then the last i think thing, we need to acknowledge that our military after 13 years of war, that s a stress. it s been repeated deployments. we in congress shouldn t stress them further. i think we stressed them further with things like sequester and budgetary moves that deprive them of the certainty they need. let me ask you that would you vote to raise the pendi pentagon budget, then? no blank checks. we shouldn t be doing blank checks. but when we require across-the-board cuts, we have to look at the effect of cuts on mental health services or the effect of those cuts on base security. so we should be as mike said, we ve got to be having a conversation about, okay, these trends happen, what can we learn, how can we fix them. well, congressman mccall brought up the question of guns. and let s focus on that a little. one of the things that i was surprised to learn about this week is that guns are more tightly restricted and regulated on military bases than they are
health laws and gun laws. then the last i think thing, we need to acknowledge that our military after 13 years of war, that s a stress. it s been repeated deployments. we in congress shouldn t stress them further. i think we stressed them further with things like sequester and budgetary moves that deprive them of the certainty they need. let me ask you that would you vote to raise the pendi pentagon budget, then? no blank checks. we shouldn t be doing blank checks. but when we require across-the-board cuts, we have to look at the effect of cuts on mental health services or the effect of those cuts on base security. so we should be as mike said, we ve got to be having a conversation about, okay, these trends happen, what can we learn, how can we fix them. well, congressman mccall brought up the question of guns. and let s focus on that a little. one of the things that i was surprised to learn about this week is that guns are more tightly restricted and regulated on military ba
solution. he is just trying to create the best negotiating hand he can. we have to try to get the europeans to speak with one voice, to be united in presenting putin with some kind of a negotiated outcome that says the russian parts of ukraine can have some a ton my, but you cannot let stand as a principle that you know, russia get next to crimea. president obama said the referendum is unconstitutionally the government of ukraine s constitution. well, so was the coup. if you want to look at the literal what essentially happened, was a street action. so don t focus on that part. let s focus on forget the legal. let s look at the political
let s avert an economic shutdown. let s drop the gimmicks, put aside what s good for any particular party, and let s focus on what s good for the american people because they know we ve got a lot of work to do. all right? so with that, let me take a couple questions and i ll start with julie pace of ap. thank you, mr. president. obviously, if congress does pass a clean cr and a clean debt ceiling bill, those may be short-term measures. if that happens, does your offer to negotiate with them on issues like health care and spending and deficit reduction still stand in the intervening weeks? absolutely. what i ve said is that i will talk about anything. what will happen is we won t agree on everything. i mean, the truth is, the parties are pretty divided on a whole bunch of big issues right now. everybody understands that. by the way, voters are divide on a lot of those issues too.
quarter bakx backs right now. but it appears to be workplace violence related for the following reasons. this is somebody who clearly had dysfunction at work, was in and out of different positions in life. we know now for a fact that he was being treated at the va as recently as last movement the question is, was there a process from the va to connect to the navy to let them know a subcontractor was potentially under treatment? but, remember, the primary reason why it appears to be workplace violence is that it was done at a place of work, no different than captain hasan in ft. hood. it does appear to be workplace violence related but was it a specific person he was targeting, was it a policy, was it someone? that is very unclear. it may have been he just wanted to make a statement, and this is where he could commit the maximum amount of lethal impact. well, i think a lot of people would probably argue with you for your characterization of what happened at ft. hood, but let s focus o