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It's sort of a reset for him on national security with people who might question him, let's say, independent voters and people who didn't see him as a strong commander in chief. >> let's take a quick look at the economy because no matter how people feel about the taking down of osama bin laden, look at that. more than half of the people in the country disapprove of the way the president's handling the economy. what if anything can he do to change that in the short term? >> as you know, there's very little that the president or the republicans that control the house in the congress can do to cr...

Lawrence. >> alex, i'm not sure the president is going to convince republicans to preserve pell grants by telling them that that's the kind of thing that got him through college and without that sort of support he would not be president today. >> right. yeah. pell grants breed obamas. it's not exactly a convincing argument for those on the other side of the coin, but i don't think that president obama is necessarily speaking to republicans. i think, you know, this is part of his whole new campaign about shared responsibility in terms of fiscal -- the fiscal package he's presented to the americ...

He's presented to the american public. today we saw him in northern virginia talking about education at a community college. we're going to see him at facebook hq later in the week where he's going to presumably talk about innovation. then he's going to nevada, also a battleground state in 2012, to again talk about clean energy. this is the second half. he understands there's a deficit question in the air that

Interview and it wasn't full of gotchas, there were some spots i would have liked to have heard more from him about why he didn't endorse his own deficit commission's report. >> bill: you wanted me to talk about the deficit commission at 4:45 on super bowl sunday? >> yes, i do. i would like to know why he hasn't come forward and sort of made some of the tough choices, but i concede your point on that. maybe super bowl audience isn't the same as me on the deficit question. >> bill: maybe if we go on to c-span and get into the deficit commission. >> fair enough, but i do think it's strange that ...

Interview and it wasn't full of gotchas, there were some spots i would have liked to have heard more from him about why he didn't endorse his own deficit commission's report. >> bill: you wanted me to talk about the deficit commission at 4:45 on super bowl sunday? >> yes, i do. i would like to know why he hasn't come forward and sort of made some of the tough choices, but i concede your point on that. maybe super bowl audience isn't the same as me on the deficit question. >> bill: maybe if we go on to c-span and get into the deficit commission. >> fair enough, but i do think it's strange that ...