close to $1 billion, you have players making millions. my working assumption at a time when people are having to cut back, compromise, and worry about making the mortgage and paying for their kids college education, is that the two parties should be able to work it out without the president of the united states intervening. im a big football fan, but i also think for an industry making $9 billion a year in revenue, they can figure out how...

President obama. thank you both. >> all right. let me deal with football first. youve got owners, most of whom are worth close to a billion dollars, youve got players who are making millions of dollars. my working assumption at a time when people are having to cut back, compromise, and worry about making the mortgage, and paying for their kids college education is that the two parties should be able to work it out without the president of the united states intervening. im a big football fan. but...

>> right. i really dont know the answer to that question. we dont have a complete registration system of all the american citizens in any country because of course its a voluntary registration system. so we have been tracking just the numbers of people who are looking for help on the way out. so we do know, the president says were organizing this flight that we had about 110 people in tripoli who are looking for a way out. as i mentioned earlier, about 90 were not able to make it out on our flig...

New jersey state police and camden fire, and the u.s. navy had a boat in the area, and they were there as well, and the coast guard helicopters as well. >> is it your information that these two individuals who are still missing in the search continuing for them were definitely on that duck boat, that tourist boat, and maybe in the water right now? is that your working assumption? >> yes, sir, it is. it is our working assumption and we believe that the two people missing were on board and traveli...

Over the weekend to see if we can collect the oil and pipe it to the surface. >> is it your esmitt that the gushing is still coming at, what, 5,000 barrels a day, 10,000 barrels a day? is it going up or down? whats the estimate right now? >> were using a working estimate of 5,000 barrels a day, but ive been careful since the event started not to lock in on a specific estimate, because all we know is what we see with the rovs at the bottom of the ocean and when it hits the surface theres still so...

Precedented. given that daunting challenge before us, everybody is working together in good fashion in my view. supposedly all these fail safe systems and none of them seemed to have worked. >> well, i think everybody agreed that the blah preventer did not work. exactly why that happened is going to have to be determined in the courtrooms of the investigation. secretary napolitano. joint investigation and liz from minutes management service and myself have signed that as well it will be a joint ...

Question is, are we going to be true to them? now, sometimes i think about how i got involved in politics. i didnt think of myself as a potential politician when i got out of college. i went to work in neighborhoods, working with catholic churches in poor neighborhoods in chicago. trying to figure out how people could get a little bit of help, and i was skeptical about politics and politicians, just like a lot of americans are skeptical about politics and politicians right now. because my workin...

I didnt think of myself as a potential politician when i got out of college. i went to work in neighborhoods, working with catholic churches in poor neighborhoods in chicago. trying to figure out how people could get a little bit of help. i was skeptical about politics and politicians, just like a lot of americans are skeptical about politicians right now. my working assumption was, when push comes to shove, folks in elected office are looking out for themselves and not looking out for the folks...

Going back to the 9/11 case in the military commissions would be a step in the right direction. >> if if we could start over here, we could find a pathway forward that not only would allow military commissions to be used, but at times civilian courts, and we could possibly close guantanamo bay safely if you have a comprehensive system. >> reporter: and republican lindsay graham is important because he has the same end goal as the administration in that he does want to see the military prison at ...

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