the issue is really do the regular press, the independent press get access to the same thing and are able to present it, the way they want to present it? in this case, with the supreme court nominee, elena kagan, that was emphatically not the case, she's off limits to interviews from the press which is usually the case with most supreme court nominees and all we have is sort of official news portrait from the white house. >> jon: well, there hasn't been an official white house press conference by last summer, countered that saying they've done all of these individual interviews. do they counter balance? >> yeah, i don't know if the press conferences are actually all that important, but what really seems some of the regular white house reporters is that president obama really doesn't take questions on a day-to-day basis. you know, most presidents, even president bush who wasn't incredibly transparent usually took questions every day or two while he's at the white house in the course of his regular event and president obama does not like to do that. i don't know if it's press strategy

the issue is really do the regular press, the independent press get access to the same thing and areto present it, the way they want to present it? in this case, with the supreme court nominee, elena kagan, that was emphatically not the case, she's off limits to interviews from the press which is usually the case with most supreme court nominees and all we have is sort of official news portrait from the white house. >> jon: well, there hasn't been an official white house press conference by last summer, countered that saying they've done all of these individual interviews. do they counter balance? >> yeah, i don't know if the press conferences are actually all that important, but what really seems some of the regular white house reporters is that president obama really doesn't take questions on a day-to-day basis. you know, most presidents, even president bush who wasn't incredibly transparent usually took questions every day or two while he's at the white house in the course of his regular event and president obama does not like to do that. i don't know if it's press strategy or jus

so we discussed it then with the press. e press said to me, larry mcquillan said as we were turning to walk away at the end of the little press briefing, he said, mrs. bush, what do you say to the children? and that really is when i thought that i did know what to say to children. and i knew how to encourage children. and i knew what parents should do. should turn off the television so their children wouldn't see those buildings fall over and over, those planes go into those buildings over and over. >> larry: what was it like or the you to see it? >> it was terrible. i felt sick. and judd gregg, senator judd gregg who is a close friend of ours joined senator kennedy and me. and judd and i would look at each other and we both looked sick because we knew what it meant. it meant a change of everything. >> larry: how soon did you talk to the president? >> i talked to him a little later after i had gone to the secure location that the secret service took me to. and that's also one of the really surprising things for george and me

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let's talk about the press for a minute. to watch how different networks cover the same story. remember that story about president obama, somebody had a jacket and had a big poster on time square and the president isn't supposed to be endorsing. this is how cbs covered it. >> president obama no longer has the commanding presence in a new york location. remember this huge billboard with his likeness. it was removed. mr. obama's picture is not to be used for commercial purposes. >> now look how fox news carried the exact same story. >> timing is everything. ok. [applause] >> but to be fair, it is a two-way street ks, and i think the white house likes to play games. i'm going to show you some tape. this tape hasn't been altered in anyway. i'm going to show you some reporters outside the white house. notice how quiet it is when the msnbc reporters reporting and watch what happens with fox. we haven't changed it in anyway. >> does make a couple of problems go away. >> secretary robert gibbs. >> emergens of this part of the party

[laughter] i have a great respect for the press. ou have a tough job and the economics of the newspaper industry are just as devastating as the economic situation facing the economy as a whole. do i find a press irritating? yes that is a natural state of affairs in a democracy. i was absolutely shocked to have one of my sons become a reporter. [laughter] just as i was shocked to have one of my sons marry a minnesota vikings fan. [laughter] there are certain things you can overcome with help and i have gotten help. [laughter] >> [unintelligible] >> everything. i would hope that we would get real financial reform. i would hope that we would recognize that we have had such demands growth of income for the economic elite in this country that we need to turn that around and began to put the average middle-class people first. i would like to see us begin to develop a tax code that is a helluva lot more fair to working families than the tax code we are operating under today. we have to attack issues like climate change. after all, this is t

that was not discussed and the issues raised in the american press or the european press have now beenrstood better by our u.s. counterparts. i will now go into further detail on that. the issue is resolved as it stands now. >> i have nothing to add to that. i chose want to add one thing to what the president said initially about the kanduhar operation. i have for the commentary in anticipation of this operation making it sound like it was going to be a massive military action. we are ceding the city, tanks rolling into the city, that is not the kind of operation that our military leaders believe is warranted. they want to have a successful counter insurgency operation that does not destroy can depart in the efforts to savekanduhar. as someone rightly said to me, one of our military calis, this is not falujia. lessons have been learned. the people guiding this operation like general petraeus and generalmcchrystal learned those lessons in iraq. you cannot wake up one morning and the d-day has started. that is not what this is about. that is not what counter insurgency is about. we're no

