getting interrupted and had to fight someone off. in the summer i believe the obama campaign about d.a great job of yelling smoke. i think people don t know him. i think four yearsing ayes everybody knows but he s just one of those private reserve guys having been through this once myself in this situation, george w. bush was known by people. and if you dug underneath. by the time the convention in august, 2000 a large number of the american people still didn t know a lot about him z he used his speech to launch ompblg states, same thing happened with his father. people didn t think that i was a oor war hero and didn t know about early years in the oil patch this, is we pay
congress needs to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance without drama and without delay and without needs to pass this without drama and delay and without linking it to some other ideological side issues. we ve been through this before, remember? we ve seen this movie. we don t need to see it again. the time for self-inflicted wounds to our economy has to be over. let s go straight to cnn congressional correspondent kate bouldan. kate, this is a surprising turn-around. what are you hearing there? what made them decide to make this move? jessica a surpriseding turn-around and sharp and surprising reversal by house republicans on the issue of the payroll tax cut. as you know, one of the demands house republicans have been making all along during this month s long battle over extending the payroll tax cut is their incidentses that the payroll tax cut and other measures be included in the deal be paid for. be covered and paid for by offsets tha
i m asking you, is it fair? is the arrangement fair, in your opinion? well, the arrangement is not the fact. the fact is, 2 million americans are out of work today because the president s policies. let s not forget so you re saying that mr. romney and mr. buffett are both misleading the public? what is misleading the public is the president of the united states. just a yearing the president of the united states didn t release mr. romney s taxes. the president didn t release the figures on warren buffett s secretary. but two yearsing excuse me, 13 months ago, the president of the united states said we can t raise taxes on anyone. he actually signed the extension of the bush/obama tax cuts. it s deceptive to turn around and say, now i m against them because it s a campaign here. he signed those into law last december of 2010. is that fair of him to do that? well, i would hope that he doesn t that he didn t do it then and i hope he doesn t extend them now. but what i m
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we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people chiachieve justice and prosperity. and this cycle of suspicion and discord must end. let s go to the white house and ed henry. so the president said that two yearsing a ago. what will he say this time around? reporter: one thing that will tie it right back to two years ago in cairo is when he was talking about purchase sayers of hate and alter in a i have to al qaeda so that young muslims would not turn to the terror group. he was referring of course to osama bin laden. and now that osama bin laden has been killed, it that s one of the main reasons white house aides say the president has decided to choose will moment to