>> reporter: remember last week the president criticized house republicans, congress in generally, for pulling all-nighters like his 13 and 10-year-old girl. they nerve doer that. criticized congress for putting everything off to the last minute. they'll be cramming all weekend. the president telling negotiators go back, meeting at the staff level over the next couple of day, working out their bottom lines at the president phrased it today in a surprise appearance in the press conference and come back here sunday. there's a feeling here, matt, they are in the final stages of this negotiation. that was exquisitely said by house republican number two eric cantor today. john boehner, speaker of it's house, telling colleague bees hind closed doors today there is a 50/50 deal. they'll have a deal with the next few day. we're heading into crunch time today. the president said they were constructive talks but the two sides are very far apart and you heard in that sound bite there's the president was talking about pain. there's going to be a lot of pain felt on the democratic side if they go t

some callers are throwing their support behind the president or the republicans. congress must reach a deal by next tuesday. a top fund official says lack of deal could impact the global economy. >> you could have a default and you have a significant downgrading of the u.s. signature would be a very, very serious event. >> meantime, the top republican says he doesn't think john boehner has enough votes to pass the debt ceiling plan. his plan is a short term plan that would cut spending by $1.2 trilon but extend the debt ceiling about six months. harry reid's plan will cut $2.7 trillion and extend the debt ceiling lieu 2013. voters blame both sides for the debt stale meat. 77% the gop is not willing enough to compromise. 58% say president obama isn't doing enough. and americans are blaming both sides for the struggling economy. 37% say president obama's policies are hurting the economy and 39% blame congress and republicans. >> this say the long running down turn is forcing big fundamentals in how americans live. 54% of americans say they have had to change their lifestyle

some callers are throwing their support behind the president or the republicans. congress must reach a deal by next tuesday. a top fund official says lack of deal could impact the global economy. >> you could have a default and you have a significant downgrading of the u.s. signature would be a very, very serious event. >> meantime, the top republican says he doesn't think john boehner has enough votes to pass the debt ceiling plan. his plan is a short term plan that would cut spending by $1.2 trillion but extend the debt ceiling about six months. harry reid's plan will cut $2.7 trillion and extend the debt ceiling lieu 2013. voters blame both sides for the debt stale meat. 77% the gop is not willing enough to compromise. 58% say president obama isn't doing enough. and americans are blaming both sides for the struggling economy. 37% say president obama's policies are hurting the economy and 39% blame congress and republicans. >> this say the long running down turn is forcing big fundamentals in how americans live. 54% of americans say they have had to change their lifestyl

there is a slight advantage to the president when it istacked up to republicans in congress, but there is a growing sense of disgust and disappointment on the political process, parties in general. who cares more about ordinary americans and average families and who is more willing to compromise, the president has decided advantage over republicans. >> what about the gang of six? is anybody listening to these senators? >> initially there was a response senate, where the senators stepped up and said they white to the idea -- they'd like to the idea. but then we started to hear from interest groups, labor groups, health groups, saying that this was going to be hard on senior citizens and devastating to people who rely on medicare. you have anger in the house with the idea. i think thursday was probably the high point or the low point of this whole debate. anting overgh rent the grand bargain that may be developed, taking phone calls from boehner trying to assure him there is no deal, getting text messages from cantor. you have the democrats on the senate side apoplectic about video. >> -

r and d tax credit have all been passed by republican congresses, republican presidents and democratic presidents. these are established policy. changing that policy to raise more revenue next year than you'd ear wise raise is clearly a tax increase, which clearly violates. >> neil: what did you mean by not continuing the tax cut, a tax rate. did you say that? >> in that case we're talking about specific targeted tax cuts ie, the obama refundable tax credit per child for a two year period for the purpose of stimulating the economy. >> neil: so you weren't talking about the bush tax rate issues, were you? >> no, and make it quick. the rates need to continue or a tax rate. i think i said it clearly, many times that established incorrectly. once, but that the phrase i used most often it does not pass the last test to suggest it allowing the bush tax cuts to end. would in fact, which would raise taxes 4 trillion dollars over the next decade and that's not a tax inooh crease. get a lot of taxes and speaker boehner was open to that not to the degree that the president was and they want to sp

