blogger jeff jarvis stirs up a storm by hurling an obscenity. the reporter whose story prompted david wu to resign over a sex scandal. should he have relied on unnamed sources? i'm howard kurtz and this is "reliable sources." >>> it would be comical if it weren't so serious. washingtonality its worst as all of us in the news business trying to keep up with a story that changes by the hour. the senate scheduled to vote today at 1:00 p.m. to avoid a crippling default. look at the rolling news coverage suggests one inescapable conclusion, we often aren't sure what's going on either the countdown continues, american anger and anxiety keep building as the politicians let another day go by without a deal on the flash debt. >> it is one week and counting to august 2nd, the day the president says the government will run out of money and, among other things, will have to stop sending out social security checks. >> we are not yet in the end game. we are still in the bluff stage of the negotiations. >> tonight, do you know who said this? >> get your ass in

the one thing about this which i find very surprising why is it that jeff jarvis is the one who's thats ignited the tweets now sent around the world when just looking at my own, the people i follow and the people who follow the people i follow and the twitter feed that i see, you know, what he says seems to actually be a lot of what the conversation is. the level of anger and frustration at -- directed at washington and with washington the inaction has been rising. not getting less. so jeff just tapped into something and is now the face of something that's been out there for a long time. >> the tracking site topsy said that this phrase has been used already 66,000 times after jarvis' original message. i think that's grown. here's an example. why do we allow children to run the country. let's get responsible folks in washington, and then you're using the hash tag mark. stop defining party lines and do what we elected you to do. make this country great once again. don't fall for obama's b.s. he's the clozest neocon. why all the anger? it reminds me of "network" where people are saying we

. >> reporter: jeff jarvis worked for hinton and knows his management style. >> les hinton, i think, was also a very, very loyal executive. and in the end he threw himself on the sword for murdoch. >> reporter: now, as liz palmer just reported, at least nine journalists are being investigated. as for les hinton, in his resignation letter to rupert murdoch, he said he was ignorant of what happened but felt he had to resign anyway. >> pelley: thanks, elaine. for the first time in six days, there was no meeting at the white house today among the leadership trying to find a way to head off a u.s. government default. the president tried one more time today to persuade republicans to raise taxes, and our chief white house correspondent chip reid was there. chip? >> reporter: well, scott, five straight days of meetings failed to produce an agreement, so today the president made one last plea for a grand bargain. >> we have a unique opportunity to do something big. we have a chance to stabilize america's finances for a decade. >> reporter: if the republicans continue to refuse to compromise

let's talk to jeff jarvis. jeff, thank you so much. beginning of the end for murdoch's newscorp? is this about to be his rose bud moment? >> i think it could be. i think that this becomes a legal story, a moral story that could become a financial story. the fact that in four days last week newscorp lost between 5 and 7 billion dollars of market cap. murdoch won't be in charge of this company very longer and professional management will say newspapers are in many ways now a burden and will try to get rid of these news properties. >> here's my question. is there somebody waiting in the wings to succeed murdoch. you think this is the end of murdoches heading the company. who is waiting in the wings? >> don't know who is waiting in the wings. newscorp is an entertainment company. no one expects that entertainment executives are anything other than rapacious. in the news business they can't stand the murdoch name and the pressure on them. the problem is how do they sell newspapers. there's no market for them. they will get rid of the news o

you washington thanks to jeff jarvis of buzz machine dot com some of the more popular have been asked to take a few washington for forgetting who you represent families elderly noms kids workers not the corporate pigs to shame on you and hash take a few washington for sending our soldiers on sick seventy two hours to combat zones yet thinking it's too much to ask the richest to pay taxes and f. you washington again i missed it and i'm still furious that everyone has to sacrifice except the ultra rich and corporations.

i like jeff jarvis, but fu washington could mean many different and contradictory things.ople saying the f word on twitder, i think congress understands the american people don't approve. they have like an 85% disapproval rating. if that doesn't motivate them to change, i don't think this will. i think we need a more cohesive and programmatic campaign. >> i wonder what f word pete's thinking about. he said other possible definitions. we'll get back to that one. maybe that should have been our buzzer beater. >> i was thinking fruit. >> fruit. okay. fruit you, washington. >> what am i missing here? >> nothing. but you've got ten seconds to not miss this one. people are getting pretty creative expressing their frustration with washington in other ways. take a listen here to rapper remi. >> raise the debt ceiling limit, raise the debt ceiling limit, raise the debt ceiling limit. >> okay. i was kind of hoping for other lyrics besides just debt ceiling limit. >> yeah, who wrote that? >> maybe we ought to talk about -- okay. i think we missed the other part. but what's the next p

