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new terror plot from down at one of the busiest construction site on earth. if thats all it were, a construction site, it would be remarkable. its much more than that. along with a new transportation hub and two enormous skyscrapers up behind me, theres a remarkable memorial, the 2,606 people killed here almost ten years ago. and ten years later, all over manhattan, washington, d.c., there are echos of that terrible day. police and troops and the assault rifles and the train stations, ...

>> thanks very much. thats it for "360." see you again at 10:00 p.m. thanks for watching. "piers morgan tonight" starts now. on september 10, 2011, he was a hard charging, high-living ceo. september 12, he was the only family of the families of 658 people, cantor fitzgerald made it out alive. >> i thought everyone i ever imagined working with ever had been killed. >> he attempted his own life. he tells us how he rebuild his business and his life over the dust of ground zero. and a ...

a meaningful handle on the deficits and the debt. now comes of course the federal reserve. we have ben bernanke here, which has used every tool in its box to keep credit flowing and interest rates low in the wake of the great recession. at 2:15 eastern, a little over an hour from now, the fed will tell us what if anything it plans to do in the wake of the downgrade, the debt snafu, the european debt snafu and the global stock freak-outs. in the meantime, i want to bring in richard ques...

motes. 22 republicans voted against it and all of the democrats. just before the vote, speaker boehner blamed president obama at the talks aimed at a bipartisan deal. >> i stuck my neck out a mile and i put revenues on the table. in order to try to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are. but a lot of people in this town can never say yes. a lot of people can never say yes. this house has acted and it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the ais...

evening here in the nations capital. just to underline the peril facing the united states economy, and the american people, democratic officials familiar with the presidents speech expect him to say the country right now is, quote, in imminent threat of default. with only about one week left for democrats and republicans to agree on a deal to raise the debt ceiling. in a speech earlier today, the president alluded to the bitter political grid lock between both sides. >> are we a nation...

>> we are once again less than a week away from a possible government shut down. karl cameron reported that the president asked congressional leadership to come to the white house to work on a deal. >> with time running out for a deal to keep the government operating past friday. house speaker john boehner reported on the grid lock and rank and file members returned to the steps on the senate to blame democrats for the impasse. >> you have seen the bill out of the house and nothing from these gu...

Complete disaster. the ethics committee was in total grid lock. it took the indictment of tom delay before he would resign. >> indicted by a prosecutor in texas because the ethics committee couldnt do anything when the republicans controlled the house. >> david, what about toms assertion that the democrats are doing better one could argue that because of the types of allegation and coming forth that the democrats are trying to drain the swamp as nancy pelosi once said. but what should the republ...

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Border wall in order to save daca. lets go to mike first. mike, youve got the senate. still in grid lock, republicans blaming democrats for leaving the negotiating table. is there any hope in sight when it starts a conversation between the two sides an hour from now? >> youre right. it is high noon here in washington. i just walked through the capital ra taund not a soul in site. not a staffer, not even a police officer. there was basically or there could have been tumble weed blowing through th...

Been worse and now well see spending on infrastructure that has to be done now people are doing better than we expected them to. i think theyre pricing and now tax reform seems like theyre getting their act together on that. my big concern is that what happens if something does happen with north korea? what happens if tax reform doesnt get done? what if grid lock continues to move forward? im optimistic because were see ing republicans and democrats starting to have conversations and compromise ...