Update 12:45 PM EST: Press conference is over. Below are the updates as they happened real time.

• Here comes Mr. Wonderful … 9 minutes late.
• “Right now” Congress give me more money.
• “Right now” X 10 times
• Fear mongering on budget cuts.
• “I spent two years cutting taxes” with a straight face.
• “Corporate jet owners” need their taxes raised.
• “Corporate jet owners” X 3 times.
• “Call me naive” ok, you’re naive.
• “Corporate jets” X 4
• “Corporate jets” X 5
• “Corporate jets” X 6
• Another talking point, “time limited, scope limited” in Libya.
• Won’t say if War Powers Resolution is constitutional.
• DOMA is “unconstitutional”
• “I’ve discovered a President can’t dictate” Yes, really.
• NLRB suit against Boeing is okay.
• When asked point blank, refuses to say “victory” is our objective in Afghanistan, only to be “successful”
• “Pathway for illegals” aka amnesty.
• More fearmongering, if debt ceiling isn’t hiked. We’ll pay China and not Social Security.
• Congress ran up this debt, he had nothing to do with it.
• “I am not engaging in scare tactics”
• Invoking his daughters Malia and Sasha for some unknown reason.
• “I’m amused when people say the President needs to show more leadership” . . . “I put Joe Biden in charge of debt talks”
• Complaining about Congress not showing up to work!
• End.