on this twitter feed they had, a live feed, to ask the president their own questions using that "ask obamad already you're seeing things from the rnc, asking, where are the jobs? i'm not certain that those questions from republicans in that matter will make it into the president's lineup, but you never know. >> i guess they could just call the president too if they have a question. it looks like they might be getting this thing underway here in just a second. but help our audience, since i still have you here. and to our audience, you still can get questions in. like dan just said, they have already preselected some, but they'll take some in realtime. if you're on twitter, you can send a question in. we'll show this to you live as they get under way in just a second. but dan, the audience, does he certainly feel like and should we take this as an indication that the president understands, these young folks, he'll have fire them up again next year if he is to win re-election. >> reporter: look, i think that the white house really understands that. we did a story earlier this year about how

the pound symbol, then ask obama is what it is. you can send in your questions now, in fact. the twitter account to follow is town hall. so @town hall, one word. i sent in my question. why does president obama disagree with senator obama. many of the things he said as a senator from illinois, he has not followed up on as president. so we'll see. >> i wonder if he'll read where they are coming from. >> yes, twitter is picking out the different questions p they will take a look at the trends, too. a lot of people asking about one specific thing. >> very interesting, using new technology reaching out to a lot. it's 5:26 right now. a fan injured during last night's giant game taken to the hospital. we'll have details coming up. >>> as sacramento struggles to state employees were raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars. i'm bob redell, we'll have that story coming up. at&t u-verse lets you record four shows at once from any room and play them back on any tv. get u-verse tv for only $29 a month for 6 months. in the network, everyone can get along. >>> new this morning, the oaklan

you can send the president a tweet to @town hall, using the hash tag, the pound sign, ask obama. his answers will not be limited to twitter's 140 characters. >>> president obama has also summoned leaders of both parties to the white house tomorrow on further talks on the debt showdown. he's pushing congress to reach a deal within two weeks on reaching the nation's borrowing limit well before the august 2nd deadline. the president opposes a sharp short increase in the debt ceiling. >>> metro escalators are getting worse. that's no surprise to riders who use the metro regularly. melissa mollet is live at the foggy bottom metro station with more on these continuing problems. melissa, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, eun. this escalator i'm on at foggy bottom right now is one of only three escalators working here at foggy bottom this morning. all of them were supposed to be operational by the end of june. obviously, already about a week late. let's take a look at this latest report that is going to be presented to metro's board of directors tomorrow. they say in the mon

you can submit a question for that at the hashtag ask obama. thousands already have. >> i bet they have. tracie potts there for us in washington. thank you. >>> here is a look at other stories making news today. the dust in arizona took a while to settle on tuesday. a spectacular display of wind and dust swept across phoenix. dwarfing downtown skyscrapers and producing blinding conditions that led to airport delays as well as thousands of power outages. no serious injuries were reported. >> an ohio horse had its own getaway plan this holiday weekend. the horse escaped from a nearby farm turning a stretch of highway into its own racetrack. the horse ran for hours until it tired itself out. it was then safely captured and returned to its owner. >>> a group of california rafters survived a wild ride on the river last night. the raging rapids sent all seven people airborne, throwing them into the cold and rough water. they all survived holding on to the overturned raft and paddling to shore. >>> finally, in san francisco one man's mad dash for a ho

you can get involved by following them at ask obama@twitter.com.f you use the ask obama hashtag, they will get your question, sift through them. the president will answer some of them, some of them personally i'm told. if you see that dash bo at the end of your reapply that means the president answered that one personally. he's been active on twitter for sometime now. he's got almost 9 million followers. the white house account has more than 2 million. this event happens this afternoon. they are hoping it will be pretty successful. interestingly, there are twice as many republican tweeters as democrats according to a new study, laura. >> very interesting. thank you very much, tracie. >>> today it's tax cuts versus tax breaks on capitol hill. in just a few hours, president obama will meet with those democrats and republicans whether they tweet or not to hammer out a deal on the debt crisis before it's too late. at stake, raising the nation's credit limit before time runs out. the country reaches its debt ceiling august 2nd but the practical deadline

