good evening everyone. breaking news, president obama s primetime call for a deal to end the debt crisis and house speaker john boehner s response. the speech is coming with two competing proposals on the table. one from senate democrats and the other from house republicans, neither of which is looking very likely to pass. meantime, seven days until the government runs out of money and rating agencies are threatening to downgrade the nation s credit even if a deal is reached. even if a deal is reached they may downgrade the credit. it s triple-a, that s nearly as good as cash or gold and has been almost from the beginning. losing that status would raise interest rates for all of us and make mortgages cost more, stifle the economy and possibly trigger a run on the dollar. tonight president obama restated his desire for a deal that includes tax increases on wealthier americans as well as spending cuts. in doing so he cited statistics talking about bipartisan and invoked the wor
he cited statistics appealing to bipartisanship and invoked the words of ronald reagan and also acknowledged how sharply divided washington is while trying to channel a bipartisan frustration among americans for what goes on in washington. take a look. i realize that a lot of the new members of congress and i don t see eye to eye on many issues. but we were each elected by some of the same americans for some of the same reasons. yes, many want government to start living within its means, and many are fed up with a system in which the debt seems stacked against middle class americans in favor of the wealthiest few. but do you know what people are fed up with most of all? they re fed up with a town where compromise has become a dirty word. they work all day long, many of them scraping by, just to put the american people might have voted that they didn t vote for a dysfunctional government. i am asking you to make your voice heard. if you want a balanced approach to reduci
attack the hotel maid who was there to clean his hotel room, his luxury suite. at any rate, he s in jail right now. we ll hear from his attorney shortly and we ll be right back.
general manager of the hotel chain, he tells us that this woman did work at the hotel for three years and in his words, he was he is fully satisfied with her behavior and her work. above and beyond that, we are learning more and more details about what allegedly happened at the hotel on saturday. the police tell us that this is the account they received from the alleged victim. when she went in to clean the luxury suite, she thought it was empty. however, she was confronted by the head of the international monetary fund. he approached her, police said naked. he tried to attack her. dragged her into a bedroom, into a bathroom and she was able to get away and ran for help. by the time police arrived at the hotel, he already left the
about what happened. she went into this luxury suite. this is a $3,000-a-night room. she went into it yesterday, thinking it was empty in order for her to clean it, when she said she was assaulted by mr. strauss-kahn. she says he was naked, dragged her into a bedroom and then a bathroom, tried to force himself on her sexually and she was able to finally get away and call the hotel. she called police, but by the time authorities got there, mr. strauss-kahn had already left the hotel, and police are examining all kinds of videos and cameras around that hotel to try to establish him leaving the hotel and the premises. police caught up with him when he was on a plane, and just before they closed the doors on the plane, authorities were able to bring him off the plane. he did not offer resistance, we are told, and they brought him in for hours and hours of questioning. from what we understand, he