Beneath the rhetoric, which remains hot, we had two concessions now. The president has made a concession by saying he's willing to take a short-term extension of the debt ceiling in order to let negotiations get started.
David Gergen discusses the concessions made by the president regarding the debt ceiling negotiations.
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