sometimes the press can be one-sided. as you mentioned, all during the election, they would ask things like, is obama black enough? is obama too black? never the other way around. is john boehner orange enough? is he too orange? we never hear that. and the president and first lady have a wonderful family. i'm sure you remember this heart-warming photo. take a look at this photo. we all went -- take a look here. remember that? wasn't that wonderful? i think it reminded us all of a similar photo taken in a previous administration. take a look. oh, yeah. and our hats off to michelle obama, who's made childhood obese the one of her causes. yes, congratulations. she has -- she has started a more intense program, it's called leave no child with a bigger behind, and i think that's a wonderful thing. but mrs. obama, with all the good work you have been doing, it's been undermined by others in your administration. here, take a look. >> it's easy to say anything. it's just as easy to say we'll start tomorrow. but our kids are runnin

and has admitted apparently to the british press that she is under financial pressure. >> sounds liket. if the queen is anything like the way she was portrayed in the movie "the queen," i think permafrost probably is a pretty good word for what's going down at buckingham palace. >> she can be a quite cold lady, it appears. >> stick around, more news coming up. >>> they were two major topics on the sunday talk show circuit. one was the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. >> first, rand paul, who's already making waves after his victory in kentucky's republican senate primary. paul canceled yesterday's appearance on "meet the press." here's our wrap-up. >> from nbc news in washington, "meet the press with david gregory." >> senator cornyn, rand paul's spokesman sent a statement to "meet the press" this morning indicating he didn't want to be on the program because he wanted to avoid the liberal bias of the media. i wonder what your view is, whether you think this is liberal bias that's ensnared him this week or whether it's the articulation of his own views about the limited scope of gover

david gregory is moderator of "meet the press." good morning, lester. >> the delegation is going down. his tone his sharpened and has he so far been able to survive this politically? >> well, i think what you have more criticism about is what is it that the government is doing? how is it that we're a month into this thing and it's not turning the corner? it's not getting any better. they're not shutting off the oil and it appears to be such a mess and such a disaster. i think the white house is feeling all of that. they'll make it very clear that the top people, the environmental team and others like the secretary-general of energy is a nobel laureate, after all, are thinking about ways that they can tell bp to try to end this thing, to fix this thing, but nothing is actually happening. so the criticism is ultimately are they relying too much on british petroleum to find the answer here? i think the president, you saw it in his remarks yesterday, his radio address that was on youtube as well, is trying to stay ahead of this, trying

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we have never been willing to negotiate in the press. ut, i will say this, i think a good starting point would be where the delta and northwest contract is. that's a good place to start. times have changed, hopefully the economy is turning a round. we gave up a lot at united with basically a gun and our head, going through bankruptcy. continental gave up a lot to, but they negotiated through some of the tough times. we would like to see a turnaround. we were on board with the company when they were using the term shared sacrifice. we were there, we gave, we gave. half of our pay, all of our pension, a lot of fringe benefits. we believe that it's time now to also share in the reward. and there's gonna be, if the synergies are out there. and if you believe the wall street journal and chicago tribune, there are $1.2 billion of synergy per year to be gained out there. that should allow all of us to do well. real quick, is bigger necessarily better when it comes to operation services and even special customer services? bigger could be worse if

and i think the issues that were raised in the american press or in the european press have now been understood better by our u.s. counterparts. so i'm not going to go into further detail on that. the issue is resolved as it stands now. >> i have nothing to add to that. i just want to add one thing, though, to what the president said initially about the kandahar operation. because i've heard some of the commentary in anticipation of this operation making sound like it was going to be a massive military action, you know, or sieging the city, tanks rolling into the city. that is not the kind of operation that our military leaders believe is warranted. they want to have a successful count insurgency operation -- counterinsurgency operation that doesn't destroy kandahar in the efforts to save kandahar. as someone rightly said to me, one of my military colleagues, this is not fellujah. lessons have been learned since iraq. a lot of lessons. and the people who are guiding this operation, like general petraeus and general mcchrystal learned those operations in iraq. so i want the american pr

