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David plouffe, youre in danger of letting the government run out of money again, danger of a shutdown, no continuing resolution. dont republicans who are calling for a -- more for people mark, -- [ unintelligible ] arent republicans going to get a lot of blame if the government shuts down? >> government is not going to shutdown? most americans want us to deal with disasters in front of us and disasters to come. thats what we are trying to start to pay for things that we havent paid for before. h...

hurricane irene, now officially made landfall as a category 1 storm on the east coast of the united states. the most up-to-date satellite image we can show you now of re irene, showing wear and tear, described as sloppy, not very well organized but starting to get more disorganized. you can see it there, it was a more organized storm over the past couple of days but as its making landfall now and making its way up the east coast maybe not so much so. it has been lashing out at the caro...

good morning to you all. im t.j. holmes. welcome to our viewers watching us in the u.s. and around the world, as we continue to follow a category 1 storm, hurricane irene, that is threatening about 20% of the u.s. population. some 65 million people in its path. it has been hammering north carolina with heavy rains and fierce winds for past several hours. it was just a couple of hours ago that it officially made landfall in north carolina. more than 200,000 people are without power as w...

Hes been in decline for between two and three years. but how would they make that judgment since he was never previously, as you say, examined by a psychiatrist? >> because we know from court documents, martin, that the doctors who examined him also had access to records that were kept by his family practice doctors. they had access to other records, people from the college, people who knew him. so they were able to look at, to get some assessment of his glide path here. >> pete williams, thanks...

Defaulted on the debt but are scared of the spending cuts they feel they have to make to get the debt ceiling raised. >> chris: republicans are putting new conditions on what theyll have to have to agree to increase the debt limit, and you heard john boehner talking about, we need trillions in cuts and we need more in cuts than how much we raise the debt limit an mcconnell is talking about immediate cuts as well as long-term cuts, and are we getting closer to a deal, or further away. >> i though...

The politics loses some of its punch. i really dont think afghanistan is top of mind for voters and we get hotter and heavier into the election year. thats reality. from a policy point of view, the president -- you have to give him his due, when it comes to campaigning and filling campaign promises, going to focus on al qaeda and take out bin laden if he had the chance, ramp up the cia effort in pakistan, which hes done but wanted to try to reverse the momentum of taliban and shore up the centra...

Down with mark zandy. you get an encouraging jobs market get the rate goes up. american who have discouraged decide maybe the economy is adding jobs, ill come out and start looking. how long are we going to be going through that interesting dynamic where you could be adding jobs at a decent pace but the rate is stagnant or goes up? >> i think that could be an issue for the next six, maybe nine, perhaps 12 months. we have people who got disenfranchised during the recession. times were so tough. n...

Iraqis our path out of iraq. watch for negotiations not just with the afghans and the pakistanis and with elements of the taliban to get to a glide path out of iraq to a more sustainable -- >> out of afghanistan? >> out of afghanistan, im sorry, to a more sustainable footprint. thats kind of the mission over the last year. and we just need to be patient. one thing about this operation shows you is that patience really has a virtue. there used to be called the three ps of counterinsurgency. its p...

Debt. >> congress is going to pass an increase in the debt ceiling. they recognize that. they know they have to do that. they have always done that. thats not the issue. the real challenge is to make sure we put in place multiyear targets that put the deficit on a path that declines over time so that the debt burden starts to decline. thats the economic imperative. thats the important thing to do. >> were joined by cnbcs steve liesman to help us make sense of the debt crisis. and the way the pre...

Own voice. >> well, lets talk about, first of all, the deficit reduction commission because he says that he -- or the white house isç saying hes going to embrace a lot of their recommendations, at least their glide path. thats what seems to be the case. many of them including the two leaders are going to be there. the republicans on that commission didnt vote at all for it. it was the democrats who voted the majority for their results. so republicans have not embraced that commission either. >...