nationalizing america's oil anytime soon at least not until we can kick oil showing the republican party congress the republicans trans national oil corporation shouldn't be regulated by the government at all but should receive all the welfare money from the government they can get from us taxpayers right down to being bailed out to the tune of forty billion dollars a decade this issue came up last week and it's all of them featuring a republican congress and then you have mike kelly take a look. you want. and i said earlier last year. sure this is going sure. we do not need more rich people put your money your. support for big oil companies is not surprising coming from congressman kelly he's one of the one hundred percent of freshman republican congressman who deny global warming plus there's another uglier reason why congressman kelly supports taxpayers of that is a big oil companies to reveal what that is i'm joined by scott keyes reporter and blogger at think progress scott welcome thanks for having me tom pretty heavy here what is the real reason that congressman kelly is willing to defy is

republicans in the house refuse to extend the faa's authority. four years ago, the last long-term authorization for the faa ended. since then, congress has granted the agency a temporary extension 20 times, but this time, the 21st time, no way, no how. this time, republicans will not let the faa go on living unless they get what they really, really want. john mica wants among other things, "language that would make it harder to rail unions." republicans want to make it more difficult for airline and rail workers to fight for better working conditions in a year in which conditions have made for a terrifying headlines. >> two commercial airliners approaching reagan national airport, trying to reach the tower, hearing nothing. we now know a controller was asleep. >> as of last night, every tower in america opened overnight must be staffed by two controllers. >> the head of the faa air traffic controllers resigned tonight. >> controllers now get nine hours of rest instead of eight between shifts. >> on tuesday, a flight carrying michelle obama was forced to abort a landing after it came too close to a massive cargo plane. the incident is

options as he needed it's only when a democrat comes into the white house that suddenly the republicans in congress decide they know better than the executive and they're going to micromanage the entire situation by tying the executives hands and i think what you see here is an effort by barack obama to escape the legal traps they've set for him or now the obama administration at first also was in support of trying detainees of course on u.s. soil in civilian courts instead of in these military commissions but the new york times made it interesting note regarding this case which is that they don't think that was sobbing here would even have been able to have been tried in a military commission because they illegally they would have a lot more to establish is that true. i think that's correct in fact i've talked to a number of. military justice people today who told me they're not sure they look at the indictment and they're not sure that these same charges could be brought in the military commission system it would be difficult for them that's another thing i think a lot of people lose sight of tha

. >> we're about to have the first republican congress in 40 years. and i did not want to walk in next wednesday, and give the bitter defenders of the old order something they could run around and yell about. >> reporter: gingrich aids defended their boss showing off a display of books including over republican leaders including al gore. one republican leader did not see the connection. >> the difference between mr. gingrich book deal, is that mr. gingrich was going to take an unprecedented $4.5 million from a man who has a direct interest in federal legislation and who has a case pending before the communication committee. >> reporter: among those expressing concern was then senate republican leader bob dole. when we come back, remembering another media empire by a man who also built himself a castle. william randolph dorf. i tell ya, i work a long day, every day. i hang my head out the window. oh man, we're delivering everything you can think of: plywood, cement. i, i enjoy the breeze on my tongue. well uh, and every weekend, seems like we're headin

coming out of this about miranda for instance and it also fits into the ongoing war between republicans in congress and the bush and the obama administration about guantanamo itself very very clear that that the obama administration views one on the mo as the wire patch as. as a glue strip as soon as they deliver someone to guantanamo they're trapped their options are limited so they don't want to do it they're looking for alternatives we had do you think that the obama administration kind of pulled a fast one on congress in this regard because there are eighty a lot of republican lawmakers that are very angry very upset about this mitch mcconnell is one of them and i even have a quote here from representative buck mckeon who said the transfer of this characteristic taney directly contradicts congressional intent and the will of the american people congress has spoken clearly molten multiple times of the perils of bringing terrorists onto u.s. soil what do you say. i think he tricked them but i think it's very clear that he has a different view of this matter but i think to be completely fair you'd

