machen 15 other people are riding a shuttle when the shuttle collided with a big rig heading north onctavia boulevard mac was ejected and landed under the big red witnesses at the scene said of the shuttle bus may have run a red light the crashes out still under investigation. >> but army psychiatrist is to be arraigned in military court today this is his first courtroom appearance he will face the death penalty he is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder it is not clear if he will enter a plea today he cannot plead guilty in a death penalty case bear in >> 621 is the time right now. there are differing reports every day where is casey anthony. address a spectacular trial that was televised and her release from jail on sunday and since then she has not been same her attorneys say the reports of her being spotted in orlando are not true >> that is not proper that i can confirm i will not say anything further as to her whereabouts that is not her. >> the problem is exactly where she is his private plane had an executive airport belongs to a member of her defense team. the latest

the machen nations here in washington, between the house, the senate, the president, it has the public wondering on one level -- geez, what is going on down here? and then you have people in the congress going -- what is going on down here? >> would you expect a pratt -- package that only has a promise of higher taxes down the road? or would you insist on seeing that balance right away? >> being in the minority we are not in a position to insist. certainly, we can suggest, although it has been our feeling and understanding from the outset that we do not think that speaker boehner has the votes within his caucus to raise the debt ceiling in deal with this issue directly. perhaps, as you pointed out at the outset, things will change over this weekend. i hope, no matter what happens over this weekend, we will be able to vote to raise the debt ceiling. it is that important. the other mac and nations depend on what is in the package. to be honest, it is a package du jour. whether it is the gang of six, reid, the owner of the next day, it is confusing to people on the outside. i dare say tha

and then of course we got involved in the iraq war machen particular and the question about whether that was the corporate response to the terrorist threat or something else altogether. but what i thought about 9/11, and i thought about the generation of americans who were changed by it, and i learned some time later there had been a great influx of young people going to the cia after 9/11 because of that thing and my book is one of them. there's the feeling generally that one of the aftereffects of 9/11 was an infusion into the agency which perhaps otherwise wouldn't have been there so it came together the worry about the nuclear terrorism, 9/11, al qaeda, my interest in the intelligence world. islamic a reminder you're listening to the commonwealth club of california radio program talking with best-selling author ka richard north patterson about the book the devil's flight. let's take a question from the audience but before we do that i want to say in your book, the devil's flight, the characters say a lot of things i don't think people, politicians and others could ordinarily say for

talked about meeting a handshake by the end of this week to get the bill written the parliamentary machen nations that lie ahead for -- written by the end of this week. the parliamentary machinations that lie ahead for it. many of these men and women elected with tea party >> we now go live to the white house briefing room with president obama. >> i want to give an update on the debt negotiations, provide my perspective, then taking questions. as all of you know, i met with congressional leaders yesterday. we will be meeting again today. and we will meet every day until we get this resolved. the good news is that all the leaders continue to believe, rightly, that is not acceptable for us not to raise the debt ceiling. also to allow the government to default. we cannot threaten the united states credit for the first time in our history. we still have a lot of work to do to get this problem solved. let me just make a couple of points. first of all, all of us agree that we should use this opportunity to do something meaningful on debt and deficit. the reports out there have been largely accu

talked about meeting a handshake by the end of this week to get the bill written the parliamentary machenations that lie ahead for -- written by the end of this week. the parliamentary machinations that lie ahead for it. many of these men and women elected with tea party support, probably half to more than half will essentially vote against anything. for some of them said that they ran for a big reduction of the deficit. $2 trillion to $3 trillion over 10 years is not big enough. others will vote against it because they will oppose even the slightest revenue increased. the speaker has to be looking to hold on to at least half of his side. he will lead a majority of republicans to vote for such a deal. in the senate, the same thing. a majority of senate democrats will need to vote for its rigid vote for this for a to get through. liberal democrats are more and more annoyed with the president. they think that he is selling out the store of core democratic ideals. that this is what the base of the democratic party expats -- expects. each cut that he gives in on will come back to haunt them n

response to the complete lack of accountability come of any mechanisms within themselves or regulate machen systems. >> that brings us back to your point. why would respond to you by the resolution in my reporting life, what i started come a few peopl were complaining about things that have been on the air now every day of every week i have an interaction. some interaction in which peopl make uplifting contributions from over doing. they will ask us why we did thi are why we did that. or they will say how much we enjoyed that. and i believe actuall get it. i would say the media ts do not give us the debate. but i would argue that we don get the media we deserve beca actually we underestimate what decent people we are. we are right across the board. everybody either meet in the street, north or south had lots of people because i'm still a porter on the own. i am absolutely amazed of what amazing people populate this country. and they are not the people tha