tim farley, a guest with us every morning. here are three things to have on your radar.is experted to certify the repeal of don't ask don't tell, meaning the u.s. military is prepared to accept openly gay and lesbian service members. at 11:00 a.m., the president will participate in a town hall at the university of maryland to discuss a balanced approach to deaf sirte production. a welcome home ceremony is planned for the shuttle "atlantis" astronauts in houston. >>> a break through in the nfl lockout. owners give the thumbs up to a ten-year revenue sharing agreement that will end the four-month work stoppage. >> hopefully we can all work quickly, expeditiously and get this agreement done. it is time to get back to football. that is what everybody -- >> now, this isn't a done deal. it's the players' turn to vote now. there are still issues that need to be hammered out. if players approve the deal, team facilities could be open as early as tomorrow. we'll keep you posted on that in cnn. >>> they may have lost to japan in the world cup final, but three members on the women'

. >>> time for your political ticker with tim farley from serious xm powe does live from washington. tim. the stalemate over the debt ceiling, it feels like there might be cracks in it, feels like this new deal -- i don't know what you want to call the gang of six, but looks like they might be making some progress. >> the gang of six was down to the five guys, then it was the four seasons and the three amigos, but now back to the gang of six. i think what we're looking at is there's going to have to be a shermt measure. even though the president gave it a little bear hug yesterday during his appearance in the briefing room, we'll have to see how it turns out. polls are showing people want it desperately. >> let me bring up this brand new abc news "washington post" poll which reflects stuff you and i have been talking about in the last week or so with other polls. it shows more than six in ten americans say in agreement on the deficit needs to include a combination of spending cuts and some tax increases. >> and both polls seem to indicate that the president and republicans are not doi

at a lawyers for romney lunchon. >> we'll keep on talking to you, tim farley. show this morning. >>> even if lawmakers come to a debt ceiling agreement, two major credit agencies threatening to downgrade our credit rating. what would that look like? treasury and bond rates could go up. it could affect your house, credit card. one slice of the pie. your home loan, assuming you got a variable rate loan, you might see interest rates go up on your mortgage. more homes may end up sitting on the market. prices on old homes could slide even further in this already depressed market. if you want more information about how a debt downgrade or a debt default in the united states could act your, your car loan, your student loan. >>> the all-new electric leaf won the top crash safety rating. that puts the leaf on par with its main competitor the chevy volt, which is a plug-in with a gas backup. both cars have been named top safety picks. >>> two out of every three new york city roof tops are thought to be suitable for solar panels. city hall say there is a slew of nirnt ti i

. >>> time now for our conversation with tim farley.e's the host of morning briefing onner isso er is yune . can we rewind or is today's actually different? >> it's ground hog day. you're bill murray and we're making our way through this. yeah, the investment obviously is that the president is having a press conference today and maybe we'll take some questions on this. i think the really grand deal is something that david gergen said was going to happen all along. that, is probably a mini deal that will take us up to the election next year. but some of the serious problems are not going to be taken care of, at least in the short term, ali. >> all right. we're going to keep our eye on that. here's another one for you, tim. a social conservative group put out this marriage pledge that they asked people to sign, michele bachmann and rick sar tore rem both signed. now there's a part they want to pull out. it says slavery had a disastrous impact on african-american families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be r

. >> time for your political ticker with tim farley. listen, i want to show you a poll.clock ticks -- as we get closer to that deadline for the debt ceiling, a new cbs poll shows that 46% say that the debt ceiling should be raised. compared to 24% in june. 49% shouldn't compared to 69% in june. the president has asked for a deal to get done by friday. what is your sense of it? >> sense right now is that -- something. it closer to the mitch mcconnell solution. which would involve a less con view lated series of events. the president vie toting the house and senate. i think that's the direction we're heading. some things in there about cuts. we'll have to wait and see. i hi we'll know by friday where we are going on this, finally. >> a couple of distractions. one is news corporation. people are paying attention to thatpy understand both martin sheen and michael vick are going to be on capitol hill and it has nothing to do with the debt. >> no. president jed bartlett is going to be appearing, appealing for drug courts, he's made no secrets that the problems he has had a you

. >>> time now for your political ticker with tim farley, host on serioirius xm live from washing. woke up this morning and tweeted it's like groundhog day. >> i know exactly what you're saying. my favorite quote, ali, is jennifer who blogs and writes "the washington post." the house just emailed me buckets of crazy. the vote was postponed yesterday. there's a meeting this morning. there will be a vote at some point today, we anticipate, although maybe not. here we are just a few days away from what will be a default and as you made the point so well this week is default and downgrade. and downgrade looks even more likely the way that things are playing out. i talked to a senator on the air, he was one of the gang of six. he said the senate can move pretty quickly on this. they can do unanimous consent. the question is what will they move quickly on. we wait to see what happens in the house and the senate because both the house and the senate will be in session all weekend so they can move quickly and -- i know, hard to believe -- they can do this to get something done. >> this is

