in strange way his negotiating position was strengthened. he s got a deficit cutting plan and the republicans do. the only plan he s put in writing that they could score washings plus 3 trillion dollars in debt and deficits over the next decade. he s making the problem worse in what he proposed. do you think that speaker john boehner basically agrees that this is the exit strategy if it comes to this and can t say so publicly yet? he he may well, because again, he has so many of these members who are demanding that there be some giant, you know, again, the whole tea party crowd, they were going to go in there and they were going to force the president to do this. now, john boehner is not dumb. he knows that you can t run washington from one house of congress. and so, there s going to have to be a way out of this, but he has got to his big challenge has always
position was strengthened. he s got a deficit cutting plan and the republicans do. the only plan he s put in writing that they could score washings plus 3 trillion dollars in debt and deficits over the next decade. he s making the problem worse in what he proposed. do you think that speaker john boehner basically agrees that this is the exit strategy if it comes to this and can t say so publicly yet? he he may well, because again, he has so many of these members who are demanding that there be some giant, you know, again, the whole tea party crowd, they were going to go in there and they were going to force the president to do this. now, john boehner is not dumb. he knows that you can t run washington from one house of congress. and so, there s going to have to be a way out of this, but he has got to his big challenge has always
mcconnell is taking heat from his own party for his proposed last chance option in the debt negotiations. that plan would essentially allow the president to raise the debt ceiling without republican support. a move that many conservatives say is simply bowing to the will of the democrats. wyoming republican senator john barrasso was alongside senator mcconnell when he presented that proposal. senator, thank you so much for joining us today. is this dead now? is this proposal dead or is it possibly still the exit strategy out of this stalemate for both sides? well, as you say, this is the last chance proposal. it is not my first choice, second choice or third choice. the goal is to actually get significant savings out of this budget. we can t keep spending money that we don t have. no one s talking on my side about raising taxes and no one s talking about defaulting. what we are talking about, cutting the spending. americans know the problem is that we spend too much. we need to also
sister wives says four wives and 16 children is none of the government s business. their new lawsuit tests this question. is polygamy somehow protected by a constitutional right to privacy? plus late word the government s credit rating could be downgraded because of the stalemate in negotiations over spending cuts and raising the debt ceiling. that warning from moody s came hours after the fed chairman gave his take on the consequences of not letting the government borrow more money. failure to do that would certainly throw the financial system into enormous disarray and have major impacts on the global economy. but up first tonight, riveting and exclusive cnn images from the battlefield in libya. new u.s. intelligence assessments show cracks in the regime that suggest moammar gadhafi might finally be ready to discuss an exit strategy. well, perhaps. but our ben wedeman and his crew saw a short time ago an effort by pro-gadhafi forces to retake the town 60 miles south o
tractor-trailer causing a mass i have explosion. one person is dead. several others are injured. plus, some same-sex couples who were married in massachusetts are getting a little extra in their paychecks. the reason s why coming up at 2:00. sarah palin says she still has months to decide on whether or not to run for president. and she s not reluctant to talk about it in the meantime in a new newsweek cover story. she says she can win in 2012 if she wants to. thanks so much peter for being with us. do you get the feeling that she s posturing or giving sort of her exit strategy explaining that she could win it if she wanted to, but she s not in it or do you think she s really still possibly considering a race? to be honest with you i think she s still thinking about it. she makes the case she s in alaska. she has another month of jury duty to do. unless she gets dismissed from