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'This Week' Exclusives: Timothy Geithner and Alan Greenspan

Our exclusive headliners this Sunday: US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan. Our focus: the state of the economy and your money. There was some encouraging news on the economy this week. The...

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July 31, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (110)

White House: No 'Precooked' Apologies at Brew Fest

Tonight's the night. Gates, Crowley and the president crack their brews somewhere near the Rose Garden (not the picnic table, too hard to shoot.) White House aides tell me that there is no "precooked" statement already agreed to and no...

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July 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (22)

Health Care: Long Slog Ahead

The President said today that in the “best-case scenario,” a health care reform bill will not get voted on or signed until mid-fall. But key negotiators on both the House and Senate sides told me today that I shouldn't be...

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July 29, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (25)

Krugman: Recession is Over (Sort Of)

On the "This Week" Roundtable, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argues the recession is over ... sort of.

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July 26, 2009 in This Week with George Stephanopoulos | Permalink | User Comments (40)

Roundtable: Obama Sparks Race Debate

Did the Cambridge police act "stupidly" when they arrested Skip Gates? Was the President smart to say so? Can this be the "teachable moment" Obama wants?

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July 26, 2009 in This Week with George Stephanopoulos | Permalink | User Comments (162)

Conrad: Democrats Alone Can't Pass Health Care

Despite their 60-vote majority in the Senate, a top Democrat argued today that Democrats alone can't pull health care reform through Congress. "There are not the votes for Democrats to do this just on our side of the aisle," Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and a key player in the health care reform effort on Capitol Hill said during an exclusive health care debate this morning with Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., on "This Week."

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July 26, 2009 in This Week with George Stephanopoulos | Permalink | User Comments (249)

‘This Week’ Sunday: Health Care Reform Debate

On the show this Sunday, an exclusive debate between two people who are shaping the health care debate in Congress: Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., -- who has said that health care reform could be Obama’s “Waterloo.” Plus, joining me on the Roundtable to discuss all of the week’s politics: ABC’s George Will, ABC's Donna Brazile, the Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.

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July 23, 2009 in This Week with George Stephanopoulos | Permalink | User Comments (29)

Obama's Health Care Push

It was clear last night that the president fully knows his stuff on health care, and he strongly made the point that the status quo isn't working. But he was less successful in selling what he wants to do because he doesn't have a single bill to sell right now.

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July 23, 2009 in Barack Obama, Health Care | Permalink | User Comments (35)

Obama's 'Make or Break' Deadline ... Missed

The president's closest friend in the Senate took a bullet for him today. Hours before the president's press conference, Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin acknowledged what had become clear across Capitol Hill, telling "The Hill" that it just wasn't "possible" for the Senate to meet President Obama's August deadline for passing health care through the House and Senate.

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July 22, 2009 in Barack Obama, Health Care, World News | Permalink | User Comments (9)

Latest ABC Poll on President Obama's Approval

Here's my discussion with ABC's Charlie Gibson about the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll on the president's job approval numbers:

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July 20, 2009 in Barack Obama, World News | Permalink | User Comments (24)