JON DELANO: What’s your response to those who are demonstrating and those who oppose this summit?

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I fundamentally disagree with their view that the free market is the source of all ills. Ironically, if they had been paying attention to what was taking place inside the summit itself, what they would have heard was a strong recognition from the most diverse collection of leaders in history that it is important to make sure that the market is working for ordinary people.

STEVE MARTINEZ: And although President Obama chose to characterize the demonstrators as rabble-rousing anti-capitalists disinterested in the actual goings-on of the summit, most who attended the rallies on Thursday and Friday felt they were getting the G-20’s message loud and clear and had their own take on the gathering of world leaders. This is musician and activist David Rovics.

ME: Should they be allowed to protest?

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Of course. Please, this is America. They just need to realize that there is a 100% chance that they will be beaten and arrested for it, just so long as they remain peaceful.