. >> i had a chance to speak with jeff jarvis.he scandal is enough to force rupert murdoch out of the news business all together. >> news corp. is primarily an entertainment company. nobody expects that entertainment executives are anything but rapacious, but in the news business they can't stand the murdoch name and the pressure on them now. how do they sell newspapers in this day? there is no market for them. i think they will get rid of news organizations in the uk first. the new york post will go. fox news? i can imagine a leveraged buyout. the wall street journal? well, murdoch overpaid for that. who knows what happens to it. the end of the day i think this becomes an entertainment company. >> the scandal is reaching deep into rupert murdoch's inner circle. you can be sure the man at the top is feeling the pressure. >> shame on you! shame on you! >> murdoch has ads running in seven british papers through monday saying, quote, we are sorry. here he is in his own words. >> i'm the founder of the company. i was appalled to find

. >> so this past saturday night jeff jarvis had just about enough. >> i'm watching the evening news,rnalism professor with 75,000 twitter followers, jarvis put out a message in plain, though offcolor, language. >> hey, washington it's our money, so [ bleep ] you. >> like the angry anchorman from the 1976 movie "network." >> i'm as mad as hell and i'm not going to take this any more. >> jarvis touched a nerve of outrage. [ bleep ] you washington for having the compromising skills of a 3-year-old. or for enslaving all future generations with the largest debt in human history. there were 64,000 tweets on monday alone. >> one tweert jeff howe said there was a large pile of dry tinder and all i did was throw a match on it. people were mad about washington, they're mad about this current so-called crisis and they just wanted to get it off their chest. >> in the latest cbs news poll, 79% of americans are angry or dissatisfied with washington. more blame republicans than the president. it is out rage spreading to the borders. modern technology has clearly made it easier than ever for people

another tweet, jeff jarvis said, good god, murdoch troops, no bounds. another one, cartoon in murdoch's london times may be the most offensive thing they have done just yet. i mean, it could very well be just to raise the awareness or move the attention away from the murdochs and focus attention on more pressing issues the way they have done it, i think a lot of people are up in arms and really offended by this. >> started watching the story trend on twitter yesterday and still a lot of folks are outraged by this, to say it. >>> all of the information the dmv has on you is private, right? always. it florida, it might be for sale. >>> could the faa shut its doors tonight? a funding fight in washington could mean just that. what does it mean to you? every day, all around the world, energy is being produced to power our lives. while energy developement comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to safely and responsibly providing decades of cleaner burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet below fresh water s

jarvis with chris wragge. erica hill is off this morning. >> jeff glor is out there in front of buckingham palace right now and beaming with xoimt and bring us that report later on. right now let's go to betty nguyen for a look at the top headlines this morning. >>> this morning a record breaking heat wave is making life miserable and straining power grids from the midwest to the east coast. triple digit temperatures are expected from the ohio valley to new england. at least 55 heat records were shattered yesterday alone. and some 22 deaths are blamed on the heat. >>> after 17 years, gays in the military will soon be allowed to serve openly. defense secretary leon pa net >>> now to latest setback for john edwards as he fights charges of campaign finance fraud. cbs news chief political kort jane crawford is in washington for us. >> reporter: you know how they say when it rains, it pours? for john edwards, it's like a monsoon. facing federal charges, john edwards took hit hit ordered to repay more than $2 million in federal campaign money. the federal elections commission decided edwards presidential campaign go

jarvis. >> coming up a strange turn of events at the trial of polygamist sect leader warren jeffs. >> he launchede of polygamy, even making a threat. we'll speak with a former member of the sect who escaped from jeffs' compound after just years of abuse. >>> first to the debt showdown. congress and the white house remain at lagerheads over increasing the nation's debt ceiling and preventing a default perhaps or issues with paying, making good on the things we need to pay. whit johnson is on capitol hill with the latest. whit, good morning and tell us what are the plans for this weekend. is there any hope of reaching some sort of agreement? >> well rebecca, good morning. we certainly hope so. there was another breakdown in negotiations late last night between senate majority leader harry reid and mitch mcconnell the republican. we're told discussions will resume and continue on some level today and may include folks at the white house and leaders in the house of represents. democrats and republicans really aren't that far apart right now in some of the initial spending cuts. the major sticking poi

jarvis. erica hill is off this morning. >> that shark didn't get away. it didn't escape our folks in the london bureau. they saw it this morning and flagged it for jeffyou were going after one shark and now you found another. >> yeah, right. indeed. just in case you thought it was stressful being questioned by parliament, there's this. one of our producers noticed this. wild pictures from just off the coast of south africa. this team of researchers was out doing research on shark populations but they got a . so, yeah, we're very happy that the shark lived to tell the tale. >> very happy indeed. the shark is okay. presumably back in the water so it can scare the death out of someone else next time. they do say that they think this was an accident, that it wasn't an attack, but safe to say they may be slightly more careful next time. they're all okay. >> easy for them to say it wasn't an attack. it was just an accident. yesterday we had you fishing. this is a different issue. how would you have wrestled that alligat tor the boat. alligator? shark. >> there's been so much talk of fish here. i'm in london. i still haven't had fish and chips. maybe that's