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week, and how the date was finally set. athena jones is covering the story for us. now, actually scheduling that speech has turned out to be the hard part. what the american people expect the president to do, what they expect their senators, congress men and women to do is listen to them and take action. they do not give a lick about what day next week the president speaks before congress. reporter: the great date debate came to the first public view through a tweet. at around noon on wednesday, the told hi twitter followers, president obama asked to address a joint session of congress the following wednesday to. in a her to speaker of the house jan boehner, he cited as he called on washington to put politics aside and start making decisions based on what goes best for our country. but in washington, politics are everywhere. the house s first day back in session would have conflicted with the republican presidential debate, something that jay carney called a coinc ....
it s a probably that s never been wassed by a quake in this country until now. first responders may be getting reasons. stand by for dr. sanjay gupta and details of a new medical study. i m westbound westboun i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. how did their political leaders do big things like reduce the debt if they butt heads over a scheduling speech. we re learning more about the duty-up over the president s make-or-break jobs speech this week, and how the date was finally set. athena jones is covering the story for us. now, actually scheduling that speech has turned out to be the hard part. what the american people expect the president to do, what they expect their senators, congress men and women to do is listen to them and take action. they do not give a lick about what day next week the president speaks before congress. reporter: the great date debate came to the first public view through a tweet. at around noon on wednesday, the told hi twit ....
president concerned the united states has already suffered lasting damage to its reputation with international investors? i would say that we are concerned because there is certainly evidence that the economy has suffered. because of the uncertainty created around this debate and the circus atmosphere of our politics around what should be a serious matter. we re talking about the thing that matters most to americans which is the health of our company and growth and create jobs. some damage has been done. we are a powerful country with a powerful economy. we are the united states of america and the american people are very resilient. we need to resolve this and we can get on with the task of making sure we re doing everything we can to grow the economy and create jobs. zbroo good day i m andrea mitchell here in washington. time is indeed running out. that is the message that the president delivered today as he put more pressure on congress to negotiate a compromise. mr ....
two quick questions, is the president concerned the united states has already suffered lasting damage to its reputation with international investors? i would say that we are concerned because there is certainly evidence that the economy has suffered. because of the uncertainty created around this debate and the circus atmosphere of our politics around what should be a serious matter. we re talking about the thing that matters most to americans which is the health of our company and growth and create jobs. some damage has been done. we are a powerful country with a powerful economy. we are the united states of america and the american people are very resilient. we need to resolve this and we can get on with the task of making sure we re doing everything we can to grow the economy and create jobs. zbroo good day i m andrea mitchell here in washington. time is indeed running out. that is the message that the president delivered today as he put more pressure on congress ....
stalemate. good evening, again, from new york trade 25 hours to go and tell the government shuts down and there is still no agreement on the spending bill. the first meeting this afternoon blasted one hour and 20 minutes. afterward the president went to the white house briefing room for the second night in a row to give an update on the status of the negotiations. we made some additional progress this evening. i think the staffs of both the house and the senate as well as the white house staff that has been working very hard. we made some progress today. those differences have been narrowed. once again, the staff will be working tonight from the clock in order to see if we can finally close the deal. there are a few issues that are outstanding, difficult issues. they are important to both sides. i am not yet prepared to express wild often some optimism. we are further along today than we were yesterday. the president also warned about the impact a shutdown could h ....