COSTELLO: In about 25 minutes, President Obama is set to hold a news conference in the East Room of the White House. It will be open to questions from reporters. On his agenda: the debt limit, I'm sure gun control will come up too. Let's head to the White House now, and correspondent Dan Lothian, why now?</s>DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's an interesting question. I mean this was kind of a surprise. Sometimes you get a heads up that perhaps the President as you know has said that he was not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling. There'd been some rumblings up on Capitol Hill. Over the last weekend we've been hearing some law makers talk about how they're not going to back down on this one. They're going to take a very tough stance so perhaps the President wanted to get out in front of that. And as you pointed out, his opening statements will be focused on the debt ceiling. But we expect that a lot of questions will also be on guns and gun control. The Vice President is expected to give the President a list of recommendations tomorrow so it will be interesting to see when the President will be acting on those recommendations and also have some questions about what the President plans to do under executive action. We have gotten confirmation as you know over the last few days from the White House that the President would in fact be willing or looking at an option to use executive action to put into his some measures to remedy further gun violence. These are some of the things that we expect the President to be dealing with during this news conference. It was supposed to have started at 11:15. Now been pushed back 15 minutes to 11:30.</s>COSTELLO: All right. Dan Lothian reporting live from the White House. Just four teams left with a shot at winning the Super Bowl. The NFL championship round is set. We're going to talk about that and more.
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