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In the meantime, a look at the markets. Its been a zigzag day. Complicating this is its expiration day. Futures and options are going off the board. That always causes some volatility. That rise midday was after the congressional leaders came out of the white house and used the word constructive to describe the meeting. Right now the dow is off the highs, up just nine points now at 12,552. We do expect more volatility and more volume in this last hour. The nasdaq is up about eight points now at 2844. The s p 500 index with a gain of just two points at 1355. Equities have been set to end the we...

The same support. The president now has the upper hand and when he talks to Speaker Boehner he will have to take that message back and he gets a little bit more behind him. Week and a shop with a meeting between the leaders and the white house. What is the dynamic . It will be very interesting to see. Hopefully we will hear from them exactly what their conversation was with the president. It is unlikely that were going to see a detailed agreement on specific issues. Are we going to hear about tax breaks or how entitlement reform is going to happen in the deal . On not sure. These figures are g...

They were not changed. [indiscernible] he read them, i did not see them. There were three basic points. There was a demonstration that grew into a larger violent attack. Very early, we are still trying to figure out what is going on. I forget what 0. 3 was. We did not know who did it. To. Point today we still do not know exactly who did it. It is not a peer it was preplanned. Truck bomb and fall that was clearly an al qaeda planned attack. This was a group of armed terrorists and libya who in a matter of hours there together and armed assault. But we are trying to figure out is what kind of te...

Congressional leadership. I want to thank them for their time. We are well aware that we have important business to do. We have to make sure that taxes do not go up on middle class families. We need to make sure our economy remained strong and we create jobs. That is an addendum that both parties and independents and people throughout the country share. Our challenge is to make sure that we are able to cooperate together, work together, and find Common Ground. Make the compromises and find some consensus. I think all of us agree. We need to be focus on them and not on politics in washington. M...

Air. Please ask mr. Reid to not to be such an obstructionist and sit down and listen. Have a great day. Guest imitate a few days for that message out to get through from me. Theres a lot of concern about budget deficits. In the period after the downturn, budget deficits for in a range of 10 of the entire gdp, the entire economic output of the u. S. They have come down a little bit. Economists think to be sustainable, budget deficits have to be in the range of 3 of economic output or a lower. The focus of this effort to reduce deficits now is on getting them, in the federal budget deficit to th...