It certainly suggests that the mode -- the tone the President set today is a -- is a tone set by someone who thinks that talks are near collapse or not going anywhere and he's trying to scold the Republicans into action.
Gergen interprets Obama's tone as indicative of frustration with the stalled negotiations on the debt ceiling.
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