care and support they need after doing so much in service of the country. kelly, a lot of moving parts. we appreciate it. good to see you. thank you. also, we re watching what s taking place at the white house today as we do understand the president is supposed to be leaving later today after this 4:15 p.m. press conference that we do expect to happen. mike viqueira is at the white house to brief us on what we can expect from the president. this morning we saw him early signing the repeal of don t ask, don t tell into law. it s been a rock and roll day ever since. it s been a rock and roll week, to tell you the truth. it started out last week i m out of breath. i just ran out here to talk to you. it started last week when he had that tax compromise with republicans. then the senate was in session all weekend long. they passed the don t ask, don t tell bill. that was not foreseen. that bill had been left for dead about two weeks before that. today he signed that bill and in the
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divided. i think at the end of the day it s the way to go, and they need to be united on this. but if barack obama walks away from this, he got the tax cut compromise, he got don t ask, don t tell. looks like he might get the 9/11. surprise, got the food safety bill. does he hold a news conference before he goes and joins his family in hawaii and says, look, my approach, which was to reach out, compromise with the republican works, let s hope that when the new folks come in, in january, we can continue this spirit. was there a true spirit of compromise here and does barack obama have something to crow about? the white house is telling everybody, we are getting things done, we re going to tell the base, yes, you re upset, you think we gave away too much, but we got something passed and taxes didn t go up. whether he does that in a press conference or saves his fire for a big state of the union, i don t think matters that much. we in the media worry about that. but the white house is