byron york, chief political correspondent, washington examiner. byron, good morning to you. good morning, bill. the tea leaves, read them for us. the oval office meeting means what. this meeting was not on the schedule the white house sent for the president last night. it was added 6:00 this morning. this is a last minute thing. i think it reflects that the white house realization there is real sense of urgency about this. there is enormous bipartisan concern as martha said. these incidents of abuse have been spreading far beyond phoenix where it began. the president really hasn t said anything substantive about it. he said he was madder than hell about it. he dispatch ad deputy chief of staff, who basically nobody outside of washington has ever heard of, to deal with this scandal. i think the president realized, and white house realized this is no way to deal with something as serious as what we have here. to use your word, you think his handling so far has been
preview of the speech on youtube, president sounded like somewhat of a deficit hawk. we have to deal with the deficit and debt in a responsible way. we have to reform government so it s leaner and smarter for the 21st century. it includes infrastructure program and education funding. that may not go over well with democrats and republicans a alike are talking about the smaller budgets. majority leader mitch mcconnell says listen carefully to the president s language. with respect to the democratic friends if they want to spend they call it investment. i think the president will talk about investing a lot tuesday night. big change for the state of the union address getting attention, many democrats and republicans agreed to sit together in the audience, rather than on opposite sides of the aisle as we traditionally see. one of them is the democratic senator dick durbin from illinois who spoke about his decision on fox news sunday. my new senate republican colleague