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Leave it to the house right up until the deadline, and you figure enough democrats and republicans come together to send it across to the white house. Stephen dennis, thank you so much for your time. Absolutely. Here are president obamas remarks from the white house earlier today. Afterwards, we will hear from senators reid and mcconnell from the senate floor. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] good afternoon, everybody. For the past couple of months, i have been working with leaders of both parties to try to forge a...

Any time i had a conversation i wrote down what i said and what is being said to me. I had someone in there who would write down every time i made a decision and he would log it into a private journal that we kept of every decision that was happening during the war. If it had not been through that the book would not be written. Where are those 3,000 pages . They are mine. They are my private property. What are you going to do with them . Im probably going to donate them to Army War College archives, or Something Like that, asked that they be placed there and at the end of 10 years someone is g...

This is a few miles. That would be a cool ride. And your short excursion would take you around the moon and back. Ok, im going to talk about Lessons Learned in my career. Informal chats are more effective than formal meetings. I have always found that it be of a meeting with a lot people and youre sitting down, the meeting is not worthwhile. This is a chat at oshkosh. People want to understand about airplanes. They want to share stories about the airplane they are flying. I said, lets just have a chat. This happens every year for many years. Everybody meets at that time every day, and we talk....

Ago, whatever plan he had then is over with. This is a new election. The deal that he had a year ago, that does not count. For republicans and people to say they dont understand whats going on, i have a problem with that. The republicans deny anything he puts forward. The president left his vacation and came here. Theyre not being fair. Republicans say they are christians. Theyre not. They did this during his last term and now are causing and all of us to suffer because they dont like the president. This is personal. This has nothing to do with raising taxes. This is a personal attack and i th...

I wanted to follow on the question, just to clarify, is the president negotiating on whether or not to reopen the government and raise the debt limit . Our position has been no ransom for reopening the government or congress responsibility. Is he not negotiating . The president has had it depends on what you mean by negotiate. He has been having conversations with lawmakers. What he has firmly made clear again and again is give the tea party its ideological agenda wish list in exchange for Congress Opening the government or congress raising the debt ceiling so the United States doesnt default....