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no more tricks. no more accounting gimmicks. no more broken promises. >> tonight, the white house, the right, the left and the clock. countdown to crisis. >> we are four days away from one of the worst financial catastrophes that could face this country. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. chaos on capitol hill tonight. john boehners debt plan is stalled in the house without support from his caucus. this country is moving closer and closer to an almost unthinkable nation...

delayed. police in texas say a muslim american soldier confessed to plotting an attack on ft. hood just two years after a muslim officer shot to death 13 people on that same base. tropical storm don could hit the south texas coast tonight and drought-stricken farmers are welcoming the prospect of up to 7 inches of rain. we begin with that sobering reality check on the debt crisis and just how daunting the challenge has become. in less than four days, the federal government could ru...

could make or break the debt crisis and i know youre saying ive heard this before. but here is the deal today. lawmakers are not mincing words. less than five days to raise the debt ceiling or risk defaulting on government bills. today the house is due to vote on speaker john boehners plan. as his own party holds the majority of votes he is really getting frustrated with the divisions that threaten its passage. in a closed door meeting, boehner actually told the feuding republicans, qu...

youre looking at live pictures right now in the house floor, where just moments from now a vote is scheduled on republican house speaker john boehners plan to avoid unprecedented default. but the bill which needs 216 votes to pass is facing fierce new backlash inside the party. if it does pass, it immediately goes to the senate for a vote where harry reid essentially says its dead on arrival. meanwhile, ceos at the biggest banks have their own warnings. fix this now or there will be gr...

hour. the details just coming in. an awol muslim american soldier now in custody in texas found with what the fbi is now saying is a large amount of bomb-making material near ft. hood. barbara starr is all over the story and will join nus a few minutes. first, debt debate but no deal. it all comes down to numbers. i dont mean 13-digit numbers with dollar signs in front of them. i mean this number. take a look here. five days until the treasury says it will run out of borrowed money. fi...

spending cuts in ten years. reid would hike the debt by $2.7 trillion now and mandate an equal amount of cuts. but the congressional budget office says the boehner plan would trim spending by $850 billion, and the reid plan by $2.2 trillion. boehner went back to the board and postponed the vote that was supposed to happen today. reids plan cant pass the house, and not only is boehners plan doomed in the senate, a great many house republicans dont like it either. so what happens now? we...

countrys coveted aaa credit rating could be compromised. the unpresence dented consequences for all of us. and why some lawmakers argue the looming august 2 deadline isnt the armageddon the president says it is. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." were only five days away from what could lead to unprecedented default in the united states if the political sparring between our elected officials here in washington doesnt stop. and we cant emphasize enough how devastating the r...

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Oprah is hard at work planning the final episode but gave no hints on who would be on the final show. george lopez is apologizing to kirstie alley after what he said on her moves to "dancing with the stars." lopez compared her to a dancing pig after the dance that put her near the top of the leaderboard on the program. after days of tweeting back and forth, lopez apologized to her. tonight, she has accepted his apology. i thought she looked pretty darn good. when we come back, well take you ...

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