One justice that was guaranteed oh, here is First Lady Michelle Obama walking in right now. Shes guaranteed to get applause from everybody. A bipartisan warm welcome for the first lady of the United States. There she is. Shes greeting dr. Jill biden, the Vice President s wife. Dana bash, our chief congressional correspondent, is there. Tell us what its like in the room right now. As you said, there is definitely a warm welcome. Im sitting right over where the republican side is. And not only are the republicans clapping for michelle obama. I can see several of the republican lawmakerses with their cell phones out taking photographs. And theyre smiling and clapping. Shes definitely somebody who has bipartisan adoration. Thats a fair thing to say. Mr. Speaker, the president s cabinet. The cabinet is coming in right now. They Just Announced them. There is the newly minted secretary of state, former democratic senator of massachusetts, john kerry, now secretary of state, followed by the se
You both raised Social Security and medicare, but jack lew told me a couple years ago that Social Security longterm is solved and from what people have paid and for some 25 years and medicare for some 10 years and, according to him, and according to federal law, i think they dont even count in the deficit because they are on separate tracks. So i think it would be helpful if you could does clear up, and this is a terrific farm to do it, and these two questions at the constitutionality of the debt ceiling legislation through the house and senate on the pay issue in payment of the public debt in Social Security, whether they have enough in their surplus from what people paid regardless of what the government is taken out, or what they have paid in counts. It is count in the deficit numbers picture trying to do something about . Who wants to go first . Congressman price. Yeah, the debt ceiling affairs. Nobody is talking about paying the data. Nobody is talking about not paying the public
This is a big moment in the president s presidency. There is no moment for president like being reelected. I think the president feels like his theory of the economy has been validated by reelection and lets not forget, economic restoration is still the major goal. He has a lot of opportunities, and a lot of emotion tonight is around new gun laws, new gun control measures. Some momentum. Well see what can happen. Immigration reform, bipartisan movement there. But ill tell you, brian, this is a very difficult atmosphere over taxes and the budget. I spent some time with Speaker Boehner today. Who said the president doesnt have the guts to take on spending. Doesnt have the courage to take on liberals in his own party. These sides are really far apart on something as fundamental as how we deal with spending and the debt in our country. And thats going to be part of the back drop tonight. The relationship right now between the two men who will be feet apart tonight, the president and the ho
My parents immigrated here to improve their life and to give their children a better one. My dad worked as a bar tenor bartender and my mother as a maid. I did not inherit any money from them but i inherited something better. An opportunity to make it to the middle class and beyond no matter where you start off in life. It comes from a free economy where people can risk their own money to open a business. When they suck they hire more people who success they hire more people. President s in both parties from john f. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan have known that our economy is the source of our middle class prosperity. But president obama, he believes it is the cause of our problems. That the economic down tun happened because the government did not tax enough, spend enough, or control enough. As you heard tonight, his solution to virtually every problem we face is for washington to tax more, borrow more, and spend more. This idea that our problems were caused by the government that was too
Represented here tonight. We will watch as the house and senate devil into session. We will watch the senators make their way to the House Chamber, where they were joined by the cabinet, the diplomatic corps, and the Supreme Court justices, all assembled to listen to the speech. As we set the stage for the tradition and politics of tonight, and preview the president s agenda for the next year, we want to talk to you as well. We will be opening our phone lines to ask you what you think the top issue is, facing the nation right now. Here are our phone lines. You can also join the conversation on our facebook page, and find us on twitter. We will be taking your calls in just a few minutes, as the program progresses. For this preview program, we are joining you from one of the Senate Office buildings, the russell building, just across the street from the capital. We are surrounded by many other television crews. We will give you some of the sense, at least from an audio perspective, of the