week, and how the date was finally set. athena jones is covering the story for us. now, actually scheduling that speech has turned out to be the hard part. >> what the american people expect the president to do, what they expect their senators, congress men and women to do is listen to them and take action. they do not give a lick about what day next week the president speaks before congress. >> reporter: the great date debate came to the first public view through a tweet. at around noon on wednesday, the told hi twitter followers, president obama asked to address a joint session of ...