starting with luke, where the vote is about to take place, and luke, let's look at for a moment how to speaker fielded one of the queries at the press conference this afternoon. we don't appear to have that, luke, but apparently mr. boehner referred to you in his chosen term as loud mouth, is that correct? >> yes, it is correct. it is an endearing term though, because he gives nicknames to the journalists similar to bush xliii. >> and we have luke the loud mouth, and bank robbers on film used and something like an atmosphere of rugby locker room with republicans ready to get pumped up and hit high and low and smack people and you have been the guide for the last six months as the debate has come slowly and painfully forward and we know that speaker boehner needs 216 votes, and does he have them? >> as of right now, it is difficult to tell whether or not he has 216. what we can tell you though is that all of the momentum and the enthusiasm seems to be going in that direction and this morning the conference that you are referencing is a raucous affair, and the message from john boehner i

luke, i'm impressed. you must have been up and had your coffee. help us what's going on luke. you covered the hill every single day. people who watched this who aren't like us, kind of nerds following every moment of this get home from work and they say what happened exactly today, are we any further than we were. how can beget toward a deal by next tuesday? >> well, the big news that came out from yesterday was that john boehner was having a great difficult getting to 217 votes, the majority in his house on his plan to raise the debt ceiling. then he got bad news from the congressional budget office, which is a non-partisan budget office that scores these bills which says that his plan, which claimed to have saved over a trillion dollars in spending over the next ten years really only saved about $850 billion. so it didn't save nearly as much as he said it did and it actually back ended a lot of the savings. so in the first few years there was only about $5 billion worth of savings which is not acceptable to a lot of the tea party wing house who was duly elected. so he pulled

lukes, the only hospital in the area. >> all of my doctors are in st. lukes. i could come right here for everything. >> doctors and nurses rallied today, hoping to save the hospital that saves the lives of low-income patients. >> if they close the access to hospital care will be diminished and that's a problem for day to day healthcare. in the event of a crisis it would be devastating. >>> the medical center or cpmc organized today's protest. they say closing st. lukes could happen unless the mayor back offs with unreasonable financial demands. the city is asking them to pay for affordable housing, pedestrian safety and provide charity care. they say those depends will cost $2 billion and offered a counterproposal. >> is this a deal breaker? >> at the moment absolutely. >> remains to be seen what they could afford. >> reporter: all that leaves patients caught in the middle of a political battle, wondering how to get to another hospital. >> catch a cab or something. which is a hardship because i have a limited income. >> that was rob roth reporting. >>> police

you heard luke just question, what's mcconnell going to do now.s interesting about the president's remarks, he said senator reid had a good plan, and you heard him bring up the mcconnell plan, which allows the president to increase the debt ceiling in three increments without approval, and he was subtly saying it's time for these two work together, senate democrats and republican to work together, because we know what is happening in the house will just not pass muster in the senate. it was really a call for action, and you can expect the president to be, of course, working throughout the weekend. what will be interesting to see is if he actually calls congressional leaders, again, here to the white house. of course, a week ago he was doing that quite regularly. that sort of petered off this week as the action really turned to the hill, so we'll be watching for that. but this speech was about putting the pressure on for compromise between reid and mcconnell. >> let me go back to david gregory in our last 30 seconds. let me ask you the unanswerable

thanks indeed, luke.oments away, speaker john boehner will be here giving us a press conference. dylan ratigan dr is back from a brief break and he'll pick up for me now. >> indeed, martin. thank you so much. >>> as you're well aware, if not, breaking news. any minute now speaker of the house john boehner will lay out the details of his latest two-part debt proposal. luke russert remain on standby at the capitol. nbc kristen welker is outside the white house awaiting reaction there and our mont mega panel on duty early offering analysis and insight to the debt ceiling two step, which we're doing instead of worries about jobs orring in policy or anything like that, because you know, while we worry about having people work or not wasting energy, blowing money, we can just call each other names in a political, two-party political system that's kind of stupid? anyway, tim carney is here. i'm excited about that.