i have a split legislature just like the congress is split. i had a republican house and democratic-controlled senate. it was not an easy process, but we got the job done. it was close to the deadline, but it was accomplished. i expect the president and congress to resolve this as well. >> let me ask just one more question -- do you think that the tea party conservatives in the house have been to on willing to compromise? >> i think the people that were elected in 2010 came in with a real message from the voters, and that is that we need to dramatically change washington. we cannot continue business as usual. we cannot spend a dollar for every 60 cents that comes in in revenue. i think they have come in with a real message from their constituents and feel strongly that things need to change. they sought a democratic congress, and before that a republican congress, both of which spend way more than was being taken in. especially after obama became president, we had all these bailouts and all this spending. especially the health care plan. people can see this is n

his campaign staff sent out tweets urging followers to contact their republican congress members and ask them to support a bipartisan solution. the messages included the names, phone numbers, and twitter handles of republicans. now followers felt the state by state tweets were creating too much noise so they unfollowed the president. >>> east oakland has seen its share of violence over the years, but one fatal shooting has hit a nerve. a good samaritan shot while delivering hot meals to those in need. robert lyles on the gathering tonight to remember the man known as brother john. >> in the nursery rhyme, brother john is asked, are you sleeping? why tonight centers on brother john, nothing here is a fairy tale. in fact, this makeshift memorial is a grim reminder of the murder of brother john. >> he lost his life giving and touching other lives. so just to support him, you know, it's his spirit, it's amazing. >> the unforgiving streets of oakland, 29-year-old paris powell was brother john. >> that man is 29 years old. >> just after midnight wednesday morning, powell, his pregnant wife

been raised by congress and the president requested it, whether it is a democratic congress, republican congress, democratic president, republican president. ronald reagan himself -- you asked about the politics of the limits -- when he was confronted with the issue, he said that the consequences would be impossible to predict and contemplate any would be a terrible thing to do. that is what this group of republicans, unlike the past republicans, have done. this is what brooks is saying -- this is kind of a different bunch. >> every generation, these conservatives are lousy -- >> we want to sit on the show and talk about this awful partisanship, and i burned a lot of trees during this. but we are actively at a historic moment here, folks. >> terrifying moment. >> we could default, which is really terrifying. are we act like at a real deal that everybody is pretty clear on -- or we actually could have a real deal that everybody is pretty clear on. we could be at the moment with the president of the united states is saying that is what he wants to do. >> do you agree with david brooks that this gr

he has spent his first year in office doing what republicans in congress are now insisting on, stripping union rights. this winter, the governor proposed a law that strips union rights in ohio. he proposed it. thousands of people protested. and then the republican legislature passed the bill called sb-5. governor kasich signed it. want to see how his success is working out for him? a new poll puts the approval rating for john kasich at 35%. least popular governor in america. he has gone down three points since then. the situation for john kasich is so bleak, this is how the nonpartisan pollsters described his situation. quote, ohio governor john kasich is sinking slowly into the quick sand of voter disapproval. and his name remains mud in the eyes of the ohio electorate. these are nonpartisan pollsters. after governor kasich signed sb-5, people started collecting signatures to put it on the ballot for a citizens repeal. last month, they delivered box after box after box of petitions. today the ohio secretary of state announced that over 900,000 of those signatures were valid. that's near

the last time a new republican congress forced a showdown with a democraticresident that led to a government shutdown, the public was outraged and republicans got all the blame. that was 1995. house speaker john boehner remembers it well and he's trying to get all he can without forcing a shutdown, which would be much broader and politically damaging than the one 16 years ago, but dozens of his rank and file members say they will dessert him on his latest plan, which is tough enough given a veto threat, but not enough to shut it down. they're playing with fire, bret. >> bret: so in your estimation, how does it play out if they don't pass the boehner bill. >> even if they pass the boehner bill and particularly if they don't. what will happen next, the senate will take some kind of action, presumably on something like the reid plan like we've seen it. that would get sent to the house and would be faced with accepted or likely shutdown. now, if it gets back to the house, boehner would only need if, he was willing to support that to try to protect his members from some calamity, about 40, 50 rep

