the date passes, august 2, when we are now going to be unable to make some of these payments that we ve got, that s going to cost us some money. it s going to cost us, you know, we re in the we re fighting as you said to get a recovery. and companies have told us the biggest problem is uncertainty. that that s the biggest problem. nothing has created more uncertainty than this right-wing threat not to pay our debts. president obama says that he is willing to negotiate with republicans for big spending cuts. republicans have been demanding trillions in cuts. today the fed chairman warned the senate against that. he said the recovery is still rather fragile. and he said sharp and excessive cuts in the very short-term would potentially be damaging to that recovery. how do you explain those two things going on simultaneously? well, it s a timing question. in fact, i had exactly that conversation with chairman bernanke yesterday. he said there are headwinds in
which, by the way, if you read the bill includes the education component, which provides millions of dollars for hbcus, historically black colleges and universities. the timing question came up in a quick news conference after the forum, and tavis smiley said the forum was decided upon as was the location of chicago long before the announcement came that congress was going to work this weekend and as a matter of fact, he complained that congress took his time. which he was scheduled to have, on c-span, today. and jesse jackson had very good comments tying this two together, saying this is a very appropriate time for this to happen, this black agenda forum to happen today, because, health care and the accessibility to it, is one of the big issues for the black agenda. all right, jim, very important piece of work out there, in terms of what is going on with the star anory and the president said so many times before he s a president of all americans, including blacks as well, back to
manafort case. it has infuriated him from the very start. just one of the many things we ll try to pose to trump when we see him about an hour from now. really important point. peter alexander, thank you. i want to get to my panel here. nancy cook is a white house reporter for politico. jonathan allen is a digital national political reporter for nbc news. and song mun-kim is a white house reporter for the washington post. thanks to all of you for being here. song, let me start with you, we re talking about the time line of this. we all watched sarah sanders come out earlier this week and say basically, look, the president is considering revoking more security clearances. what are your sources telling you? what is your sense of the timing of this? i think the timing question is interesting. we know the president had come to this decision that was announced this week by the secretary, not this week, not last week, but about three weeks ago. remember what s going on right now. the
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has nothing to do with this decision to resign. but, greg, here s the deal. you write about the suspicions of infidelities, which had followed petraeus for years. so the timing, why is this coming out now? well, i think there is a timing question. it s not necessarily benghazi question, but, clearly the director had to have known about this prior to the election. the question is when did when and who in the white house knew about this. but, it looks like a case where the director may have held this together until just days after the election to avoid creating a major news story and disruption in the middle of an election cycle. what about the whens and the whos in terms of the white house? when did they find out? and who was it that found out? right. well white house officials insist that they did not learn about that david petraeus had a big problem on his hands until wednesday. and then that petraeus sought a meeting with the president, comes to meet with the president, lays