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Highlight ways where the president essentially had to give some ground on that. and that's kind of laying the battlefield yet again before a new debate starts. >> all right. kelly o'donnell on capitol hill for us this morning. thank you, kelly. well, the president does not have to start from scratch with this deficit speech. he appointed a commission to study the deficit problems but so far has not enthusiastically embraced that commission's recommendations. this is a point chuck raised with him at a news conference back in february. >> you had a majority consensus to do all this. it's now b...

Specific the president will be about where to cut, how to cut, what goes and what stays. >> savannah, there is any concern in the white house that they have made expectations so high for this speech and it's coming after the president's already had a couple of shots at this and he stiff armed his own commission, he didn't put out any of these serious choices in his own budget earlier this year, there is any fearç in th white house that this could land like a thud and disappoint folks? >> reporter: it's interesting because they announced it, david plouffe announced this deficit speech on wedn...

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