0 does he have any leverage left. how s he doing. to mark the occasion, the president plans a press conference at 10:15 a.m. the 39th press conference of his administration. the washington press corp meeting the president for the first of his weekly conferences. there are 234 of the elite journalism present. things are pretty dysfunctional on capitol hill. a rapid fire of questions and answers. do you have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through congress? the questions the president answers frankly. maybe i should pack up and go home. this is democracy in action. let s just step back for a second. the president also addressing the continued partisan stalemate. the sequester. this thing already happened. it is a ridiculous side show. damaging our economy, hurting our people. we need to lift it. us nothing new, nothing we didn t already know, while appearing open and honest in response to the questions, which is actually quite easy because pre
first 100 days. day 100 of the president s second term. does he have any leverage left. how s he doing. to mark the occasion, the president plans a press conference at 10:15 a.m. the 39th press conference of his administration. the washington press corp meeting the president for the first of his weekly conferences. there are 234 of the elite journalism present. things are pretty dysfunctional on capitol hill. a rapid fire of questions and answers. do you have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through congress? the questions the president answers frankly. maybe i should pack up and go home. this is democracy in action. let s just step back for a second. the president also addressing the continued partisan stalemate. the sequester. this thing already happened. it is a ridiculous side show. damaging our economy, hurting our people. we need to lift it. no grand bargain anywhere in sight. does he have leverage left? you could see hi
now i m going to read these out loud. if you are from this area, you ll understand how many people are affected by this. watertown, belmont, the brighton area, newton, walfan, belmont, cambridge, arlington, that s just a huge area a little bit to the west of the city right now. a massive commuting area. people who live there work and live in boston in the area, and they are asked to stay home. businesses are being asked to not open. be safe. that s interesting because right before the press conference we were talking to tom fuentes, former assistant fbi director, and he was frankly expressing skepticism that this one fugitive, suspect number two, had been contained just to watertown. he was wondering if the suspect had carjacked another car and was in an area bigger than watertown. all of a sudden there s a press conference in which the area has expanded, the area in which the suspect may be.
and not open today until we can provide further guidance and information. so again, to repeat, to the residents of watertown, newton belmont, cambridge and the us aton brighton neighborhoods of boston, we are asking you to stay home, stay indoors. we are asking businesses not to open. we are asking people not to congregate outside. we are asking people not to go to mass transit. and we are hopeful that as the day proceeds that we can provide further guidance that we ll be able to open portions of the system and be able to ease these restrictions. but we are opposed to that now. let me ask chief devoe, is there anything else we want to say?
this system has been shut down now as a safety measure. people that are at subway stations or at bus stops, we are asking them to go home. we do not want people congreg e congregating and waiting for the system to come back on. so we are asking people do not go out to bus stations, subway stations, if you re there, please go home. we also want to speak to the residents and the public within the town of watertown and the cities and towns that are near watertown. and to be specific, we are speaking to the residents of watertown, newton, belmont, cambridge and the austin brighton neighborhoods of boston. to those people, we are asking you to stay indoors, to stay in your homes for the time being. we are asking businesses in those areas to please cooperate