we did not have the white house then. it is really, i think, people -- their hair will curl to hear the stories about our early presidents, but washington, laid in his life, turned against the institution of slavery but never did anything about it. he did not want to damage his own livelihood. he also did not want to alienate the south. we have seen this through our history -- 1 president after another does not want to alienate the south, conservatives, so they have not taken on civil rights or conservative -- racial issues as many people think they should have. >> was martha washington not something of a racist? >> part of the book talks about the first ladies. she was never interested in equality. washington, when he was in philadelphia, he realized there was a law in pennsylvania that allowed slaves to go free if they were in pennsylvania for more than six months. realizing this, he shuttled his slaves back to his plantation in mount vernon, so they would not be free. he also had a slave who escaped, and he sent fugitiv

the white house is the house of the american people. the professional staff, many have been their most of their adult lives, served from one of administration to the next. giving each first family their total and immediate dedication. the parts they play it in the transfer of power it is very important. most people think the transfer of power involes the state department. that is a very important transfer. without support of the white house staff and their loyalty to their responsibilities in that marvelous house, the transition from the outgoing first family to the incoming could easily be a moving day and night. for me, i just the thought of being first lady can be very challenging. it was a demanding job, but it comes with no job description. i was tentatively very worried that i was going to hate every minute of it. fortunately, i was wrong. it also can be a lot of fun. in what other job could i have worked so actively on women's rights and gotten such national focus or entertained robert redford at tea? [laughter] we entertained th

joining me now from the white house, kristen welker. do we have kristen welker from the white house? >> hi, there, lawrence. >> hi, there. one of the interesting things the president offered without anyone pushing him to do it is to say i will give you the tick tok. i'm going to give you all the paperwork that shows exactly how this deal is negotiated. we now have a disagreement between the president and speaker boehnor. mr. boehnor saying they had a deal for $800 billion in revenue increases, and the the last minute the president tried to change that to take it to $1.2. the tick tock, the paperwork will tell us who's telling the truth about that. >> that's right, lawrence, a lot of people are anxiously awaiting the paperwork. senior white house officials just briefed us on more reasons why these talks may have broken down. to your point, both sides agreed toer $800 billion in new tax revenue. let the bush tax g cuts expire, then the issue of extra $400 billion. speaker boehnor said that was a new figure, senior white house officials say

kennedy's restoration of the white house. the curator said to me do you know that restoring the white house is so associated with the name and memory of mrs. kennedy that americans think that no one has touched the white house since mrs. kennedy left in 1963. yet we know everyone who moves into a new apartment or condo or house doesn't redecorating. most first ladies have done some redecorating. she undertook this project to restore completely the white house, take it from a rather shabby 1950s colonial look to a proper opprobrium look for the age in which it was built and initially lived in. she also established committees about the arts, about painting in the white house and she made sure that everything that was there as best she and these experts could determine that these were all authentic. painting, sculptures, upholstery and antiques. this is a sad day in mrs. kennedy's life. this is the red room. that was the first room that she completed the restoration been this was the day of her husband's funeral. she insisted tha

the white house moved the goal post. they refused to get serious about cutting spending and making the tough choices on entitlement reform. that is the bottom line. >> all right. i want to bring in our white house correspondent brian brianna keilor. i described it as an extraordinary day of events. some details about what was going down will blow your mind. including the fact that president obama says he could not get a call back from the house speaker yesterday. a lot was made of that point. a lot of these details, are we getting too much into the weeds? do we need to read something into that? maybe we have taken another turn in the wrong direction in the debt talks? >> reporter: should we read into the phone call is your question? i think president obama says he tried to call the speaker and it took several hours. the president was irked on this point because some of our sources say the speaker was actually talking to reporters or briefing reporters before he made the call to the president. we have seen here over the la

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, is the white house insisting on cuts ins is? >> reporter: no, they are not, scott? the white house says social security is on the table for discussion simply because everything has to be on the table for discussion but they are not pushing hard for cuts in social security as part of this deal. >> pelley: thank you both very much. you know, the united states has never defaulted on its debts, but we were wondering today whether it's ever come close and it turns out that it has. it was during the war of 1812 after the british burned the capitol building and the white house. america was struggling to pay for the war but came through in the end. for 30 years, the space shuttle has carried astronauts into space and home again. now just one mission remains. tonight "atlantis" is on the launch pad and bob orr is at the kennedy space center. bob, what are the prospects for launch tomorrow? >> reporter: "atlantis" is ready to go, as you say, but things are not very good. for the past couple of days, frankly, the weather has been horrible.

