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LIVE VIDEO: President Obama speaks after shutdown deal

President Obama speaks after lawmakers reach a last-minute agreement to avert a threatened Treasury default and reopen the government after a shutdown.
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on October 8, 2013 in Washington, DC.
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on October 8, 2013 in Washington, DC.
By MSNBC staff, MSNBC staff

LIVE VIDEO — President Obama speaks after lawmakers reach a last-minute agreement to avert a threatened Treasury default and reopen the government after a shutdown.

Read the very latest on the bipartisan Senate plan to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, moving Congress close to the end of its paralyzing standoff.