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About libya. people thought it wasn't just about libya but the president's doctrine for overseas involvement. here's a portion of what he said. there will be times, the president said, when our safety is not directly threatened but our interest and values are. in such cases we should not be afraid to act, but the burden of action should not be america's alone. , because contrary to the claims of some, american leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone or bearing all of the burden ourselves. real leadership creates the conditions and coalitions for others to step up as well to work wi...

Delicate line here. he doesn't want to go too far in pushing his idea, but he wants to be there to encourage congress to come to the right conclusion. president obama is doing that. i can tell you this. he has been working behind the scenes with both political parties for a long, long time. yesterday he spoke to speaker boehner and leader reid encouraging them don't let the government shutdown. so, yes, the president's playing a role. it may not be as visible and public as some like, but i think he's doing the right thing. >> you mentioned the jobless number. we'll put the graph on the screen ...

I think that until we can find a way to target and bring those numbers down, the jobless recovery is going to continue. we really, really have a continue oing crisis. >> but, mike, on the politics of this, is the president beginning to see light? is he beginning to make the argument that it's morning again in america? >> well, i mean we have to get more data points. the more economic and unemployment pain a country is in, the worst the president does. that's why you see guys mike mitt romney talking 100% about the economy. we don't know yet. the trend is good for democrats. republicans in cong...

Be the only ones involved, but we still are the leader in starting the process, and that could be a way of looking at the world at large. and i think that's a good way of thinking about it. you need both leadership to prevent humanitarian crisis, but you need other countries to get muscles going to be part of it. we can't do it alone. >> marc morial, we can't expect the government is going to apply this to other areas. >> we are concerned but the coat divore. i think the president played this brilliantly. in one sense he made a comment about iraq and in another sense he worked in unison with t...

Lot of pain on important constituents of the president. i think the key is that the president has to work to change the discussion so that the discussion is not just about cutting domestic discretionary spending but putting everything on the table as senator durbin says. whether it's entitlements, tax loopholes. serious spending, but put it all on the table. it's got to be across the board or there won't be a serious plan. >> this is how it's different this time. nothing clarifies the mind like hanging in the morning and the crisis we face behind closed doors is a serious matter. you see the b...