afford it. carol suzanne. forget about it. i have another question for you. americans who do they trust more to tackle the deficit. is it president obama, congressional republicans, what are you getting? here s a brand new poll. cbs news poll, asks just that, who do you trust more? who has the better solutions? look at that, dead even split. 42% say president obama has the best solutions, and an equal amount say they trust congressional republicans more, and at the bottom, 9% say forget about it, neither side has the right solutions. forget about it. i ll see you, paul. for the latest political news, you know where to go, cnnpolitics.com. there is still time to pick the story you want to see later in our choose the news segment. vote by texting 22360, jim crow era guide book showing african-americans where they could stay safe isn t a segregated country.
tries to tackle the budget deficit. we ll have more after his speech. suzanne, breaking news earlier who am i talking to. forget about it, as you said. you got it. two hours ago, breaking news out of florida. the governor down there, rick scotto, just elected in november, calls a news conference out of the blue. he says forget about it to the federal funding. the white house wants to give his state millions of dollars to build high speed rail. he said, no, not going to take the money, the third republican governor to say no to federal funs, joining those in wisconsin and ohio. this is a pet project for barack obama. scotto saying no to the money because the state has to match the money, and in the tough economic times the state can t
secretary, particularly as a former journalist. do you think when you come out here that your primary job as you see it is to promote the interests of the president or is it primarily to provide us with ungarnished information so we can move? well, let me tell you this. we obviously all here serve the president. i work for him. but the press secretary is a unique position within a white house. and not just because i m a former journalist, because i think every press secretary understood this, and understands it, you know, i work to promote the president and the message that he s trying, the messages he is trying to convey to the american people. but i also work with the press to try to help you do your jobs, help you cover the white house, cover the administration and report on what we re doing here. so i think it s been said before
biggest city after tripoli, it s ban place of protest and unrest before. now, this appears to have been sparked by the arrest of a human rights lawyer but there are other issues as we said. youth, average age 24 there. unemployment, food shortages. libya has put down these sorts of protests before but that was a different time. what s interesting here is these protests aren t targeting directly colonel gadhafi yet. now, that would be something of a red line. if that red line is crossed it takes it into a whole other area, i think. anyway, he has been in power for 42 years. he is the arab world s longest serving leader. that s another thing many of these nations have in common. long serving leaders, authoritarians. mubarak 30 years before he was toppled. there have been improving relations with the west. libya renouncing efforts to go nuclear by the way. they paid compensation to the relatives of the victims of
there s been a lot of spread of the unrest in egypt to other areas in the mid east. the president referred to this issue yesterday and said that leaders of those country need to get out ahead of the change. does the white house think the leaders in countries like libya, bahrain are ahead of that change? well, look. as you said, each country is different in how they respond to the expression of the legitimate aspirations of their people. it s very important and they need to do it in a way that reflects what we believe, what the president said are these universal values that each government needs to respect. and that is our freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, freedom of access to information, the internet in particular. and to respond to those demonstrations in a nonviolent way. we ve called as we did in as the president did in egypt and