gauge the positioning of where exactly president obama is and democrats are on this issue. they want to hear his position. take a listen to what was said on the daily rundown this morning. >> we don't know where the president is. he submitted this budget that was utterly irresponsible. where is he? he's avoided responsibility as a leader of this nation to tell the turn people how serious our crisis is and how he thinks we ought to get out of it. >> republicans say that their p position is that they want to cuts trillions, not billions from the nation's fiscal spending going forward if they are going to move anywhere on the debt limit issue. what's the time frame, thomas? the nation's ability to borrow expires may 16th and has been extended by the treasury to august 2nd. chuck schumer says that if there