Treat the call because of the likelihood that they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain. If the whistleblower did not come forward, we would also not know the white house then allegedly attempted to cover up details of the call by moving the transcript to a separate system, a system used to store and handled classified information. According to the whistleblower, a standalone Computer System reserved for code word level intelligence such as covert action. After that, the whistleblower was not promptly handed over to congress, the complaint that is, as is law. And House Democrats tried to figure out why. Sir, let me repeat my question, did you ever speaks to the president about this complaint . My conversations with the president , because i am the director of National Intelligence, are privileged. You are not directed to withhold the complaint, is that your testimony . Yes, that is absolutely true. You exercised your discretion to withhold the complaint from t
0 north s every move. you know there are ships, destroyers, just off the coast of korea tracking that, but the tension today, at least, doesn t feel like it s mounting. the u.s. is trying to dial it down. the f-22 super fighters, the bombers, we don t see them now. they have been put on hold. there is even talk again, craig, of diplomacy, cousouth koreans looking to spend a special envoy to reengage with the north, secretary of state john kerry is expected to be looking for newer approaches as well in north korea when he arrives here in the region next week. craig, feels today, like a breather, everybody wants to step back and create room. who knows how long that will last? jim maceda from seoul, south already won this round. why is that? how did they do it? the nra and other groups on their side have been pressuring key republicans and some red state democrats who were interested in some compromise on background checks, never assault weapons ban or limiting high-capacity magazines
republicans? it s monday, september 19th, 2011. this is the daily rundown. i m chuck todd. right to my first reads of the morning. we begin with the debt plan answering critics who say he never presented a specific plan during the summer debt talks, president obama will do just that. he ll roll out a plan to cut the federal deficit by $3.2 trillion over the next decade. largely by raising taxes on the wealthy. a 10:30 a.m. speech in the rose garden the president will promise to veto any legislation which cuts entitlement without raising taxes on the rich. half of the plan s savings comes from tax increases on the wealthy and corporations, letting the bush tax rate expire, scaling back loop hohol and deduction. also $1.1 trillion in savings from troop drawdowns in iraq and afghanistan and cuts about $580 billion in mandatory spending. about half of that is from medicare and medicaid. the white house is not proposing an increase in the medicare eligibility age and has taken c
into the huge battleground state of florida. speaking of class warfare, it s the texas governor playing the class card nin the gop primary when comparing backgrounds with mitt. and no republican has won pennsylvania since 1988. so the state gop wants to drastically change how electoral votes are divvied up there. a move that could hurt the president, have a huge impact on the 2012 political map, or could it all just backfire on republicans? it s monday, september 19th, 2011. this is the daily rundown. i m chuck todd. right to my first reads of the morning. we begin with the debt plan answering critics who say he never presented a specific plan during the summer debt talks, president obama will do just that. he ll roll out a plan to cut the federal deficit by $3.2 trillion over the next decade. largely by raising taxes on the wealthy. a 10:30 a.m. speech in the rose garden the president will promise to veto any legislation which cuts entitlement without raising taxes on th
telling the jury and instructing them that they can only use her testimony to impeach george anthony s credibility and that s it. nothing of trying to support oh, you know, he told her that it was an accident, then we might believe her and that might generate a doubt in the minds of the jury. part of this is that krystal testified about her relationship with george, that it was intimate. speaking to the point that you just brought up. can you dig into that for us? reporter: she said she had an intimate relationship and the problem is that george, i think the problem for george anthony right now in terms of his credibility and all of the statements he s made since this trial started is that two days ago, he denied having an affair. he also denied making these statements and telling her that he thought or he believed that this was an accident. so her testimony serves only to discredit what he said in the past. but the theory about the accident cannot be used to determine ca