the annual thing with the press forms too much on the press and the press forms too much on the president. and it looks thinner every year somehow. and i could add to it. catherine was there and i was thinking the "washington times," which is the only rival to "washington post" by the river and from john moon will be a one newspaper town pretty soon. i think last year seattle became a one newspaper town. i was astounded by that i have to say. it think that was taking three or four. been one in "the l.a. times" has gone down faster than the other i believe where everyone knows the story i suppose, but it's the speed of it that impresses me. and that's what the production industry is late. the its chief general is the end i would say that none now regularly take a newspaper. that's the demographic spca, that's the judgment. it's a habit of picking up a paper and carry it around with you and taking it from the house in the morning. >> what are the consequences of that? >> are used to think what a positive thing it was. now if i have a great junks didn't use boyles is promising, i can't just

issues that were raised in the american press or the european press have now been understood better by.s. counterparts. i am not going to go into further details on that. the issue is resolved as it stands now. >> i have nothing to add to that. the president talked about the kandahar operation. i have heard some of the commentary in anticipation of this and making it sound like it was going to be a massive military action, seizing the city, tanks rolling into the city. that is not the kind of operation that our military leaders believe is warranted the. they want to have a successful counterinsurgency operation that does not destroy it kandahar in the efforts to save kandahar. as someone said to me, this is not fallujah. lessons have been learned since iraq. the people guiding this operation, like general petraeus and general mcchrystal, learned those lessons and iraq. i want the american press to be disabused. it is not what counterinsurgency is about. we're not fighting the afghan people. we are fighting a small minority, a ruthless extremist who are able to enlist young men like the

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a look at what's coming up on "meet the press," here is david gregory. >> good morning, kim perly andaron. the politics of anger and the anti-washington wave. what does it mean for november's mid-term elections? we'll have exclusive debate with john cornyn and robert menendez. what happened to the political center in this country? without it, can anything in washington get done? political roundtable weighs in. all coming up this morning on "meet the press." >> thank you, david. >>> you paid good moneying thousands of dollars, for your children to get a good university education on a beautiful campus, say at the university of mary washington in fredericksburg, virginia. and instead they tell you they want to live in a tent, share a toothbrush and subsist on $2 a day. i found out how the students did it and why. >> i spent all of my $8 on some rice. >> reporter: 15 students lived on that race beans, and donated food. that splauexplains the pizza bo sample life on $2. >> nearly half the world lives on less than $2. >> reporter: that status is where professor humphries challenge week star

he was on "meet the press" saying they are concerned this is about racial profiling, we may file a suit. then had add -- admission -- by the way 17 pages if you print it out. he admits he never read it. >> mike: what has happened this week is that rick holder has made robert gibbs good. he's taken two hits from congressmen from texas, i call it texas two, obama administration zero i was a bad week in admitting he never read the law. >> sean: here's the problem, the president himself he has a law background. >> mike: law professor. >> sean: he never read the law. either he didn't read it and he's ignorant in interpreting it properly or politicizing it when he said you might go in an ice cream shop and they will be asking where your papers are. four times it says you cannot racially profile. >> mike: the only way you would get in with an ice cream parlor was if you tried to steal the ice cream before the officer came in. the unfortunate thing is this law is becoming this lightning rod for a debate that ought to have been solved by congress taking care of securing the borders in the first

. >>> and the press box sports report is just ahead. . >>> storm gear and consideration provided by l.l. bean. . >>> abc 2 news is brought to you by bob evans new wraps. >>> well the orioles took and for the second straight night they lost 4-1. brian mattis pitched well but the o's offense didn't show up. the final game have the series is tomorrow afternoon at 1:00. . >>> press box sports report presented by mr. basement. . >> this is kevin highs with the press box sports report. president obama welcomed the 2009 navy football team to the white house. he presented the midshipmen with their seventh consecutive trophy awarded to the winner among army navy and air force. they presented them with a ring commemorating their win over new jersey, the men's lacrosse teams hosts albany in an american east, the retrievers are 4-8 on the season but umbc has won seven straight games at home. >>> stephen strasburg is one step closer to the may years. they promoted the 2009 overall pick to aaa today. he will make his debut for the syracuse chiefs on friday. he finished seventh behind supersaver and i

