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up support for today, and essentially it would raise the debt ceiling and also save some $917 billion in spending over the course of the next decade, so were keeping an eye on that as always, but first lets get to that developing story for you out of texas. an awol muslim-american soldier has been arrested near ft. hood with what the fbi is saying is a large amount of bomb-making materials. private first class naser abdo is now in custody after a sales clerk at a gun shop alerted polic...

blame. the debt crisis, here you go. the deepening stalemate. president obama reaches out to a new player and the game is you. in norway, breiviks father wish his son would have killed himself rather than slaughter dozens of people. bp has a big turnaround. the company raked in more than $22 billion in profits for the quarter! the debt, minute-by-minute, the nation inches closer to the brink of twault. the countdown less than seven full days before the federal government runs o...

expected to roll out a plan to cut spending by $2.7 trillion while raising the debt by 274 trillion. reids plan would not include tax increases which republicans refuse to consider nor would it touch entitlements. my colleague, dan lothian is watching it all from his post at the white house. dan, what is the presidents position first on raising the debt in installments? >> reporter: he want it is to go through 2012 and there is a sense at the white house and treasury department in part...

She knows what its like to be a mother, to balance all the things that women balance so shes completely relatable and she understands issues so it was an excellent choice for the president and shes energetic and shes going to bring that energy and that hope that we do need to start to bring back to talk about more. the president is battling a lot of issues. he needs someone else out there, too, thats going to talk about those things, that resonate with people, that connect with people, that dont...

>> i think what you learn what president clinton said, dont forget the president is the leader of this party. right now the democratic party with the white house and the senate bears a lot of responsibility for moving forward on some of these reforms. president clinton was talking about the up state election, the day after the upstate election where a democrat won. democratic candidate took it. so a lot of democrats are seeing it as a sign if they run against medicare cuts, the voucher program t...

>> yeah. >> the last two years its represented 15%. over a 30% drop in revenue. why arent we talking about that? >> this is a big victory for a lot of middle classers out there. >> it is. >> medicare is off the table. and this means youll have to go into farm country to get the farm subsidies. what about oil subsidies, adam schiff? >> to me, the greatest contrast in terms of the budget put forth by the republicans is the fact that they are unwilling to go after these tax subsidies of the richest...

That? >> this is a big victory for a lot of middle classers out there. >> it is. >> medicare is off the table. and this means youll have to go into farm country to get the farm subsidies. what about oil subsidies, adam schiff? >> to me, the greatest contrast in terms of the budget put forth by the republicans is the fact that they are unwilling to go after these tax subsidies of the richest industry making the biggest profits, but they will cut home heating oil assistance for the poor. >> yeah. ...

By the gadhafi regime but clearly the opposition is saying, no way, they have rejected it. >> a lot of us that have watched the relationship between gadhafi and the african union over the years, including the president of south africa, jacob, who represented the union in these meetings with gadhafi and with rebel leaders, know that gadhafi spread a lot of his money, millions and millions of dollars to a lot of the leaders of the african union. do the rebel leaders really think that jacob zuma ar...

Though the details of the proposal put forth but knew that it didnt include the removal of colonel gadhafi and his inner circle. word of rejection drew tears from the demonstrators that gathered where opposition leaders were meeting with the african nation after a meeting of several hours the announcement was made by the top two leaders by the interim government. essentially they said the proposal is not a solution for the violence against libyan people. and a reform that it is proposing is with...

Headway. but unfortunately it seems like were sliding back the other way. >> you mentioned bad thing happen. we have three close calls in the skies just since friday. do you believe anything has changed since the buffalo crash when you lost your loved one in the accident? do you believe in the two years almost since then, have we made the proper strides in the right direction? >> well, i think things are in place. i think the right ideas have been put forth. i think awareness is a lot higher, bu...