when they visited the white house, one the white house security guards said auntie. she said which one of my sisters children are you? that was mary mccloud. but roosevelt gets a lot of credit for being very liberal, for being a civil rights advocate, certainly he did sign executives ordered that had to do with civil rights issues. often only when forced. but he wasn't quite -- he didn't live up to his inside pr. >> guest: no, he didn't. eleanor did. she both publicly and privately did push aggressively on civil rights. sometimes to the point where her husband kept saying that's enough. i've heard enough. if i keep pushing in this direction, i'm going to alienate the southern states and they won't accept the rest of the nacelle, -- the new deal, the private agenda. he was trusting the staff very much. roosevelt his legs were paralyzed polio at 39. irony because it's a young person's disease. he was always afraid of fire that he would be caught in the room and could not escape fire. when he was in the white house, also concerned about enny attacks, they launched the c

the white house is now on the sidelines. nd republican congressional leaders are negotiating directly with one another. the president really on the sidelines and do you think the white house is concerned about that perception? >> i think on friday that's where it put him. david brooks, of course, is the bellwether columnist, tell us where a lot of washington is, president went out there emotional on friday and very upset and with his speech last night, i don't think we saw the effect that he wanted, the effect that his people wanted, that's why they've been all over the networks today trying to make their case, but i don't think the president is as engaged in this fight as he'd like to be and certainly without as much power as he needs at this point. >> jackie, i know you talk to as many people in this town as anyone, just your odds, will this be resolved next tuesday or not? >> god, you know, i've been here so long and through so many debt limit fights, but like a lot of people, this has been the ugliest one i've seen and pe

mitch mcconnell is negotiating with the white house. mocratic leaders met with the president earlier today, as well. also in the nation's capital, teachers rallying against standardized testing. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> they marched to the white house carrying signs with slogans like children are more important than test scores. and i am not the problem. the group says emphasizing standardizing testing takes the focus away from students. actor matt damon also joined in on that rally. >>> federal agents are appealing to the public for information about assault rifles stolen from ft. irwin in california. the atf is offering a $10,000 reward for information on 26 assault rifles and one sniper rifle stolen earlier this month from an army warehouse. one weapon has been recovered and some arrests have been made. >>> dna evidence is taking center stage as young american -- a young american woman appeals for her murder conviction in italy. amanda knox was convicted of killing meredith kercher in 2007 but insists she didn't do it.

the white house at this late hour isn't silent. i can tell you that, but it's sort of unclear exactly what this means. we know back and forth is going on between the white house and capitol hill. while we heard harry reid being kind of pessimistic on the outcome perhaps of some sort of deal here imminently, we've also heard from the senate minority leaderer mitch mcconnell some more optimism. the word from the white house is they have been very, very silent today. but again these discussions continuing to go on. and we're certainly waiting just because we know that there are these discussions to see if perhaps something could happen tonight, don. we know that it could be possible, and i hate to be so darn vague about it, but it's also true that it might not be possible this evening although there is a whole flurry of activity that we haven't seen recently going on following these flurry of votes on the hill today and last night. >> brianna, listen, did you say the white house has not been silent about this or what are they saying? >

we have chip reid at the white house and nancy cordes on capitol hill. two old to hire, too young to retire. anthony mason on the job prospects of older workers. and as we count down to the last shuttle launch, the people who put america in space are coming in for a hard landing. >> it's kind of getting punched in the stomach and then getting kicked after you're laying on the ground. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the newspaper called "the news of the world" wasn't shy about bragging. its owners, the murdoch family, called it the most widely read english-language paper on earth. like a lot of things in the "news of the world," that may or may not be true. but we do know tonight that after 168 years, the "world" is ending. a london tabloid collapsing under the weight of a scandal. elizabeth palmer has late- breaking developments. >> reporter: the tabloid that traded on scandal for more than a century was finally brought down by its own scandalous practices. the paper controlled by medi

