be false optimism. to be something behind it, harris. >> harris: depending on which bill passes we can be talking about this in a short little while again. >> absolutely. >> i want to go first next time. >> harris: you have to work that out with ed. >> he took up all the air time. >> harris: thank you both. nobody knows for certain but did you hear both gentlemen talking about what might happen. no one knows for certain what should happen should they reach a deal or the u.s. suffer a downgrade. con ken us is among most analysts though is it won't be good. moody's investment services indicating that the u.s. may be able to keep its prized a.a.a. rating as long as lawmakers hammer out acceptable deal. regardless, what can the rest of us expect to happen should things fall apart on tuesday. think about highest interest rates on everything from credit cards to mart gages to student loans. our james rosen is live for us in washington at our bureau there. james, i like the title of this. >> yes, indeed. very

ronald reagan turned the optimism note to a patriotic message.9 hit song "god bless the u.s.a." by lee greenwood. ♪ i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up ♪ chris: bill clinton and al gore's optimistic theme was all about their bridge to the future message. ♪ don't stop thinking about tomorrow don't stop it will soon be here ♪ chris: another winner. but what about theme song that's bombed? because they didn't marry an optimistic note with the candidate that looked optimistic. there was, of course, michael dukakis. ♪ around the world they're coming to america every time that flag unfurled ♪ >> and john kerry's didn't exactly work for him either. ♪ it's a beautiful day don't let it get away ♪ but the grandaddy of all bad theme songs, when ross perot was combating his image as a loose cannon he chose this theme -- >> here we go. ♪ crazy i'm crazy for feeling so lonely i'm crazy ♪ chris: the great patsy clivene. when we come back, we'll talk about

i think there's a lot of optimism in the market. it's not with the political going on in washington or greece, however, from a market perspective things look good. >> clearly good with the transport sector over all. wabco makes parts for cars, and trucks. it's a bit off the most recent spring time high. why do they like it? >> it's going to be doing well in the emerging markets. a lot of emerging markets nations have to bring their trucks toup code to raise the standards to those we see in developed nations. and wabco makes braking systems and safety systems and they're a company that can do that. >> so that's in the truck space. airlines have been the laggards of the overall group. but interesting, some of the fund managers do like aerospace suppliers. and trans digm makes aircraft components next to a new high tonight. >> the word is on trans digm they have a lot of pricing power. there's not a lot of makers in this space. so they have a lot of pricing power and showed it during the downturn. and some of the analysts say they're g

. >>> now to washington now where there is a renewed sense of optimism this morning over resolving the debt crisis. a new plan is being put forward by a group of north senators from both sides of the aisle. wall street rebounded on that possibility and karen travers s the new details. >> reporter: as the clock ticks down to the august 2nd debt suddenly a glimmer of optimism in washington. >> i think we now are seeing the potential for a bipartisan consensus. >> reporter: yesterday, a bipartisan group off senators dubbed the gang of six, announced a plan that would cut at least $3.7 trillion from the deficit over the next decade. that would be achieved through a mix of spending cuts iluding cuts to medicare, medicaid and social security and closing tax loopholes. >> they had a very positive reaction. >> they've come to a bipartisan agreement and i >> reporter: wall street also proves. the stock market had its best one-day result of the year and the dow jones closed up 200 points. >> the bill is passed. >> reporter: over in the house lawmakaks passed the cut, cap and balance act last nig

so all of that is reason for optimism. but there's still a chance that there will be a problem. >> susie: and it might not come to a deal on august 2. if that happens, can you explain what would be the real economic impact for the average american person? >> well, the bipartisan policy center did a as to and basically they said in august, if we don't get an agreement, they'd have to cut federal spending by 40%. what does that mean? that's $134 billion, about 10% of the economy in the month of august that would disappear. on top of that, we have to roll over $500 billion of debt. how you're going to do that in a market where you don't have an agreement on the debt limit? that's a scary thought. >> susie: a lot scary things there. thanks, darren, appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> susie: we've been speaking with our washington bureau chief, darren gersh. >> tom: still ahead, alcoa's profit more than doubles. we talk with c.e.o. klaus kleinfeld about those earnings and the aluminum giant's hiring plans. while washington tries

