i'd like to, for the record, ask if at some point we could have david lindsey confirm his comments. i thought i heard him say that this was a vacant facility. my understanding is it was operating as a tourist hotel up until the point when community housing partnership acquired the building. as of today, i believe there are still community partnership residents living there. perhaps at some point you can ask him to clarify those remarks. you probably already understand that my organization would welcome a facility that fits within the zoning limitations. we do have concerns about the special use district and the fact they want to put 24 units in here of the you've also heard today that this is not a public housing project and we understand that's the case, that once this project is underway, ownership of this building is transferred to a private investment group, and those are investors who can expect to earn a 9% rush -- return after taxes on their investment. so their interest is not necessarily the at-risk youth we're hoping to help, it is in fact a positive return on their invest

her guests will include, david plouffe and republican senator, lindsey graham. >>> now, to an amazing story of survival. look at this picture. this is a plane that literally split in two. 163 people, including at least 2 americans were onboard. it was a caribbean airlines jet from new york city that skidded off the runway in the south american country of guyana. incredibly, everyone survived. here's abc's lisa stark. >> reporter: there was no fire when the plane t te apart. and the jet stopped just short of a 200-foot ravine. all that saved lives. >> and the plane practically broke in two. so, we should be grateful for that. >> repororr: the caribbean airlines boeing 737, stopped in trinidad, after leaving new york. and then, on the guyana. it was raining, 1:30 in the morning. the jet touchehedown and the careened off the end of the runway. crashing through an airport fence and on to a dirt road. >> everyone was screaming. >> i told my friend, you know, that, man. we're going to die. we're going to die because the plane, it don't have enough runway to stop. >> reporter: reports say as

of course, your top guest, david plouffe and senator lindsey graham from south carolina. we take it back up to dan in new york. >> george, before we let you go, you know so much about washington. i want to hear your thoughts this morning.. assuming that this tentative framework that we're talking about this morning eventually passes, i know that's a big assumption. let's play this experiment for a moment. if it passes, will it be seen as a huge victory for republicans? >> it does depend on the details. look at the framework we look at right now. if this automatic cut, that would take place if congress can't come to some agreement on overall spending cuts and ways to reduce the deficit does not include any revenue increases, and is all spending cuts, i think you'd have to consider it a big win for the republican party, a big win for house speaker john boehner and the republican leader, senate mitch mcconnell. who is really in the center of crafting this deal right now. yoyowould have seen this entire third year of president obama's presidency dominated by the republican ag

gentlemen, you just heard what senator lindsey graham said, what david plouffe, the president's adviser said. mitch mcconnell saying they are quite close, that he'll have the parameters of framework to show to his members today. is this now going to pass? are we going to get a deal? >> i think we are. i think it was signalled when the president spoke last monday. that's six days ago, seems like six months ago. what he said it was unjust, unacceptable to have a debt ceiling agreement that does not include revenues, that is unbalanced. the president said that after the second most prominent and powerful democrat in washington, harry reid proposed exactly that. not only proposed that. but an increase of revenue, but increase that had the other main republican component, which was spending cuts commensurate with the debt ceiling. >> it's a win? >> it is a win. the conservatives are saying it's imperfect, to which i say the sistine chapel ceiling is in some case imperfect. >> i don't know, is michelangelo imperfect? is this imperfect for you, or enough for you to get your people behind? >> i

the six republicans were lindsey graham of south carolina, jim demint of south carolina, david vitter of kentucky. it is possible that rand paul was simply voting against anything that increases the debt ceiling, as would jim demint, lindsey graham may have had different thinking. we don't have statements from them on why they voted the way they did. the action continues in the senate, harry reid trying to move ahead, as you heard from kent conrad, at the moment, the senate floor is in a bit of a stall. now, i can remember a long time ago that, in fact, now that i think of it, it was just months ago, when i was the only television writer in history to have written the words "debt ceiling" in scripts, scripts for television drama. in fact, i did it in two nbc dramas, "the west wing" being the one you might remember. not every joke writer in tv knows what the debt ceiling is or knew what it was until recently, but now every one of them, every joke writer in television has caught up with me and they've written more debt ceiling jokes into scripts than i could ever have dreamed of. here t