Obama Urges Compromise in Debt Talks

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President Obama stood before the nation and pleaded with Congress to come to an agreement as soon as possible, in a prime-time speech to the American public last night. “We can’t allow the American people to become collateral damage to Washington’s political warfare,” he said.  House Speaker John Boehner immediately followed Obama’s speech with his response, agreeing that the debate needs to be resolved, but urging Obama to sign on to the Republican proposal to raise the debt limit. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor of communications and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and  Todd Zwillich, The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent, have the latest details and analysis of where both Democrats and Republicans stand on the issue.

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