Barack Obama: “I think the American people want to see that concrete action.”

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

We don’t have any folks who grill here?

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.