sake of all those families that are struggling now. i don t have time to feel sorry for myself. i don t have time to complain. i m going to press on. i expect all of you to march with me and press on. take off your bedroom slippers. put on your marching shoes. shake it off. stop complaining. stop grumbling and stop crying. we are going to press on. we have work to do. cbc. so, john, i wanted to show you one of our producers, todd, highlighted had last night. i wanted to show this to you. i thought it was great catch. this is the verbiage, text of that address, as reported by politico. do we have the politico one first? this is him. there it is. you see it. you have to stop complaining, grumbling, crying, we are going to proceeds. this is work we have to do. this is how the ap transcribed
and this is state of the union. four months ago one prominent beltway blog said of newt gingrich s troubled presidential run he looks a lot like the bruce willis character in the sixth sense, everyone but him thinks he s dead. but at last week s washington post/bloomberg debate gingrich remained very much alive and kicking. all of the spending cuts that are built in the debt ceiling bill, all of them are acts of congress. they can all be repealed at any moment. it is nonsense to say we re going to disarm the united states unilaterally because we re too stupid to balance the budget any other way. former house speaker and republican presidential candidate newt gingrich joins me now. very much alive and kirking. good to be with you. let me talk to you first about some things that are in the news. let s pretend that president gingrich is in the white house. you received word and uncover a plot to kill the saudi arabian ambassador to the u.s. in the u.s. there is a
more funerals in syria today. opposition activists say that 31 people died when syrian troops opened fire on sunday. the attacks on anti-american rather anti-government protesters took place in several cities. president assad is warning countries not to recognize the syrian national council, which is set up in turkey last week. that council appears to be positioning itself as syria s next government. crisis talks are happening in egypt today to head off new violence. fighting between muslims and christians left at least 25 people dead over the weekend. christians say they were peacefully protesting a church burning when they were attacked by people they describe as thugs. christians say egypt s military rulers aren t doing enough to protect them. it s a very volatile situation, and many critics say it s not helped by the actions, for instance, of state-run tv which last night called upon what it called honest egyptians to come down and join the army in fighting against
tack take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. take it off. stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying, we re going to press on, we ve got work to do. . jon: president obama giving a fiery speech to the cbc, congressional black caucus at the awards dinner last weekend. congresswoman maxine waters, who has been critical of president obama s handling of unemployment had choice words of her own. i found the language a bit curious because the president spoke to the hispanic caucus, and certainly didn t tell them to stop complaining and he would he never say that to the gay and lesbian community, who really pushed him on don t ask
tack take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. take it off. stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying, we re going to press on, we ve got work to do. . jon: president obama giving a fiery speech to the cbc, congressional black caucus at the awards dinner last weekend. congresswoman maxine waters, who has been critical of president obama s handling of unemployment had choice words of her own. i found the language a bit curious because the president spoke to the hispanic caucus, and certainly didn t tell them to stop complaining and he would he never say that to the gay and lesbian community, who really pushed him on don t ask