see what luke was traveling on his own assignments and we had an aversive the man l.l.c. are advocates of slave wages anyway at least we have a flexible vacation boy and wednesday we reported on the f.b.i. as the rest of anonymous hackers and according to them the little five four six six i do believe the f.b.i. just got a little too big for their grief it is thinking that riches do they know how to read it because i think the part where it stated we do not forgive we do not forget expect us was fairly well defined and self evident as you all know if you don't watch the show every day it must be because you hate america fortunately golf pirate has provided us with an easy way to hate america and i have to say i hate america most because of its proximity to canada and the reputation we get by association. and a request we need your help fulfilling comes from the ada lois the tubes when you get to d. minus twelve will you please play blow my buzz by d. twelve m. and m. anderson friends are all the pot heads didn't think so didn't think so if you can get his written permissi

luke russert is also here with me. he is at the capitol. luke, we were just listening to leader reid saying in his question time with normal people, real people, as he calls it. what he had said here was that he had no communication with the republican leader, leader mcconnell. is that really the factor some back channel discussions that are happening here? >> well, what the democrats say yesterday reid and mcconnell had good discussions. then mcconnell essentially broke them off and said -- around 6:00 p.m., that he would no longer negotiate with harry reid. mcconnell's folks said that was because it was clear whatever would come out of congress wasn't necessarily going to be signed by the president. they wanted the president's input on the discussions. that's an interesting point. now the news that harry reid is going over to the white house where viq is and going to bring nancy pelosi, perhaps president obama is mentioning what he would be willing to give on them, any compromise, not only get any democrat in the senate but keep a sizable

luke russert and mike viqueira. luke, i'd like to start with you. speaker boehner says he want to bring the bill back now, and maybe it can now pass, but wouldn't it be deader in the senate if that is possible? >> absolutely, martin. what speaker boehner had to do was for the third time in three days bring up a new republican debt limit in the house gop and this one moved the bill to the right. he absolutely catered to the tea party republicans, and how do i know this? i spoke to a few of them who said they went in and met with him yesterday, and floated this balanced budget amendment option aroundp 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. saying it is the only way to get to 216 votes. so that is the situation, and that plan will go nowhere in the united states senate, and as you heard chris van hollen say, they don't want a judicial branch to dictate the budget, and not to mention before a debt ceiling can be raised in the second go around, they have to go to the states, and the possibility of trying to see a balanced budget amendment go through state legislatures, and t

luke russert is on capitol hill.kristen, this has got to be a frustrating monday for the white house. the president went into the weekend completely frustrated that he said i can't even get a phone call back. how do you move the ball at this point? >> frustration sa good word. most of the action right now is on capitol hill. and one democratic aide who has knowledge of the situation tells me that the white house really believes that the ball is on the other side of pennsylvania avenue right now. they say that this is the congress's job to come one a plan and move the situation forward. having said that the president is still very much involved in these developments. staffers here at the white house in constant contact with the folks of capitol hill. as you said there were meetings over the weekend so they're keeping those lines offense communication open. but you know the president continues to insist he's not going to accept a short-term deal. he remains steadfast in that statement. as you know speaker boehner's pro

on one end it's luke russert. on the other, mike viqueira. luke -- there you go.re we right now. the fact is it's 1:30. we don't have a deal and we keep hearing people emphasize, particularly democrats, that we don't have a deal. >> yeah. i was just over around the senate, chuck. i think the appropriate word to use for democratic senators especially ones who are more progressive is there is a little bit of anxiety right now. nobody really knows for certain what are the underpinnings of this agreement. barbara mccullsky said look, democrats have already given away 80%. we don't have a lot left to give here. i'm encouraged by senator mcconnell's words he wants to end this and get to some sort of compromise but i'm anxious to see exactly what it will be. that said, if there is a deal that's proposed by the white house and backed up by the white house, democrats will ultimately fall in line but we talked a lot about this optimism and this hope of oh, my goodness, this crisis of debt will finally be over. there's a little skepticism on the democratic side and that also

the compromise doesn't exist. >> the disease, chris, liz, luke russert, hang on.e break. first we ask, who was the last u.s. president to win the white house while losing his home state? it's richard nixon. he was a new york resident in 1968 when he won the white house. he's no longer a california resident but there you go. if you don't count nixon, you'd have to go all the way back to woodrow wilson. our thanks to jeff greenfield for that one and i promise mr. gre greenfield a shoutout, follow him for political information and a couple of laughs. we'll be right back. i couldn't conceive this as a heart attack. the doctor leaned over and said to me, "you just beat the widow-maker." i was put on an aspirin, and it's part of my regimen now. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. go see your doctor now. it's schwab at your fingertips wherever, whenever you want. one log in lets you monitor all of your balances and transfer between accounts, so your money can move as fast as you do. check out your portfolio, track the ma

luke, first of all, do you think any chance that phone call that interrupted mr. reid could possibly have been mcconnell calling to say he was prepared to negotiate with him? >> what did reid say, must have been the pizza guy or something? that was a good joke by him. it sheds light on what's been an interesting development of what we heard from senator schumer today, is harry reid called mitch mcconnell 10:00 a.m. this morning, door is open, ready to negotiate. heard nothing back from mcconnell. about 6:00 p.m. mcconnell told reid at this point he was not going to negotiate with him, so the schedule is as of right now to try and get a cloture vote early sunday morning, actually 1:00 a.m. sunday morning, late, late tomorrow night, if mitch mcconnell does not want to negotiate tomorrow, it looks like harry reid's going to have to find about eight or nine senate republicans to come on board with a deficit reduction package, which would also yield itself to an increase in the debt limit. so there's a long, long way to go on this, and i would also add that the timing,

