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good morning. great to see you this morning. thursday, july 28. this is "american morning." advice teen out. we know yesterday a little stuffy. >> she sounded. >> it she is getting better hopefully at home today. a lot going on. >> imagine what our lead story is now? its the debt. the republicans are scrambling to line up house votes to stave off a potential first ever default of u.s. debt. the deadline, you know, this, august 2 now less than five days away. the house is expected to vo...

lot of individual reasons for individual candidates who decided not to run. but i have to tell you, you look at those figures and you say, whoa, the president is in for a rough reelection ride. should he get it simply because if that many people think the economy is poor, that certainly is not going to help him at the voting booth. but heres the rub. they dont actually blame president obama for the economy. 55% of americans blame george bush. just 30% blame president obama. so he is ru...

That type of funding considers that they did not know osama bin laden was hiding less than a quarter of a mile from their version of west point. seasoned lawmakers have urged caution. listen to claire mccaskill on the issue of pakistani funding. >> weve got to be very careful about being too absolute about condemning pakistan at this point. we need the roots to our troops to pakistan. we need their airspace for our predator program thats been very effective in wiping out terrorists. so i think w...

Services knee was about money to fight terrorists was going to beef up the boarder with india, and for them, its all about india and only during the past few years have they turned a corner because so many of their own citizens have been killed by terrorists. we have to be careful being too absolute and leaving pakistan, we need their routes and airspace very effective wiping out terrorists. we have to use this as leverage point in the relationship and not begin spouting off we need to cut off p...

It is afternoon on your side. >> great to talk to you today. raising the debt ceiling is a matter of debate. what do you mean by clean extension of the debt sealing. >> dont play depames. we cannot aforward to have america default. we never did it before . the issue of debt ceiling comes up periodically. it shouldnt be a leverage point. the risk of defaulting and miss of reaching the deadline is a disaster for the integritty of the united states government. >> some are arguing that not arguing t...

Situation. we are saying come up with a clean, clean bill and dont use it as a leverage point to get your social issue included in the law and dont use as a leverage point to raise or lower or give a tax break to somebody. deal with it up and down. if you dont raise the debt ceiling vote no. but if you think we must vote yes. >> the stakes are high and you have a month to the deadline and there is a lot of political stuff going on in terms of trying to get it through in a way that doesnt mean ma...

About anything spending related when it comes to that? >> here is why. there is so much at stake about the american economy. if we actually make the world fearful that were going to stiff our creditors, revoke our full faith in credit we are going to do enormous economic damage. both sides have to put their economic argument holsters back in their pocket, their policy arguments back in their pocket and understand we have a responsibility to maintain americas reputation for paying our bills. jenn...

Ceiling would be armageddon-like in terms of the economy, the impact on interest rates, job creation, on growth would be devastating. >> look at this chart from the national journal showing how often and how high congress has raised the ceiling in just the last ten years, $14.3 trillion on the right as you can see. congressman peter wet shalsh is democrat from vermont. he joins mee live from capitol hill. thank you for joining us today. what is the your thought? is this a good ideaç to raise e...

And i think thats his -- thats the leverage point. that is -- if that inner circle breaks, gadhafi goes down. its much more likely to happen that way than through the military taking him down. >> you know, its hard to believe that until only a few months ago, congressman, the u.s. was warmly embracing gadhafi, trying to improve relations with gadhafi. talk a little about that, because you have went there three times. >> we went there. we went there at the encouragement of the administrations. we...

At this moment republicans are trying to agree upon a resolution to keep our government funned. at least for the next few weeks. they cant agree on the long-term budget so they are trying to extend it week by week. and they are in that process. two top members of the gop are insisting this latest resolution needs to cut off the mandatory funding for the presidents healthcare law or republicans should not vote for it. one of those republicans is michele bachmann who is chair of the house tea part...