it was odd when you heard about the president talking about the republican congress taking out the checkbook. >> the president, certainly, to be frank, he's doing a pretty good job hijacking republican talking points, but ben, i want to get back to the notion that the president used the word modest when talking about spending cuts. the to me, we're talking buzz words here, to me modest doesn't mean real significant spending cuts? >> no, he's not interested in spending cuts. look, there's a great saying by s scott fitzgerald, i hate careless people and sue to make an accident. there's been some careless people here, there have been the republicans who said during the bush 43 years, deficits don't matter. we could name some of them on a competing cable network, but we're not going to. that was a big mistake. there were the democrats who said we could spend our way out of the recession, that turned out not to be true. we've got to get some grown-ups here, what i'm looking for here is grown-ups, not divine government, but grownup government. where the heck have the grown-ups gone? >> and he beco

ceiling, but only a third of congress would have to vote in favor of doing it, so it could just be the democrats who did it. it was a complicated thing involving the republicans saying they didn't want to do it, congress not overriding his veto. it was kind of a mess, but the idea the debt ceiling would be raised, but it would be raised by the president and democratic members of congress alone. that was the republican surrend surrender in this fight and ever since they introduced the prospect about a week ago, everybody has been assuming this, frankly, is the escape hatch, if republicans and democrats can agree on nothing, if republicans and democrats cannot even agree we should take mutual action to not default, then at least republicans and democrats can agree that democrats could keep us from defaulting. but now, days into this, days into this, days closer to this apocalyptic deadline, congress has decided they can no longer even meet the soft bigotry of these expectations. 80 republicans have signed on to a letter saying no, we do not even want the escape hatch. we do not even want the model that has the democrats do it for us because we abdicate. we don'

congress' job rating is sitting in the teens. the idea the republicans brought change to congress, the majority say no or the wrong type of change. it's all there. what's it going to take? >> there isn't a figure or institution on the landscape. i was in minnesota at a democratic event where they are charging themselves up for the budget fight. i didn't hear anybody say anything particularly nice about barack obama. that's on the democratic side. they didn't attack him, of course, but they didn't say yeah, obama. they are just attacking the president as, you know, the center of all evil. so, what's it going to take? it's going to take somebody with big ego and lots of money. in 1992 that was ross perot. now, the only one that fits that is the mayor of new york, michael bloomberg. >> because he's short? >> no. he's got billions and he's got the organizational gift. these are guys who know how to build empires and business and think, some of them, they can build a temporary empire, which is what a presidential campaign is. bloomberg says he's not doing it.

that's where the fight is now on whether or not we're going to default on our debt, republicans in congress insisting on voting on something so draconian they already voted it down this year. if by some miracle that passes, president obama said he'd go ahead and veto it. on friday, signatures from about 200,000 obama donors, volunteers, and supporters to president obama's campaign headquarters in chicago. these are not just 200,000 random americans, these are 200,000 people who knocked on doors, walked precincts, raised money, gave money, and helped the last time president obama ran for president in 2008. it brought with them on friday a warning, a message to the president, to not follow the republicans down the rabbit hole on these budget fights. >> what this is about is about letting the president know how desperately we want to support his campaign, how much we want to be volunteering and being in the fox hole with him again but we simply cannot if he cuts medicare, medicaid, and social security benefits. >> i'm 59 years old. when i heard he's willing to cut medicare, medicaid, and socia

republican congress woman kathy morris. congresswoman, great to see you. >> thank you, good to be with you. >> neil: he was chastising him on tv last night and after breaking off talks with the president, has to go to the white house to talk with the president. >> speaker boehner has been a step of the solution every step of the day. every time he's called he's answered and been at table negotiating in good faith and last night i believe he became frustrated when the president changed the goal post and put another 400 billion dollars in tax revenue on the table. and after he had been negotiating in good faith, the president had changed the goal post. >> i just wonder, congresswoman, whether the well has been really pushed. there's always been a bit of a tense relationship between the democrats and republicans since the near government shut down months ago and now this. it seems to have gone to a whole new twilight zone level. >> there's a lot at stake here and we don't underestimate that either. we are committed to being pa

