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(cheers and applause) meanwhile, meanwhile, me and louie gohmert aren't even invited. i say we let the economy go down the (bleep). stupid birthday. we just have to make sure that this thing is fixed by august 18 because that's louie gohmert's birthday! and his party is going to be way better. it's going to be him, michele bachmann and steve king eating pizza at the corner booth. (applause) and i didn't get invited to that one, either. we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) woman: saving for our child's college fund was getting expensive. man: yes it was. so to save some money, we taught our 5 year old how to dunk. woman: scholarship! woman: honey go get him. anncr: there's an easier way to save. get online. go to geico.com. get a quote. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. (cheers and applause). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody! my guest tonight is a media writer featured in the documentary "page one: inside the "new york times." " it combines the thrill of a newspaper with the heart-stopping action of a documentary. (laughter) please welcome

representative louie gohmert of texas also had a very good idea in april. he said, under no circumstances should the brave men and women in uniform who are fighting to protect the liberties of this nation while the united states is engaged in various conflicts should they have for a moment their military pay be somehow in abeyance or suspended. the families of the military deserve far better than that and that's why it's imperative, again, we stand both with our military and also with making sure we stand to secure the full faith and credit of the united states. i commend louie gohmert, i commend steve king, i commend tom mcclintock and pat toomey, for trying to put this effort forward. we cannot go on scaring the american people. we need to be truthful and i call on the president and the treasury secretary to tell the truth to the american people as this is what steve king's effort is trying to do. >> i want to thank you for being here today and i also particularly am grateful to steve king and michelle bachmann . pat toomey and tom mcclintock did have the

congressman louie gohmert of texas. >> as a group, sometimes we do very stupid things. >> reporter: g.o.p. leadership aides accuse the white house of moving the goalposts throughout this negotiation. just yesterday, word had leaked out that the two sides were nearing a deal, but speaker boehner was always under enormous pressure from the tea party wing of his own party not to agree to any plan that included any tax revenues no matter how large the spending cuts that accompanied them. bob? >> schieffer: okay, thank you very much, nancy. well, the president has been holding a news conference. norah o'donnell was in the news conference. she's now outside with the other part of this story. norah? >> reporter: bob, there has been an extraordinary breakdown in trust in government here in washington between the speaker, speaker boehner, and the president of the united states. the speaker called president obama at 5:31 tonight, they spoke for 11 minutes and the speaker said "i'm sorry, the deal's off. i can only negotiate now with the senate." and so we saw the president here in the briefing room

reelection period artificial deadline ice is basically echoing the words of fellow republican louie gohmert who argued the august second deadline is only in place to coincide with the president's birth thing the reality is we already hit our debt limit back in may and right now we're working on borrowed time and that borrowed time will run out on august second and as long as irresponsible republicans like their allies to keep downplaying the seriousness of the situation and we will indeed default and every single american will feel the effects of an economic calamity and a very very ugly congressman allen west this guy has one term written all over it republican congressman from florida wrote a piece for the right wing web site red country in which he labeled obama supporters as threats to the gene pool west wrote i believe we are headed toward the ultimate ideological clash in america i must confess when i see anyone with obama trying to a bumper sticker i recognize them as a threat to the gene pool ideological clash threat to the gene pool is allen west suddenly taking notes from mine com

congressman louie gohmert will tell us if this has changed his no vote to yes in just three minutes. and, a desperate search now underway for this 11-year-old girl in new hampshire. she vanished from her bedroom while her parents were home. we're going to have the latest in this mysterious investigation. >> she has not been seen since monday and very much missed by the family and community. she loves her family and is especially devoted to her sister kayla who is absolutely devastated by her disappearance alisyn: fox news alert for you now because america's economy apparently hitting a wall. with little signs that things will turn around soon. the government saying that america's economy grew an anemic 1.3% this spring. that is the weakest pace since the big recession officially ended two summers ago. what's more dramatic even, the economists downgraded the first quarter performance from a 1.9% growth rate to just a .4. the economy is growing at a rate of less than one half percent in the first quarter. that of course hurts. here to explain all of this and break it down into words we

after leaving speaker boehner's office, republican congressman louie gohmert of texas informed reporters that he was still, quote, a bloodied and beaten no. and according to nbc's luke russert, republican congressman mick muvaney of north carolina who also plans to vote no exited boehner's office and headed straight to a small chapel in the capitol, telling reporters he was going to pray for his leadership. now, republican congressman steve southerland of florida also told reporters he was a no. and when asked if anything could change his mind, he said, quote, if the lord takes me home right now. so as speaker boehner struggles at this hour to get his members in line to pass his bill, the other chamber of congress, the u.s. senate, is standing by waiting to vote that bill down. a spokesman from democratic senate majority leader harry reid tweeting late night, quote, the senate stands ready to defeat the boehner plan, whenever house republicans can get their act together. let's go now to the capitol and to nbc correspondent luke russert for the latest. hi, luke. >> hi, melissa. and a wond