and, last poem, foolish of me and yet optimism. the title is only optimism. the other part was a preface. more and more, i have come to admire resilience, not the simple resistance of a pillow whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. a blind intelligence, true, but out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs, all this resinous, unretractable, earth. the next reader is summer brenner. . >> i'm going it read today an excerpt from anana, queen of heaven and earth. i wanted to say a few words about anana. this is the oldest literary work that we have. these are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anana starts in her adolescence. it travels through her journey as a queen and a goddess, and much of her story is devoted to the love, a very passionate love, for dimusi, who is a shepherd who she

given that hellman has proven to be a graveyard of optimism, it might well be that the project might be finished by the time that they go with ross. >> sometime in the coming decades, china will overtake america as the world's biggest economy. western commentators viewed the u.s. as a sort of place in peril britain was at the end of the 20 century. to discuss this, my colleague spoke to an economist, the author who left after taking part in protests in 1989, and a writer on risk in geopolitics. first, we take stock of how the land lies. >> the paramount fear -- the crowd is diverse the of all code come to take part in a production of a change their lives. they call it naturalization here. to you and me, that means becoming a u.s. citizen. cheesy, yes, to see one of the ceremonies is to grasp the essence of america. >> this is one of those only in america plummets. this is part of a living -- legal process. this is all wrapped into kind of a movie experience. it says, "i am honored to congratulate you on becoming a citizen of the united states. because of your determination, this grea

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is there optimism from the white house on a debt plan? let's bring in white house correspondent dan lothian. what's being said about the latest developments. >> reporter: well, look, first of all the sense i'm getting is that republicans are expressing more optimism publicly than at least democrats and the white house, being cautiously optimistic here but one democrat familiar with the talks telling me things are in a much better place than they were 24 hours ago but top aides at the white house and other sources also again reaffirming that we have heard over the last 24 hours, that there's still not a deal. there's still a lot of work to be done. again, certainly there has been movement as one person pointed out significant progress over the last 24 hours. at this point, as far as we know, there are no meetings that are on the schedule, no plans at this point for the president to come out and make any remarks but of course, all of that could change at the moment's notice. >> so, dan, we know the deadline is tuesday, is the white house se

. >> poland says it supports the dui deal and hopes to have a renewed sense of optimism.warsaw -- supports the eu deal and hopes to have a renewed sense of optimism. >> with economic growth, with political growth, the political energy and commitment to our project, and enthusiasm that poland brings to the union, this puts poland in a strong position to push forward some very challenging project. >> taking out the ceremonial batoto the prime minister has plged to tackle those challenges in the months ahead. >> denmark's parliament approved a plan to introduce perermane customs controls along its eu borders next week. copenhagen says the measures aimed at combating crime like drug trafficking and immigrgration. critics fear it could undermine the treaty that creates a borderless the zone amongst eu states. denmark says the plan does not violate the agreement allowing for the free movement of people and goods. it seems everyone is saving thesese da. >> slash and burn time. burning by the protesters, slashingq by the government. the portuguese parliament passed an austerity p

theet's have your optimism -- let's hope that your optimism is well-founded. >> still to come, the changing face of china in 90 years after the communist party there was founded and the push to progress will come at a price. now to a british woman who claimed that her back pain was so bad that she can only walk on crutches. she got about $12,000 in disability handouts. then authorities were tipped off that it was a scam. 12,000 feet above south wales, this is clear jones. she told the department of work and tensions meant she could not walk more than a few feet without stumbling. she said simple tasks such as chopped vegetables and cooking were impossible. the truth was very different. as well as skydiving, she worked at a sandwich bar and she rarely went to this wimple and the gym. do you regret what you did? do you regret claiming the money? >> the magistrates were told that the mother of three claimed just over 6,000 pounds in benefits. she was caught after the department of work and pensions received an anonymous tipoff. this video of her charity skydive providing all the evidence that