for all you tweets out there the hash tag is ask obama. and they may not all be characters, there will be 140 people in the east room. >>> new warnings today about a frightening way that terrorists could be planning to sneak explosives on to planes. >>> plus disasters natural and manmade. in phoenix it's called a haboob. in montana the oil spill is worse than exxonmobil first admitted. deja vu anyone? >>> good day i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. we begin with the budget show down and white house hopes for a possible deal even as senate leaders are digging in on the big sticking point of taxes ahead of tomorrow's white house summit. chuck todd is nbc's chief white house correspondent and host of "the daily rundown." chuck, we've heard a lot from republicans. today at the bloomberg breakfast it was said that any tax measures had to be revenue positive over the long run that could be ten years out. eventually have to contribute toward deficit reduction. that is not what republican senator john cornyn was saying exactly the opposite wh

other senior administration officials of bush's now this is something that human rights watch is asking obama to do so laura petter counterterrorism adviser for human rights watch is she disappointed with obama she was in our new york studio to answer that i first asked her though you know bush hasn't been in office for a while it's been over two years what is human rights watch done recently aside from issue this report to promote a point of view that bush has committed crimes that obama should investigate him for which is that. it calls on the criminal inquiry and investigation into. the use of torture by senior level bush administration officials specifically george bush vice president dick cheney secretary of defense don rumsfeld and george tenet head of the cia and it documents a lot of the evidence that is was an involved a lot of the things that that the bush administration did in relation to its cia detention program and the rendition of suspects to other countries along with what happened to the detainees during the time that they were in both cia and military custody and human that

you can submit your questions by using half tag ask obama. >> there is new evidence that healthy living can dramatically cut a woman's risk of cardiac arrest. they examined data in a study for 26 years. they found that women with a body mass of less than 25, body mass index of less than 25, who exercise regularly and followed a mediterranean diet were 92% less likely to experience sudden cardiac arrest. they say the minimum exercise is half-hour of cardioexercise three times a week. so 90 minutes a week, something like that. >> i don't know if there is anything in that survey, but it's a reminder, eat healthy and exercise. you might have known that. just a reminder. >>> california schools move a step closer to making history a mandatory curriculum in the classroom. next at 5:00, opponents say a new bill has goon too far. >> the coastguard continues its search for 78 missing u.s. fishermen but how much longer will it last. a live report is coming up. >>> and a near death experience caught on camera, a group of bay area rafters learn the dangerous conditions that record snow melt is creat

the gop gets everything they want, except anything they asked for. and obama gets stuck with what he wanted to begin with. and mcconnell has gotten their nuts out of that vise -- by cutting them off and leaving them behind for obama to hang from his rear view mirror as an air freshener. [laughter] not that mcconnell's nuts would be that refreshing. when we return, we will bask in the brilliance of mitch mcconnell with wall street journal congressional correspondent, naftali bendavid. is [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. folks, before the break -- before the break, i was congratulating congressional republicans on the way they cunningly used the debt ceiling negotiations to trick barack obama into getting what he wanted. here to tell us how the on-going negotiations are going on is wall street journal congressional correspondent, neftali bendavid. thank you so much for joining us today. i read your publication today. they had an editorial in there saying this is kind of a smart move for mcconnell to make given the situation. what is the

you can submit questions using hash tag ask obama. facebook founder mark zuckerberg is the most-followed user on google plus. that tops the google founders. it is their latest attempt to take on face book. a spokesman explained he has the most friends in the world the subject of a popular movie and better looking than page and brin. >> my goodness. >> and well listen to this. storms may wash out nasa's last space shuttle launch friday. official says there is a 60% chance that rain or thunderstorms will delay the planned liftoff. the four astronauts assigned to this flight arrived yesterday. and atlantis will bring a year's worth of supplies up to the space station. nasa chose a group of special people to be a part that have launch. they will document everything on twitter. >> i'll be closer than any other human being to the launch except astronauts in the orbitor. the astronauts and launch control center families in the center are further than i'll be. it's a very -- it's an honor to be able to go there. >> one astronaut mission speci