louie gohmert has a good bill that guarantees our troops are paid first every time. it doesn't happen to include hitting a debt ceiling and addresses the funding gap that came from the c.r. a few months ago but the concept of it is good and he's led very well on it. dan webster from florida has a very good prioritization bill. his bill, should we send it to the president and it becomes law, services the debt first, that's about $20 billion a month, pays the military second, that's about $11 billion a month, that's $31 billion if you divide $31 billion by $200 million -- by $200 billion, 31 divided by 200 works out to be 15.2%. so 15.2% of the incoming revenue stream is all that it takes to guarantee our military is paid on time, every time and that they in harm's way, defending our liberty with their lives on the line and sacrificing their lives from time to time, they should never have to wonder if their earned spake going to be transferred into their account for their family on time every time. that should be a guarantee that this congress makes and it should be a

congressman louie gohmert and senator rand paul will tell us if this wins them over.whether august 2nd is the real deadline. what happened to the 11-year-old girl who vanished in new hampshire monday night from her bedroom? we'll explore latest theories when i see you in the 17 minutes. jenna: time for town hall usa we have a lot of questions coming from you at foxnews.com/happeningnow on our board. we have stocks down. readings on the economy seem to be saying that the economy is weaker than most thought. we're asking questions to "wall street journal" senior economics writer steve moore. you have a lot of good ones today, steve. overwhelmingly people on our chat and twitter telling us still they don't believe there is a need to raise the debt ceiling. what are your thoughts on that? >> right now, jenna, as you know we're borrowing about 30 to 35 cents for every dollar we spend. i do think the government can continue to operate for a few weeks past the debt deadline that would mean nonessential government employees would have to go home. it might mean the department

known as the promises act, together with my fellow colleagues, congressman steve king of iowa and louie gohmert of texas, that bill guarantees that we not only pay the interest on the debt but we start making our military men and women and their salary and their families the pond and political tools of this debate. they must not suffer by washington dithers. the president should support this legislation. he should take the option of default off the table. this must be done. instead once again on monday evening in his speech the president has opted to use scare tactics against not only senior citizens but also against veterans under the threat of default to attempt to get his way on this issue. they are several congressional plans. i'm sure you're continuing to cover all of that as they emerge from capitol hill dealing with the current crisis. and the problem is all of them, all of them begin with the flawed assumption that we must raise the debt limit. that's the flaw. the president said the debt ceiling is a term that most people outside of washington have probably never heard up. well, that's

. >> congressman louie gohmert of texas who went into a meeting with speaker boehner's office saying he'd been called to the principal's office. when he came out he still said he was voting no. >> congressman, you're not willing to support the boehner bill at this point. why? >> well, it raises the debt limit. i've made too many promises i wouldn't raise the debt limit. i've never voted for the appropriation bill and i've been worried about our spending for many, many years if not decades. so i think that would only encourage people to spend more money. if debt is the problem, raising the debt limit by $2.4 billion, i don't see how it can be a solution. >> you talk about obviously the principles behind your not supporting it. is part of your thinking though also politics of what happens to the bill in the senate and what happens after that? >> no. i think that's sort of not much of my concern. that's what most of what's going on here is all the politics. i've heard that they already know what they'll finally come out of this, but they have to go up to the last minute to see who gets

representative louie gohmert said. "let's face it, when you're a dictator you need to be paid more." well, that gave the impression to people who read the article and picked up on it that i was saying president obama was a dictator. in this setting, that is not what i said. but the interesting point is just how clearly deceptive and dishonest judy kurtz was because she took two quotes, had access to the whole video, to the whole transcript, and chose to put them together and give the wrong impression. because when you do look at the full quote in context we were talking about the czars, there's so much greatness when you're associated with this white house you deserve to be paid more. but then don't forget the 34, the 34 czars that are out there dictating policy. and let's face it, when you're a dictator you need to be paid more. so it is important to note there's some reporters you can trust, even within the same newspaper, and there's some that can be dishonest. during my days as a trial judge , major civil litigatio

when that happened in april, i joined with my colleague on the house side, representative louie gohmert we both introduced a bill, the ensuring pay for our military act, senate bill 724. we got 80 cosponsors of that legislation -- 80 oust 100 in the united states -- 80 out of 100 in the united states senate stepped up to the plate and said, yes, we need to take care of our military, even if government shuts down. that was april. now the -- since then, i have introduced a new bill. the new bill is senate bill 1365, the protecting military pay act of 2011. now, that one sets two priorities. it sets paying our debt, the interest on our debt, and our military. it is those two priorities. social security is in a different account, and it will automatically be paid from that account. i actually am cosponsoring another bill that is also cosponsored by many senators and many house members that would require that the president pay our debt, interest on our debt, our active duty military, and also social security recipients. even though that would automatically happen. the legislation that i intr

so i've introduced, along with michele bachmann and louie gohmert, with a growing number of co-sponsors today, an act called the promises act. and what it does is it requires that our military be paid first and on time every time, no exceptions, no hesitation, whether it is a spending gap that's a result of the expiration of a continuing resolution or whether we hit the debt ceiling, the revenues in the united states treasury, and there will be plenty there for this, under all circumstances that we can envision, go first to pay the military, they're our number one line of defense, their lives are on the line, they should never have to wonder in a fox hole or on a ship or in the air or their families near the barracks or at home should ever have to wonder whether that paycheck is going to be electronically transfered into their bank account on time every time, that's our guarantee with the promises act. and the military should never be used as a pawn in a political discussion here on the floor of the house of representatives. . the second thing is we need to take care of the full faith a