. >>> the word from democrats is optimism.publicans jello and still america is two and a half weeks from a tabitha we can't pay. going good evening. no a day at the beach lands some teens in the hospital. one girl is in critical condition. they were stranded by the tide on part of tennessee valley beach with waves pounding against them. elizabeth cook. >> reporter: coast guard lifeguards battled raging surf on the rocky shoreline to hoist a teen girl onto a helicopter. they had plucked her out of the frigid ocean. once they secured her on to a gurney a rescuer gave the sign and they took her to the hospital in walnut creek. emergency crews found three other victims on the sand, they treated them there before a coast guard chopper took them to safety. >> i haven't seen anything like that. it was pretty scary. >> reporter: lewis saw it happen. he said the group were hanging out and didn't realize the tide was coming in. >> when they tried to walk back they didn't time it enough and the waves came in and swept them out. >> report

a lot of optimism. we like that. a lot of optimism about america's job report in just about an hour. it has already lifted the stock markets. there's a lot of hope that the unemployment figure will be an improvement from last month's dismal numbers. analysts expect the jobless rate to remain the same, currently at 9.1%. ing financial markets -- wide there's likely to be such an increase. --i think it's part to the the related to energy. also, the implications of the japanese earthquake. those situations are changing. gasoline prices have fallen. the japanese supplier issues are unwinding, as well. mortgage rates and the u.s. have fallen. that is all providing stimulus. hopefully, if we get good jobs numbers today, that will provide a much better second half to the u.s. economy. >> today, president obama has met congressional leaders at the white house for another round of negotiations on raising the debt ceiling. republicans and democrats have to agree on a deal by early august or, quite simply, the government will r

. >> do you share any of the optimism? >> we have to remember that the hard cases that are being investigated go back a few years. at any journalist today knows that if they start hacking or try to get stories by criminal means, they will go to jail. the law of the land is strong. any regulator can possibly be. i think that alone is good. about not as a big moment, -- >> as a big moment, did people want to see a hanging? >> they did not that the hanging, but the got the custard pie, which was extraordinary. i thought it delivered wonderfully in tv terms. i thought the relationship between rupert and james was fascinating, the whole dynamic. were 's pauses extraordinary. there was a moment with rupert murdoch stepped up for investigative journalism, and i thought that was a wonderful irony because it was investigative journalism on the part of "the guardian" that led to him sitting in front of the select committee. >> did you feel any sympathy towards him? >> as a person, as a woman, yes. as a person, i felt sympathy. i tho

we did see the dow getting pushed lower after it was boosted somewhat earlier by a little bit of optimism following the minutes of the federal reserve meeting from june which showed some of the members of the fomc or actually optimistic about taking further measures to stimulate the u.s. economy and that follows from the ending of the quantitative easing period that ended in june, so that gave a little bit of optimism, but then the eurozone debt concerns pushed markets lower. we did see the nikkei trading below 10,000 yesterday for the first time in five trading sessions, and that was weighed down by exporters which again took a turn lower because of the strengthening yen and if you look at the currency markets right now you can see the euro/yen trading around the 111 levels. earlier this morning it was trading around 110, but it actually dipped below that as well, and as you mentioned, against the dollar also having dipped below 79 at one point, now that compares with the euro/yen trading around 117 last week and just around 114 just this monday, so you can see the sudden strength in the

, it was mostly economic optimism.s it also political? >> it's also political. i think about half of the continent now has some form of quasi-democratic elections. which is a huge step up. we're seeing more accountability, more of a civil society in certain places. internet is bringing that. so you have that political advance, an economic advance and huge improvement in health care, in nutrition, and in mortality. >> peter, there will be 27 elections in africa this year. are most of them phony? >> it's said it's not who votes, but who counts the votes. i think across the whole spectrum, many of imperfect, but what you need to look at is where incumbents lose. that's still relatively rare. that's because you know you've had some sort of fairness in election. and in zimbabwe's case, that didn't -- that wasn't the case. i'm just back from south africa and having witnessed local elections, a free and fair election, it wasn't perfect but it was real democracy at work. it's astonishing, and for me particularly from zimbabwe,

s to work with the airports to come up with the optimal security spending per airport. it's not the same everywhere. >> and you talk about high-risk airports. what's not a high-risk airport when i can get on a commuter jet at any airport in the country and end up at a hub airport and be on the biggest airliner in the world? what would not constitute a critical airport? >> i agree with you 100%. report we got in terms of the 700 innovative measures came from airports as small as asheville, from the airport such as delta county, minot. so it's a mixture of big airports and small airport that have gotten into best practices in terms of what are the kinds of things appropriate for each airport. >> again, let me go on to mr. lord. i have a lot of questions in a limited amount of time. you're talking about spending on, for instance, baggage screening equipment. i'll speak from experience the airport i use most is the corpus christi airport. we have three airlines, american, continental with small regional jets and southwest with 737's. each individual airline has a screening

