>> well,mericans are a forgiving bunch. i see congress more as a bunch of monkeys high-fiving each other in celebration, having forgotten that mere moments ago they were throwing their own feces. now they can't figure out why they're all covered in each other's turdz. >> jon: so to boil congress down to a word? >> [bleeped] covered monkeys. one word. no spaces. >> i'm sorry, jon. i'm going to have to break in here. >> jon: all right. sam bee. >> i think jason gives them too much credit. even a room filled with [bleeped] covered monkeys would eventually design a more thoughtful and rational deficit reduction plan than what we're seeing. no, the events of recent weeks can be summed up in a single word. deis-smerzen-mutter-tooben. >> jon: deis-schmerzen... it is a german word for the sense of december spare one feels watching a beloved grandparent accidentally strangle themselves with a garden hose that you bought them for their 50th wedding anniversary. [laughter] >> jon: how often do germans need the use that word? >> well,

seventy full following an excellent major record timing opening round of sixty three leaving them mericantwo shots off the pace at the halfway stage rory mcilroy continued to complete complete despite danger in his response thursday not the best of days for the irishman though closed the round with a seventy three the same score of defending champion. jason dufner meanwhile tops the leaderboard along with king bradley the ricky playing in his first major shot an amazing round of sixty four to move joint top five on the bottle. over sixty five that's going to be a little bit of a different experience playing the phone. than regular first time in a civilian a major so be a good test for me and see where i'm professionally and mentally and physically it's very tough to. be looking forward to the weekend and i think if we also step back in the sense i didn't make the cut and i'm not counting the terman but it's a giant leap forward the fact i played two straight weeks healthy so. that's great for practice sessions coming up we're going now able to work and get after tennis now and force a big

to say this if you like single judges leading the way and that being disqualified means the right merican takes me to see that takes the belt can grab the sit still back and retain a break when i was awarded the bronze so i didn't think that you could get out things like yoda met you have your best take your life i honestly thought here i didn't know what medal was going to get out in the world going to get i don't know what four days. but i just say to much like part of it was what it is for the sake of my. son at least two of russia's best hockey players are set to face off against each other for a noble cause alexander ovechkin and a couple shoot each pick betting's for a charity match on wednesday they can be hosted for the second straight year and prices will go to disabled children in the moscow region time to give a sad presidential i think of a change from a few bring this should take some like i will be lacing up the stakes as well to get email came out of that think alexy not as often any of these fellows think when i start least i take the thirty five place committee that i cou

though having a few difficult especially the car was so much safer and that in his usual rides there merican who sits seventh at the moment stated after was him like to compete in the dark last spot for now the differences are too great from his day job. to break compared to a motorcycle with the wheels and the downforce the you can brake much steeper than that would. go with forwards or the we often see that's the one where the foreground more so i like the freedom to be able to use my body and move around more in the same you're locked down you're not going anywhere so that was. not a comfortable. and finally it's more of a sport of a more heavy duty to ride see germany's yohimbe hong has extended his overall lead at the european truck racing championships the competition hitting the smiley on screen for the second straight here over the weekend. poor in speed only one of these trucks gear up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour and could have done. even pastor if they hadn't been restricted whether a jewish ns of the european truck racing championships the high octane action which hit

difficulties controlling the car but spinouts and much safer and devoted than his usual ride the merican who sits seventh at the moment stated often was he'd like to compete in the car class but for now the differences are too great from his day job. to break compared to a motorcycle with four wheels and the downforce of you can brake much steeper than that would say that was what was coming to me off in this email because that's the one thing i've never liked about motorcycles i like the freedom to be able to use my body and around more in this thing you're locked down you're not going anywhere so that was. uncomfortable. today it's full they all were coming off this is the weather and then rory will bring you the main news headlines. first. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

your e-mails, your your phone calls that have compelled washington to act in the final days, and the merican people's voice is acc1: very powerful thing. we're not done yet. i want to urge members of both parties to do the right thing and support this deal with your votes over the next few days. it will allow us to avoid default, it will allow us to pay will1: allow us to start reducing our deficit in a responsible way and it will allow us to turn to the very important business of doing everything we can to create jobs, boost wages and grow this economy faster than it's currently growing. >> here is a live look at congress right now and the capitol building in washington, d.c. here's the key, though. as the president just mentioned: it is not official just yet. congress still has to vote and approve the compromised deal. no votes are expected in either house until tomorrow. that's to give members a chance to review the deal before they vote. but again, the president and republican and democratic leaders announced they have agreed to a deal to raise the debt ceiling. more on this 1: agreement

