you hold the ball. in football. in other sports, controlling the ball. is that what he s going to do? no attempts to score? doing it as long as he can. rick perry gets in, the calculation changes. he ll have to fight for t. yeah. and called 9 front-runner by his own team acting the front-runner, he won t talk? because she the front-runner and probably, you know almost the only electable candidate. don t lead verse to lead? yes, eventually they do, if not being challenged directly. irregardless, respond to this, mitt romney asked how he d solve the country s deficit problems. here he was, and his answer. let s listen. the answer for the country is for the president to cut federal spending, cap federal spending and put in place a balanced budget amendment. it s with my view the president s power to say, to his
the president will lay out his case within a minute or so. two minutes after the president finishes what is expected to be about a 15-minute speech to the nation, two minutes after that, we will hear a separate speech from the house speaker, john boehner. he is up on capitol hill. he will make his case, why the president right now is wrong. why the republicans are right. both of them presumably will say the stakes for the united states are enormous right now and the country must do everything possible. everything possible to avoid default. they ve been negotiating publicly and privately now for weeks and weeks and weeks. and unfortunately for the country, indeed, for much of the world, unfortunately the negotiations collapsed order the next few days. still possible they might be able to work out a deal. the strikes enormous. you see the president walking up to the microphone. let s listen. good evening. tonight i want to talk about the debate we ve been having in washington o
the country will not have enough money to pay all of its bills. tough decision also have to be made. the stakes right now are enormous. the president will lay out his case within a minute or so. two minutes after the president features finishes what s expected to be about a 15-minute speech to the nation, two minutes after that, we ll hear a separate speech from the house speakeren. boehner. he s up on capitol hill. he ll make his case why the president right now is wrong. why the republicans are right. both of them presumably will say the stakes for the united states are enormous right now and the country must do everything possible. everything possible to avoid default. they ve been negotiating publicly and privately now for weeks and weeks and weeks. and unfortunately, for the country and indeed, for much of the world, unfortunately, the negotiations collapsed over the past few days. still possible, they might be able to work out a deal. the stakes are enormous and you
two minutes after the president features finishes what s expected to be about a 15-minute speech to the nation, two minutes after that, we ll hear a separate speech from the house speaker boehner. he s up on capitol hill. he ll make his case why the president right now is wrong. why the republicans are right. both of them presumably will say the stakes for the united states are enormous right now and the country must do everything possible. everything possible to avoid default. they ve been negotiating publicly and privately now for weeks and weeks and weeks. and unfortunately, for the country and indeed, for much of the world, unfortunately, the negotiations collapsed over the past few days. still possible, they might be able to work out a deal. the stakes are enormous and you see the president walking up to the microphone. let s listen. good evening. the debate that directly affects the lives of all americans. for the last decade, we spent more money than we take in. an
i think that s the direction we really need to move. shannon: what for is you a deal breaker or deal maker? what couldn t you vote for. i can t support something that balances our budgetary problems on the backs of our most vulnerable, our seniors, that does nothing to raise revenue, that allows, you know, these special interest tax cuts that go on at the expense of people on social security or medicare. medicare and social security haven t resulted in the current deficit. they do need work in terms of their long-term solvency. we shouldn t mix the two and, you know, balance our current deficit problems on their back. i don t think that s right. i don t think it s fair. i am willing, and i think most people are outside the beltway to have a shared sacrifice where things that are sacred to me have to sacrifice, some people that are sacred to the other side have to sacrifice, and, you know, we have seen it in the past with reagan and tipp o neal. if ronald reagan and tipp o neal coul