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President obama on the challenges facing the nation the first the fiscal cliff, a toxic combination of tax increases and automatic spending cuts especially in defense that could take effect january 1st. so, we pointed out in the last segment, republicans held the house with minimal losses despite a big democratic year. can boehner think, look, i've got as much mandate as the president? >> i think he should absolutely think that, paul. the president made clear, didn't really run on the second term agenda and didn't talk about it much. i'll tell you what the mandate is right now, the mandate is ...

Frustration of the u.s. investigators and members of the senate intelligence committee. >> once the president in january of 2009 signed the executive order saying we're going to shut down guantanamo, any enemy combatant as this individual is, there is no policy in place to take possession of him. interrogate him in a way we can gain valuable information. >> state department would not comment. >> the president made clear, the secretary made clear that we are intent on figuring out who did this and bringing the perpetrators to justice. >> the predator drones deployed over benghazi the night of t...

>> i never said that. i never said that. there was an issue about the definition of terrorism. this is an act of terrorism. the president made clear. >> bill: okay. i don't think the president made anything clear. when you hear stuff like that, you got to still be respectful. you can't say like, hey you pinhead, come on. we know what you did. why don't you just admit it? that's what i would say. what did you think of it? >> i stick to the facts and the bottom line is, you know, that what jay carney said to me yesterday in response there was not exactly squaring up with what he and ambassador s...

Of the huge sums currently deployed to buy candidates a allegiance should continue to hold sway. you feel they may reverse their decision? >> the first, not the second, no chance that the supreme court will overturn citizens united. whether they will hear the part that bans corporate donations. they may out right dismiss it. it's more likely in november they will hear argument on whether citizens united should be narrowed or overruled. i do not think they will, but they will hear it. and as the president made clear, he thinks he can run against the extreme court when it comes to citizens unite...

Americans. what it comes down to for the averag illinoisan is about $1000 a year. if congress fails to extend the payroll tax cut, it's a new tax, an added tax nxt year for average working people. what the president said in nsas really applies to this debate. this is a make or break moment for the middle class. and to this point, the republicans haveconsistently said they will refuse to increase the taxes on the wealthiest people in america one penny, if that's what it takes to make sure that working families get payroll tax cut. it is a clear, defining oment, a contrast between the parties, t...