you had to have a great time looking at all these folks who wrote about their time in the white house, many in the back stairs of the white house and lots of african-americans who worked for presidents. >> guest: right. >> host: who then wrote books. talk about some of those books and some of those findings. >> guest: you're right. that was a fascinating point of this. one thing i wanted to mention also is give credit where credit is due to the african-american newspapers who had wonderful coverage of presidents but much different from what the mainstream or white press or so there were some wonderful stories there. investigative stories on franklin roosevelt's home in warm springs, georgia. and how he was treating the black and white staff differently with salaries and the jobs that they were doing. a lot of great work was done by the african-american press that i want to give credit to. as far as the people in the white house, there are diaries and interviews and books that you have mentioned there was a slave paul jennings who wrote about his experiences in the white house and wrot

invite them all to the white house tomorrow. whatever this does, it created an absolute aurjant warning bell that's gone off all over the capitol and the white house. which changes dynamics again. it exposes some of what they have been talking about trying to show from each side where the other side was in transit. that is important detail in hoping build a signal to the sex treems in both parties pch you heard the president reference interest groups. certainly boehner's letter to his colleague hes had a letter in fighting taxes and sending cuts. >> you wonder, was speaker boehner the impediment in the eyes of the. he made reference, here it is, to being left at alter. i think that is about the speaker -- >> my relationship with speaker boehner. we have add cordial relationship. very intense. i will have any team tell you exactly how the negotiations proceeded pl earlier today when i couldn't get a phone call returned, my expectation is that speaker boehner would be willing to go to his caucus, and ask them to do the tough things

and could not pass the house of representatives, no matter what. the whitewants to push this to the brink, maybe beyond august 2. i think they believe that they have more flexibility than tim geithner is saying publicly. because democrats want an issue. they want to be able to talk about the disruption that the republicans are causing by pushing this, the economic disruptions they're causing pushing this. they want to send the letters that brit mentioned because the white house has no argument on the economy. it has been two-and-a-half years. the stimulus didn't work. they need an argument. i think right now this is an exercise in attempting to get blame sharing. >> bret: juan, do you agree with brit that it was a game-changer friday? >> i think a lot of these things were in place before friday. i think that everybody saw terrible economic news. what i think is going on here is to my mind intransjent on the part of republicans for taxes. not just for the rich but the very rich. we refuse to make taxes part of a deal and violate what congressman becerra calle

let me just say, the white house moved the goal post. there was an agreement, some additional revenues, until yesterday when the president demanded $400 billion more, which was going to be nothing more than a tax increase on the american people, and i can tell you that leader cantor and i were very disappointed in this call for higher revenue. but secondly, they refused to get serious about cutting spending and making the tough choices that are facing our country on entitlement reform. that's the bottom line. i take the same oath of office as the president of the united states. i've got the same responsibilities as the president of the united states, and i think that's for both of us to do what's in the best interest of our country, and i can tell you that it's not in the best interest of our country to raise taxes during this difficult economy and not in the best interest of our country to ignore the serious spending challenges that we face. i want to say, this is a serious debate. and it's a debate about jobs and it's a debate about ou

the president upstaged him by summoningth party leaders to the white house. one of the factors is mr. boehner may feel it is more difficult for him to sell a deal to his own members when they have been reached in the context of white house talks led by the president whereas he wants them achieved in more private discussions with the democrats and it would be easier. what will happen is probably both things will take place, you will have boehner and the other congressional leaders at the white house at 11:00 and have more private talks going on among staff and all the members. it remains which talks will progress the fastest. >> let's unpack this a little bit. we have seen these things fall apart but usually not so spectacularly. if they were talking, which is the conventional wisdom at least earlier this week, was at least that the president and speaker were talking. what stopped it? what derailed it? certainly it is not because john baner is scared of his caucus. >> well, that is part of the equation. it is not just the president. look, jackie's point was exa

harry reid is going to the white house. perhaps they could present something that would be signed into law. a very long way to go. >> viq, you want to jump in. >> we are told by sources on the democratic side at the capitol, nancy pelosi is also going to be here. if there is going to be a deal that emerges over the course of this weekend, ultimately something would have to be sent back to the house of representatives. if you look at it without getting into too much of the back and forth and the washington wonky stuff, they need house democrats to pass it. whatever comes back out of the senate is not likely to gather -- let's put it this way. it's likely to get significant republican opposition within the house of representatives. especially illustrated by all the cmaneuvers harry reid had t go through. you've got to assume they are going to put up a united front regardless of what is happening behind the scenes. republicans are going to try to make a virtue of necessity here, stand firm together, hold their cars until the la