house and senate is ban ear marks as republicans. >> when a new wave of tea party-backed republicans swept into congress, many promised to be conservative, ban ear marks, and bring tax return to the front and center debate. of the 85 republicans seen in this freshman class photo, all but three signed a pledge to create taxes and limit reductions. as for the ear marks, that has been banned. would it surprise you to learn a freshman gop congressman who said this -- >> our nation is broke. the federal government has maxed out its credit card. americans want the tools to grow the economy instead of growing government so when making spending decisions, we should ask two simple questions in this house, how much does it cost? and who's going to pay for it? >> well he also co-signed a letter to the federal aviation administration to fund a $4.365 million project to improve a runway at the youngstown regional airport in his ohio district. how about joe walsh, sponsor of the balanced budget amendment and who has said -- >> this is a spending problem, and we have an unbelievable opportunity here to use this debt c

congress. and a compromise that i could sign. i am confident we can reach this cochrumize. -- compromise. republican leaders and i found common ground before. and i believe that enough members of both parties will put politics aside and help us make progress. i realize lot of the new members of congress and i don't see eye to eye on many issues but we were each elected by the same americans for the same reasons. many want government to live within its means and many are fed up with a system in which the deck seem stacked against middle class americans. do you know what people are fed up with most of all? with the town where compromise has become a dirty word. they work all day long, many scraping by, and when these americans come home at night tired and turn on the news, all they see is the same circus here in washington. they see leaders who can't come together and do what it takes to make life better for ordinary americans. they are offended by that and they should be. the american people may have voted for divided government but they didn't vote for a dysfunctional government. i am asking you all

grover, you've gotten so many republicans in congress to sign a pledge to never raise taxes. a lot of people are wondering if it's appropriate that you hold so much power in the republican party. you've never been elected to public office. but you certainly are influential. what's the consequence, if somebody who has signed one of those pledges of remarkable inflexibility that you forced them to sign goes against you? >> well, people take the pledge because they speak to their voters. the pledge is not to me. can we make this clear? the pledge is to the voters of oklahoma if your name is tom coburn. it's to the people of your state who elected you. >> you write the pledge. you get everybody to sign it. it's your pledge. let's not mince words, grover. tell the truth. you want to make sure people don't increase taxes. this isn't -- the voter in iowa didn't write that pledge. >> we offer that pledge to all candidates for office. some choose to say to their constituents, vote for me, i won't raise taxes. obama said, vote for me, i will raise taxes. different people take different

interesting statistic i've heard all week is that you have to go back to 191 to find a republican member of congress who has voted far major tax increase. what we learned this week in a way that i don't think fully the democrats oren leaders realize with the debate inside the republican party about taxes. it is over and it's been over for quite some time. none of the options that are likely, number two and three involve taxes and i'm guessing that by the end of the day when this does get done -- in fact, the president says taxes don't need to be in this deep. >> the white house talks have potentially become irrelevant. i think it's really kind of moved to capitol hill. but what's interesting about watching these house republicans is that i think you're essentially seeing a leadership audition for leadership with the new members. these seem to be members that have come their on their own by -- by way of the tea party and that they're kind of looking for the natural leader to lead them in the congress. john boehner tried to cut a deal with barack obama, didn't work out. ok. eric cantor blew up the ori

after weeks of wrangling and prime time speeches last night by the president and republican speaker john boehner, today congress and the white house seemed further apart than ever in finding a solution. a top conservative in the house said there were not enough republican votes there to pass boehner's republican plan let alone the democrats. we begin tonight again with nancy cordes at the capitol. nancy? >> reporter: bob, good evening to you. to no one's surprised here on capitol hill, the president's calls for a swift compromise to end this mess have fallen on deaf ears here and leaders from both sides are still clinging to their own plans even though it's not clear either plan can pass. >> congressman alan west's office. >> can i get the name and town you're from? >> reporter: the capitol hill switch board got overloaded today. >> right now we have 142 people on hold. >> reporter: after president obama made this plea on prime time television. >> if you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your member of congress know. >> reporter: republican senator lamar alexander got more than 300 calls. >>