thanks, luke. >> indeed. >>> and the u.s.is urging the imof the raise the ceiling and cut friending. they say that the u.s. should concentrate on entitlement reform. and now a new poll is that the u.s. citizens are losing faith in their lawmakers. 71% say they are not very confident or not confident at all. that is coming up with lawmakers and whether or not they will be able to reach a deal. again, the deadline is eight days from now, but we were hearing from luke russert coming up later this afternoon when we will hear dueling plans. one from speaker boehner and one from harry reid. joining me is the freshman republican senator pat toomey a member of the budget committee. you introduced your own version of cut, cap, and balance in march and voted down in may. speaker boehner's plan does not include a specific balanced budget amendment for the first debt limit çincrease, so when u hear of how it is going to be parsed out so to speak before the grand unveil, what is the gut reaction by you so far? >> well, the house has pass

that was luke. let me ask you this, too. part of the rhetoric, we just saw, the speaker made this passionate statement in the house, and he said that the president has never put a plan on the table. but i'm confused. and luke you know these things better than me. help reverend al out here. he said the president never put a plan on the table. the president a week ago tonight started laying out, what he put on table. and just in case i thought the president was making it up, boehner came back and said the president moved the goalpost. well, if he never set goalposts, how did he move the goalpost? >> with the republican position has been all along is that president obama hasn't shown leadership because he hasn't but a plan down, something tangible. and what president obama has done which is a tactic in negotiating is that he is not putting everything away he wants it put forward because he is not putting anything forward possible. but it has allowed this wedge to develop where republicans can criticize him and they have done it

luke, let me start where you are. that's where the action is. what's going on up there, what are you hearing, this 1:00 vote, still up in the air. is harry reid sort of using it as that last bit of leverage that he might have? >> perhaps, chuck. but for all the optimism we've heard about a possible deal struck between republican leaders and the white house, it would seem odd that harry reid would still try and have a vote on his plan of which 43 republican senators had already said no to. we talked about his strategy yesterday trying to pick off some republicans to come on board to get the 60. but if they are in the midst of a grand compromise, it is hard to see why he'd do that. as of now it is unclear. what i can tell you though is that sort of opinions are now starting to trickle in about this possible compromise and for all intents and purposes, mitch mcconnell can deliver senate republicans, reid will deliver the senate democrats, they'll get through the senate. i sincerely believe the question now becomes whether this can get the 216 votes

also our thanks to luke russert. >>> coming up, a preview of tomorrow's events and what it means fordebate. don't go anywhere. we're back after this. it's all the same. nothing changes. then try this. freestyle lite® blood glucose test strip. sure, but it's not gonna-- [beep] wow. yep, that's the patented freestyle zipwik™ design. did it just-- [both] target the blood? yeah, drew it right in. the test starts fast. you need just a third the blood of one touch.® that is different. so freestyle lite test strips make testing... easy? easy. great. call or click-- we'll send you strips and a meter, free. free is good. freestyle lite test strips. call or click today. fiber one. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? um... try the number one! [ jack ] yeah, this is pretty good. [ male announcer ] half a day's worth of fiber. fiber one. of these abandoned racetracks in america today. automotive performance is gone. and all we have left are fallen leaves and broken dreams. oh. wait a second. that is a dodge durango. looks like american performance is doing just fine. ♪ carry

we'll probably see the bill come to the floor as luke has reported later today. but it's really up to the senate now. will mitch mcconnell stand by john boehner or will he work a deal behind the scenes with democrats. that's the question. >> why is the president asking people to flood twitter and social media sites and call their congressmen -- >> reporter: calling for bipartisanship. >> instead of stepping in and picking everybody up by the scruff of their necks saying this needs to get done. >> reporter: this is an echo of the argument that we heard over the course of the spring for the health care debate, for the president to get his lbj on, if you'll excuse the expression, and bruting people around. it doesn't work the way the congress is composed right now after the 2010 election certainly, and if the house republican leadership can't get their people in line, the president isn't going to be able to do it. it's high-stakes drama and i said it yesterday and we've been saying it for the last several days, no one knows how it ends and the deadline is tuesday ni

