he lives in debbie wasserman shultz's district.was part of the military, the inside part of american foundation. it's just laughable. he's trying to basically back pedal on everything right now. >> why is he trying to do that? why does he think he's right? >> i think he lives in his own planet. i don't know. i think that he is -- he's somebody at some point, boehner, they're obviously a little busy right now, going to bring them together and say look, just stop this. i think. >> i think he -- >> i don't know what you're talking about back pedalling. >> another congressman we've talked about named anthony weiner, ex-congressman. it's easy to fall victim to, you're the darling of the talk shows, you seem to raise a lot of omoney. people think you're bold, you seem to be unique. and the reality is you're just out there in la-la land. what seems to work for a while can really backfire. this kind of talk just doesn't work. >> all righty, let's talk about the debt ceiling for a moment. is the president going to cave? >> well, if any of t

s cut, cap and balance bill, fellow florida congresswoman and home perm after-model debbie wasserman-shultz viciously attacked him, so he fired off an e-mail taking wasserman-shultz to task. "look, debbie, i understand that after i we parted the house floor you directed your floor speech comments directly to me. you want a personal fight, i am happy to oblige. you are the most vile, unprofessional and despicable member of the u.s. house of representatives. if you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face. otherwise shut the heck up. focus on your own congressional district. you have proven repeatedly that you are not a lady, therefore shall no be afforded due respect from me, steadfast and loyal, congressman allen b. west." slam aram ma. that's how you bring civility back the washington, by calling someone a vile coward. now, in contrast to debbie here, congressman west knows how the treat an opponent with basic human decency. when he was in the military and wanted answers from an iraqi policemen named yehay hamoody, he didn't wad mouth hamoody behind his back.

chance, end quote that he will back down from his criticism of democratic party chairwoman debbie wasserman-shultz refuse for calling her vial, despicable and not a lady. the first termer from florida is the one with the better hair leveled the insults in an e-mail after she criticized him on the house floor when he wasn't there. he told her to stop being a coward and also to shut the heck up. yes, he said heck. apparently the two have history. >> one thing you have to understand is there is a history here. it goes back to the fact that during the campaign, the florida democratic party sent out a mail piece to tens of thousands of homes that included my social security number, my wife's employment and identification number, and nothing was said about that. no one apologized. many of the south florida liberals were part of that. and then also when you add in october of 2010 when the dnc chairwoman ordered a protest outside my campaign headquarters to portray me and say i was a massage nis and i hated women. there has been a pattern that continued on. >> martha mccullum then asked -- >> i know you s

today he's going to be on the show and he's responding to debbie wasserman-shultz. e's going to explain why he is in no mood to apologize to debbie wasserman-shultz. he's also here as part of a debate with another tea party advocate. joe walsh opposes the speaker's plan to deal with the debt ceiling, this vote that's supposed to come up in the house floor tomorrow. allen west supports the speaker. so they're going to debate that. but it was a moment -- i just wanted to give allen west a chance to respond to debbie wasserman-shultz and all the people complaining about west's comments regarding her. jay carney, the white house press secretary. we'll get the latest on what the president is doing right now to deal with this crisis. i must say, as you know, it is a crisis. >> it is, and wolf, on a much lighter note, i want you to stick around for this next store are i. i'm embarrassed this has been stuck in hi head all day. ♪ statutory budget restraints raise the debt ceiling raise the debt ceiling ♪ >> he's not doing the dougy. >> i was saying i don't know if you can dou

congresswoman debbie wasserman-shultz caused a bit of an uproar when she laid into a florida republican his support of the cut, cap, balance bill. >> incredibly, the gentleman from florida, who represents thousands of medicare beneficiary, as do i, is supportive of this plan to increase costs for medicare beneficiaries, unbelievable from a member from south florida. >> jon: slam! i bet allen west totally disagrees with her premise that cut, cap and balance raises costs for medicare beneficiaries and he's going to lay down a substantive statistical recitation of that accusation. congressional style. >> allen west fired off this e-mail saying, "you want a personal fight i'm happy to oblige. you are the most vile, unprofessional and despicable member of the u.s. house of representatives. if you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face." [audience reacts] >> jon: say it to my face. how do you make a frowning face in modicon? what do you have there, colon parentheses there? send. >> otherwise shut the heck up. you have proven repeatedly that you are not a lady t

