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On his team for him to go out and read that statement. p and we heard that was coming from everyone from the vice president, from the second of state, from chief of staff john kelly, who, and i should say the white house has denied this but a number of people have told us john kelly was incredibly frustrated calling lawmakers on capitol hill and urging them to speak their minds to the president, the idea being that if he heard from trusted people like, say, newt gingrich who tweeted about this -- >> very negatively, by the way. and we heard that was one of the things that really got the presid...

House agrees it's a changed approach, one that started over the weekend when the president began calling lawmakers. >> is this a charm offensive? >> the president is engaging with lawmakers of both parties and will continue to do so. >> reporter: a far cry from last week when on the same day that the automatic cuts went into effect. >> julie, give me an example of what i might do? >> reporter: the white house argues that the president has tried a grand bargain before obama to be rebuffed by house gop leaders. both sides remain dug in with some republican leaders noting that they have skewered ...

europeans and the americans might have to have more central bank intervention into the markets and also said that there have been policy decisions in europe and the united states that have been poor, and then on top of that, that was enough. that was already bad, brooke. then we got some economic reports right here in the united states. slowdown in housing, slowdown in manufacturing, and, you know, not a great report about new jobless claims. basically it all piled on. people ran out of stocks and back into -- into, you know, safer investments, but, really, it all started in europe. ...

Employees. the drug costs 780,000 a year, money some say could be better spent on something else. >> well, i think there's better things you can do with the money than using all the money for some stuff like that. >> i still think we shouldn't have to foot the bill for it. >> the judge's decision is expected sometime in the near future. >> bottom of the hour and time for the top of the news. nancy mosey calling lawmakers back to capitol hill to vote on a new 26 billion dollars jobs bill and the senate passed the bill last week, which includes billions to prevent states from laying off workers....