nbc's luke russert there on capitol hill. >> not newt. luke. >> i said nuke. like you're nuking the info out there. now, come on. wake up. here we go. we're both awake now. certainly after that. >>> let's get to the showdown in washington with the debt limit, which is getting pretty strong reaction from wall street. the markets dropped again friday as stock traders are clearly concerned over the possibility of default. joining me now ron insana. good morning to you, ron. >> god bless that young man. >> september he the best? he does get at it with a nuclear reaction. he gets going on it. needless to say, friday not a good day on wall street. at the end of a bad week. >> you know, by -- in terms of sheer numbers, alex, it was the worst week since early 2011, but in points terms. from a percentage, it's still holding in relatively well. we are starting to see certain market indicators fray at the edges showing that there's increasing sensitivity to the possibility of a default, but it doesn't look like the period leading into 2008 where a lot of indicators were

luke's hospital. employees are protesting. why the proposal has people up in arms. tonight at 6:00. >>> judge postponed sentencing for two men accused of birderring chauncey bailey. the sentencing had been scheduled for friday but now the judge says he wants to hear from the attorney for key prosecution witness. the district attorney's office confirmed the development with us. >>> joseph naso told a judge he needs legal help today. he is requesting a legal adviser. joseph naso insisted on representing himself said he is having trouble digesting the case law. the judge is set to rule on the request friday. >>> doing more with less, that's the goal of a reshuffling of the police department. mike mibach is here to explain the changes residents will be seeing. >> the chief has been frustrated, lost 160 officers in less than two years, today he put it all out there. a new plan to atact crime and it involves getting more bang for his buck. the police department is reorganizing. >> we don't have capacity to

on capitol hill, thanks luke.the five day winning streak snap markets try to start a neutrally today. joining me now michele caruso-cabrera. >> reporter: we'll know if the markets were worried if we saw a sharp rise in interest rates and in fact interests rates have not been going up they have been going down. markets have been far more concerned about a weaker economy and whether or not all the at that tima points have been negative. as for today it looks like we'll have a slightly weak open. call it flat trade. you won't see a lot of action or decisive moves until friday when we get the jobs report. that's the daddy of economic report. washington's report card so to speak and that drives the markets. the other news this morning is china raised interest rates again sleight and that's hurt oil a little bit and that's down so good news for gasoline prices. >> michele, thanks very much. up next not just republicans and democrats who can't agree on anything, try the billionaire nba owners and millionaire players are

luke russert covers capitol hill and joins me now. luke, you've been doing a lot of reporting. there was an exclosive meeting yesterday and they were still venting this morning. that and the republican house problem. >> the meeting was yesterday. it was the senate democratic luncheon a lot of democrats were uncomfortable because jack lou was telling them the underpinnings of this plan possibly between speaker boner and president obama which would have some entitlement reform within there. third degree be spending cuts, but there's no guarantee of added revenue. that upset a lot of democrats saying that added revenue needed to be in any deal. yesterday i spoke to rank and file republicans saying there wasn't an agreement like that as democrats were making it out to be. they expected to be an announcement of a deal next week. speaker boehner spoke to his house republican conference this morning saying a deal needed to be on the house floor on wednesday of next week. they want to abide by their 72-hour limit of viewing the deal. then the senate is going to need roughly a week to w

let's go to luke russert. good sunday morning to you, luke. can you tell us what the tentative deal is that's on the table, at least by some reports? >> sure, let's emphasize this is presumed tentative, not concrete, the ink is not dry on the paper if you will. for starters, a debt ceiling increase of $2. trillion, initial spending cuts of $1 trillion, discretionary. a clean vote on a balanced budget amendment, and a commercial committee to find $1 trillion in cuts before thanksgiving and automatic cuts by committee are not adopted, they will be across the board, trying to target republican sacred cows and democrat sacred cows. this is the first glimmer of hope over the past few weeks. that being said, already this looks like a plan that's tailor made to go through the senate. mitch mcconnell saying this morning, it has to get democratic votes in the senate. he believes when all is said and done, he believes this is something he can recommend to his republican members. i cover the house, been calling house sources and seeing from initial repor

thank you, loudmouth luke russert. i wonder what our friend republican senator tom coburn thinks not only about the boehner deal but the fact dealmaking has left principle, has really left idea, has almost left mechanical solution and has simply come down to a short-term deal where the debate is whether shue have the vote, a second vote, i should say after whatever this is, before or after the presidential election? so let's get this straight. we've got massive unemployment. we've got trade extraction, bank extraction, energy inefficiency. you know the narrative. and this debate has devolved into a debate over whether the second vote should be had before or after next year's presidential election? it's not even a debate of ideas at this point. it's merely an exercise in political power between two parties trying to acquire power. i know that's -- we know, we know, we know. this is probably one of the best manifestations of that known phenomenon that i've ever borne witness to. i'm certain it irritates senator coburn an

