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veterans group there at pennsylvania avenue being briefed on what could happen to their ranks if the debt ceiling is not raised. also cnn is learning some states making contingency plans. california specifically taking out a temporary $5 billion loan just to help pay its bills in case congress fails to act and turmoil in the credit market makes it difficult to borrow money after august 2nd. take a walk with me. i want to look at what exactly is proposed here. we have two different plan...

blame. the debt crisis, here you go. the deepening stalemate. president obama reaches out to a new player and the game is you. in norway, breiviks father wish his son would have killed himself rather than slaughter dozens of people. bp has a big turnaround. the company raked in more than $22 billion in profits for the quarter! the debt, minute-by-minute, the nation inches closer to the brink of twault. the countdown less than seven full days before the federal government runs o...

word. >> the truth is that the president wanted a blank check six months ago and he wants a blank check today. this is just not going to happen. >> as makeshift memorials spring up across norway, police and the public are searching for answers to fridays deadly attacks. the lawyer and suspect, anders breivik, the lawyer said his client is in insane. the suspects father, who doesnt want to be identified, agrees. >> translator: no, ill never have more contact with him in my darkest momen...

do. nobody can get the support to get one of those through. do we have to look for just the possible? >> i think mission number one is to raise the debt ceiling. they cannot get away without doing that. saying theyre going to downgrade you. but they left a bit of an out. if you raise the ceiling but give indication youre on the road to getting a deal, well keep you on credit watch negative but take you off and affirm your aaa rating if you get it done within a couple of months if we se...

anything that can go wrong, would. we are working with toilet paper and a pie plate and broom and egg. >> great. its 9:00 a.m. on the east coast and 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. im don lemon. in washington, lots of talk but no action on a deal to avoid a debt crisis with only about a week and a half before the deadline. the white house is shooting down reports that negotiations are getting close to an agreement. for millions of americans in the eastern united states, the ferocious he...

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...

140 characters, which is what happens per twitter, the president, however, will be able to respond much longer than 140 characters. hell be giving verbal responses and then staffers will tweet out sort of condensed versions of his responses. tamron? >> all right, kristen. already gone through a list of some of those that have been submitted. well see if speaker boehner gets his question answered by the president. joining me live is jonathan allen, senior political reporter for police coand the m...

The capital. the president is still holding on to power despite weeks of protest. dozens of people have been killed in just the last 24 hours. and jobless numbers are up. 424,000 americans filed for their first week of benefits last week. its the seventh straight week that first time claims have topped 400,000. it is time for political buzz, a rapid fire conversation hitting the hot political topics of the day. each of our brilliant political observers get 20 seconds to answer three probing qu...

the source says he has been moved to this luxury townhouse that recently rented for $60,000 per month. new unemployment numbers, 424,000 americans filed for jobless benefits for the first time. an increase in 10,000. in joplin, missouri, the heartbreak builds and the uncertainty grows unbearable. officials will release a list of people still missing from the tornado zone. many families are now entering a fourth day of agonizing questions and exhaustive searches. he still hasnt be...

Who may be innocent makes him a victim. and i say that america, who is so careful with images, is not careful in this case. just think one thing. just please think of one point. america decided not to show th images of bin laden dead. not to offend the muslims. so right. but we show the images of dominique strass-kahn without any consideration of the question to know if it offends his kids, his family, himself and so on. when you deal with images, you cannot be double standard. can you not on on...