it is called by the people in the white house the king solomon moment. the president says that he is like king solomon. he cannot divide the baby. he has to do something to stabilize the economy. he has less leverage in these negotiations. that realization is accurate. you can see his reasoning and the debate within the white house. host: the role of john boehner last year. guest: he went to the president and he proposed tax reform, and the president said he was willing to go along with the entitlement reform. half the book is this 44 days, and economic cuban missile crisis where they are trying to do something. the end result is to push everything off, all the tough decisions to 2013. host: they come up with the sequestration plan. where're at a point automatic spending cuts go through january, 2013. we went back into the c-span archives to illustrate your coverage. president obama comes before the cameras and so does john boehner. the reaction to that. [video clip] >> i did not see a path to a deal if they do not budge. if the basic proposition is, it

it is called by the people in the white house the king solomon moment. says that he is like king solomon. he cannot divide the baby. he has to do something to stabilize the economy. he has less leverage in these negotiations. that realization is accurate. you can see his reasoning and the debate within the white house. host: the role of john boehner last year. guest: he went to the president and he proposed tax reform, and the president said he was willing to go along with the entitlement reform. half the book is this 44 days, and economic cuban missile crisis where they are trying to do something. the end result is to push everything off, all the tough decisions to 2013. host: they come up with the sequestration plan. now we're at a point where automatic spending cuts go through january, 2013. we went back into the c-span archives to illustrate your coverage. president obama comes before the cameras and so does john boehner. the reaction to that. [video clip] >> i did not see a path to a deal if they do not budge. if the basic proposition is, it is "my

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it is called by the people in the white house the king solomon moment.he president says that he is like king solomon. he cannot divide the baby. he has to do something to stabilize the economy. he has less leverage in these negotiations. that realization is accurate. you can see his reasoning and the debate within the white house. host: the role of john boehner last year. guest: he went to the president and he proposed tax reform, and the president said he was willing to go along with the entitlement reform. half the book is this 44 days, and economic cuban missile crisis where they are trying to do something. the end result is to push everything off, all the tough decisions to 2013. host: they come up with the sequestration plan. where're at a point automatic spending cuts go through january, 2013. we went back into the c-span archives to illustrate your coverage. president obama comes before the cameras and so does john boehner. the reaction to that. [video clip] >> i did not see a path to a deal if they do not budge. if the basic proposition is, it is

and in many ways they started off, you know, king solomon being like, okay, we'll have one mass at the white church, one mass at the black church. it's not like they made all the white people move to the black church. they dissolved the parishes and came up with a new name, new phone number, new stationary. and it was all going very well until it came time to you gotta pick one building. at the end of the day, only one building is big enough to hold everybody, and that's the white church. and the priest who was there at the time was a very, very smart guy, and he said, you know, this isn't about the building. it's about how black people perceive that they'll be treated as citizens in this new society we're attempting to form. if they feel in any way they're going to be treated like second-class citizens, their not coming -- they're not coming. so what he proposed was let's remodel the interior of the church because it's time, blacks used to have to it in side pews, and he said let's remodel the interior of theture can have, get rid of the jim crow pews, we'll lop off the back, and it'l

like king solomon. someone who sits above everything.b to weigh everything but believe in nothing. it's a little distant and cool. and i think that's one of the reasons that he let congress run early on. he sits above it. and he wants to be impartial and fair. >> do you buy that james? >> i mean, he was very involved in passing the stimulus. he said he wanted congress to stay in until they got -- there is something i want to say. there's a whole group of people, they'd say, these campaigns, the media, they cover things that don't matter. you couldn't have watched the romney documentary we put out. you couldn't have watched this. and anybody, any fair person say, you know something, i learned something today. i learned something about what happened. what kind of person romney is. i really learned something about -- i was watching, the last four years, i didn't realize all the stuff happened that happened. i was talking to candy crowley outside, she said i watched it -- you go back and watch it -- >> it is fascinating -- >> you relive that