. >> nbc's luke russert is for us on capitol hill. wow. good morning, luke. where do we stand now? >> wow, that is right. really is a crunch time, if you will, alex. both the chambers are in session today. the senate comes in around 1:00. we're expecting a very important about 1:00 cloture vote. we expect reid to negotiate with republicans throughout the day really needing to grab between eight to ten of them to figure out a way to raise the debt limit. while also cutting spending in ways that are acceptable to both sides. no raising of taxes and no cuts to entitlements. over in the house of representatives around 1:00 they will gavel in. it's expected today their will in fact even before it's passed or whatever variation will vote down the reid bill that has been submitted to the senate. they should have no problem doing that. it's quite entertaining alex. last night the boehner bill passed out of the house of representatives, it was killed by the senate within two hours. this reid bill will be killed many the house of representatives before it's even passed out of the senate. it'

joining me is nbc's luke russell live on capitol hill. luke, can you tell us what is happening here? >> good evening reverend al. an alarming piece of news that came to us about 15 minutes ago. democratic aides received word from the republican floor staff and in fact the bill about the boehner debt plan would not come to a vote. at its scheduled time. 6:15 p.m. there is no reason given precisely except the speculation is around here and from talking to gop aides, they are not there with the 216 votes to get this bill to the house representatives with only republican support. so as of right now, instead of voting on the boehner debt bill they will vote on naming post offices. there are about eight of those. they will take 40 minutes of debate on those. foreseeable delay this for 320 minutes. of that they can call a recess to the house floor of the subject of the chair and try it find the last few votes. i'm told -- all types of numbers between 30 a, 50 a, we do know it is under ten votes of passing it but they are not quite there yet. the

congressman mccarthy, nbc's luke russert is on capitol hill.uke, the speaker of the house went into caucus yesterday and told everybody to get in line. it didn't happen. how did it come down tonight? >> an absolutely real shocker out of washington, ed. there's a lot of confidence in the gop leadership staff this morning even saying by the time the night is over we'll have passed two bills out of the house that have raised the debt limit. well, that's just not the case. around 6:00 this bill was pulled. it was clear they didn't have the votes. there were rumors they were two votes away. they became six votes and then 10 and 12. the number is around there. but this is a huge setback because it shows that john boehner, as of right now, cannot pass a bill through the house of representatives to raise the debt limit that every single democrat in the house and in the united states senate has said they are against. this is clearly a republican bill despite the fact that republicans said it was drawn up in a bipartisan way over the weekend with harry r

and kristen welker is at the white house and luke russert at capitol hill., we have learned of a veto threat against the boehner bill, and a major development after the president's talk of compromise yesterday, and was this expected? >> well, you know, martin, this was a bit of a preemptive strike, if you will. the president has been saying for weeks that he won't support a short-term bill like the one that speaker boehner has proposed under speaker boehner's proposal and increase the debt limit for six months and then lawmakers have to come back to the issue in the middle of an election year, and the president has said he won't support a plan like that, and he says it is unstable for the economy, and speaker boehner has accused him of politics for that reason. this is not exactly a surprise, but what is interesting is that last night when the president spoke, in the remarks to the nation, he didn't use the term veto. he did come out and say he does not support speaker boehner's plan, but he never used the term veto, so a lot of people were questioning today

let's go now to the capitol and to nbc correspondent luke russert for the latest. hi, luke. >> hi, melissa. and a wonderful introduction telling everybody what occurred. since 6:00 we have been in a holding pattern here, and that's really because at this moment, speaker boehner still does not have the votes to pass his debt limit extension plan. over the last few hours, we can tell you that members have been brought in and have sat before speaker boehner, eric cantor, kevin mccarthy, they have twisted their arms trying to convince some of these no votes to come on the yes way. interesting folks to look at. the south carolina delegation, five republicans there, the gop delegation. they all think now they are going to stay as no votes. and that's important because a lot of them follow jim demint in the senate and what his lead is. a few other interesting things that have occurred here on what is quite a chaotic night. you mentioned the prayer off to side. we had an altercation between police officers and reporters trying to clear out the hallway in front of speaker b