he was on "meet the press" saying they are concerned this is about racial profiling, we may file a suit. then had add -- admission -- by the way 17 pages if you print it out. he admits he never read it. >> mike: what has happened this week is that rick holder has made robert gibbs good. he's taken two hits from congressmen from texas, i call it texas two, obama administration zero i was a bad week in admitting he never read the law. >> sean: here's the problem, the president himself he has a law background. >> mike: law professor. >> sean: he never read the law. either he didn't read it and he's ignorant in interpreting it properly or politicizing it when he said you might go in an ice cream shop and they will be asking where your papers are. four times it says you cannot racially profile. >> mike: the only way you would get in with an ice cream parlor was if you tried to steal the ice cream before the officer came in. the unfortunate thing is this law is becoming this lightning rod for a debate that ought to have been solved by congress taking care of securing the borders in the first

most politicians probably dream of letting loose on the press. new jersey governor christie just did. a reporter asked him about his confrontational tone and -- >> you must be the thinnest skinned guy in america. you think that's a confrontational tone. you should really see me when i'm pissed. [ laughing ] >> you know, that's not confrontational, all right. so you know, you know, i love when people say they don't wanna have argument. that's what we were sent here for. they believe in certain things. they believe in bigger government, higher taxes and more spending. here it is. bigger government, higher taxes, more spending. i believe in less government, lower taxes and an empowering local officials who are elected by their citizen to be able to fix their problems. that may lead to a disagreement or two. now, i could say it really nicely. i could say it in the way that you might be more comfortable with maybe we can go back to the last administration where i could say it in a way where you wouldn't understand it. the fact of the matter is, this i

by pressing the door close button. lift. >> like 0.05 seconds off from not pressing the door. >> reporter: pushing and poking didn't do squat. surprisingly, it's the new elevators that have nonworking door close buttons. >> i always feel compelled to press it. because it's there. >> reporter: pressing buttons may give you a sense of control. but there are some buttons better left unpressed. [ buzzer buzzing ] so why have the buttons been deactivated? much of it has a lot to do with the american with disabilities act. it man dates that everyone have enough time the get in and out of the elevators. at least three seconds. it is only fire fighters and maintenance personnel that have a key to override. your button pushing? hmm-mm. >> what about when i sit in the office and i get cold and want to change the temperature, i look at the thermostat, i do it. what are the odds that something is actually going to change, becky? >> especially in big buildings. many of them are placebo, there for the placebo effect as well. the big

almost 3000 journalists, politicians, and celebrities will gather at the washington hilton board the press corps at an annual dinner. c-span will cover the black-tie event, including remarks by it pregnant -- remarks by president barack obama and jay leno. >> sunday, pat buchanan talks about conservatives ideology and to depose a political climate. that is alive at noon eastern, sunday, on c-span2. >> sunday, at 7:00 p.m. eastern, we show you the only televised debate between the candidates for the pennsylvania senate seat. next, a reporter gives an update of the race. >> mr. fitzgerald, talk a little bit about the risks for both of these it gentleman going into tonight's debate. with senator arlen specter because he is the incumbent. because he is the incumbent. in fact, other debates. this is a one-shot debate. it will be going on during a phillies-mets game. he has nothing to lose in this case because he has to get the numbers moving. arlen specter has a lead, by all accounts. different polls suggest that it might be shrinking. despite the fact that he is a 30-year incumbent with the od

and it is sad really and sort of frustrating that the press in general typecasts every woman that lives in the white house. the other first ladies. because always our first ladies have been a lot more interesting, a lot more complicated than their box that they are sort of put in. >> chris: do you think michelle obama has been typecast the same way you were? >> i don't think so really and maybe this is just her age that she is younger but i think she has been given the benefit of the doubt more by the press than former first ladies. certainly look at the way barbara bush, mother, grandmother was typed as grandmotherly type woman when in fact barbara bush is as strong as horseradish and the people really know that. >> you became deeply involved in advocating for afghan women for their rights, for their role in the life of their country. and you write "it was not that i found my voice, instead it was as if my voice had found me." explain. >> well, what happened was i made the president's radio address after september 11th and talked about the treatment of women and children by the taliban

we have to go to the white house now for the press briefing. is fatalking ab this no-fly zone that's in effect, the no-fly list, rather. let's listen. >> again, as we said yesterday, the reason there are redundan redundancies in the system is to allow for -- is to ensure that there are many, many mechanisms that would allow you to prevent somebody from flying, which is what happened in this case. the cbp takes a locked manifest, it's required to be filed 30 minutes before a flight, with people that are on the plane. that was checked against that list. and the individual was removed from the plane. >> are there consequences for an airline that doesn't keep someone who is on a no-fly list off an airplane? >> i would point you to dhs on that. i don't know the specifics on that. yes? >> two questions. one, on the supreme court, can you tell us how the meeting went this morning? >> i don't have a readout on the meeting. i know that the meetings were a result of conversations that the president had on the phone over the past several weeks with both se

