according to figures compiled at the end of 2010 by cbs reporter mark knoller, obama's first 23 months in office saw 70 days on foreign trips and 58 days on vacation trips. he's gambled at a pace to present himself as a statesman. above the scramble of something disagreeable called washington. >>> question, with regard to obama's leadership on domestic issues, what hasn't emerges from his issue, what pattern e pledges his first -- >> first of all, i don't think anyone thinks this president is not a hard worker. and he went after the congress to what a ridiculous work schedules where the house and the senate take different breaks, so you can't deal with the congress as a whole for half the time. and they work tuesday to thursday. so -- and i think most americans have had it with the congress, they're not blaming the president in this one. in president's pattern is basically to come in at the last minute, when his supporters are thinking all is lost, and then he rises to the occasion. and he's done this now on this budget thing. they've been trying to get him into the ax for months. >> h