time for re-assessment. does a re-assessment need to be done based on everything that we ve heard over the last 48 hours or so? oh, no. i think this policy is well considered the way it s being implemented now. it s reasonable. churches are exempted from this requirement. but let s remember that universities and hospitals employ people of many faiths and of no faith at all, so they don t have the right to impose their conscience on their employees. women use contraception, and catholic women use contraception, 98% of catholic women use contraception. it s not right for them to have to go to their bosses to ask permission to use this very basic form of health care. it s also an issue at that has been made, eric, of frankly if you go 0 to a hospital, doctors don t make hospitals run. they d be the first to tell you that. there are a lot of folks who work in hospitals who are on the lower end, the middle class end of the income scale for whom,
daley s exit. john king is here. i knew there were issues because a few weeks ago because the chief of staff was taking on the day-to-day responsibilities but this did come as a surprise. a bit. bill daley said sometime around the end of the year he s going to make another re-assessment and he s decided to go home. his brother just lost his wife. it reminds him to be with his family. he s not a young man. he came here expecting remember history. kmer secretary and the clinton administration. he thought he would be that liaison, the bridge-builder with republicans on issues like the debt ceiling and deficit reduction and some grand compromise to bring it down or reformed entitlements but we know none of that is happening. jack lew coming in, the budget guy, now the chief of staff, it will be about temporary spending measures. bill daley said, i ve done this before. i don t want to be in a campaign
assessing it moving forward? i think what happened in egypt, what happened in tunisia surprised everyone, including our intelligence officials. so i think there s going to have to be a re-assessment of why why didn t we have a better feel for this? are you contemplating running for any leadership position? my role right now is to make sure that egypt will become a democratic state. that s really what i m after. and then i think after that it s up to the egyptian people to decide on their leader. you have said in an editorial you wrote the budget is an expression of our values and aspirations. what does that say about our values and aspirations? well, what it says, candy, is that we really do have to do whatever the american family does. we have to start living with our means. our budget will get us over the next several years to the point we can look the american people in the eye and say we re not
will serve on a commercial side of the recovery effort. our aim is to be in surplus in 2012. the floods and the damage this has caused will require some re-assessment of where we put our resources but it is too early to start saying what s in, what s out. i think that what we ll see is a commitment to support our communities who have been distressed. we re going to work with the private sector, the prime minister announced yesterday that our treasure will be chairing a committee, including myself, with ten of australia s leaders from industry, farming sector, from the large companies. from private industries. from private industry. we will work with the private sector because they are the engine room of the australian economy to ensure that the recovery steps put in place are as efficient and effective. i m not convinced they re trying to pluck numbers out of the air is going to assist the debate. what australians want to know is
memo the united states does not have an effective strategy to deal with iran s nuclear ambitions. and according to the times that set off a round of re-assessment here at the white house and at the national security council this morning. a national security official, ben rhodes, deputy adviser, put out the following comment. it is absolutely false that any memo touched off a re-assessment of our options. the administration has been planning for all contingencies regarding iran for many months. of course iran s nuclear ambitions are causing the united states fits. ever since last year that nuclear facility under the mountain top in northwestern iran was revealed to the world by satellite imagery. the united states has been trying to get the permanent five members of the security council plus germany to agree on a regime sanction against iran. so far they have been unable to do so. there are plenty of critics in congress and elsewhere who say it s time to act unilaterally. meantime, se