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Anything passed. >> if its not accepted in the house, we cant extend the debt ceiling. >> even if we default on august 2, they will be not worse off than africa. >> michele bachmann surges in the polls, so republicans attack her. >> michele bachmann is doing well, in fact, surging. >> michele bachmann is rising. >> in our latest nbc news "the wall street journal" poll. >> i prescribe medication. >> the story claims bachmann suffers from incapacitating migraines. >> will not affect my ability to ...

shuttle. we are now less than one hour away from the final space shuttle landing. just in the last half-hour, we got a go for landing from nasa. the deorbit burn took place in the last couple of minutes. in the burn, the shuttles engines are fired to help it slow down before it hits the atmosphere. in less than 30 minutes the shuttle and crew will start to feel the effects of the atmosphere. theyll be about 80 miles above the earth at that point. as the shuttle comes through the atmosp...

keep the government from defaulting. early this afternoon bulletins went out via the "new york times" and the "wall street journal" that president obama and house speaker john boehner were close to an agreement on debt reduction on a deal there, but the white house is shooting those stories down. listen up. >> the breaking news report that you all probably received is incorrect. there is no deal. we are not close to a deal. the fact is that there is no progress to report, but we contin...

>> well, we really arent raising taxes. we are lowering rates to help generate revenue. >> reporter: still, the plan would lower reduction for mortgage interest and health insurance and savings for retirement. taxpayers would pay $1.2 trillion more in the next decade. on the house side, on democrats voiced interest and most of them are not persuaded. >> there are a lot of questions because there arent details about the prose subpoenaed the content. an 11th hour situation. >> reporter: at the whi...

right here in the united states. and a war of words between two florida lawmakers. democratic party chairwoman debbie wasserman-shultz joins me to respond to a congressmans rant calling her vile, unprofessional and despicable. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." right now, six u.s. senators are giving new momentum to talks aiming at avoiding a national catastrophe in the united states. their bipartisan compromise to slash the deficit. only 12 dpas left, president obama is...

obama has just summoned congressional democrats to aarr white house. to be clear, democrats only. were also hearing the top two house republicans, john boehner and eric cantor are to meet with mr. obama at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. so clearly a busy afternoon shaping up at the white house. tell you what, i want to take you now straight to senator coburn who is live for me. sir, good to have you on the program. let me just begin with this. we mentioned these meetings at the white house. m...

Borrowing authority expires august 2. senator conrad suggests things would go faster if there is broad support for the plan but house speaker john boehner says the plan still falls short. bret? >> bret: senator crapo one of the members of the gang of six will join us live in studio in a minute. wendell, thank you. stocks were up with the largest one-day jump so far this year. the dow added 20 # points. the s&p 500 gained 21. the nasdaq picked up nearly 61-1/2. home construction increased 14-1/2%...

Suggests intradiction could have occurred with the guns and probably should have occur and did not occur. nelson said the d.o.j. objected to the release. "the deputy attorney general office wasnt very happy with us because they thought the report was an admission that there were mistakes made." there were mistakes made. investigation is about documents and testimony and congressional investigators say they have less than 1% of the documents they want from the department of justice. its also a sh...

members of the britt parliament. they are supposed to hammer him and his allies on a empire destroying jobs and careers and now raising new questions about his companys conduct right here in the united states. bribery, hacking, corruption of power. lawmakers say the allegations are not about just sleazy journalism, about the power of an empire that has gone largely unchallenged, before now. its 9:00 a.m. on the east coast and 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. thanks for joining us. here a...

british parliament hearing today in london but they were upstaged momentarily by an intruder who somehow managed to get very, very close to the murdochs, too close as youre about to see. watch. so no official word yet as to who exactly that guy in the plaid shirt was. we know he was shouting you greedy billionaire, but he pushed a plateful of shaving cream into rupert murdochs face before he was grabbed, first by his wife, if you watch it, not in this shot but you can see she was weari...