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i want you to listen in here. i think we got michele bachmann, ron paul, rick santorum, all of them looking for the last-minute vote. let s listen in to do business if you re a job creator because of our tax code. i m a tax lawyer. i want to abolish the tax code and do away with it and put it in its place a pro-growth code so that you can wildly succeed with your future and with your plan. i want a future for you. i want a hope for you. and we can do that if we open up the opportunities in the tax code. change our climate for doing business. and grow the economy. that s my goal for you. and what i want to do, too, is bring down the price of a gallon of gas. gasoline was $1.79 a gallon the day that barack obama became president. we can get it back to that again because the united states is the number one energy resource-rich nation in the world. and i want to open that up for you. i m so grateful you are here. this is your chance to succeed now for your state. go o ....
investigated for hooking him up with young women. wolf blitzer is off today. i m jessica yellin. you re in the situation room. president obama faced reporters today after enduring 24 hours of mostly bad reviews about his new budget blueprint. he used a hastily called news conference to defend his spending plan as well as his response to the revolution in egypt, and he laid down some new markers for his next two years in office. our senior white house correspondent ed henry was there. ed, the president seemed pretty defensive today. reporter: he was a little defensive in dealing with the situation certainly in the middle east, but he was trying to push back by saying that iran needs to stop beating up and murdering protesters, and he also had some tough talk for republicans while saying that he wants to work out a deal on the budget. he said he s not going to give in to dramatic budget cuts. it was a tale of two news conferences, a president struggling to deal with ....