Washington Week with The Atlantic

From the Vault: Deficit Deal Stalemate

Clip: 11/25/2011 | 4m 57s

Newly re-elected, President Obama has to find a way to get a divided Congress to reach an agreement to prevent a fiscal crisis or risk pushing the country into recession. We look in the vault to November 2011 when the the supercommittee failed to reach a budget deal affecting national politics and the economy.