i've spoken to the white house quite a few times this evening. they've asked me to give everyone as much time as possible to reach an agreement, if one can be reached. for that reason, we'll hold over the vote until tomorrow at noon to give them more time to talk. in fact, we'll come in at noon and have the vote at 1:00. i'm glad to see this move toward cooperation and compromise. i hope it bears fruit. i'm confident that a final agreement that will adopt a senate long-term approach rather than the short-term band-aid proposed by house representatives will move forward. there can be no short-term agreement and i'm optimistic that there will be no short-term arrangement whatsoever. i'm also confident that reasonable people from both parties should be able to reach an agreement. i believe with we should give them time to do so. mr. president, i ask anonymous consent that the court should vote on the reid motion to pass 627 with amendment number 589 occur tomorrow, sunday, july 31st, at 1:00 p.m.. >> is there objection? hearing none, it is so ordered

let me just say that the white house moved the goal post. there was an agreement on some additional revenues. until yesterday, when the president demanded $400 billion more, which was going to be nothing more than a tax increase on the american people. and i can tell you that leader cantor and i were very disappointed in this call for higher revenue. but, secondly, they refused to get serious about cutting spending and making the tough choices that are facing our country on entitlement reform. so that's the bottom line. i take the same oath of office as the president of the united states. i have got the same responsibilities as the president of the united states. and i think that's for both of us to do what's in the best interest of our country. and i can tell you that it's not in the best interest of our country to raise taxes during this difficult economy and it's not in the best interest of our country to ignore the serious spending challenges that we face. now, i want to say this is a serious debate. and it's a debate about jobs. it's a

dare the white house toll veto it. to block it. >> prefer to make a deal with the senate democratic leader harry reid that is what happened yesterday. amazing moment. meeting at the white house yesterday morning. speaker said i'm going to only congressional i asked one of speaker boehner's aids i said who represented the white house at that meeting? i have been in the government and the white house has always represented at on the hill no one. four congressional leaders alone. they have decided and i think harry reid sort of believes this. part of the problem. not part of the solution. they are not work out that deal on the hill cutting the president out. i think boehner would certainly prefer to get a deal with harry reid. pelosi is putting pressure on him. hard to where they have can get 2 trillion with spending cuts. second one mostly spending in entitlement cuts. some revenue increases that don't come from tax hike increases. and do that in two stages with two votion. the second votes guaranteed so that markets don'

eastern at the white house. nt you to listen and our viewers to listen how the president of the united states just moments ago summoned the congressional leadership to the white house. >> we have now run out of time. i told speaker boehner, i've told democratic leader nancy pelosi, i've told harry reid, and i've told mitch mcconnell, i want them here at 11:00 tomorrow. we've run out of time, and they are going to have to explain to me how it is that we are going to avoid default. and they can come up with any plans that they want and bring them up here, and we will work on them. the only bottom line that i have is that we have to extend this debt ceiling through the next election. into 2013. >> the president had an ambitious agenda. jessica yellin still with us over in the white house in the briefing room, she was there when the president made that dramatic announcement. i assume, jessica, that there's no way the republican and democratic leadership, certainly not the democratic leadership, but the republican lea

and that embarrassed the white house. had to employ what they called were their tactics to she it down and used a uaw spokesman to say, what can you do? they called him in with a quick half hour meeting and my opinion was we will leave you alone and you leave us alone. >>neil: but the medal ground is, we will not make it 56 but we will make it 54.5 miles per gallon, is that any easier to achieve? >>guest: no, it will not happen. absolutely not. now they have zero emission credits and it was continue years ago, a car company did it, you got x amount of credits. >>neil: and that would be part of the average? >>guest: and it doctored down their average and now they have the president saying, we will give you midterm review so you can now contest this legally, going forward. so it will be in court forever of the -- face it, the president is running for re-election. and he needs all the political fuel he can get. >>neil: you mentioned something interesting during the break, this whole debate on the debt in washington it impact

