President Barack Obama on Sunday defended the ambitious agenda he laid out in his State of the Union address in January, during an interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie ahead of Super Bowl XLIX.
Asked whether he thought he had acted “cocky” during the State of the Union given that Democrats lost badly in the November elections, Obama defended himself, saying “nobody was doing an end-zone dance.”
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“I just want to make sure that in two years when we look back, we’ll say not only did we recover from that crisis, we’ve built the foundation to make sure that America benefits for generations to come,” he told Guthrie.
