Obama says he won't wait for Congress

CNN: Waukesha, Wisconsin (CNN) -- Once, Barack Obama spoke of what he wanted for his presidency in terms of healing a nation divided. "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal," he said. Today, Obama is talking about executive orders and executive actions -- with a pen or phone -- if a divided Congress won't or can't act on an agenda he laid out this week in his State of the Union address. But in an exclusive interview airing Friday on CNN, the President insists he has not recalibrated his ambitions. "In no way are my expectations diminished or my ambitions diminished. But what is obviously true is we've got a divided government right now," Obama said.

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