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there is no cautious optimism we are hearing right now. even though both the boehner bill that passed last night was killed by this senate and this reid will. they are quite similar, but there is not a lot of cautious optimism. >> this reminds me of you and me talking about the similar issue, the 2011 budget. you were standing there day after day telling us what was happening. how is the energy different this time around? do you think it's good and something will happen? what is your sense about how law makers are dealing with it this time? >> i've got to tell you. covering this story has been interesting because the leaders on both sides want to strike a deal. you get the sense from talking to their aides, that they do not want to see a default. you had a blocking minority, many of them of the 87 tea-party inspired house freshmen reluctant to support any debt limit not coupled with what they based their political career on. that's tied down john boehner and his colleagues and mitch mcconnell. it tied down reid. you've seen this pessimism

was actually the libyan side that asked for this meeting which gives diplomats in moscow cautious optimism because of course it signifies to them that those in power in libya don't actually want to continue the military ongoing military conflict and are attempting to seek diplomatic solutions to the problem according to the libyan foreign affairs minister every single party has to be involved in these negotiations and not one party should be singled out including of course the opposition forces in benghazi i mean to go to war. we should old rule. should do should. which would include. not only the. car we should. move it to be removed in the kurdish. condition or from three over the course of. the things we shouldn't. we are sure. going to it is going to go on to the order of russia of course proposed itself as a mediator in the ongoing conflict and has basically said that it will try to do everything possible to bring about a ceasefire and a diplomatic solution to the conflict in contrast to the military intervention and how that led by nato troops which russia believes is simply prolongi

actually the libyan side that asked for this meeting which gives diplomats in moscow a cautious optimism because of course it signifies to them that those in power in libya are attempting to seek diplomatic solutions to the problem russia of course proposed itself as a mediator and has basically said that it will try to do everything possible to bring about a cease fire and a diplomatic solution to the conflict in contrast to the military intervention heralded a lead by nato troops which russia believes is simply prolonging the so-called policy of isolation and of course the recognition by some western states all of the opposition forces in benghazi as the legitimate government is only extending the conflict russia has said that it does believe moammar gadhafi should step down and will continue to do everything in his power to bring about a diplomatic resolution to the ongoing conflict that's one of the many controversial issues and of a storm of lager debate on our website forum you can join in to. call while you're there want to take a look at these stories children preparing for mothe

drumming up support for it, and mitch mcconnell is drumming up support and there is this wave of optimism, remember, this could very well pass the senate, we saw how difficult it was to get the republican bill out of house last week. it took speaker boehner three times, and this bill right now, as it's written is angering folks on the left and right. can john boehner or if he agrees to take this, and he's usually in one-on-one, connecting to mitch mcconnell, can they get a coalition of 216 votes in the house on tuesday? if this is the deal, that becomes the real question over the next two days, and that's a question we can't answer right now. it will be ai whole cross section of views, and if this is already angering the left and the right, you're looking at between anywhere between 80 to 100 members who are saying no. the road to 216 really becomes a big story if this is the deal. >> luke russert, thank you for telling it like it is. >> take care. >> for more on where the debt debate stands, check out the white house with david plouffe. it will reair on "meet the press" on 2:00 p.m. righ

somebody can do the right thing i guess we all have to i mean in you have to at least have some optimism that somebody will look at this and open talking about it with high levels of hakim's i'm simply sense that somebody can look at this and say for bad it really there are certain things we should be doing and certain things that we should be doing simply because they are or are not effective that's what i'm talking about here i'm not even talking about some of the things we should do or be tearing perspective of talking about things that she did and things that were on happening that there's at least a little shred of optimism left that because they think it's missing from a lot of you know the other thing is you know there's a little of that that thank you so much for joining us tonight. if you. will start a colony you casey's massive protest over planned budget and pension cuts and title compared the situation in the u.k. to that here in the us. to give us some closure see a story and it seems so for life is if you understand it and then you glimpse something else and here's you some

deal so it is looking optimistic but i just think you know this is this is cool should with the optimism . but of a change there from optimistic to neutral on the crude remark here take a look light sweet now down fifty cents to ninety seven dollars a barrel brant still at seventeen cents now this comes after the tragic end of winning technical default so worries there about america's ability to actually create demand for gas basically u.s. markets open mics than flat the still trading in negative territory after a strong tuesday session investors old weighing the progress with raising the debt ceiling and counterbalancing that u.s. home sales going down point eight percent in june it's plenty to think about their european stock markets. first a session where you see its wednesday's mess with the financials driving gains r.b.s. a lloyd's and barclays wall up three percent in london and here in moscow is the close of the day session there i am correcting myself the r.t.s. is up half a percent my socks up by just a notch most of the blue chips were actually on the rise but they lost most o

