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call." "american morning" continues right now. >> im ali velshi. the obama administration trying to defend its decision to award stimulus money to solyndra. a solar power company that went bankrupt. taxpayers are on the hook for more than half a billion dollars. >> im christine romans. u.s. officials concerned about terrorist groups setting up long-term residence in post-gadhafi libya. >> should our lawmakers cut back? we will talk to one senator that says yes on this "american mornin ...

a job. above, they all acted and tried wall street is bracing for what could be another ugly day, to stop the damage, and they right, christine romans? >> absolutely right. live with regrets of how they did that, but they did do >> reporter: futures are down, something that day. kyra 200 points and 30 minutes >> that was my next question, regrets. to go until the opening bell ten years later, how are they rings. a couple of things. a hangover from friday. doing? >> some not so good. th...

nfl season after four-month labor lockout between players and owners, well, a key vote could break the stalemate. and were also learning this. tiger woods fires his long time caddie steve williams and guess what? he speaks out about the abrupt move. we will hear from the caddie in just five minutes. millions of pro football fans are hoping today, well, that it will be the day the nfls labor lockout will end. players and owners expected to vote on a deal that will hopefully say the 20...

>> in this country, a new debt ceiling compromise seems to be getting traction in washington. six senators, three republicans, and three democrats are offering a plan to cut the nations debt by about $3.7 trillion over the next decade. it includes spending cuts and about a trillion dollars in new tax revenue. republicans have insisted on deep cuts and no tax increases before theyll agree to raise the countrys borrowing limit. that debt ceiling deds line is now just 13 days away. minnes...

the nations debt ceiling is fueling hopes the government wont run out of money on august 2nd. obama saying the deadline drawing close and congressional leaders need to talk turkey in todays meetings. most of the central heat under a heat alert. some areas feel as hot as 126 degrees. . the taliban blaming u.s. hackers for a text that announced the death of mullah omar. the taliban says, no, he is alive and well. one day after rupert murdoch tried to repel the british assault on hi...

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...

Generations after world war ii. the average age of death in the war in afghanistan has been 25. hopefully the next time someone writes about how selfish and entitled generation y is, theyll include a line this generation is the one making the ultimate sacrifice for our country. another important lesson, one delivered courtesy of the president. when he said to us last week he and we have better things to do than speculate on his birth certificate, one has to wonder if the possibility of this hist...

Doing something at night that we shouldnt be doing that is keeping us awake. we are not turning off the artificial lights. if eyes you and me jon in the baby boomer generation, were watching tv then we dont fall a sleep. your generation y, checking your cellphone, or video games. jenna: i havent done that. >> reporter: the thing about texting and my son is 14, ill tell you what the problem is, the texts occur after you fall a sleep, you fall a sleep then a text comes. i mean these guys dont even...

Those areas are a huge demand for workers. many are cutting teachers and not adding new ones. how do we get more successful stem career people into the classroom? theres a premium on these majors in the college. in my book, we explore how to position your kid into s.t.e.m. careers or how to use a liberal arts background like the four of us have to get a job in the growing technology, science, and mathematics fields. >> look at jason over here -- >> i was an english major. >> generation x had it ...

Difficulties and those were the guys that had been providing global leadership, historically. the chinese, the indians, the indoniecians, emerging markets are not yet prepared to provide leadership on issue likes trade and currency. so what were seeing is a breakdown in global governance and what we believe. >> a g-0 world. if everyone is going if for their own personal benefit, ha does it mean for living standards in this country? >> if means were going to have trouble. because the economic and...