reporter: thank you, mr. president. president obama, are your respect and permission, because of the translation questions, could i direct one first to president hu? of couse. thank you. president hu, first off, my colleague asked you a question about human rights which you did not answer. i was wondering if we could get an answer to that question. and then also on capitol hill, senate majority leader harry reid, house speaker john bane remember not attending tonight s state dinner. many on capitol hill see china as an economic threat. what can you do to allay their fears?
protected. they want to use the money to give tax cuts to billionaires so costs for health care guess up across the country i m going to be a no. sean: think we are putting the u.s. government at risk if we don t raise the debt ceiling? that s what i m told. sean: you peeve that. let s go back to 2006, i ll put up it up on the soon, the words of then senator barack obama when he said the fact that we are here today to debate raising america s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. a sign that the u.s. government can t pay its own bills. america has a debt problem and failure of leadership. americans deserve better. he voted not to raise the debt ceiling. did he back in 2006 not support the full faith and credit of the u.s. government? this is a question you should ask john bane john boehner, you got anthony weiner in 2010.
they want to use the money to give tax cuts to billionaires so costs for health care guess up across the country i m going to be a no. sean: think we are putting the u.s. government at risk if we don t raise the debt ceiling? that s what i m told. sean: you peeve that. let s go back to 2006, i ll put up it up on the soon, the words of then senator barack obama when he said the fact that we are here today to debate raising america s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. a sign that the u.s. government can t pay its own bills. america has a debt problem and failure of leadership. americans deserve better. he voted not to raise the debt ceiling. did he back in 2006 not support the full faith and credit of the u.s. government? this is a question you should ask john bane john boehner, you got anthony weiner in 2010.
years. what is interesting when the president will be paying his remarks and signing the legislation, who will not be in the audience: nancy pelosi will not be there; hoyer will not be there; john bane, the incoming speaker will not be there. this has been a contentious issue on both sides. and the base on both sides not very pleased. and of course it has been a very big bone of contention with liberal congressman and women who have felt this was a giveaway to the rich. the president has said as much, this is not the deal he wanted. but, in fact, he will sign on to it because it is the best deal that could be ahead had ahead of the republicans taking over the house of representatives and the problem on right was the opposite. the tax cut wasn t general rouse enough or made permanent. and in order to get it this was a lot of spending. something like $57 billion in
party that was responsible for a large tax increase and they do not want to be the party responsible for shut down of government. so common sense will drive them to do the most realistic thing and the most principled thing they can do at this point. neil: this sets the stage, when you come to power, for much more compromise and discussion moving the ball forward than we think in the next session. do you buy that? guest: well, i think when you look at where we have to go now, we have just signed this to have a tax cut package or maintain the tax rates and now we have to look at you always talk about the spending and the growth of government and that is a critical thing to get to immediately when we are sworn in january 5th. neil: i know he will be the speaker but he wasn t there for this signing, john boehner, do you read anything into that?