congress's job rating is sitting in the teens. the idea that the republicans brought change to congress, majority say, no or the wrong type of change. it's all there. what's it going to take? >> there aren't any respected figure or institution on the landscape, you're right. i was out in minnesota last week at a democrat event where they were charging themselves up for the big budget fight. i didn't hear anybody say anything particularly nice about barack obama. they didn't attack him. they didn't say anything. on the republican side all they're doing is not paying attention to their own candidates. they're just attacking the president as the center of all evil. what's it going to take? it's going to take somebody with big egoand lots of money. in 1992 that was ross perot. >> he's little. >> the only one who fits all of those descriptions how is the mayor of new york michael bloomberg. >> because he's short? >> no. he's got billions and the ego and the organizational gift, by the way, he built bloomberg just the way perot build perot systems and so forth. thes

republican member of the house. so now in the early part of the year she wanted to be in the leadership in congress. the new republican majority, speaker boehner and others said, no way, it's not your turn for this. so she decided to do the other thing. i'm going to run for president where there are no rules at all. anyone can run for president. so that's what she's doing. and she is really finding that there is a lot of enthuse yass much out there for her, -- enthusiasm out there for her message, of a smaller government, of fighting obamacare, as she calls it, etc. but we're not sure how this is going to end. she gives a good speech, she's a very good communicator but there are already experience questions being asked of her. some governors are saying, hold on just a minute. former governors and current governors make much better presidents. exhibit a, at least in republicans, is the current president. who was a senator, only a short time ago. she's the candidate of the summer time. i think we'll find out if she has the staying power but without a doubt she is getting crowds and generating tons of e

crisis environment, a crisis created entirely by republicans refusing to do something they did five times while george w. bush was president, in a congressed crisis now truly urgent, republicans now say they'd like to slow things down. what train barrelling down at us? they are going to schedule some votes for maybe -- i don't know, you business on the 16th of never at a quarter past yeah right? joining us now, john stanton, washington reporter, roll call reporter, thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> what's going on right now among republicans that there does not seem to be a sense of urgency there. do you think it's negotiating tactics? >> yeah, i think it's a negotiating tactic sort of within their own conference frankly, i think the leadership has a sense of urgency privately right now. seemed like they had it out there in public a week ago and they backed away from that. they are now supporting this cut, cap, and balance bill the conservatives want, this is more really a negotiating tactic with their own conservatives, trying to convince them they are serious about trying to pass these bills so when they do fail they will t

republican member of the house. so now in the early part of the year she wanted to be in the leadership in congress. the new republican majority, speaker boehner and others said, no way, it's not your turn for this. so she decided to do the other thing. i'm going to run for president where there are no rules at all. anyone can run for president. so that's what she's doing. and she is really finding that there is a lot of enthuse yass much out there for her, -- enthusiasm out there for her message, of a smaller government, of fighting obamacare, as she calls it, etc. but we're not sure how this is going to end. she gives a good speech, she's a very good communicator but there are already experience questions being asked of her. some governors are saying, hold on just a minute. former governors and current governors make much better presidents. exhibit a, at least in republicans, is the current president. who was a senator, only a short time ago. she's the candidate of the summer time. i think we'll find out if she has the staying power but without a doubt she is getting crowds and generating tons of e

now while we watch congress huff and puff over debate a debt ceiling debate and republicans consistently insist that tax cuts must be completely off the table let's take a step back into reality let's take a look at two polls that show us what americans really want a new gallup poll finds only twenty percent of americans want to debt deal that includes only spending cuts but just one full won't tell you all of quinnipiac poll finds that only twenty five percent of voters believe that the debt deal should include only spending cuts and in fact sixty seven percent of voters not going to be at all believe that it should include an increase in taxes for the wealthy and for corporations so if you listen to the people sounds like they're asking for a little bit of that real shared sacrifice the politicians only speak of but never act on how much higher with these numbers because americans knew about the true disparities in wealth in this country so currently income inequality in the u.s. has reached its highest level on record and estimated one per cent of the population holds fifty percent of