tim farley, morning briefing on sirius xm potis. bill clinton sat down for a one-on-one with our wolf blitzer. >> how worried are you right now about president obama getting re-elected? >> well on today's facts i'll be surprised if he's not re-elected. i think people understand this recession was more severe than the one i had. >> who is the strongest republican candidate out there? >> i can't tell you. >> who do you fear the most? >> i think the president will win. but you know, as you might imagine, as a democrat who is -- i've always thought myself as pro growth, pro business, pro labor democrat, i like you know, i like governor huntsman, i like governor romney. i think governor romney is doing a better job this time than he did last time. >> all right. the sex assault case against the man who was once the world's most powerful banker could be falling apart. there are big new questions about the credibility of the maid accusing him. we'll look at ha could happen in a new york courtroom this very morning and at the bottom of the h

time for your political ticker with tim farley, the hoeflt of "morning briefing" on sirius xm. yesterday's conversation because the deadline gets closer for raising the debt ceiling. what did you call them the octo mob, the politicians in washington responsible forgetting this done are meeting today. >> yes. clearly, ali, this group of leaders from the house and senate are getting together with the president and vice president. this is becoming more and more about the election of 2012. mitch mcconnell's surprise proposal yesterday to allow the president to raise the debt ceiling in three phases by overriding a veto -- by vetoing a proposal from the congress against raising the debt ceiling, sets it up as a campaign slogan i guess for 2012. it's a very convoluted process. that's the latest we've come to. of course, you played the comment from the president about social security. there are a lot of games being played right now. it's in some ways become the ultimate game of chicken right now. >> tim, let me just ask you about this because i know this is just coming out and you're

. >> time for your political ticker with tim farley host of morning briefing, live from washington. morning, tim. looks like the death panel is going to be discussed again, remember the death panels we were talking about during the summer of discontent on health care? >> exactly, and you just did the story on the smartphones, don't think ipad is something new, it's the independent payment advisory board and kathleen sebelius is in front of the house budget committee today to explain what this 15-member panel will do to keep the costs down and she insists and i talked to her the other day about this it's not about rationing care, it is about finding the best cost and alternatives moving forward. some democrats pushing back against this. we'll see how her testimony goes against today. >> you made a congressional thing into an ipad, independent payment advisory whatever you said. >>> the third straight day for congressional leaders and the president. what's going to happen? >> this is the octomob, the eight leaders speaking with the president once again this afternoon, they don't seem

good morning, tim farley. >> good morning. sheldon.hat's an old billy crystal line, i couldn't avoid it. the name game, is that what they're calling names now? actually, it seems there may be some idea weather they're going to be doing -- i know the president is speaking today. there is no meeting of the octomob, and nancy pelosi said yesterday let's not go beyond the pale. we don't want to go to camp david. there may be a way out of this and we'll be seeing this at some point out of the day. we're looking at this back up option which may be the mitch mcconnell option, we'll have to see how it turns out. i don't think anyone really knows, by the way. >> he's there in the middle of the octomob, i will always remember you started that. the president is holding a press conference at 11:00 a.m. eastern which we'll cover. you went to the baseball game last night, which i didn't think was -- i wouldn't have advised anybody being involved in a competition between democrats and republicans that involved bats and balls but how did it go? >> it

>> time for your political ticker with tim farley host of "mourning briefing." ad we had jon stewart to make it funny for us because it's no laughing matter. less than a week away from the debt ceiling deadline. tim, the news is that the house has delayed the vote. speaker boehner said two nights ago he was going to have a plan ready to vote on. now being delayed until tomorrow. >> for those that don't know, the bill has to be scored in the congressional budget office which does this, found out it didn't quite make the numbers he thought. he also had a numbers problem within the republican caucus. he can't get enough republican votes. he's going back, if not to square one, to square three to try to rewrite this bill. part of this is the house and the senate waiting to see who goes first because then the other can follow. it's not quite clear that either the senator the house bill, even if it's rewritten, are going to be able to make it through. it may be some sort of compromise. we may even -- believe it or not there are sin sicks in d.c. who think this can happe

time now for your political digger with tim farley. tim, you're not so old but you've been around washington long enough to have seen a lot of stuff. have you ever seen what's going on here with the republicans going at each other the way they are in you almost forget the democrats are in this debate. >> we see more than we used to see, ali. it is true, we're at a level of contention that's probably unprecedented in our history or at least before we had television. it's pretty rough right now. john boehner was saying to the republican caucus, he had a conversation with them, he told them to get your ass in line. i use that word because he used it. he acknowledged that he used that word when he was talking to laura ingram yesterday. he also said, i didn't put my neck on the line and go toe to toe with obama to not have an army behind me. this is about rallying the troops right now. that 217 he needs to get to in the house today is something that will not make or break the leadership of speaker boehner but will go a long way to cementing

time now for your political ticker with tim farley host of morning briefing. t doesn't have it all that wrong, tim. last night eric cantor says something to the president about an extension and from what he told us, the president looks at him and says, eric, don't call my bluff. i'm taking this to the american people. not a great way to start day five of the negotiations. >> no. you talked about john boehner and dealing with the opposition is like dealing with jell-o. this is a food fight now evidently that's taking place. democrats say the president held his ground and was being passionate and republicans are saying eric cantor forced the president to storm out of the meeting. this deadline is not going away. ben bernanke, another day of testimony today, second warning shots yesterday. we saw what moody's did. there are a lot of people watching with trepidation right now in the white house. >> three things that should be worrying our viewers this morning. moody's talking about a debt downgrade. bernanke warning about the economy and you've got the stuff on the