and it is sad really and sort of frustrating that the press in general typecasts every woman that lives in the white house. the other first ladies. because always our first ladies have been a lot more interesting, a lot more complicated than their box that they are sort of put in. >> chris: do you think michelle obama has been typecast the same way you were? >> i don't think so really and maybe this is just her age that she is younger but i think she has been given the benefit of the doubt more by the press than former first ladies. certainly look at the way barbara bush, mother, grandmother was typed as grandmotherly type woman when in fact barbara bush is as strong as horseradish and the people really know that. >> you became deeply involved in advocating for afghan women for their rights, for their role in the life of their country. and you write "it was not that i found my voice, instead it was as if my voice had found me." explain. >> well, what happened was i made the president's radio address after september 11th and talked about the treatment of women and children by the taliban

let's talk about the press for a minute. nt you to watch how different networks cover the same story. remember that story a while back about president obama, somebody had a jacket and had a big poster in times square and the president not supposed to be endorsing. this is how cbs covered it. >> and president obama no longer has a commanding presence in another new york location. remember this huge billboard with his likeness. it was removed yesterday from times square. mr. obama's picture is not supposed to be used for commercial purposes. >> now, look how fox news carried the exact same story. ok. timing is everything. [laughter] >> ♪ ♪ [applause] >> but to be fair, it is a two-street and the white house likes to play games with fox news. this tape has not been altered in anyway. we didn't change or do anything. i'm going to show you some reporters outside the white house. notice how quiet it is when the msnbc reporters are reporting and watch what happens with fox. >> does make a couple of problems go away. >> secretary rob

this is going to be a long statement, longer than the press would like. but after 42 years, i think i have earned it. in december i will let been in public service for 48 years -- over six and the wisconsin state legislature and almost 42 years in the u.s. congress. i've served in the house longer than anyone in his house -- in wisconsin history. god and my constituents have been incredibly good to me. when i was a kid growing up in wausau, i never dreamed that i would even have one-tenth of the opportunities that come my way. i hope that i have used those opportunities to do the most that could be done for the causes i believe in -- fairer taxes, greater economic opportunities, better schools, of affordable health care, expanded education, and health- care benefits for veterans, research that will help us fight diseases like cancer, diabetes, and parkinson's, better health, safety, and economic security for workers, cleaner air and water and preservation of national parks and some public places. the people of northern wisconsin have given me the honor and

just another infusion of printing -- running the printing presses and dropping the interest rate that crack cocaine works for a little while, but it comes back with a whale of a hangover. mr. thompson: it's deadly in the end. mr. akin: and the trouble is, it's people in your and my districts that will get hung with the costs of the deal. they're struggling to make ends meets, their family have having a hard time, they're getting taxed out of house and home and they're the ones saying, i don't trust what washington, d.c. is doing. i don't trust what wall street is doing. i don't know what to do with the last of my savings that just shrunk out from underneath me because of these policies. we have to get back to some sanity and the basic things that work. we've got to stop taxing the people that run the businesses. we have to get liquidity to business owners so they have money to invest. what we have to do is stop all the red tape. we have to basically change the banking rules so that there's some liquidity that way. particularly, -- particularly, we have got to get off of the big spendi

we just heard that in the press conference. the question asked that 8 of the 41 lacrosse players have faced alcohol-related charges. you mentioned it, and it goes around campus that these guys like to drink and party. let's get back to the suspect here. how much will pattern of behavior play into this when we talk about the showdown with the female police officer 2008, and just what we'll end up finding out whether the guy's an aggressive drunk or not. >> sure. these are important questions. and the reality is, in a criminal case, it's very important that the person who is being accused and tried for whatever kind of criminal conduct is tried in front of a jury for a specific incident in question and not for all the things that they've done in their past. that's the general rule. now, that being said, what can sometimes happen is that the accused or the defendant will come forward with a defense like it wasn't me or i wasn't there. or i would never do something like that. and if they start to say those kinds of things, that give

