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Tea party . Guest we reformed welfare and reduced capital gains. John boehner and i were the ones who were the contract even thou gh Newt Gingrich and the army even though Newt Gingrich gets all the credit. We were part of that reform. The difference is the difference between understanding the government has a role, lets make it work as best it can. As opposed to there is no role for government, tear it down. That is the difference i see that i find frustrating between the two sides. There is not much of a difference, neither side is communicating very well with each other. That is an intrapar...

And shares my values, and believes the thing i think i have repeated four or five times in this press conference, which is, we get this incredible privilege for a short time, to do as much as we can for as many people as we can, to help them live better lives. And that is what drives them. That is the sacrifice they make, being away from families, soccer games, and birthdays. Some of them will end up working over christmas on issues like iran. The fact that they make those kinds of sacrifices i am always grateful for them. If they say to me after making those sacrifices for 3, 4, ive years, i ...

Now a pentagon briefing on air force operation. Air force secretary Deborah Lee James and chief of staff general mark welsh spoke with reporters for more than an hour. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the state of the air force press briefing. And Brigadier General mobilization assistant to the director of Public Affairs and im very privileged to introduce the honorable Deborah Lee James secretary of the air force and general mark welsh is chief of staff of the air force. Let me give you the groundrules wrote that. What we are going to do today is secretary james and general welsh will hav...

Obviously its congresss constitutional prior if to rearrange priorities but in so doing please to not carve money out of our readiness account. Readiness is key, and ready to get those goals up. Please lift sequestration. Fees choices were troublesome, all on your hands. It will get worse and more difficult. This is a message that i wanted to repeat today. We need to get full Spectrum Readiness up. Now that i talk about todays readiness, let me shift to the future i also told, i think we will have greater reliance because obviously you know our numbers have been coming down. Right to leverage ...

I remain concerned about whether the administrations priorities are when we weaken our presence in the region of such huge strategic importance to our National Security. Let me ask you, will our removal of an Aircraft Carrier from the persian gulf affect our ability to deter iranian action in the gulf . Or elsewhere in the region . Obviously, it is more difficult for us to reassure our friends and to deter iran, but i believe that a strong statement of political will and the forces i have their right now would cause iran to take pause before they decide to try to take advantage of what is not ...