back in this country now, you could have probably cut the tension in the room with a knife at the white house where president obama summoned congressional leaders for a crisis meeting on the debt ceiling fight. but 24 hours after republican house leaders said they were done negotiating with the white house, there are hints a deal may finally be near. nbc's mike viqueira is at the white house to bring us up to date. >> reporter: good evening, lester. congressional leaders are now taking charge, meeting here throughout the weekend, scrambling to find a way out of this mounting crisis. and today there's at least some hope that they can announce at least a framework of a deal by tomorrow night. on the morning after the collapse, house speaker john boehner was on his way back to the white house. summoned by the president and seated beside him. the leaders met for just under an hour, returning to the capitol to try to find a way out of a looming disaster. >> it went well. we're here to work. >> reporter: now racing the clock, hill leaders huddled late today and are now working on a scaled down deal

let me just say that the white house moved the goalpost. they refused to get serious about cutting spending and making the tough choices that are facing our country on entitlement reform. so that's the bottom line. >> all right. our white house correspondent, breanna keeler, with me again on this cnn saturday morning. good again to see you. i just mentioned at the top there, didn't expect these necessarily to be negotiations taking place in an hour. how would you describe what's supposed to take place? >> i think this is being described as an emergency meeting. expect a stern message from president obama. he said yesterday, t.j., that he was going to demand an explanation from congressional leaders on how they're going to increase the debt ceiling after the talks fell apart between the white house and house republicans. republicans, house speaker john boehner, saying that what really led to the total collapse here was the white house moving the goalpost, as boehner put it. he said they had agreed to about $800 billion to raise revenue, and t

kennedy, let's do. >> your statement about children and the white house. from the first two years of the roosevelt administration she had two grandchildren in the white house. >> she had many grandchildren, and there are wonderful photos of her and fdr and the white house surrounded by at least a dozen of them. i should also say to you that i have no pleasure this past december of dining in beecher wrote beach appear in the hotel george. was with a colleague. i said, uc that sentiment became an. i said, you know, that looks like one of franklin roosevelt's grandchildren. my friend quite understandably said how would you know what one of franklin delano roosevelt grandchildren looks like. i said i have seen this one on c-span. i saw him on c-span two years ago. my colleague was too embarrassed to go up to this man. i of course, showing no embarrassment or shame go up to this man is having dinner it turns out with his daughter and say, are you frightened residents grandson. he says to me as i am. and i he says -- he was on the democratic committee trying to d

the white house rick rolled a twitter follower. you know you imagine if you were the person that was like i got wrecked by the white house i know that should that should be like recorded for posterity somewhere when i was no be on g.m.a. tomorrow yes exactly how did you. grow the white house i like torn between being sort of within the day and there's like really important moment that they're making jokes about that were so that's a great song and on the other hand realizing like oh my god maybe this is what we need like maybe so nice and i feel like people are like on the verge of panic i'm going to visit some family in indiana and like they're really concerned like what's going to happen i was like well just to actually call you know less than you but i'm like it's going to be hard it's ok in the white house is rickrolling people on the show you know everything is as it should maybe it's really good p.r. i'm with you though i think it's really offensive i think that says i think the white house is a serious organization we need a

we saw from the democrats, you talk about the white house. mocrats flew over to the white house to say what are you talking about. you are willing to make cut in medicare and medicaid and social security? you are putting our political fortunes at risk. you saw aarp and all engage theirr member to absolutelyy zoom in on congress with phone calls and lobbbying to say stop the president from giving up everything to the republicans. one lastt point here. i am amazed that you heard the speaker of the house said. we have moved the goal post in terms was a president who didn't want significant cuts and now willing to make significant cuts and republicans said we have won the fight and time to move on and not push the country over the edge. >> chris: that's one vieww. we'll take a breakk and continue the conversation. one of the being things coming out from geithner and boehner, the grand bargain is not dead. when we come back, more on the debt crisis. rom sprint. its powerful tools help you work faster and smarter so you can get back to playing "angr

we have momentum in the white house on the debt limit debate. molly henneberg is live at the white house. what is the latest? molly, are you there? gregg jarrett, what is the latest at the white house? we've lost molly's mic. we'll try to get it back. here is the latest we foe of. nancy pelosi, harry reid are apparently in close contact now with the white house, president obama. they are trying to search for some sort of a compromise deal. as you know the boehner plan passed the house and it was defeated in the senate and harry reid's plan also appears to be doomed in the u.s. senate. he does not have the 60 necessary votes for passing and dead in the house of representatives. president obama is apparently involved in the talks now trying to tether some sort of deal that will satisfy both democrats and republicans. molly henneberg is live at the white house. what can you tell us about what is going on there? >> molly: the president had no public events on his schedule for today but we have learned that he did some summon harry reid and nancy pelo

