he was speaking to a people who are fighting in a village called zawia and he was calling on the people of zawia to stop fighting. to wake up, to realize that they were being misled by these hallucinogenic drugs. by al qaeda and a host of other conspiracies. it s unclear if he really believes this. listening to the speech you could hear him just speaking extemporaneously. turning pages. he didn t appear to be reading from note bus he kept bumping into the microphone and after about 30 minutes he hung up the phone and there was a long dial tone pause as the radio presenter didn t seem to know what to do and then they just pushed a button and we started hearing cheers and nationalistic songs. so i think even people in the state apparatus don t know exactly how what to make of him right now. does this match up with the president, our president s hesitancy to be too condemnatory. is president obama concerned
they wouldn t say but timely they said he was speaking extemporaneously. it is also the white house was working very hard to explain that, look, no one inside his inner circle, his new chief of staff, john kelly was surprised by this, they say his political advisors wasn t surprised by this because he has used similar language in prooiflt. of course saying its in public is so much different. it s hard to know if the white house is coming up with a strategy to fall in line after the president says something, for them to say he s simply improvising. he is surrounded by national security officials and the vice president is traveling there tomorrow. at least he s scheduled. but no question. this is the biggest foreign policy challenge sitting on the president s desk. we ll see what he does with it.
a lot of people can never say yes. this house has acted. and it is time for the administration and time to our colleagues across the aisle, put something on the table. tell us where you are. the house speaker seemed to be speaking extemporaneously. do you think this was by surprise. it s hard to know when the post-mortems are written, if his is in there. the white house is thinking about post-mortems when this whole thing is said and done. but what i found interesting about the speaker s comments, it s how he worded things. he didn t necessarily say the bill that they passed here was the bill, the good compromise, this or that. he was very careful to draw lines, but to come out and talk about revenues i think he wants to remind folks of both in his own party how hard this was.