democratic party chairwoman debbie wasserman-shultz joins me to respond to a congressman's rant calling her vile, unprofessional and despicable. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> right now, six u.s. senators are giving new momentum to talks aiming at avoiding a national catastrophe in the united states. their bipartisan compromise to slash the deficit. only 12 dpas left, president obama is due to meet this hour with house speaker john boehner and majority leader eric cantor. this just a short while after he met with top congressional democrats over at the white house. ours who correspondent dan lothian is standing by. kate baldwin has the latest. kate? >> polling show that americans are looking for compromise to get through this debt crisis. senators in the gang of six say that's exactly what they're offering here with their plan, but there are real questions if they can get enough support in time. now after months of negotiations. the so-called gang of six met once again behind closed doors this time to try to build momentum around their $3.7 trillion debt reduction

and debbie wasserman shultz. you say john adams was attacked as being blind, bald, tripled and toothless. >> jefferson was son of a half breed indian squaw low life. grover cleveland had a child out of wedlock. when he won they had a slogan, gone to the white house, ha, ha, ha. >> there is a video of bruce springsteen in east berlin saying born in the u.s.a. and all these east germans -- the hisser to yanss argue just as much as the military buildup was american culture and consumer goods thatter to the wall down. people -- that tore the wall down. they wanted what we have. martha: maybe ronald reagan and margaret thatcher had something to do with it. >> who can measure these things. martha: john stossel, look forward to that. you can catch stossel every night on the fox business network. this heat wave that we have been telling you about is really a huge issue. it's gripping a large part of the country. it's moving across the east coast now. making its feel like triple digit temperatures in many big cities. near

that's the head of debbie wasserman-shultz, head of the dnc. bill: alisyn and i referring to that phrase from boehner, get your rears in gear. it's a critical, critical day. alisyn: we are paraphrasing. the senate democrats saying boehner's bill will not go anywhere in the senate. the congressional budget office claims the majority leader harry reid's plan will save three times for than the house plan. reid seems confident the house will work its way through this. >> magic things can happen in congress in a short piece of time. that's a flaws piece of legislation. no one believes that. the chamber of commerce put out a letter saying vote for it. they know it doesn't solve the problems. nobody believes the boehner problem is anything more than a wet kiss to the trite wing. alisyn: reid's plan would cut $2.7 trillion over 10 years and that counts the savings from ending the wars in iraq and afghanistan. it raises the debt limit by $2.4 trillion in one step and that is an increase larger that boehner plan. and just like the boehner plan, no tax hi

democratic representative bill weir is for questioning his position on medicare -- representative debbie wasserman shultzestioning his position on medicare. the, mail viral and everyone saw it. now he has had time to think about it and cool off, does the congressman want a do over? not likely. today representative west says an apology is not happening. >> would you f you could, withdraw --, if you could, withdraw any of the language or the words that you used? >> no, i wouldn't. interestingly enough, when you interviewed me when i was a candidate you referred to me as a military man. there are certain ways we speak in the military. i guess i have not learned the d.c. insider talk that maybe some of these people are used to. don't poke me in the chest that's the bottom line to that exchange. >> greta: we'll tell you what happens next in this political standoff. there you have the best of the rest. >> coming up, they all want to be your next president. their last political debate is raising eyebrows. we'll tell you what is going on, next. [ male announcer ] there's more than one of these abandoned racetrac

republican allen west and democrat debby wasserman shultz. has the media been had?al lis liz has her thoughts. >> it must be that the heat got to everybody in washington. it is bad enough with the debt ceiling controversy and now we have two members of the house of representatives going at each other in rather unprecedented way. first fired by from debby shultswasserman and talking about her fellow representative alen west, a republican . she was hinting that he supported legislation that would sell off or decrease benefits for medicare recipients and that is a touchy in south . an former army corp nel and and no shrinking vilept took violet. it is going to go down in history. you are the most vile and unprofessional and despicable member of the house of representatives. if you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face. otherwise shut the heck up and focus on your own congressional district. you have proven repeatedly that you are not a lady and therefore, shall not be afforded due respect from me. >> the quaint southern nature of that w

