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up right now, and thats a good sign considering were more than halfway through the trading day. you are seeing stocks rally on good economic news of the jobless claims numbers fell last week and we got strong corporate earnings from a bellwether company, cisco system, and you are seeing wall street focus on the positive today and we are seeing the bargain hunting going on as well, and you are seeing the bargain hunters getting in there and buying stocks up, randi. >> and the trader mth...

Worst day in world markets. since 08. "the new york times," stocks resume free falls. where are we? stocks over economic and credit woes. willie geist has one that hell put in front there. that will work. t.j. cant do two things at once. "the wall street journal" downgrade, ignites global panic. the financial times, stocks plummet on u.s. downgrade. and the daily news right here, willie, of course, puts it in neat tidy perspective. panic. whats going on. >> well, it was the downgrade obviously f...

after piece of red meat to the right-wing lion that seems to dominate his caucus. >> were not going to divulge. were going to solve this problem, one way or another. >> countdown to crisis. your financial future hanging in the balance. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening, an extraordinary day on capitol hill today. the house passes the boehner bill and the senate properly slaps it down. senate majority leader harry reid held a news conference speaking on tonights vote. >> sena...

we are going to ask some of the smartest people in washington to explain what is going on tonight. john king, jessica yellin. first, i want to go straight to is that theyre trying to win over some of the undecides of some of the no votes amongst the conservatives in their party. what they were discussing at one point was trying to tweak the bill in order to win over conservatives who are unhappy that the bill didnt go far enough, piers. and what they were talking about doing is making ...

>> tonight the white house the right and the left and the clock. countdown to crisis. >> we are simply four days away from one of the worst financial catastrophes that could face this country. >> this is "piers morgan tonight". good evening, we start with break news. its been an extraordinary couple of hours on capitol hill. speaker john boehners debt plan remains stalled in the house without sufficient support from his own caucus to get the bill passed. he couldnt even put it to a v...

no more tricks. no more accounting gimmicks. no more broken promises. >> tonight, the white house, the right, the left and the clock. countdown to crisis. >> we are four days away from one of the worst financial catastrophes that could face this country. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. chaos on capitol hill tonight. john boehners debt plan is stalled in the house without support from his caucus. this country is moving closer and closer to an almost unthinkable nation...

were just getting the information in. that means that the players vote will happen later today in more of a formal setting. training camp could start as early as wednesday now, weve been told. david mattingly has been following this for us. he has been live out of atlanta every day, at least he was last week when those negotiations were taking place. david, did you just get word that something came forward just moments ago? >> reporter: reading and finding out now is that the nfl playe...

no one is speaking publicly about it, but i have been in touch with some democrats on the hill who are still very upset this evening after that meeting. the bottom line is they have heard these outlines of a possible framework of a deal. and some democrats are concerned that this is a, happening too late, and b, that its possible the white house is agreeing to a deal that will essentially jam the democrats into agreeing to something that does not go far enough on the issues that they c...

bridge collapses. sending a tourist bus plunging into the forest below and the death toll could get higher. clock is ticking and tensions are soaring and if you want an idea how things heat are over the debt crisis, listen to this. president obama storms out of yesterdays meeting vowing he will veto any extension of the debt ceiling that is only short term. reports say he said to aeric cantor, quote, many could bring down my presidency. the august 2nd deadline is looming and pessim...

Without it, it would have been a point or two points higher. without it, we would be looking at 10, maybe 11% unemployment. and in pennsylvania, the council of economic advisers said that stimulus spending either created or retained, help retained 136,000 jobs. >> now, let me ask you, governor, they are saying, the republicans basically, have been saying that nothing should have been done, no stimulus. if nothing had been done, your point is that unemployment would be even higher and more of the...