Tomorrow night the President sits down for an interview with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft, and according to a press release:
In his longest interview since taking office, President Barack Obama tells Steve Kroft that ... embattled Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s job is safe. The president even joked that were Geithner to tender his resignation, he would say, “Sorry Buddy, you’ve still got the job.” [...]
The president said neither he nor Geithner has mentioned resignation from his Treasury post and that criticism is natural. “It’s going to take a little bit more time than we would like to make sure that we get this plan just right. Of course, then we'd still be subject to criticism,” he tells Kroft. “What's taken so long? You've been in office a whole 40 days and you haven't solved the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression,” Obama said with a laugh.
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