alice cooper is tonight's playlist. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline." july 25th, 2011. >>> good evening. i'm terry moran. we were planning on bringing you robin roberts' extraordinary interview with the hotel maid who's accusing the international banking titan dominique strauss-kahn of sexually assaulting her. and we will bring you that full interview tomorrow because the news tonight is out of washington, where the nation is on the brink of fiscal crisis. just one week away from the august 2nd deadline. there's the clock. the showdown over the national debt spilled over into prime-time television tonight. in dueling addresses by president obama and house speaker john boehner. with one week to go until the united states of america runs out of money to pay its debts, the world watched as the democratic president and the republican speaker of the house hurled accusations at each other. >> for the past several weeks republican house members have essentially said that the only way they'