. >>> and for the reality from the rhetoric, we go to mike viqueira and luke russert. mike, it is your sense that the president is slowly persuading john boehner to move forward? or is this an illusion like a mirage in the heat wave? >> well, first of all, martin, welcome to the sweltering east coast of the united states. well, you know, if politics as it has been said is the art of the do-able, it is time for the divincis and the michael angelos to come to the floor. it is time for someone to paint the legislative masterpiece. and radio silence pretty much all day today except for the public pronouncements and martin, i caution you, because there is a lot of head faking. part of the reason that you have seen all of the reports stirring up all of the sudden is because the people have the agendas to promote one side or another or kill one side or another's proposal which you have seen in the last few days. congress will be working all weekend and now more behind the scenes wrangling, and luke can tell us more about that, but when the president talked about shared politi

with a good saturday morning to you, luke. we heard senator kent conrad put it in perspective there, but for you how bad is this breakdown between the parties right now? >> it's pretty bad. just in the sense that there is so far we know of no real communication between harry reid and mitch mcconnell and president obama. at least that's public. i'm sure there are things going on behind the scenes, but when you have both parties still publicly asserting very rigid positions, essentially saying they're not really in the budget this moment, it presents dilgts simply because of where we are in terms of timing. in order for a compromise to come out of the united states senate, ideally in order to avert a default, it would come out tonight. that's probably not going to happen. these negotiations will probably carry into tomorrow, most likely harry reid will try to persuade nine to ten, 12 republicans to come on board with some sort of compromise, and the attempt to hope he can get that. mitch mcconnell has shown so far no willingness

we have a triple threat, luke russert, chuck todd and mike viqueira. i want to start with you, luke, we just heard john boehner left the capitol for the night. he's not needed as much right now, his work is done? >> correct. and that's something they've said for a long time, thomas, that he is done. and he left the capitol a short time ago. it's not expected, there's some speculation that perhaps he and mitch mcconnell could go back to the white house for some meetings. from what i've heard here on capitol hill. one of the key folks at this negotiation is turning out to be joe biden. mitch mcconnell mentioned before he was on the floor with senator harry reid, that he just got off the phone with joe biden, i heard from one aide who said, joe biden spent a lot of time at the state senate, i believe over three decades, he's really trying to work those relationships to bring this to an end. he's tapped into the pulse of the senate which does not want to see a default. and he tells me this is getting "embarrassing" for the country. if that's the case and h

we begin this morning with nbc's luke russert. good morning. >> two days away from when the nation is supposed to default on its loans lawmakers on capitol hill are scrambling to find a compromise. today senator harry reid hopes enough republicans will support some variation of his debt limit extension plan. >> we'll come in at noon and have a vote at 1:00. >> reporter: still rangling to get his 60 votes harry reid delayed the procedural vote on his plan by 12 hours. >> i'm confident a final agreement that will adopt a senate long-term approach rather than the short-term band aid proposed by house representatives. >> reporter: after a compromise ben b between senate republican leaders and the white house may be on the horizon leaving hope that a deal could be struck by tuesday's deadline. >> the bill is not passed. >> reporter: but earlier in a special weekend session, house republicans overwhelmingly voted down senator reid's plan before its final version was even offered. >> the reid proposal is full of budget gimmicks that the

luke kris scow is facing charges of unlawful sexual contact and invasion of privacy. the weirdest thing about this sick owe, he didn't sound sickie. here he is describing what he did. >> i had a tent cover with me. i just had no shoes on and no shirt really. i had a small shirt i stashed in there somewhere. then i just put the tent cover around my knees. i pushed my legs forward and then i just -- the porta potty was closed and i was in there and opened the latch and ducked in there. i was actually inside it. there was a little room to move around i guess the first time nobody came for awhile. i was in one of the wrong once. -- ones. then i switched to a busy one. and then, i don't know. some chicks came in. supposedly she saw me or whatever. [laughing]. >> here he is describing why he did it as well as the business he so dearly wants to start. >> i believe women are beautiful and i just -- i don't know, there is something very primal about it. i wanted to create a website that was called spiritual porn site .com, but i never got the footage for it. but i wanted to ha

>> luke russert on the hill for us. we want to go now to the white house and check in with nbc's mike vicar with more on the president's push for a deal. good evening tao. >> reporter: good evening. after weeks of fits and starts, the two sides appeared this afternoon to be moving closer. but as we come on the air tonight, another angry dispute between the two leaders of the senate breaking out into the open on the senate floor. lester, the key to all this at this point is senate republicans. and indeed white house officials confirm that for the first time in days, so far as we know, the president spoke directly with mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate. later he met here at the white house with harry reid and nancy pelosi, the democratic leaders of congress. of course, the first time they have met face-to-face in a week. lester, not really much separates the two sides. the bottom line for the white house, the debt ceiling be raised high enough, $2.5 trillion, to last until after next year's elections. f

