the students were protesting london s support of new sanctions when the crowd grew violent. clashing with riot police and entering the compound while chanting death to england. once inside, students looted and burned embassy documents and replaced the british flag with an iranian one. embassy employees were able to flee the embassy and iranian security forces are trying to clear the compound. so far no casualties have been reported. the british foreign office has released a statement condemning the incident and calling it utterly unacceptable. there are also reports the iranian government is denying they were behind this protest as we have seen in the past. but this one a lot more violent than we have seen in the recent past. all right. let me get to my first reads of the morning. we re going to continue to track the iranian story throughout the hour. it is t-minus 35 days to iowa. if the last 24 hours tells us anything, it s that in this wild primary cycle, writing tomorro
and the post office. let s go out front. i m erin burnett. out front tonight we re live from washington as ee get ready for the big debate tomorrow night. there s a super failure tonight. such failure that the leaders of the super committee didn t even face the press. they issued a statement. which read in part, despite our inability to bridge the committee s significant differences, we end this process united in our belief that the nation s fiscal crisis must be addressed. they didn t say by someone else. but they kind of did. they agreed on one thing that they who had the mandate to do a deal with a simple majority would all kick the can down the road. even though we are in a crisis. that is pretty audacious. super committee, you had the power as they say, if not you then who? if not now, then when? they were told to cut 2.6% of the budget over ten years. they couldn t do it. the president did approach a camera to say he would veto what sdwrom had suggested which was
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great depression. bill: you re in these meetings. sounds like you re not even close? again, hope springs eternal. i couldn t be a member of congress if i didn t have hope. republicans have gone a great way trying to negotiate here. we put forth a plan that would actually save and strengthen medicare. they rejected our plan that was in our budget. we said, okay, if you don t like that plan, how about something called rivlin-domenici which a bipartisan plan written principally by bill clinton s former head of the office of management and budget? we could negotiate around that. they rejected that too. we put tax revenue on the table, something that frankly is contrary to our dna as republicans but we said you know what? if we re going to do that, let s at least do it in a way that will help the economy through pro-growth tax reform, clearing out all the special interest deductions and loopholes, bringing down rates and making our tax code fairer, simpler and more competitive
breaking news, the white house has just announced president obama holding a news conference in the next hour. we ll bring that to you live. he may be the world s most wanted man. wikileaks founder julian assange in custody now in london, fighting extradition to sweden. plus, an exclusive interview with the two women leading the fight against california s ban on same-sex marriage right here on this show. and today s big i outsourcing space exploration. can business do it better than nasa? we re about to find out. that sound out of capitol hill is arms being twisted, ears being bent on a deal that means money in your pocket. vice president biden is trying to sell senate democrats on a stimulus/safety net worth as much as $900 billion. remember, we ve had t.a.r.p. we ve had the stimulus. we re used to talking in the hundreds of billions of dollars, but this is a lot of money. next hour, president obama will pitch the plan publicly for the second time in two days. this time