David Gergen actually said...

It's clear now that we have not just a financial crisis that's building up in this country but a political crisis.

The critical point is, as Moody's is warning, as Ben Bernanke warned today in Congress, the critical point is this country must not go into ...

the President and the -- and the leaders all have to come out of their corners and arrive at some sort of deal in the immediate future that ...

The president says he does not want a short-term deal. And I know personally that he feels very intensely about that.