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biden chief economist jared bernstein. good to see you. this business does not like crisis. it does not like uncertainy and when we look at this short-term deal it looks like we ve set up yet another double whammy. we ve got the two deadlines january 15th and february 7th. so you certainly aren t going tobacco one of those folks who is banking in the sun light of the khum bia on capitol hill last night. take us through it, my friend. take us through it. i agree with you wholeheartedly. i thought nancy pelosi, by the way, just said it perfectly. if we were with an economy that was at 5% unemployment and humming along at 3% gdp growth, you know, in the heart of a strong recovery this would still be very bad, but it wouldn t be as bad as it is with an economy that is still trying to break out of the kind of doldrums that we ve never quite left behind us from the great recession. so if we really shave half a point or so off of gdp growth this quarter, that means we are
would it make me want to be a better reporter and investigator of what the facts are with this libya tragedy. greta: dirty secret in washington on both sides of the aisle is access, you will lose access, you have to use good judgment. i m not saying you sell your soul to the administration. so what if you lose access to obama. you know why people don t want to lose the american people don t care if a reporter isn t going to have access to the obama administration because what is coming back as a result of having that privilege powerful access. lack of transparency, more confusion, more uncertainy and lights. why in the world would a reporter be concerned about whether they are going to get more of that fed to them, those lies the uncertainy the murky answers to questiohuqw being asked. i wouldn t care about having access. i m with you. look what has happened with this benghazi investigation
more. a new terror tactic revealed wild fires. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with new developments in a growing diplomatic crisis dogging the obama administration. the chinese dissident who escaped house arrest and sought refuge, but the u.s. embassy in beijing is now appealing directly to president obama for help. chen guangcheng was basically pushed out of the embassy and abandoned, but the top american diplomat in china tells cnn a very different account of what happened. cnn s stan grant is in beijing and has been following this story from the beginning. dramatic developments, huge interest at stake, stan. you had a chance to speak with the u.s. ambassador gary locke about all of this. what is the very latest? reporter: yes. he is gary locke, the man with the answers about what went wrong at the embassy. chen guangcheng said he was encouraged to leave and without knowing the full range of his threat that
unemployment will continue to increase under the president s plan. but his approval numbers continue to be fairly good in the zone of reelection. when asked about the economy most people think it shows signs of turning around. it s a muddy picture in some regards as to the reelection prospect. when you see the president campaigning in twin states talking about gas prices you see how much he understands and his reelection effort understand understands that lingering uncertainy about the. he s talking about the razor s edge on which he hangs on the economy. people have some new optimism but there is a deep sense among the electorate that things are going the wrong direction and his policies haven t affected the turnaround they wanted.