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Political headlines: Pres. Obama's press conference & the 2012 election
President Obama held his first news conference since March on Wednesday and was asked questions on a wide range of issues from debt ceiling talks between the White House and Congress to gay rights to Afghanistan and Libya.
On the deficit talks, Obama took an urgent tone, calling on lawmakers to overcome the "selfish" norms of politics and "do their job" in order to strike a deal on raising the federal government's current $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by the start of August.
Robert Zimmerman, Democratic analyst and Jim McLaughlin, Republican strategist, join American Morning today to talk about what the President can do to push forward the impasse over the debt negotiations and to discuss the 2012 GOP election.
Rep. Steve Israel: ‘We will not negotiate the end of Medicare’
Congress heads back to Capitol Hill today, with a debate over Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan and a vote in the House on the debt ceiling expected to occur this week.
This morning, Representative Steve Israel (D-NY), Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, joins the AM anchors to discuss the hard choices both political parties have to make to fix the national deficit problem.
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