CNN 2011-04-20（在线收听）

From your house to the corner. Yes, there goes the roof off a house. And an umbrella and a luggage.

The windows broke out. The roof went. The walls went. There's nothing left. There's a tree on my daughter's truck. I don't know where my cats are.

I've worked with Mansour Kan, and he is a very distinguished researcher in the Pakistan tribal regions, you know, Mortenson has claimed that he was kidnapped by a group including Mansour Kan. But Mansour Kan says that's completely ridiculous and in fact, just in the last couple of hours he has sent me an e-mail saying he's planning to sue Mortenson for making after all a rather defamatory statement about him. That he's a Taliban kidnapper.

What is reassuring and important is that the leaders of both parties in Congress as well as the President, of course, agree that the debt ceiling will be raised. Because we cannot play chicken with our economy.  We cannot play chicken with the full faith and credit of the United States government. We meet our obligations. We are the United States. And we will do that.  That will happen. Concurrently, we, as the President urged, will be engaged in bipartisan negotiations aimed at reducing our deficit, cutting spending, and taking other measures to reduce our deficit. Regardless of how that process proceeds and what agreements are reached along the way and in what timeframe, it is absolutely a fact that Congress will raise the debt ceiling because not to do that would be a catastrophic folly