palestinians celebrate after the united nations general assembly votes overwhelmingly for nonmember status des price strong u.s. and israeli opposition, palestinian authority prime minister sa lem fay yesterday is here with us to react today. good day. i m andrea mitchell live in washington. president obama took the show on road today. who are not impressed by the administration s opening budget officer. offer. joining me is kristen welker, and luke russert. first to you, the calculus in going to the suburbs of philadelphia, kristen, clearly he feels that the political play right now is better than the inside game that didn t work for him during the super committee negotiations, but can that backfire? right now the president feels as though he has a fair amount of leverage having won
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situation that could affect us. we have a chance here, you have two ban ban products, gang of six, bowles-simpson get them up so they can be voted on and all of us take hard votes to keep america from going bankrupt. this president has been a pa net evening fiscal leader. the obama budget got zero votes and threw the plan under the bus and added 35 percent to the national debt when he had the majority so president obama has been awol on the super committee negotiations so i hope people will consider firing him and hiring somebody would will actually lead because he has been very weak when it comes to providing leadership for save america from bankruptcy and i m willing to vote on anything that makes sense. neil: thank graham, thank you, we will hear from colleagues on both sides but we are thankful for you joining.
president obama we all watched and we debated it. he was very hand none the healthcare debate and there is a lot you can do from the oval office using the power of that microphone. he did not do as much on super committee negotiations. some are seeing the contrast in that particular instance as evidence that the president wasn t invested in seeing the super committee do well. it s very simple. healthcare was passed and democrats had both the house and the senate. now they don t have the house. so for him john boehner can t convince the majority of the republicans in his own party to go-in his direction. who the hell believes they will listen to president obama. you have got a right-wing extreme position in the house with these tea party people that won t pass they have become a convenient