lot of that. i don t think this is the political debacle that those on the far left think it is. i think that there was another campaign promise that he would have broken if he hadn t reached across the aisle and struck this deal. but i think he has to be real careful. i think he sounded more like he was whining than throwing punches today and he has to be really careful not to present himself to the public who isn t following every blow in this debate as someone who is the victim of a political reality he created. someone who was impotent and powerless against the mean republicans who wouldn t budge, he said today, and someone frustrated with the members of his own party for being mad he didn t get more than the 13-month existence for unemployment. he has to celebrate the outcome not complain about it. did it sound like complaining? nicolle s got that exactly right. the tone is wrong. presidents have to rise above. that is always a job that has vexing problems with both parties an
has agreed to the high income tax cuts. reporter: what we saw the president doing was playing offense and talking about this deal. today he was essentially defending it. we saw the vice president going up to capitol hill to work with those democrats who are not happy. the reason that he did compromise is because republicans weren t willing to bend on those tax cuts for the wealthy, those making more than $250,000 a year, they wouldn t budge, so the president said he could have extended this into next year when it would have been much more difficult to get a deal done so he thought now was the right time to compromise. then it heads to congress. any chance this deal could have trouble getting through? well, you know, that s the big question, i mean it by all accounts, it appears that it will be tough, but most likely this deal will get done. but this is only an extension, what we re talking about here with these tax cuts for another two years, so this will again come up in 2012,
of the gulf of mexico has been declared officially dead. it follows testing that involves engineers exerting 15,000-pounds of weight against the cement plug to make sure that it wouldn t budge. the white house released a statement about the closure a short time ago saying in part today we achieved an important milestone in our response to the bp oil spill. the final termmy nation of the damaged well that sat deep under the gulf of mexico. i commend admiral thad allen and the thousands of men and women who worked around the . ock to respond to this crisis this morning the first family did what a lot of other first families do on sunday. they went to church. they walked across the park to st. john s church. he has attended that church three times before as well as others in the nation s capital but the family has not yet picked one church they want to regularly attend in washington. right now the president is at
says the gas pedal was struck and wouldn t budge as the car is speeding up to almost 90 miles an hour. listen to this. listen to me, we have officers on the way, i m trying to get ahold of a helicopter. i need you to answer questions for me. sir, if you can hear me, is there a way for you to take the car out of gear? i can t hold the phone. you can t hold the phone? can you put it on speaker? jim, if you can hear me, we have help on the way. i m going 90 miles an hour. sir, if you can hear me, we have help there. they re there. i m doing over 90. you re over # zero. yes,o, hold on, my brakes are almost burnt out. are you in cruise control ? sir, if you can hear me, you need to press your ignition
point the police take over and he s now communicating with the police to get this car to stop. one thing you and i were talking about in the break is that he describes it, as he says in the beginning of all this, he reached down and tried to, you know, dislodge the accelerator with his hand, okay, and he couldn t do it, he said it wouldn t budge. now, ostensibly, this is happening because the car mat is getting stuck in the acoo accelerator but i ask you this, if that s the case and you reach down and move the accelerator, you could dislodge that carpet and unlock the accelerator, so that leads to all the questions about the computer system and whether this is technologically locked in. bill: what happened earlier that week, toyota was doing a demonstration to prove this was not the issue, then you have this, and clearly, you can hear the angst in this guy s voice. we asked the highway patrol officer, the man who pulled sikes over, you could hear him on the blow horn outside the car, h