something they consider a serious area of budget cutting. there would have to cut $170 billion. i think these sound bites are part of the deal. certainly when it comes to the presidential space, it helps them make up their minds, but there s still a lot of gridlock on capitol hill. that is just as much of their problem. have been focusing on the results in south carolina. the president has been marking on his state of the union address. what can we expect it? the need to bring back jobs, manufacturing jobs, and staying on the same course. the jobless rate is decreasing, which it has been. its working in his favor. he will be talking about the need for congress to work with him. the president wants to move the country forward. this sets things up for the coming year which will be nothing but gridlock in congress. it would give both things that they need passed otherwise nothing will happen. it works in obama s best interest to say, i have a vision, i have a plan. republi
equal pay for an equal day s work because we want our daughters treated the same as our sons. [applause] change is a decision that we made to rescue the auto industry from collapse, even though there were folks saying no and wanting to let destroyed go bankrupt. and now, 1 million jobs were saved and local businesses were picked up again, and gm is once again the largest auto company in the world. [cheers and applause] and we are seeing cars rolling off of the assembly line and they were probably made in america. [applause] change is stopping waiting for congress to do something about our oil addiction and finally doing something about the energy efficiency standards on our cars. in the next decade, every car will get 55 miles per gallon. that will save you money. it will save our environment. it is good for our national security. that is what change is. change is the fight that we had to stop sending $60 billion in unnecessary subsidies to the banks in the student loan progr
open them to build on larger trust and confidence in asia in general. i m going to move to taiwan which just had an election. president moss surprise people that carry the election fairly handily. what is your read on him locations that have been realized to and the defeat his opponent who was perhaps the most much less amenable to cooperative cross straits relations and possibly pushing for independence? .. we would like to see taiwan take some of the necessary steps and other issues that the election is over that will allow us to have the kind of flourishing economic relationship the we have with many other countries in the asian-pacific region. and so you know, i think there are some unofficial base that we can do and in the current environment we look forward to a dialogue and hearing more about what their goals and ambitions are for the second term. what is the administration s thinking on current and future measures to satisfy taiwan s self-defense requirements unde
to the first public event here in 2012. we had about 70 last year, so i expect to invite any feedback in your future. a lot of longtime colleagues, also terrific to see any faces. it s a real understatement to say that bipartisanship is going to be a challenging state of the next several months. so we are happy to have many friends as we can get. today s discussion is about leadership and i m really thrilled to have tom daschle and trent lott with it he adapted a vital role in creating and shaping or cure the bipartisan policy satchel over the last five years. they also know about the leading a divided government and i think we will hear terrific stories about that very shortly. i want to situate the series on leadership belittled the broader context of what we do here at the bpc. there are really three dimensions to the challenge that we face. the first is policy were. too often we find when you have polarized issues with long-standing kind of challenge, people get stuck in
weekend, very pretty, enjoyable. tell you about that later on. first let s talk about what s going on now. it is a cool start to the day. you ll need a jacket this morning. check this out. 47degrees is the current temperature here in washington. it is also 47 in baltimore. dulles airport, 42. winds have diminished from yesterday. sustained winds now blowing at 8 miles per hour. that s a big improvement. indeed, that s the way it will be today. may be a couple of occasion light gusts, but things are going to be good. the forecast for today, good amount of sunshine. there are some clouds out there. there will be clouds during the day. a good amount of sunshine. 62degrees for your high in town. 61 in baltimore. 63 in fredericksburg. that s a look at the weather. now let s find out what s happening with traffic with julie wright. again, good morning to the crew in skyfox above what i believe the accident is along northbound gal owes road. traveling west of the beltway, activity