. >>> a critical meeting at the white house in exactly one hour from now. president obama will sit down with congressional leaders to restart stalled talks on reducing the deficit from the white house. there are live pictures. a deficit deal is tied to a proposal on raising the government's debt ceiling. the treasury department says the u.s. needs to raise that ceiling by august 2nd or risk defaulting on its loans. if that happens, here's how you might be affected. the dollar, the u.s. dollar may plummet and interest rates could skyrocket. the federal government says just a 1% rise in interest rates could cost taxpayers $973 billion over the next ten years. so no one wants that to happen. but reaching a deficit reduction deal aimed at avoiding raising the debt level in the future is proving difficult. republicans broke off talks last night over the issue of tax hikes. >> i'm tired of gimmicks. i'm tired of the budget tricks, the accounting tricks that go forward. this has to be an honest approach. we are at a threshold that we need to change. we are not losi

and that's what we don't know. >> mike viqueira at the white house, the white house has taken some criticism over the last week from both sides saying they have been uninvolved, that they have not been hearing from them. how involved is the white house now, and especially as chuck is pointing out, if we're able to pick off these republicans, is there some back channel negotiations, some talks to the white house's specific senators. >> i think they're playing an inside and outside reid. three weeks ago, they pushed away from the table, the president saying we'll take it to the american people, and certainly that's what he's done on a number of occasions, a prime time address followed by the speaker in his own prime time address on network television. that in itself is somewhat startling, certainly very unusual. we heard the president again yesterday come out, above it all, asking for compromise, moving toward the middle once more, trying to put pressure on republicans that way. chuck's analysis spot on. we should also add that if it gets to the point where mitch mcconnell and clearly it follo

what is the white house saying about this? they are raising the specter of it but no plan from the white house other than saying get together and do something. but that might not even be enough. >> that's right. because james is exactly right. this downgrade could happen whether or not a deal is forged or not because the deals on the table are far short in terms of deficit reduction compared to what wall street would like to see. and i think the broader picture when you take a step back, you know, on a normal day, without this debt crisis, we would have been talking right now about these awful g.d.p. numbers. economic growth. much weaker than expected in the last quarter just came out this morning. you put that together with this debt crisis and the already sky high unemployment, and putting aside the debt crisis just for a moment, this president's re-election is deeply in payroll when you look at the jobs, economic storm that is not just brewing but is already out there. so, that is what has this white house especially spooked

obama/boehner accord on a larger deal, that is also driving this equation as they go back -- >> the white house and democrats very strategically want to continue to play up the divisions between cantor and boehner. they are not as large as the white house and democrats would allow people to believe or want them to believe. boehner never really got as far with the white house, according to my reporting, on this huge deal as was suggested. he looked at it, saw its implementation schedule wasn't workable, probably couldn't pass it in his conference, backed off on saturday. the reality is the president hasn't explained to the country what he would do on social security or medicare, either, and as he intimated but has never said plainly, what he was going to do and how much grief that would cause among democrats. my reporting is boehner couldn't have gotten the tax equation done and the president couldn't have gotten the social security and medicare thing done, either. so that was a big concept that i think fell apart of its own policy weight because the politics simply in this town can't get to the

be in court tomorrow for sentencing. >>> president obama invited lawmakers of both parties to the white housekickstart the deadlock negotiations on raising the debt limit. >>> cbs news learned that the obama white house is changing its policy toward military veterans who commit suicide. families of such troops will now receive the same presidential condolence letters sent to those who die in war zones. elaine quijano reports on the father who led the campaign to change rules. >> i have doubts, many, many doubts, but we're very pleased. >> reporter: last week greg keasling got the call from the white house he waited two years to receive. he learned his family's long wait for acknowledgment from the commander in chief was almost over. >> it was a very good moment that this has been worth it. >> reporter: since the suicide of keasling's son, 25-year-old army specialist chance keasling in iraq, greg and his wife janet have fought to receive a condolence letter. >> i miss you, chance, i do. >> reporter: writing to the president and asking their congressman for help. >> he was a good soldier, and s

