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House speaker john bainer and addressed the nation on the topic of avoiding the fiscal cliff. called on lawmakers to compromi compromise, to get a deal done. he acknowledged time has run out for getting a larger package. what they need to focus on now is getting a smaller deal that will avoid taxes from going up on middle class americans. meanwhile, a very rough friday for house speaker john boehner, really spent most of the day, explaining what has been views as a political blow, when on thursd...

Is that -- these norms that are on wall street, can regulation, can rules and changes to incentives change those norms? >> i think so. thank can, but i think we also have to recognize that part of what constitutions wall street meritocracy, right, thats why people are so surprised they can put these charts up and yet not get largely critiqued for it. the reason being that wall streets willingness to play fast and loose, to lie, cheat, and steal, thats not thought of amongmy wa many wall streeter...

and new images inside the japan desolation zone on the one-year anniversary of one of the most natural and nuclear disasters ever. im don lemon. youre in the "cnn newsroom." thank you for joining us. in the meantime, we start with this -- a push for peace in syria. looks like it is going nowhere. the former u.n. chief kofi annan moat with bashar al assad. he rue feuses talks until the violence is over insisting his forces are fighting armed terrorists. the two sides are expected to m...

longer the elephant in the room, governor rick perry announces hes joining the republican party for president. >> he may be the republican front-runner but he was not feeling the love at the iowa state fair. he got heckled and laughed at over three words he said, words he may come to regret on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ing. >> oh, thank got its friday. >> wait a minute. ive got to move my stuff. >> good morning. happy friday to you. its august 12th....

having it? >> its not that simple. they have to come up with some compromise, some sort of plan that can pass the senate and go back to the house of representatives and pass there something that the president could sign that would allow the united states to raise the debt ceiling and avert some sort of financial disaster come tuesday. its not simple at all, so they need to work together. the mainstream, main leadership, democrats and republicans, they need to find a way to come up with...

you isle ask the former pakistani president musharraf in he knew osama bin laden was hiding in his homeland and if he knows terrorists may be holed up in pakistan right now. im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room." first, a powerful reminder today, if they dont reach an agreement in the next 11 days, all hell could brea look. standard & poors is warning the nation could be shoved back into recession very soon after the august 2i deadline passes with the clock ticking and stakes ...

Spending. >> that should be the answer. this is going to be debated in in the united states congress. maybe the democratic answer could be offset some of the health care cuts. >> so let me ask you this question, mr. mayor. >> they could sit down and compromi compromise. compromise. oh, my god, they would compromise. >> are they going to go there? >> listen. you could go to iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, and say, if youve got social, keep it. if youre in your 50s, fine. but if youre below 5...

This, do you think? >> i certainly hope so. i have great respect for paul ryan. >> but really, can you? >> well, it fends on what youre talking about. i believe that the parties in good faith coming together could put this country on a sustainable physical path. so i think the answer is yes. that will require compromise from both sides. i think what the president is going to say tonight is he is serious about sitting down with our republican colleagues and finding that path forward. recognizing ...

Of insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed. >> to get long-term unemployment >> it includes the obama tax cuts from the stimulus. >> democrats appear to go along with a deal. >> id be willing to go along with a one-year extension to preblgt the middle class. >> the president is prepared to compromi compromise. >> giving the republicans absolutely everything they wanted. >> the white house defends its position. >> right now there are bigger issues at stake for our country than politics. >...

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