california nurses association one of them saying obama is spending a lot of money on war. where s the health care? why all the buddying up with the corporate sources at these big fund-raisers? there is some issue with the democratic base, but obama i think addressed it in both of his events yesterday. any of it have something in to do with the fact there seems to be a distances from the white house to nancy pelosi obviously from right here in san francisco where suddenly that relationship isn t as close as it once was? absolutely right s in in both events yesterda pelosi is still a rock star in the bay area, very popular. a tight relationship with the liberal base. i think people understand what s going on in washington, where there has to be outreach to moderate democrats, but the fact is, she s still is retaining clout here among the california base. it s an atm machine for both
this relationship isn t just as you put it an extraordinary special relationship, to me it is also an absolutely essential relationship, if we are going to deliver the security and the prosperity that our people need and i thought again today in our discussions, just how closely aligned our interests are on all of the issues that we discussed. first on afghanistan, there is no clearer, no more tangible illustration of britain and america standing shoulder to shoulder in our national interest than this issue that we are engaged in together. we have british troops working to an american command never helmand and we have american troops working to a british command never kandahar. we reaffirmed our commitment to the swroefr all strategy, a key part of that is training the afghan national army and police so they can provide security for their country and our troops can come home. and we also discussed the need
confident with my partner and friend david cameron the special relationship between our countries will only grow stronger in the years to come. mr. prime minister. i thank you for welcoming me so warmly to the white house today. thank you for the meet, thank you for the lunch and also for the tour of part of your home. i was most impressed by how tidy your children s bedrooms were. and the president of the united states can get his children to tidy their bedrooms, it s about time the british prime minister did the same thing. they should be in bed by now, but if not they have noticed. i think we did have a valuable opportunity today to discuss in real depth a shared agenda on afghanistan, global economic recovery and the middle east. this relationship isn t just as you put it an extraordinary
long-term strategy working with the g20. what we have done is initiated a freeze on our domestic discretionary budget. we are on the path to cutting our deficits in half. we have put forward a fiscal commission that is then going to examine how do we deal with broader structural deficits. this isn t just an empty promise. we have started taking steps some deal with it and we ll be aggressive in how we deal with it. now, our two countries are in slightly different situations. their financial situation is slightly different. their levels of debt relative to the gdp are somewhat higher. and as david and i discussed when we saw each other in toronto, the goal here is the same and we are all moving in the same direction. but there is going to be differentiation based on the different city, in different countries in terms how they have
concern. i think this is a very surface argument because we don t know more. i think if you i listened to my father speaking at the nobel ceremonies over the weekend and henry kissinger and my brother, ian, they all talk about the relationship with russia. they re russian experts. they re not ramarco rubio. that s condoleezza rice. top russian expert. when you look at the relationship with russia, we have to see exactly what they mean. what s the next step and the third. what s the whole policy toward russia? i don t want to say a warmth but a relationship as opposed to no relationship isn t the answered of the world. it s what s the strategic framework of that relationship? what are perimeters going to be? maybe i m not supposed to admit this on tv, if i m the chairman and ceo of exxonmobil,