time for the political ticker with tim farley. host of morning briefing on sirius xm radio. good morning, tim. let's start with the debt ceiling talks tomorrow. increasing criticism heaped on by republicans against republicans saying at this point they're digging in in a way that could be dangerous for them and for the country. >> several people have been writing about this. david brooks in "the new york times" had an interesting story saying this is the mother of all no brainers, that republicans could be squandering an opportunity. another sees it as an error by the president. where it goes from here, we don't know. we know the great eight, as we are now dubbing them, because we have to have nicknames in washington for these people, but the leaders from the house and senate republicans and democrats meeting with the president. a quick statement from mitch mcconnell, the minority leader. these are not about rich or poor in an election but they're about making washington take the hit and make tough choices for a change. not the ta

. >>> time for your political ticker with tim farley, host of "morning briefing" on sirius fm.s live from washington. i don't know, president obama said friday he told the parties to figure out some solution. bottom line is, we are still apparently no closer to a debt ceiling increase deal. >> yeah, two weeks and a day. i think your beginning of the show you opened with those options. i think you forgot one of the possibilities is maybe harry potter brings in a wand and gets all the muggles to behave for once. >> that could be it. >> i think it probably got something in there that's going to happen. it looks like there's going to be some sort of a plan that will get us through 2012 election, whether you want to use the expression kick the can down the road or something else. there's i think a realization on both the republican and democratic side that you can't afford to let the debt ceiling stay the way it is. it has to be raised. it's just a matter of how to get there. probably closer to the mcconnell plan. we never know for sure. that's why they play the games. we'll see how

tim farley's here, host of "morning briefing" on sirius xm radio live from washington. ng, tim. look -- >> good morning. >> you got a lot of hard work, we hope, going on between congressional and white house staffers. they'll be working trying to hammer out a deal to reduce the deficit, extend the debt ceiling. this after the president met with top congressional leaders yesterday and reported some progress. what does progress mean in this big fight? they've been pretty entrenched up until now. >> yeah. they've agreed to meet again. that's progress, i guess. i think one thing that's a little wild card here is we do have the minority leader, nancy pelosi, meeting privately with the president, although the vice president's guidance says he, too, will be in the meeting today. she has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to entitlement reform. if you listen to the cut you played, she said there's a moment we're not going to cut medicare benefits which might mean payments to doctors might be something on the table. that said, it's entitlement versus tax increases. democrats

tim farley, host of "morning briefing." j hundreds of same-sex couples in new york waking up as newlyweds this morning. >> i now pronounce you married. you may seal your vows with a kiss. notice, he said i now pronounce you married. that was just day one of same sex "i dos" in new york state. the sixth and largest state to recognize the unions, perhaps the highest profile ceremony of the day yesterday, was officiated by mayor michael bloomberg, two of his staffers tied the knot at the mayor's house, gracy mansion. >> by the powers vested in me by the state of new york, i pronounce you both married. >> but the ringing of the wedding bells matched by rally cries in some places. thousands gathered in mid-town manhattan to protest the new law, calling for a voter referendum. >>> and to all of the women watching this morning, new beer is brewing and it's supposed to be targeted at you. it's called animee. it is pink, meant to appeal to women who normally shy away from beer. there are three flavors, row say, zesty lemon and clear

. >>> time for tim farley live from washington. good morning. today at the white house, president obama meeting with top house and senate leader, trying to come up with some agreement on raising the debt ceiling, reducing the deficit. looks like he'll put new stuff on the table. what will happen in. >> i think you will it it pretty well. the president is going long now sounds like. social security, medicare, we've been thinking the immovable object meets the irresistible force. we will see a little pool spray as they say in the beginnings as all the leaders will be with the president and the vice president, but i think you got it right, this is something that's a lot more than that $2 million, we're talking like $4 trillion in cuts now instead of $2 trillion and a lot of other possible revenues that may be coming in. listen for code words, though. >> yeah, and republicans still saying they're not budging on anything that looks, smells or walk like a tax increase. we just talked about because pa and aide. >> what a terrible thing to say somebody

. >>> time for your political ticker with tim farley, host of "morning briefing" on serious xm in washingtonikes me if we had more exchanges like that the debt ceiling thing would be more exciting than it is. we've gotting in august 2 to raise the debt ceiling. president obama said he's not going to extend it for 60 days, 90 days, he didn't say for a week or ten days. now it looks like he's opening the possibility of a short-term deal. >> you had the money quote at the top of the show, that was the press secretary saying the president would not sign a short-term deal absent an agreement to a larger deal which means that there is the possibility that as long as there are -- there in general is an agreement on some larger picture that he could sign. the proposal can't get done by august 2. we know the cut cap and balance is not going to get through the senate. if it does, it would not get the president's signature. essentially it sounds like there's going to have to be a stopgap or agreement in principle to something along the lines of this gang of six proposal. president obama met yesterday w