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there was a slew of republicans who put a question on twitter with the tag ask obama. and they wanted this to be more of a sampling. tomorrow, top republicans will have a chance to get directions to the president heading down to the white house for negotiations on the debt keeling. >> thank you, karen. >> dozens of people back home tonight after a gas line break. authorities evacuated 11 homes from when a crew doing replacements ruptured a two-inch line around 10:00. it took crews two hours to cap the leak. >> a group is worry aid pipeline explosion could happen there. the group healthy community research says pg&e is ignoring the development around major lines saying heavy trucks will cause heavy violations and claim they've not produced records. >> it would take out homes, 575, just gone. >> a spokesperson he told abc 7 an inspection has taken place, and the assessment of the result still ongoing. and by revealed they'd not taken into consideration urban developments. >> and saying he can't believe what happened since the verdict. >> you know, i'm sorry and people ar

send your question at hashtag ask obama.resident has almost 9 million twitter followers. >>> vice president biden has 8,000 twitter followers. he just got into the twitter game yesterday. last time we checked, he had one tweet to his name. his twitter handle is at vp. >>> yesterday, we told you about the fox news political twitter that was hacked. things are back to normal. the hackers posted erroneous tweets about president obama beings assassinated. >>> the political ticker now, joining us from washington, tim, back to work today for most americans, back to work for the senate, they're looking at trying to figure out this debt ceiling situation before it's too late. >> i heard you mention that at the top of the show and you're absolutely right. this is may be not the sexiest stories but one of the more important ones. the senate is back, no scheduled meetings for today. and they need to get something done fairly quickly. believe it or not the house of representatives is scheduled to go on vacation in just a couple of weeks

. >>> a federal appeals court asked the obama and she should whether it would defense the ban on gay people serving openly in the military. a week ago a ninth circuit court issued an injunction. however, the white house can still decide to appeal the court's decision. >>> technically they do not hit store shelves until tomorrow, but we found a copy of kidnap victim jaycee dugard's memoir. >> how the role of u.s. women's soccer teams are impacting one bay area athlete. >>> fire danger down and air quality is better. temperatures in your neighborhood are quite a bit cooler. i will be right back you with your. i want to crush more cars. ♪ i want to sell more tea cups. ♪ i need help selling bread. ♪ i want to sell more crabs. [ male announcer ] you know where you want to take your business. i want to design more buildings. [ male announcer ] in here, small business solutions from at&t can get you there. starting with the at&t all for less package -- just $70 per month, voice plus broadband. it's the at&t network. helping you do what you do... even better. >> tenants from san francisco's

you do need to submit your questions early at hash tag ask obama. jack dorsey will select the questions and moderate the forrum. >>> a 19-year-old marine is under custody after going on a deadly shooting rampage. he shot and killed four marines. so far there is no known motive. >>> in egypt an overnight pipeline explosion is called an act of sabotage by the egyptian authorities. the flames shooting up out of that pipeline. that explosion has shut off the flow of natural gas from israel to jordan. this is the third attack after a protest overthrew mubarak's government. >>> thailand is going to have a female prime minister. now outgoing prime minister resigned this morning in bangkok after his democratic party lost parliament this last week. >>> after six weeks of testimony, the casey anthony murder trial is wrapping up. jury selections are reported to get under way today. we have more on the closing arguments. jessica, do we know how much longer they will go? >> reporter: right now we are watching prosecutor justin ashton give his rebuttal marks. aft

people around the country can begin if interested posting their question today by using the tag ask obama who says washington doesn't have a sense of humor. federal election commission okay a political action committee formed by saturday tire steven colbert. p.e. proclaimed victory today after the sec says he can use the tv show to raise as much money ease wants from wealthy and union and corporation to spend it on political xaichbility he made the request after supreme court ruled it's unconstitutional to limit campaign donation. >> i for one didn't think participating in democracy is a joke. i don't think that wanting to know what the rules says joke. >>reporter: one rae strikes he can only promote the p ac on his own show. >> and he will. when 7 news at 9 continues here tonight. 8 days and counting. final flight of the shuttle program. one astronaut says there is so much hoopla surrounding the last mission that he can't wait to go into quarantine and get away from it all. >> also tonight. dramatic impact climate change could have soon on the napa valley wine industry. >> also why red w