for a twenty second time in a row he's currently two shots back with a whole host of plays including luke donald but it was westwood he was happiest with his day's work. you have been playing well since the masses. and the practice over the last couple of weeks. wrote it's nice to refresh i'm looking forward to the next two weeks and sixty carbs a good way to start those two weeks today well a noticeable absentee from the torn says u.s. open golf champion rory mcilroy has decided to rest ahead of the british open however at twenty two than ordinary men could still be playing in the found a series which inspired him to become the major winner he is constantine but top off reports now on the youth development program which has come to moscow to help produce a russian golf champion. british six time major winner cerny wilder founded his serious in one nine hundred ninety six and the blessed through of champions have already developed through the system including the likes of u.s. open champion rory mcilroy and yannis singh the youngest player and wheel of female in the morning to win four ma

nbc's luke russert is live for us on capitol hill. luke, explain for us, what does the president need to accomplish in this meeting with nancy pelosi and what should we expect to hear from him when he takes to the microphones later this hour? >> well, house democrats, thomas, have a lot of concerns about some reports that came out that within the negotiations to try and extend the nation's debt limit the idea of medicare reform and social security reform has gone in there. specifically perhaps cuts to benefits. now, why is this worrisome? well, house democrats really feel that within the republican ryan budget that had a real medicare voucher program they were handed a golden opportunity to campaign on. there was a special election outside of buffalo a few months ago. a democrat won in a republican district. what was the message? save medicare, vote democratic. they're worried that if president obama is to sign away any type of deal that would reduce medicare benefits it would rob them of running on an issue that could be very benefic

polish wild card luke school board is also in the semi's grinding out a three said victory over twenty three seed colombian santiago good i'll go and will play spain's pablo and do it for a place in the final. i made the last for him self in the state he's come up with an easy win beating jimmy cedric marcel stead six two six one in just over an hour all the remaining players fancy chances after the top eight seeds failed to make even the quarter finals. plenty of drama at the silk way rally rushing fear to ask a bit of thought he had won the moscow to sochi race after finishing top of the standings when today's last stage was cancelled because of flooding but in the last few minutes officials have given him a retrospective one hour penalty after speeding on a road section meaning he slips to second and low price from the czech republic has been crowned the champion real disappointment it could be that off he came twelfth in his cars and trucks on yesterday's stage one by fellow russian beer but was still top of the standings until officials handed him a time penalty however poland's k

i don't know where else he's played but i played another match paternity king one and so you know luke's playing well he's playing great what a worker he is he looks a member of our court my course at home and he absolutely is on the putting the chipping green and bunker play and he's there all the time and he works hard everybody out through sceneries get results. now at the end of this month russia will host its first ever walsh championship in waterskiing that's handed them out of the moscow region was chosen ahead of venues in denmark italy and south korea and russia best just think being at home will give them the edge i want. to but not has had a lot of practice in the run up to hosting the world championship this little town not far away from the russian capital has already held six world cup stages stirring up enough interest for skeins to make it a favorite sport among the locals since the creation of the world championship in one hundred forty nine it was countries like the united states canada and france who dominated and these nations also hosted the event over the years stil

. >> we have luke russert live on the hill with the latest. according to politico, the story said get his blank in line. >> reporter: i know it would be get their behind in line, thomas. that has been reiterated here. even from eric cantor. saying stop grumbling. they need to get behind the boehner bill. the question is after the boehner bill was scrapped because it did not save enough money. the cbo said it saved $150 million. any debt ceiling would have to have larger spending cuts. the new bill will be on the floor tomorrow. the question remains whether or not boehner can get to 217 votes within his conservative house. why cantor and mccarthy, and these guys trying to push these things through. if the bill does not come out of the house as a deficit reduction eleme element, the republicans have lost their leverage. harry reid is watching this play out. mitch mcconnell believes there has to be a compromise because the republican bill doesn't have a chance on get through the senate. it will be vetoed by president obama. >> what do we know of

go before the third gulf major of the season the british open ahead of the event while number one luke donald has secured a very important fun the sport's biggest legend jack nicklaus has tipped the englishman to win ahead of red hot u.s. open champion will be michael. lucas had a great year and every bit every all the golf he's played over here you know he's played very very well would play well at wentworth i'm i don't know where else is played by anybody who had played another match paternal i think he won and so you know luke's playing well he's playing great what a worker he is he looks a member of our court my course at home and he absolutely is on the putting and shipping green and booker play and he's there all the time and he works harder everybody out through sceneries get results. i saw you now in k h l dream team sky st petersburg have appointed their newly retired star player as their assistant coach but their time stanley cup when i left the n.h.l. to join the northern russian club two years ago at hip surgery potentially forty year old playing career in april however the

