They got a very you know tough, but fair view of the president. And they had a contented rid owe that their audience would enjoy mplt and, so its worked for them. And other people have, you know, other out lets on different sorts of proposalings. But these are Media Companies. And they have different theyre going to engauge their audience. Were those really Vice President s bidens chains . I dont think they were actually the Vice President. But if it turns out they were the Vice President , i will stweet off the answer when i get to the white house. Any regrets . No, it was fun. People see the president. If youre watching the news,hes standing biepd the president taurking about ebola or in some big fight about funding security. And its like, you know during the Campaign People got to see the other side of him. I think its important that people have some fun with it. We dont have to take ourselves so seriously all of the time. And so i thought it was great. And the president also recent
One thing were going to have to figure out is how to handle president clinton. Here you have a man who was president. And when he goes to the white house, hey, he might be the next ambassador, something. He is capable. So, you ne, what do you do with a former president and a man whos still globally known. Well you have another interview and so youll kind of squeeze us in. We promised to get you out of here on time. Before we let you go youre an officer in the White House Correspondence Association. If you could have anybody as an entertainer for the White House Correspondence Association dinner, who would it be . There are two people. One person was chris rock. I asked his wife. I thought he would be hot. Im putting it out there, chris rock, i think you should. I think he would be great. And another person who came back into the lime light recently with the snl is eddie murphy. I think he would be great. Those are two of my dream comedians. I think he would rock it. Good look at your n
We will be forced to austerity. It will be pledged upon us. We ought to be doing that now before that happens rather than when somebody else is telling us what we are going to do. Thank you. Coming up next, attorney general holder releases the details of the 4. 5 billion in the bp oil sediment. Ed markey reacted to the settlement with bp. That is followed up by president obama touring a Hurricane Sandy damage in new york. In 2010, the deep water rights and rid explosion was the worst oil spill. Rig explosion was the worst oil spill. There was a 4. 5 billion settlement case. This briefing is half an hour. Good afternoon. Im here with the assistant attorney general from the Justice Department and the security and Exchange Commission of enforce. And head of deep water verizon task force and announcing the latest step forward in our ongoing efforts to achieve justice for those whose lives and livelihoods were impacted by the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United State
The same support. The president now has the upper hand and when he talks to Speaker Boehner he will have to take that message back and he gets a little bit more behind him. Week and a shop with a meeting between the leaders and the white house. What is the dynamic . It will be very interesting to see. Hopefully we will hear from them exactly what their conversation was with the president. It is unlikely that were going to see a detailed agreement on specific issues. Are we going to hear about tax breaks or how entitlement reform is going to happen in the deal . On not sure. These figures are going to be out there. Theyre all going to be scrambling to set the tone in the way that they want to set it. Of they will have discussions like the Democratic Leaders also say let these are the areas where we made clear to Republican Leaders where we are not going to budge. Thank you for your time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite
By the Justice Department. We have not yet recovered from this disaster. The families of those who lost their loved ones will never recover. But this is an important step in making sure that bp is held the responsible held responsible for its action. I want to commend the work of the chairman. He aggressively pursued the statements that were made. When he heard that the amount that they were talking about discharging into the gulf was as slow as it was being presented, he knew right away that it was not accurate. He was able to give the Justice Department documents that led them to the same conclusion. We need to hold wrongdoers accountable. I am pleased that the Justice Department and i commend the attorney general are taking the action to hold dp criminally accountable. They are yet to be held hold bp criminally accountable. They are yet to be held civilly accountable. And the individuals who gave ms. Information to congress or were on board the ship on the night gave mis information