President Obama: “Republicans are holding 98 percent of Americans hostage for the 2 percent that they want tax credits for.”

President Obama came right out today and said that the administration, the attorney general is going to look through the federal agencies and programs and direct them to implement swiftly and smoothly the Constitution's command.

But the president also said Iran's nuclear program was a main impediment to greater cooperation.

The odds of an outbreak in United States of Ebola are extremely low but he called it a top national security priority.

He is not putting U.S. combat troops on the ground in Iraq or Syria. Aides to the president had said repeatedly that this is not going to be another Iraq war.