Jon and im jon scott. Both sides digging in their heels over the raising of the debt ceiling. Republicans propose deep cuts to medicare and the president S Health Care law while democrats say theyve already done more than enough to get the debt under control. The president has made clear we cannot negotiate about whether or not the government of the United States would default. It was a mistake in 2011 to have that debate. It hurt the economy. And i think Congress Knows that it has to deal with this. We also have to look at how far weve already gone in with the federal government. This president seems to be using kind of a oneway ratchet, always expanding the role of the federal government even as were 17 trillion in debt, and were increasing that debt at the rate of about a trillion a year. Jon so take a look at the debt clock, it now sits just under 17 trillion, an amount now bigger than the entire u. S. Economy. Karl rove is a former Senior Adviser and deputy chief of staff to presi
going to be tough, but i also know that the consequences of not trying could be worse. to help the parties navigate the path to peace and to avoid its many pitfalls, we will be very fortunate to have on our team on a day-to-day basis working with the parties wherever they are negotiating a seasoned american diplomat, ambassador martin indyk, who has agreed to take on this critical task at this crucial time as the u.n., u.s excuse me, u.s. special envoy for israeli-pal stop sign stint yang negotiations palestinian negotiations. assisting martin will be as his deputy and as a senior adviser to me will be frank lowen steven who has been working with me on this process from the beginning. in his memoir about the peace process, ambassador indyk quotes