like king solomon. someone who sits above everything.his job to weigh everything but believe in nothing. it's a little distant and cool. and i think that's one of the reasons that he let congress run early on. he sits above it. and he wants to be impartial and fair. >> do you buy that james? >> i mean, he was very involved in passing the stimulus. he said he wanted congress to stay in until they got -- there is something i want to say. there's a whole group of people, they'd say, these campaigns, the media, they cover things that don't matter. you couldn't have watched the romney documentary we put out. you couldn't have watched this. and anybody, any fair person say, you know something, i learned something today. i learned something about what happened. what kind of person romney is. i really learned something about -- i was watching, the last four years, i didn't realize all the stuff happened that happened. i was talking to candy crowley outside, she said i watched it -- you go back and watch it -- >> it is fascinating -- >> you reliv

it is called by the people in the white house the king solomon moment.dent says that he is like king solomon. he cannot divide the baby. he has to do something to stabilize the economy. he has less leverage in these negotiations. that realization is accurate. you can see his reasoning and the debate within the white house. host: the role of john boehner last year. guest: he went to the president and he proposed tax reform, and the president said he was willing to go along with the entitlement reform. half the book is this 44 days, and economic cuban missile crisis where they are trying to do something. the end result is to push everything off, all the tough decisions to 2013. host: they come up with the sequestration plan. now we're at a point where automatic spending cuts go through january, 2013. we went back into the c-span archives to illustrate your coverage. president obama comes before the cameras and so does john boehner. the reaction to that. [video clip] >> i did not see a path to a deal if they do not budge. if the basic proposition is, it is

people kind of view a sports commissioner as these all-powerful king solomon type figures.goodell is an employee of the owners, just like the players are really. so he was kind of -- you know, the hatchet man here. he took a lot of the arrows. but at the end of the day, he was really doing the owners' bidding here. >> all right, well, we'll see where it goes. ben ryder with "sports illustrated." always good to talk to you. thanks so much. >>> samuel l. jackson is appearing in a new political ad and you could call it a mix between his foul-mouthed pulp fiction character and a children's bedtime story. huh? okay. we'll explain. while balancing the company's bottom line, their very first word was... [ to the tune of "lullaby and good night" ] ♪ af-lac ♪ aflac [ male announcer ] find out more at... [ duck ] aflac! [ male announcer ] ...forbusiness.com. [ yawning sound ] is efficiently absorbed in small continuous amounts. citracal slow release continuously releases calcium plus d with efficient absorption in one daily dose. citracal slow release. with efficient absorption in on

it is called by the people in the white house the king solomon moment. the president says that he is like king solomon. he cannot divide the baby. he has to do something to stabilize the economy. he has less leverage in these negotiations. that realization is accurate. you can see his reasoning and the debate within the white house. host: the role of john boehner last year. guest: he went to the president and he proposed tax reform, and the president said he was willing to go along with the entitlement reform. half the book is this 44 days, and economic cuban missile crisis where they are trying to do something. the end result is to push everything off, all the tough decisions to 2013. host: they come up with the sequestration plan. now we're at a point where automatic spending cuts go through january, 2013. we went back into the c-span archives to illustrate your coverage. president obama comes before the cameras and so does john boehner. the reaction to that. [video clip] >> i did not see a path to a deal if they do not budge. if the basic proposition

multi hundred year history as the bank of england mervyn king went so horribly discredited it doesn't end even the back of international solomons the central bank of central banks is waving their finger at these other central banks and saying you guys need to stop committing the fraud isn't that worrying john oh yes it's all fraud governments lie about all the major statistics that it really is you know in the us obviously everybody knows about them or unemployment inflation numbers being distorted and interest rates of the same thing you know that they're they're lying to us about the fundamental reality of the economy in order to be able to to keep interest rates lower than they would be otherwise because you know the bond markets actually understood what was happening you'd see interest rates spike around the world. just as they are in the euro zone countries you know people are figuring out that spain and italy can't pay their bills but we in the u.s. are just as bad a shape except we've been able to to maintain the fiction. that we're in better shape than a lot of these other countries and you know what basically we're bec

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