account has participants to send questions to a new account called z town ball with the hash tag ask obamaare you wondering, the white house has more than two million twitter followers. sfwlimplts welcome back. i'm alex witt. it is half past the hour here, and the holiday weekend is many full swing. americans already scattering across the map or staying close to home to mark independence day 2011. michelle franzen has more. >> reporter: the july 4th holiday getaway is on. this year more than 39 million americans are expected to travel. that's down 2 1/2 perz last year according to triple-a. >> in temz of fewer people driving, it's all about the sustained period of very expensive gasoline prices, which are right now about 80 cents more than they were this time last year. >> the majority of travellers are still hitting the roads, but this year there is also a shift. despite a jump in ticket prices, air travel is expected to be up 9%. >> it certainly seems like there is a pent-up travel demand. people have definitely put their leisure travel on the back burner over the last few years, and it

is the economy and jobs but the thousands of 140 character or less queries submitted versus the ask obama hash tag includes marijuana legalization. and the rnc is going up with an ad on national cable today hitting the president on the economy. the first of four ads they are releasing in the next month. let's take a look at this first one. >> left turn after left turn. america is headed the wrong way fast. 6 million foreclosures, 14 trillion in debt, 500 billion in higher taxes and the worst long term unemployment end generations. don't let obama drive us to disaster. change direction. >> here to explain the strategy behind the rnc's new ad, the chairman of the republican national committee. so you're going up this early with a tough ad on the president. why? >> well, i mean, we have to, obviously, get our economy turned around and we see the president as a person who just doesn't get it. the evidence is very clear on the trajectory that we're heading in this country. i've talked about it many times and so has many people, obviously, around the country that, you know, we're facing a traje

you can send the president a tweet to @town hall using the hash tag -- that's the pound sign -- ask obamae's no stranger to social media. he's held similar online town halls on facebook and youtube. >>> south koreans are hoping the third time is the charm at winning the 2018 winter olympics. >> they are so excited, they've already unveiled the first venue even though the winning bid won't be announced until today. this is called alpienza, a local ski jump venue. pyeongchang is anxious to win after losing out on bids for 2016. the international olympic committee will announce the winning bid later today. whoever gets the olympics, you'll be able to watch them right here on nbc. >> i'm rooting for the south koreans. >> i can imagine you would. >> yeah. it is now 5:36. 75 degrees. >>> the preacher who predicted the end of the world earlier this year is now in the hospital. >>> good morning. predawn sky over the potomac river. you can see the summer haze. live picture from the city camera. here's another picture of the sky. this is from our sky watcher camera from 300 feet above washington. s

you can send the president a tweet by using the hash tag or pound sign, then "ask obama" before your question. tomorrow, it's talks with with top congressional leaders at the white house about the looming debt limit heading into default. he wants lawmakers to come up with a deal in the next two weeks. republicans say a tax increase is not an option. ft. is calling for a long-term deal rather than a stopgap, which only provides a temporary extension. >>> in decision 2012, a local man thinks he has what it takes to be the next president of the united states. stafford resident craig ennis is among the 170 people who joined to run for president. he ran once as a write-in candidate for congress. to declare yourself, you need to file paperwork and raise $5,000. >>> today in boston, former mob boss james "whitey" bulger is expected to be in court. at 2:00 this afternoon, he is expected to enter a plea on 19 counts of murder. they tracked down bulger last month in california after he escaped prosecution 19 years ago. prosecutors say the 81-year-old used to head boston's notorious winter hill

when you ask president obama about the economy, he downplays or omits the negative news. when boy meets girl he was to date the girl he goes to great lengths to portray himself and the positive light. he is spending. that is part of the daily life but hotline is a special form of deception and most people in our society the vast majority of people would recoiled being call the lawyer. something terrible about watching. as a result, i don't think the lighters who like to their people feel good about it. there maybe some exceptions maybe not adolf hitler but it eisenhower or kennedy was very reluctant to lie for moral reasons. it is a form of behavior that is detestable but the fact we deal with international politics and if the security of your country is on the line, you will not hesitate to live. not because you are evil but you do what you have to do to protect your country. that is what i am trying to get that in this book. >> host: are there examples of leaders line for personal reasons are not national security? >> i made it very clear i would not consider those sort