. >>> now we'll bring in congresswoman debbie wasserman shultz, who heads the democratic committee. you probably heard the conversation i had there. clearly one of the big problems, whichever side of the argument you're on, is the republican party is split, isn't it, between the likes of mr. chaffetz there who are completely resolutes to any concept to raising the debt ceiling or bringing taxation in for earning that way. then you have the others, speaker boehner's corner, who can't get their bill through the senate. where are we with this? >> well, there's clearly a -- an internal battle between on between the republican party now. you have a group of what i would say are extremist tea party republicans who basically have stronglehold over the matter. the details seems to be wagging the dog. in chaffetz who is a nice person, who i've had lovely conversations with on the house floor, really is clearly one of the obstructionists. he says they've bent over backwards? he believes his version of compromise is just the vote to raise the debt ceiling. that's -- at a minimum what we should

democrats showing support for their colleague debbie wasserman shultz wearing we stand with the ladyou know allen west fired off an angry e-mail to wasserman shultz after she questioned his position on medicare. the congressman called her vile, unprofessional and despicable. he went so far as to say she was not a lady. thus the pins. that's why the democratic members of congress are fired up and supporting her with those buttons. >> we know he's a former model. a knitting catalogue, really? scott brown is a lot item on craigslist. now you canvblúq your own copy of a 1984 knitting catalogue. that looks familiar featuring senator brown on the cover. nice sweater. the seller says he bought the catalogue on ebay for $100. now he's selling it for $250. i guess you have to really like senator brown's sweaters. >> finally, millions watched as prince william and kate middleton said their i dos. now you can get up close and personal look at the dress. it going on display at buckingham palace. visitors will be able get within eight feet of the does. closer than most of us got at the wedding.

democrats showing support for their colleague debbie wasserman shultz wearing we stand with the lady. as you know allen west fired off an angry e-mail to wasserman shultz after she questioned his position on medicare. the congressman called her vile, unprofessional and despicable. he went so far as to say she was not a lady. thus the pins. that's why the democratic members of congress are fired up and supporting her with those buttons. >> we know he's a former model. a knitting catalogue, really? scott brown is a lot item on craigslist. now you canvblúq your own copy of a 1984 knitting catalogue. that looks familiar featuring senator brown on the cover. nice sweater. the seller says he bought the catalogue on ebay for $100. now he's selling it for $250. i guess you have to really like senator brown's sweaters. >> finally, millions watched as prince william and kate middleton said their i dos. now you can get up close and personal look at the dress. it going on display at buckingham palace. visitors will be able get within eight feet of the does. closer than most of us got at the wed

the debate over the debt ceiling has gotten personal between alan westbound and debbie wasserman shultzg that she was a vile, unprofessional and despicable. now, she wants an apology is an agreement isn't reached by august 2nd. the country could financial collapse. >> we have new details, the new york times is reporting that other british tablet, may have been hacking phones, not just once owned by rupert murdoch. five former journalist from another british newspaper called all the people say they saw phone hacking in the newsroom about a decade ago. a former reporter for the sunday mirror said the paper frequently hired private detectives to dig up information. murdoch's paper, the son, has been approved several times a phone hacking. as the hacking scandal runs its course in the u.k., rupert murdoch is in the united states today. his company, news corp. faces a host of financial and legal challenges. the company has to confront at least two shareholder lawsuits, a credit downgrading into the beginnings of a federal investigation. the murder of the empire is controls through family tru

then democrats in washington throw their 2 cents in including congresswoman debbie wasserm wasserman-shultz, that the use of violent imagery is inappropriate. all of that amidst the chaos on capitol hill. >> and it continues, as the clock tick, tick, ticks till tuesday. joe johns, i love "political pop" today. that's it for me. i'm brooke baldwin in atlanta. now let's go to wolf blitzer. "situation room" starts right now. >>> the political temperature here in washington, now tipping the scales as the white house intensifies both parties over how to solve the debt crisis. fears that a solution won't be reached in time are quickly, quickly potentially, at least, becoming a reality. what is president obama doing right now to end this bitter gridlock? the white house press secretary jay carney will join me just minutes from now. plus, even if congress agrees on a last-minute deal, the country's coveted aaa credit rating could be compromised. the unpresence dented consequences for all of us. and why some lawmakers argue the looming august 2 deadline isn't the armageddon the president says it is.

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