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good evening everyone. breaking news, president obamas primetime call for a deal to end the debt crisis and house speaker john boehners 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 nations credit even if a deal is reached. even if a de...

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 dont 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 me...

koulson quit the job in january, and was arrested last month. now, the prime minister is now in the mood to apologize. >> what the public expect is not pedestriany political point scoring, but -- [ jeering ] what they want is to solve the issue out once and for all, and its in that spirit i commend this comment to the house. >> just yesterday rupert murdoch, his son james, and top british executive for news corp, rebekah brooks, were in front of the committee. of course, theres the pri...

hacking scandal. david cameron minutes away from a show down. two major proposals in the trillion dollar showdown over the nations debt. the first is called a possible break through. the second plan is under attack by democrats. all this next on "american morning". thanks for being with us, its wednesday, july 20th, this "american morning". im kiran chetry. >> im ali velshi. do we have a lot going on today. british prime minister david cameron is about to get grilled by parliament....

Throf e dpeab naon noth oerlolha president bush supported, but one that is necessary to keep the alliance, nato, or an international coalition functioning smoothly. and the truth is, if its a nato operation, nato-led, that means its american led, because natos commander is an american. and so i think youre seeing a lot of these subtleties being made by white house officials for political point scoring, and i think wed be a lot better off if we just laid out what the objectives are, and theyre qu...

Cents from a month ago. correspondent doug mcelway looks at what is behind the latest increase. >> reporter: climbing. increased industrialization in china and india, first ever recovering world economy spiked the price at the pump again. when it happened in 2007 and 2008, they provided plenty of opportunity for political point scoring. >> drivers are paying a heavy price for the bush administrations failure to enact the comprehensive energy strategy. >> the bush administrations oil-friendly pol...

We did what you did. >> the president has a different rhetorical style than george w. bush. he talked about this times square bombing once theyve been able to determine on tuesday. and since then, could have racheted up the rhetoric we are at war and take it to the tot terrorists and try to extract some political benefit. let me give you my two cents when i watched the first 48 hours after this guy was arrested, i mean, i just wanted to tell these people to shut up, turn the set off, like you sa...

That this year is forecast to be bigger than that of greece. thats why we are having to have this debate. lets not forget. >> nick clegg, briefly, if you would. >> adina who must be lost by the political point scoring, the fact is you are right. taxes are unfair. we have a plan. we think it is a great plan to switch taxes so you get more money back in your pocket. thats what i think we need to do. >> lets go on to another question. thank you, mr. clegg. this is from ian gray. >> it is clearly gr...

Im amazed. the white house likes to say we dont engage in the cable television game. we dont ingauge in the politics of point scoring. they like to play it. when they can score points and get laughs off an easy line they go for it. >> greta: i loved we prosecutors did stupid things like this. i thought she writes five words off her hand at least she doesnt have to read an entire speech off a teleprompter. unless it is good humor. >> you her the groans in the room. the teleprompter is not a huge ...

About the businesses in the country. >> all right, i think our exchange here on this side of the atlantic was very quaint compared to what is going on over there. but is this a good idea, do you think, for the u.s. president to engage in lets say a u.s. version of question time? >> well, first of all, you have to put it into its context. question time in the house of commons is a highly political moment. it is a point scoring, punching judy, all out fistfight between the two parties. it is desig...