since the shooting gun control advocates have been asking president obama to toughen gun safety laws. the white house says it's working on some new measures and will announce them in the next few weeks. >>> a man wanted for killing seven people in michigan took his own life after an hours long standoff with police. officers say 34-year-old roger danesler kill his victims. among the seven dead his exgirlfriend, his own daughter and another child. police say after a high-speed chase he went into another home and took three people hostage before killing himself. but the hostages were not hurt. investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the killing. >>> the release date for casey anthony has been rescheduled for july 17th instead of july 13th as originally planned. a correction spokesman says the new date was based on a detail recalculation. he sentence the anthony to four years for lying to police about the death of her daughter caylee. but with time served and good behavior she has nine more days left to serve. >>> the city of oakland is getting ready to bring back laid of

government i think it's the other way round that the germans would like to sell it and then they ask the obama administration whether they would give the green line and they probably ask also the israelis and only when they get that we're nice to the deal but i doubt that there's any kind of international pressure to sell it was always in the past decades that it was international pressure not to sell sort of our business there isn't it germany needs to make money along with many other countries exporting arms . it's a good time isn't it for the german economy alone obviously it's the strongest player in europe at the moment but it's the right time is need to do deals like that and why should you be criticizing it when jobs are a state. it's always a bit time to sell weapons and i'm totally opposed to any kind of weapons export because in the long run in five years and fifty years all these weapons you export today they will end up in a war in a civil war and fighting to democracy movement it will cause death by the thousands so i think it's always a good idea to sell arms and it was actually

we asked president obama, today, about the attacks on the u.s.terview at the white house. yesterday the u.s. embassy in damascus was attacked by a mob. i wonder what you say to the dictator in syria. >> well, you know, we have been very clear that what we've seen on the part of the syrian regime has been an unacceptable degree of brutality directed at its people. we've definitely sent a clear message that nobody can be messing with our embassy and we will take whatever actions necessary in order to protect our embassy and i think they've gotten that message, but more broadly, i think that increasingly you're seeing president assad lose legitimacy in the eyes of his people and that's why we have been working at an international level to make sure we keep the pressure up to see if we can bring some real change in syria. >> pelley: for its part, the syrian government is complaining about u.s. interference in its internal affairs. sergeant first-class leroy petry joined an elite group, today, when president obama presented him with the medal of honor

ask for $400 billion? >> like john boehner couldn't deliver certain things, barack obama couldn't deliver certain things inthe senate would have gone for that back in the day. the president had the same problem johnbone asked. >> if he needs them to go along with it -- >> get them in there. >> things are changing rapidly. a deal that couldn't have passed last week could pass this week. i want to underline, you are right. the president tried for a grand bargain that i would have supported. my gosh. >> you could have sold that. >> he's going to get a short term extension. they are talking 30 days or 60 days or a couple months. this is going to be the issue that won't go away for his re-election year asp. why is he hanging his head on this and saying you know what? i have not just an economic problem, but a political problem. >> when do we get to talk about the senator's chair? amazing. how about the incredible hawk. >> we'll talk about his manly stuff in a minute. >> house manorty is coming up. also from football night in america, peter king will be with us. you are watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks

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president obama asked for it in his address to the nation tonight.phone call. house speaker boehner's office reporting as many as 300 people on hold. hold times as long as an hour. online the same story. site unavailable. server busy. we found better than one in three congressional web sites either slow or down entirely from all the volume. also multiple calls to the white house switchboard by one of our producers also not getting through. that's what's happening. and it's unusual. and there's new polling out there on the debt issue from pew research. pay attention to this. 68% say that lawmakers who share their views should be willing to compromise even if they strike a deal they disagree with. just 23% say lawmakers should hold firm, even if it means the government goes into default. recent cnn orc polling is no less striking. by 68 to 32% people say president obama should compromise with congressional republicans. when it comes to gop lawmakers compromising with president obama, the outcome is nearly identical, 66 to 33%. it would seem that messag

