quick to compromise with republicans. well, today that same president delivered this warning. i will not support i will not support any plan that puts all the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary americans. and i will veto any bill that changes benefits for those who rely on medicare, but does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. the rich, very rich politics of this debate in just a moment. first, though, let s take a closer look at what the president proposed today. the president, of course, trying to influence that super committee, as i said. here s the main proposal from the president. he wants to have a mandatory spending cuts, $580 billion over the next ten years. tax revenues, $1.5 trillion in new tax increases over the next ten years. war savings. the president says he ll be saving $1.1 trillion because the united states will be getting almost all of its troops out of iraq. many of it
since recanted or recounted their stories. they ve also pointed out that they ve had people come forward saying that someone else was responsible for this murder. all of that was before the board. everyone came back from that meeting with the board thinking that they got their point across, that the board was definitely listening, asking a lot of questions about this case. apparently, had they had done their homework and were very, very familiar with this case. so, both sides coming out thinking that they had made their case very strongly. of course, the people who had the last word before that board were the family members of the officer macphail who was murdered that night in 1989. they spoke to us after they had spoken to the board and they said that they wanted justice. they wanted to make sure that this execution went through. they have believed all along in the guilt of davis. contrary to what hundreds of thousands of other people have apparently believed. the hundreds
you will take issue with your portrayal. there is a memo written in february of 2010 by white house political adviser who talks about a year one review that looks at the economic plans and talks about a number of efforts by in his view, the economic team in the white house to kind of slow roll for the president s orders but it does say once a decision is made implementation by the department of treasury has times slow and uneven and that along with other factors adversely effect execution in the policy process. if you could respond to the book and also what pete said about your execution. i disagree with that characterization. i haven t read this book but to borrow a phrase i live the reality. the reports i ve read about this book bear no resemblance to the
president hopes now to influence that so-called congressional super committee, charged with drafting a big deficit reduction plan. fellow democrats for months on this issue and others have complained the president is too quick to compromise with republicans. well, today that same president delivered this warning. i will not support i will not support any plan that puts all the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary americans. and i will veto any bill that changes benefits for those who rely on medicare, but does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. the rich, very rich politics of this debate in just a moment. first, though, let s take a closer look at what the president proposed today. the president, of course, trying to influence that super committee, as i said. here s the main proposal from the president. he wants to have a mandatory spending cuts, $580 billion over the next ten years. tax r
you re looking at live picture from the united nations. where all eyes right now are on this year s general assembly. president obama and the first lady, michele bachmann, expected to arrive in new york only minutes from now. at issue for the united states and much of the world this week, a showdown over the middle east. the palestinian authority president vowing to submit a formal application for statehood to the united nation s security council. it could have serious implications for the u.s. relationships with iz real and the arab world. much more on this part of the story coming up. let s get to the president s plan it slash trillions of dollars through the national debt. a plan he says will do the right thing. either we ask the wealthiest americanes it pay their fair share of taxes or asking seniors to pay more thor medicare. we can t afford do both. either we gut education and medical research or we ve got to reform the tax code so that most profitable corporations