which according to russian sources within the foreign affairs ministry is all signs for cautious optimism it does of course suggest to the russian side who was up proposes saw as a mediator in the ongoing conflict in libya that those in power in libya don't simply want to engage in a military all on gauging of the conflict but are in fact searching for ways out of it and russia has of course proposed itself as a mediator and has always called for a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict calling the approach all nato troops policy of isolation that does not in fact lead check any officials resolution of course western powers have recently recognized the. opposition forces in benghazi as a legitimate government russia has refused to do so believing that isolating or supporting one of the forces in the ongoing conflict will only worsen not conflict and will not relieve chill resolution. it's that the russian foreign minister said that russia remains firm in the position that moammar gadhafi has to surrender power but that the solutions of the cease fire that has to be implemented must b

deal so it is looking optimistic but i just think you know there's just this is caution with the optimism . all right let's move to the stock market seems pretty optimistic there too light sweet crude up seventy six cents brant more than a dollar this price increase comes after this debt cutting plan aimed at avoiding technical default was announced u.s. markets actually opened mixed i'm not that optimistic that's after a very strong session on choose day investors are now weighing in well on one hand the progress with raising that ceiling on the other hand u.s. home sales going down point eight percent in june european stock markets closed the secular the closing picture pretty positive over there financials driving gains rollback of scotland lloyds barclays all up more than three percent. and this is the closing picture for russia where both of the r.t.s. my six and in the black vote we did lose some of their momentum by the end of the trading session as america opened in negative territory most of the blue chips however were on the rise however gazprom was up just point two percent des

we never think that our mood and our attitude, optimism, pessimism, has any effect.e of medicine, in the last 250 years... i can tell you that frame of mind has a lot to do with the onset and progression of disease, or put another way, the maintenance of health. and i have found in my experience, that optimism is a very, very positive and important frame of mind to maintain when you are trying to either prevent disease or control the progress of any disease you have. i don't know the mechanism but there is an effect of attitude, and on the progression and onset of disease and optimism is a very, very important thing to do. just have a positive frame of mind, going through life and you will enjoy life better, and, probably, live longer. >> eric: negative people make positive people sick, you see a negative person, run like the wind. that is the mantra we have here at fox news and it is all about tat attitude. >> jamie: last week the doctor told us great benefits of eating grape fruit, eating one every day for as little as two weeks improves eyour skin and hair an help

optimism in days past has been really stomped on at various times. these major issues still to be resolved are these ongoing discussions. they're something we have to resolve in the next few hours if they're going to be resolved. each of them must be resolved before we have a final agreement and as we know, one problem can stop the whole agreement from going forward. but we want to see something done as quickly as possible and believe all sides of aware of this urgency. it is unfortunate that house of representatives wasted all last week on legislation they knew would never pass the senate and in fact. barely passed the house. not a single democratic vote. democrats have said all along we'd never agree to a short-term agreement that would be revisited in a few short weeks. we have to move on. t august, september, october, november and december. five months. we would be back in this same debate in a matter of weeks. we could not allow that to happen so any agreement has to have a long-term approach. this is absolutely necessary. we must give financial

. >> now, despite all that, i'm told by my sources there's not a lot of optimism, that this particular negotiating process here at the white house is going to actually end up leading to the real deal, and a lot of effort and attention is now turning to a different process that's happening in the u.s. senate and another alternate deal that's being worked out between the two senate leaders that could instead end up raising the debt ceiling. >> an optimistic late night view from jessica yellin. today president obama will update the nation with a press conference at 11:00 a.m. eastern time, cnn will carry that live. let's talk about the phone hacking scandal in the united kingdom. it might not be limited to that side of the atlantic. the fbi is now investigating murdoch's news corporation. there's an accusation that his employees may have tried to hack into the phone conversations and voicemails of 9/11 victims and their families. rudy giuliani was mayor of new york during that time. he and murdoch have been friends for a long time, so what does giuliani make of all this? >> intercepting c