. >>> we need more time, that's the stance from the white house on dismantling don't ask, don't tell. the obama administration is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider an order to immediately end the policy that prevents gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. last week, a court of appeals ruled the policy was no longer enforceable. the doj wants a more gradual end to the policy. >>> a controversial change is headed to california classrooms. the history of the gay community will now be included in lesson plans. governor brown signed the bill today, making california the first state in the country requiring gay history be covered in scho.ol reaction from parents? mixed. >> great. i think it's dynamite. it's about time. >> the only recourse that parents have is to take their children out of the government school system. >> supporters say the bill will teach students to be more accepting of gays, but opponents say it's imposing homosexuality on families. >>> a reminder to keep your children secure near those windows. a 5-year-old boy is receiving medical treatment after falli

if the person taney a get him to change by the week as a day republican lawmakers began asking the obama administration to play or apply detainees policy but horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine joins me in minutes to talk about it. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then he did something else and here's you some other part of it and realized everything is ok and you don't know i'm trying hard to do the big picture. and you know. first. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think rather than. one well. we never got that says they're going to say so get ready for freedom. drones now we know they're the new weapon of choice the department of defense back when robert gates held the secretary of defense position he openly stated that the unmanned aerial vehicles are the future for the u.s. military we must recognize the enormous strategic and cultural implications of the vast expansion. and remotely piloted vehicles both for reconnaissance and strike. and since then ad

to lawyers now he's being charged in a federal court when the center for constitutional rights asked the obama administration what legal justification they had to hold him in that manner the administration didn't have an answer for it so what we're seeing is president obama who himself is a constitutional law expert seeming to raise serious constitutional challenges with his own policies as commander in chief and as president that totally true and very interesting to me i guess i got to ask you this though a lot of these that much more targeted missions they seem to be sort of the new era of this so-called war on terror and many see the osama bin laden targeted killing as a successful one as something that you know they want to see more of so i want to get your response to those who say this is exactly what the u.s. government should be doing you know gathering intelligence carrying out missions aimed at terrorists no matter where in the world they are. right well i mean the bin laden hit is is going to be the stuff of lore and hollywood films and there's going to be the can't kill bin laden m

policy printed taney get seem to change by the week but today republican lawmakers began asking the obama administration to clarify detainees policy horton contributing editor on lead. and national security matters for harper's magazine and joins me a few minutes to talk about it. losers . to. play. oh. hello. drones now we know they're the new weapon of choice the department of defense back when robert gates held the secretary of defense position he openly stated that the unmanned aerial vehicles are the future for the u.s. military we must recognize the enormous strategic and cultural implications of the fast expansion. it remotely piloted vehicles both for reconnaissance and strike. and since then admiral mike mullen has made this comment to back this statement he said we're in a real time of transition here in terms of the future of aviation and the whole issue of what's going to be manned and what's going to be unmanned now the proof though really lies in the statistics where we've told you extensively about the uptick in drone strikes abroad especially in our wars in afghanistan and

you need to submit questions early at hash tag ask obama. the co-founder of twitter will select the questions and moderate the forum. >>> president obama will spend today with military families at the white house. tonight they will gather for a concert and fireworks show, this is the third year the first family has honored them with a special 4th of july tribute. >>> troops deployed in the middle east are celebrating at a u.s. base. they are firing up the barbecue. today general david petraeus is celebrating his last 4th of july as u.s. commander there. he was confirmed as new director of cia and will be replaced by john allen. >> 8:20. in overnight news in egypt an overnight pipeline explosion called and act of sabotage. take a look at these flames shooting p. the explosion has shut off the flow of natural gas to israel and jordan. this is the third attack on an egyptian pipeline since protests toppled the government earlier this year, in thailand the outgoing prime minister resigned after his party lost elections. his replacement will will

obama? >> history unfortunately will not be able to answer that question. >> i am asking for your perspectivedent. >> would she be a better president than obama. >> it's possible. >> that's a typical democrat. the obvious truth doesn't apply so you confuse viewers into thinking something that's not true. >> i didn't know what he just said. >> father does he need to go to confession this guy? >> we talked just before the show. i asked for a preconfession. there's no such thing as pre -- >> you have to at least have some sort of sorrow before asking forgiveness. >> you voted for obama in the end i am asking you if you have a change of heart if you think he's failed. >> to answer your question explicitly i voted for hillary clinton over barack obama in the primary. -- i forgot my own question. would hillary have been a better president than obama gentlemen yes or no? >> it's possible? >> as good as we are going to get. only attacks of governor palin and michelle bamman. this is bill maher as vicious as it gets. quintessential getting i think greer by the day. >> i don't want to be crass. i hope