business just follow the money but if everyone can see that issues piling debts on to dead how did merican public garden seeds dealing with this. well the american public is having their worth decimated by wall street banks j.p. morgan and goldman sachs are two americas little class what buffalo bill does to the buffalo population in america their interest in wiping them out. the democrats sense of the politics of it on the face of it anyway have made the biggest concessions to reach these deal crucially a doesn't involve tax hikes for now at least the republican house speaker told his party that nothing in the agreement quote violates our principles now does that mean that the republicans are just better of brinkmanship or do they just have more clout when it counts. it's foolish to think of this in terms of republicans versus democrats this is about as i've been saying savers vs speculators speculators a lot of interest rates at zero percent and they want u.s. treasury bonds and junk savers who are not getting any return on their investments because interest rates are zero are buying gol

ok up next merican exceptionalism is a just a self-serving method. way. it used to be an ideal place for a holiday but it won't change in a moment. the wounds of war are still visible. the republic is not only relieved but also shaping the future. and you can. follow in welcome to crossfire i'm peter lavelle just how exceptional american exceptionalism goes to the very foundation of how most americans see their country's history and place in the world is there any truth to this world view or is it just a myth. that you can. start. to discuss the meaning of american exceptionalism i'm joined by david merkel in copenhagen he is a former deputy assistant secretary of state in the administration of george w. bush in oxford we go to godfrey hodson from oxford university and author of the myth of american exceptionalism and in new york we cross to peter shock he is a professor at yale law school and coeditor of understanding america the anatomy of an exceptional nation and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger are a gentleman cross talk rules

came true in two thousand and six when he finally swapped the russians still city for them merican want to keep the ice alongside then up and coming canadian sidney crosby and it seems like the wind is a wedding. after holding both hockey giants. from weir's as. he was injured last season too and we spent a lot of time together while we were recovering we supported and cheered on our teammates when we couldn't get there we keep in touch and i know that his recovery is going well too and he's training on the ice already he's a nice guy and a big star who's already won almost all the trophies in hockey and he has no superiority complex molecule has been adding to office to his cabinet every year but there are still no olympic medals in his collection and undoubtedly it's one of his career it is for the near future. where you know we haven't won a lot with a national signage for me it's a great honor to play for my country all the greats like mario lemieux and wayne gretzky one olympic gold crosby's already grabbed gold too so i'm determined to win the olympics and not only insulting one m

us the other side and the end product used by policymakers particularly in its discussion with the merican public who were much more forceful than could have possibly been when rigidly written by cia dia or state department's intelligence and research it was a bizarre warping of the intelligence process and they thought they would be able to get away with it because who's going to see the classified version well later several months later they released parts of the classified version they thought no one would notice so this was not a case where the national intelligence estimate was driving the war this was to provide an excuse after the fact going to war based on insta is yet another example i think of intelligence simply not being able by nature by definition to live up to that kind of requirement you may produce intelligence that could keep you out of a war but i doubt she will ever get one two three reports of intelligence that will in any way allow you to go to war. there are al qaeda in iraq saddam hussein. cohorts with terrorists secretly without fingerprints you can provide one of

a few difficulties controlling the car but spinning out so much safer and in his usual ride that merican has since seventh overall add the moments they stopped was he like to compete in the car across one day but from that all the differences are too great from his day job. to break compared to a motorcycle with four wheels and the downforce from you can brake much deeper and that was that woodward's target that we often miss the rail that's the one thing i've never liked about motorcycle i like the freedom to be able to use my body and move around more in this thing you're locked down you're not going anywhere so that was. comfortable. and you're up today for the hour coming up after this is the weather and then bill will bring you the news happens states r.t. . hungry for the full story we've got it for the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the t.v. . download the official make a show. called touch from the i.q. sounds to. life on the go. video on demand tease my blog comes and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question. we'll. bring you the late