luke had a great year and every bit every all the golf is played over here you know he's played very very well played well at wentworth and i don't know where else apart but i think i played another match by term i think he won and so you know on the explain well he's playing great what a worker he is he looks a member of our court my course at home and he absolutely is on the putting and chipping green and parker play and he's there all the time and he works harder everybody out there were saying he's got results. now at the end of this monster russia will host its first ever whilst championship and waterskiing the sound of that not in the moscow region was chosen ahead of venues in denmark it's only in south korea and russia best us think being at home working on the edge and one customer has more. not has had a lot of practice in the run up to hosting the world championship this little town not far away from the russian capital has already held six world cup stages stirring up enough interest for his skates to make it a favorite sport among the locals since the creation of the wor

thank you for your time and to break down where we go from here we go to nbc's mike viqueira, and lukert live on capitol hill, so to both of you, we have the reports of a deal in "the new york times" and as well as the "washington post" and luke, what are you hearing on the hill? >> well, harry reid said that he at the democratic lunch said that he was informed that there is some sort of deal, but he urged president obama to make sure that there is revenue raisers with any compromise. i heard from one source that there is a possibly $3 trillion in cuts with the promise of having some sort of tax reform next year. that would not be very shall we say palpable to a lot of liberal, because it would not have a revenue raiser, and i'm told that the one issue that both sides can still not come to an agreement on is to allow the bush tax cuts of the wealthiest americans expire and that is a hinge right now of any deal and what we are hearing from the sources. now the official people, and speaker john boehner was on the rush limbaugh program saying no deal privately or publicly, and they are pu

world number two lee westwood shares the lead at the scottish open if he wins here he was following luke donald as world number one but for the moment he's tied in first place with mark to live from chile a great hit a sixty five. scotland's colin going race he's a top five finishes to qualify for his home major for a twenty second time in a row he's currently two shots back with a whole host of plays including luke donald but it was westwood who was happiest with his day's work. to have a plain old sense of mass is really. good practice over the last couple of weeks. wrote it's nice to refresh and thought the next two weeks and sixty five's a good way to start those two it's well noticeable absentee from the tournament as u.s. open golf champion rory mcilroy has decided to rest ahead of the british open however at twenty two the northern irishman can still be playing in the found a series which inspired him to become the major winner he's an icon something the top of reports now on the youth development program which is come to moscow to help produce a russian golf champion. british six

they've been doing good now and highly rated midfielder luke ahmad rich will be staying at premier league club tottenham according to his agent if you book son says mortgage will honor his contract who still has five years left to run the twenty five year old croatian flew back to london this week and begins pre-season training this thursday after meeting club chairman daniel levy he's adamant the club will not sell the influential playmaker who joined from donna zagreb in two thousand and eight the twenty five million dollars spurs had recently turned out office for moderates in london rivals chelsea. call me last sunderland applied to manchester united defender wes brown for an undisclosed fee the thirty one year old has agreed a four year deal with the blackouts brown made his united debut in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and went on to make three hundred sixty one appearances winning two champions league titles five premier league winners medals two f.a. cups until he kept the retired from england duty all this last year after winning twenty three caps. now to some sad news w

lu luke russert life on capitol hill. another good morning to you. >> good morning, alex. >> so they sound like they are close. what's the holdup? >> well, we can report now according to chuck todd and mike viqueira at the white house, they are inching towards a deal. it looks like what the mcconnell deal will be about $3 trillion in spending cuts in exchange for extending the debt limit to $2.4 trillion and other things we had mentioned. a bipartisan commission which by around christmas time will have to come up with a recommendation for future cuts to reign in the deficit, and any extension would be a vote of disapproval meaning republicans could say they disapproval of president obama raising the date, what's interesting now, alex, there is, in fact, this compromise on the table that's being rumored on the hill at the white house. can -- it will most likely go through the senate. can it get through the united states house of representatives? we don't like to get too far afterward ourselves. there is no ink that's dry o

nbc's luke russert has the latest. >> reporter: good afternoon, richard. it's around 1:00 here on the west coast. the house has gaveled into session and essentially we are where we were this morning and last night. there is still no clear path for harry reid to garner the 60 votes he needs to file cloture on a debt limit extension plan. right now it does not seem he has republican support. as far as negotiations go, we have spoke on the a gop aide who said look, right now it's motionless until harry reid can tell us what president obama will sign into law. that being said, there are some other folks who say that mitch mcconnell and harry reid had discussions yesterday, that their staffs are in communications in an attempt to throw things by the white house on what they would like to do. but there is no clear path except for harry reid trying to convince maybe 8, 10, 12 republican senators to come on board with a compromise, offering them a sweetener, specifically in this case, there is going to be a two-part extension to the debt limit and there would be s