obama asked for the additional revenue and did so after the gang of six agreed on a two trillion dollar increased revenue figure and that got support from the number three republican in the senate. lamar alexander and the president feels that any plan to cut the deficit has to be bipartisan anyway and six the gang of six plan got support from republicans, why should he give tea party republicans in the house when they won't vote to raise the debt ceiling under any circumstances. the president's red line was boehner's push to basically undo the health care reform if the debate over spending fell down. >> what a mess. buddy, what a mess. >> wendalgoalary at the white house. one of the folks who wants to take his job. default right now, it is eventually going to happen and things will be a lot worse. texas congressman ron paul. congressman, a default has all of these horrific images and fears attached to it over done or what? >> i think there are a lot of big problems and we can't ignore it. but the biggest problem is not admit that this country is bankrupt. if you don't admit the true pro

. >> reporter: the stalemate has some asking if president obama can order the treasury to keep borrowing. there's a little known section in the 14th amendment saying the public finance of the united states shall not be questioned. >> the president must act in order to follow the command of the constitution. >> reporter: the idea highlights how desperate it has gotten. >> it's crazy talk. it's not acceptable for the congress and the president not to do their job. >> reporter: americans like courtney hinton can only watch in disbelief. >> this bickering and waiting until the last minute, we're not benefiting from that. >> reporter: as washington returns from the holiday weekend, sources close to the negotiations say a deal has to be reached by july 22nd in order to get it through congress in time. whit johnson, cbs news, the white house. >>> meanwhile three u.s. senators are in afghanistan this morning, john mccain, joe lieberman and lindsey graham, they say they're worried president obama's plan to draw down u.s. troops could help the insurgents. joel brown is in washington on that. happy

obama is the devil. the chairman said that he was asked by the obama administration to wait. i have checked with the administration. he misunderstood them. no one in the obama toinistration has passeasked hm wait. i have a role that i try to fall myself. no matter how tight the quarter you are in, avoid saying something no one will believe. the notion that they are not acting on fannie and freddie -- esther garrett said it was not a simple problem. the republicans in the house have a bill opposed by everybody who is dealing with the housing market. that collection of radicals, all disagree with the plan, all think you have to have a more comprehensive approach. the republicans have this problem, their ideology and reality are having a heck of a fight. ideologically, mr. bachus says he cannot do anything until the obama administration lets him. the only time since 1992 that the congress has acted on fannie mae and freddie mac was in 2007, 2008, when i was the chairman, and we got together a bill at the request of the secretary paulson, which president bush signed, which gave t

swirls around the military's don't ask, don't tell policy banning openly gay service members despite congress voting to end the 17-year-old policy last year. yesterday the obama administration asked an appeals court to reconsider an order it made for an immediate end to don't ask, don't tell. the court had ruled since the process of repealing the policy was well under way, there was no reason to continue enforcing it. but the justice department is arguing ending the ban now would eliminate a timetable established last year that was designed to promote an orderly transition. >>> now here's a look at some of the other stories making news early today in america. a severe storm led to a tragic turn of events in utah. heavy rain washed away a road, creating a massive sinkhole, causing a father to crash into the edge of the 30-foot deep and 40-foot wide crater, instantly killing his daughter. another motorist drove into the sinkhole but suffered only minor injuries. >>> if anyone is in need of a long weekend, it's this seattle window washer. the man dangled 65 feet above ground after slipping out of his seat. spectators feared the worse, but firefighters arrived on

talking about, it is the worst plan because it results in the republicans opening the door and asking president obama to walk through and raise the debt ceiling with no fundamentallal reforms, no spending reductions, no balanced budget amendment, and trying to blame him for it and if leadership mcconnell wants to believe he can open the door, let president obama walk through it and the republicans finger prints are not on the door he is mistaken, that is a smoke and mirrors legislation, a brilliant move inside the beltway but it would be very not appreciated by real members outside the beltway. >>stuart: thank you for joining us, president of the club for growth. >> this administration i say bluntly is the greatest wet blanket to business and progress and job creation in my lifetime. >>stuart: the c.e.o. of wynn resorts not holding become words on how he things the president is handling the economy. reaction from the republican governor of virginia who just announced today his state ended the fiscal year with a $311 million surplus. welcome to the program, governor. i have to ask for your reaction to