RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR AND REPORTER HOST OF "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS" SHOW: The President of the United States speaking for the best part of an hour and answering questions -- a long news conference. I'm going to give you just barely the headlines. He describes Russia's policy in now bombing in Syria as getting Russia into a quagmire. He calls it a disaster. He says Russia's not successful, it's just getting attention. He describes the battle between the U.S. and Russia. He says Syria is not going to become a proxy war between Russia and the United States. On the gun question following the shooting in Oregon, the President for the first time now directly referring to the NRA, the gun lobby. He says the gun NRA needs to reflect on what's happened and they've been effective in what they do by scaring politicians and organizing the campaign. He says there's nothing more he can do other than to talk about it to change people's minds. And finally, on the economy, since it was such a broad-ranging news conference, the President said the debt ceiling is too important and he's not going to negotiate over an increase to the debt ceiling. We'll talk about the U.S. job situation in a moment.
Reviewing President Obama's Press Conference