let's talk about the press for a minute. t you to watch how different networks cover the same story. remember that story about president obama, somebody had a jacket and had a big poster on time square and the president isn't supposed to be endorsing. this is how cbs covered it. >> president obama no longer has the commanding presence in a new york location. remember this huge billboard with his likeness. it was removed. mr. obama's picture is not to be used for commercial purposes. >> now look how fox news carried the exact same story. >> timing is everything. ok. [applause] >> but to be fair, it is a two-way street ks, and i think the white house likes to play games. i'm going to show you some tape. this tape hasn't been altered in anyway. i'm going to show you some reporters outside the white house. notice how quiet it is when the msnbc reporters reporting and watch what happens with fox. we haven't changed it in anyway. >> does make a couple of problems go away. >> secretary robert gibbs. >> emergens of this part of the p

on this or any other subject we need to take him with the press. with a stroke of a pen the president can do his part to get us on the road by putting it in. that's something that innocent people who may become u.s. citizens later may be victims of being deported at this time. remember, the president committed publicly in private and publicly and via video during the march 21st rally at the mall, he came on video to address hundreds of thousands that have gathered there to say he is committed to enacting comprehensive immigration reform. the president does sign a bill to come to his desk. that is a goal that we have to continue to push. he can influence. he can push people along. and we need to influence him so he knows he has the backing of the vast majority of americans to move this forward. remember, the civil rights fight was not won overnight. it took determined concerted effort throughout the history, throughout the '60s and earlier to make sure that we move to the era of equality. we still have some challenges to go. but this is an issue that

i think the issues that were raised in the american press or the european press have now been understood better by our u.s. counterparts, so i will not go into further detail on that. the issue is resolved as it stands now. >> i have nothing to add to that. i just want to add one thing to what the president said initially about kandahar operation. i have heard some of the commentary in anticipation of this operation, making it sound like it was going to be a massive military action, of tanks rolling into the city. that is not the kind of operation that our military leaders believe is warranted. they want to have a successful counter insurgency operation that does not destroy kandarhar in the effort to save it. as someone rightly said to me, one of my military colleagues, this is not fallujah. a lot of lessons have been learned. the people like general petraeus and general mcchrystal learned those lessons in iraq. i want the american press particularly to be disabused that somehow you are going to wake up one morning and d-day has started. that is not what this is about. that is not what

i am always dealing with the press of topics 3 today is no different. as we approach nearly a decade of aggressive u.s. policies to combat terrorism the result that the shop policies should obtain still and do this. americans do not fill as secure as they should be, nor did they feel that their lives and liberties are well protected. instead, terrorism is very much with us. the they pale in comparison to 9/11, new attacks both successful and the failed remind us that terrorists continue to seek to do less harm. meanwhile the nation's politics remain in thrall to by the specter of and terrorism. alarm is a man fear makes it nearly any reaction to terrorism same of viable and politically palatable. including reactions that we needlessly spilled american blood and treasure it rather than dispassionately address this topic, our national leaders often hype impossible threats and jockey for political advantage by anticipating terrorist rights in the future. this struggle that we are engaged in to address this problem of terrorism exists for good reason. policy

we're waiting on robert gibson and the press briefing. -- robert gibbs. senate hearing will get underway at 2:30 p.m. on the gulf coast oil spill. a coastguard official and janet napolitano will be speaking, followed by the president and share of bp. he is back on capitol hill after appearances before other congressional panels last week. senator joe lieberman chairs the committee -- >> good afternoon. >> robert, why is the white house pressuring democrats to back off the [unintelligible] attempt to bring back glass- steagall? >> i do not have anything on that. i'm sorry? >> is the white house opposed to reestablishing glass- steagall? >> i don't have any information on the amendment, but i'm happy to look at it. >> in the running statement, is there anything that changes the administration's posture on the whole nuclear question for iran? >> look, let's look at the totality of what this proposal is. you certainly have my statement that they're shipping their low- enriched uranium out would be a positive sign, progress. but understand that the proposal do

[laughter] [applause] >> i have a great deal of respect for the press. you have a tough job. economics of the newspaper industry fared just as devastating as the economics situation facing the economy as a whole. do i find the press irritating? yes. that is a natural state of affairs in a democracy. i was absolutely shocked to have one of my sons become a reporter. just as i was shocked to have one of my sons marry a minnesota viking fan. but there are certain things you can overcome with help. >> what would you like to get done in your remaining months? >> everything. i would hope that we would get real financial reform. i would hope that we would recognize that we have had such immense growth of income for the economic elite in this country that we need to turn that around and began to put average, middle-class people first so i would like to see us begin to develop a tax code that is a of a lot more fair to working families than the tax codes we're operating under today. we have to attack issues like climate change. after all, this is the planet that sustained us all. most