you notice that for six months how many bill signings have you witnessed at the white house? think of that. think about the salvatore bill signings the two attended at the white house. it is something quite different. not that this is not useful, but i have some internal work to do. >> [unintelligible] >> i've talked to everybody else. >> moving to a chained cpi measured, what did represent a benefits cut? it did you hear anything at the white house yesterday from republicans about flexibility on the ideas of revenues? >> the speaker said -- you have told me, the speaker said there was a 50/50 chance that something could happen. i only heard that from here, not from him. but enough was set at the white house to set up another meeting on sunday, period. that is all i can say. i cannot speak for the republicans obviously. oh, cd-i. -- cpi. they spent all lot of time talking about the 14th amendment. while we talking about something that is not going to happen? i have no idea if this is one happened. if it does, if there were something that would be put on the table, it would hav

we also heard from republicaned that they have not had much communication from the white house. that, of course, is their position. they think at this point that the negotiations need to happen first here on capitol hill and then bring in the white house. but we are hearing today, especially, from the republican leader in the house, mitch mcconnell. he says any deal at this point that is going to be struck has to involve the president, or some member of the white house in order to get this across the finish line because we're so close to the deadline at this point. while we were listening to harry reid speak, i was also keeping an eye on the house floor. as the vote on senate ma jord harry reid's bill was coming to an actual vote and that vote happened and the conclusion was as we had expected, it did fail. this was the point, that the house republican leadership wanted to bring this forward to show that reid's bill did not have the support to pass in the house. we had a tit for tat for the past day, the same happened in the senate in terms of boehner's bill coming up and shootin

infrastructure you can only wonder how much better off we'd be if five republican presidents had installed the white house in fact the last legitimate republican president the white eisenhower was unlike any other republican since he ran for the white house on a platform of peace and he would end the korean war but you. know i don't know i don't know or knows how to deal with. the other america europe reader i've got thirty forty one hot air like the number one or the number one job . oh me oh. yes his two campaign slogans were i like ike and vote for peace vote for eisenhower he was a moderate republican who stood up for working people who kept tax rates on the rich at ninety one percent and made sure that the middle class in america was protected by f.d.r.'s new deal policies as he told his brother edgar in one nine hundred fifty four in a letter to him should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear that party again in our political history and eisenhower was right the only way republicans of the end been

between the white house and republican leaders in congress. house senior adviser david plouffe says there is a general agreement that the general debt would be reduced in two stages much. the first would be a general $1 trillion cuts. >> the second is the entitlement reform and tax reform which the super committee is charged with. and its incumbent that people on committee would drive to yes, get out of their parties' comfort zone. the committee won't be charged with spending cuts only. they will look at entire deficit reduction problem and look at things like tax reform and revenue. >> joined by a congressional reporter from "the washington post" and a.b. stoddard for "the hill" newspaper. >> good morning. >> there has never been a committee like this before. what is your take on this part of the compromise? >> the committee part is something that was included in both parties' proposals as we were heading into the final stage of debt limit negotiations, it's something that both sides and the white house will be able to agree to. what the commi

the white house won't get serious, we will. >> mr. -- >> your own aides say the package of cuts on the table were worth about $3 trillion. how can you say that the white house wasn't serious about spending cuts? that's more than you were asking for initially. >> listen, we've put plan after plan on the table. the house passed its budget. we had our plan out there. the house passed the cut, cap and balance. never once did the president ever come to the table with a plan. it was always -- we were always pushing. and, you know, when you get into these negotiations, sometimes it's good to back away from the tree and take a look at the forest. and yesterday afternoon after the president demanded more revenue in this package, i came back against -- away from the tree to take a look at the forest. i spent most of the morning and afternoon consulting with my fellow leaders, members of our conference, and others about the way to go forward. and i just want to tell you what i said several weeks ago, dealing with the white house is like dealing