 This is AP News. I'm Rita Foley. Did you see the president's news conference last night? Look, I got more work to do. We got more work to finish. And the president says he's the best qualified to do it. At a highly anticipated news conference aimed at reassuring lawmakers and voters after a dismal debate, the president said it would be different if he was slowing down and couldn't do the job. But there's no indication of that yet.