over five percent ninety shares are also on the upturn with xstrata up nearly two percent i'm going merican adding one point eight percent between bullets and gaining over one percent. here in moscow stocks surged the most in two weeks as more land commodities rise both the r.t.s. and isaacs are trading over two percent in the black now let's have a look at some individual movers on the rise of its energy majors and on the main game is with gazprom just under two percent banking stocks are on the rise with bank of moscow almost five percent in the black this hour and power generator into raw was also on the rise the company has tripled its net profit first. in the year with eighty three million dollars. now gary's only refinery look was enough to him boom guys is to remain shut down for up to half a year after country's government revoked its license to carry and customs hold the operations of the plant after lukoil failed to install new metering equipment according to commerce daily people gary and government were suspicious was not declaring all its exports the russian oil company says it

good chance of getting it right we must strike this economy and i've talked to a couple are very merican so we came here to moscow last week as part of a delegation of u.s. venture capitalists and they will lead by i don't short snag of the the california governor himself they visit as cause and they they they met the president so do you think that now investments are guaranteed or on the contrary no investment of that nature is very slow to materialize and i don't think that needs to be a limitation of the stage what matters is to develop a appropriate plan and then pursue it and be persistent and eventually the investment will follow so so when people people like regular guys from this the geisha income and then they will walk around and drive those fancy cars and stuff it's oh it's all smiles and then nothing really behind it is that true or it may materialize i don't know how does that work in my limited experience i know you know that money but still the venture the venture community is interested in opportunity but very limited in those that it will eventually pursue they would com

groups who are hostile to the american with the arrogant years all feel they are friends all girls are merican so i guess not because. we have also writers or over the. internet going on behind the rhetoric of both talk about. who represents the people and i think the real danger is that we are a very large scale civil war and so the. twenty four minutes past eight pm here in moscow ok let's go to date now again with the very latest on what's been a very volatile day on the markets around the world. business correspondent is here with this very volatile day and day it was no that's right the biggest one day drop since the two thousand and eight crisis in russia going well basically russian markets took an enormous hit the r.t.s. down almost eight percent my six five and a half percent the biggest one day fall in three years reverses have that mirrored in the markets around the world trainers have been reacting to the downgrade of the american debt on friday and concerns over europe's ability to get out of its debt mess now is talk to constantin said as of every head of global markets at troika

public merican exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and hear see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok if you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think. one well. we never government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you give them the freedom. for. just. to set aside schools have a war that's not against a new york rabbi yehuda levin and the outspoken rabbi had a lot to say about this week's a five point eight earthquake that rocked the east coast this is listen to who he blamed for it yes this is a direct connection earthquakes and homosexuality it was in haiti and he's here in new york and washington d.c. really has homosexual legislation and ordinances and new york in new york city and state when they opened especially on sunday early if they passed laws actual marriage work. are is this for real here he's

into the decision of a p they were saying that partly it had to do with what they were seeing at any merican politics when america finally decided on how to deal with its debt that wasn't enough and that's why diesel decided to downgrade actually. only if if a corporation were to be haid like the way the american government has behaved they would have been downgraded a long time ago there wouldn't be any questions and no one would have with of raise any. doubts or make my speak fuss about it so the fact that the us government got downgraded is a is a very serious message which we hope. that the leaders in washington will take heat. from now and it's really it's really not a matter. can the us afford to pay the debt because us it's always paid a debt by printing more money that's been historically the case what's different about this time is that the members of congress choose to strong arm and hand hold the debt ceiling hostage to other issues the issues having to do with taxation and spending and title amendments and so on and so forth and they're not able to reach any of coal or on those o

just say that extensive it's not the word that i do to describe it you numbers show just how hard merican are being hit by this tough economy there are more people in the u.s. for lying on food stamps than ever before the hardest hit state alabama which saw one hundred twenty percent surge in food stamp use of. what was it you said of food stamps andrea that's a big deal and you spent thirty seconds glazing over it with a straight face that just like any other day i mean i think i'm actually at a loss for words no just kidding you guys know me if you think my problem is that way too much but this is exactly what i've been talking about all week when the media obsesses over the debt ceiling debate and who on capitol hill said what and when the media obsesses over what the president announced yesterday that pretty good zillionth time he's going to be refocusing on jobs but there's never any allah there's never any why is this happening what does it say about the america that we're living in today the need any more proof that our economy is in the gutter we're in a double dip of the middle c