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this in an interview, cbs's ""60 minutes"," the president challenges the political partisanship. he says republican strategy cuts him off at the knees. >> i think the republicans made a different calculation, which was, you know what, we really screwed up the economy. obama seems popular. our best bet is to stand on the sidelines because we think the economy will get worse and at some point just blame him. so we haven't gotten the kind of engagement from them that i would have liked. all right. a lot of political buzz this morning that's centering on the weekend's gop debate. it wa...

Peninsula. arthel: ambassador, before i let you go, what exactly do you think the president should do, then, considering this is very important to america? >> well, i think working with the gcc countries, i think we ought to continue to be looking for a deal. i don't think that there is any point in the president making statements that he can't follow through on, because i think it leaves the gcc uncertain whether the president will support a deal, but he -- that he may not like. our interests here are i think finding ways to keep the terrorists from taking control, and certainly, this develop...

Boehner is bad at his job hypothesis for a few reasons. first, what he said today is not true. while everybody should avoid making statements that aren't true whenever possible, if your job title is speaker of the house, you should really avoid making statements that aren't true. >> since president obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. >> not true. total, utter, 100% bull pucky. according to bureau of labor statistics which keeps track of these things, darn bureau, when he came into office there were 2.9 million federal employees. there are now 2.85...

Organized sort of non-threatening, non-militaristic agreed upon coup by president mubarak. the army has tremendous respect in egypt and around the world. and seen about it people in tahrir square as a friend. they haven't come in to crush the demonstrators. they stood by and helped protect the demonstrators. the military has a huge amount of trust and respect by the people. even though the military has stepped in over the last 20 hours in terms of making statements, they said they are stepping in for the safety of the country it's coming in from the supreme council. they also made other statem...

Didn't take sides. they want to see what if any change of conflict occurs after the meeting today. >> this morning, they said on fox news sunday that she is interested in a smooth transition, so something untoward to the void now. how careful does the u.s. have to be about making statements, seeming to pull support from him? >> one thing we note, character is the transition will not be smooth. in the ideal world it would be. but transition from a military state to self-government. they are a lot of rough spots in the road ahead.