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this is ali. >> chris seen on a well-deserved vacation. we have a lot going on today. lets get to it. high drama and high stakes over raising americas debt ceiling. we are now just 20 day ace way from the treasury deadline. president obama will meet again today with congressional leaders for the fifth straight day of negotiations that ended abruptly yesterday. republicans saying the president stormed out of the talks. this morning, democratic source is telling cnn president obama shut ...

parties in parliament called on murdoch to dump his plans to pursue it. at least four members of the u.s. congress want the government to investigate whether u.s. citizens were victims of phone hacking by murdochs media outlets. international journalists were attempted to hack into the phone messages of 9/11 victims. > ruling party officials say mr. salih will go back after hes 4 surgery. those are the headlines. those are the headlines in cnn in london. "world business today" starts...

wait. >> bullets kept flying as our team sped away. >> okay. were leaving this area. theres gunfire all around us and we believe that gadhafi forces are doing a round about movements so we are rushing out of this area. >> this reminds us just how dangerous and desperate the life has become for the libyan people. were going to talk to ben live from libya later. india police say it is going to take more to pinpoint who is behind the triple bomb blast in mumbai. it killed 18 people. no ...

political, and cultural. and ill talk more about that as we go forward. and weve come, hopefully, bearing complex well-devised initiatives. last year in vietnam, we came and worked closely with a variety of countries related to the south china she -- sea initiative. and we can talk about that later. ..utheast asia more important economically to the united states than even western europe and how to make that more clearly understood by the american people has been one of the things we ha...

You make a really smart point about this insider/outsider thing. remember in 1964 no one thought gold water would be the republican nominee. in 1968 no one wanted riksard nixon could be the nominee. they the rockefeller, romneys. they would be the nominee. to the extent, thats why the democratic party and media dont quite understand the republican base. you know, george w. bush managed to con found liberals. they are like how can this guy get elected? guess what, they do have a strong grass root...

whats happening. thats ahead. we will have the latest on this developing story in a few minutes from now. president obama is back at the white house of a spending several hours in joplin, missouri. it was exactly a week ago that an f-5 tornado ripped through the city killing people in minutes. 5:41 central time there was a moment of silence marked by the precise instant that tornado hit. our dan traveled with the president to joplin and dan, a tough job for the president to try to li...

>> you can smoke on a sidewalk, but you cant smoke on the plaza. now, first of all you call this a plaza? rockefeller is a plaza. the plaza de mayo. th is? this is like mongi. >> i think in rome. >> and they smoke in rome. they take smoke brake. >> this is the first day of the smoking ban in times square. how do you think it is going so far? i dont know either, man. >> you seem like one that would take one for me. >> it looks like there is some other stuff in there. >> this is apparently a $50 f...

Unsettled republican field i think since 1940, when wendell wilkey snuck in. usually its a front-runner or rockefeller or ford against reag reagan. this time its wide open and you saw it on the poll, where the numbers are scattered all over the place. that gives anybody a chance. >> matt bai, a couple years back, you wrote a cover story for him on "the new york times magazine," "the anti-obama?" and he would answer no. yet the issue of obamas values, are they in sync with what americans want, ho...

But youve got the most unsettled republican field i think since 1940, when wendell wilkey snuck in. usually its a front-runner or rockefeller or ford against reag reagan. this time its wide open and you saw it on the poll, where the numbers are scattered all over the place. that gives anybody a chance. >> matt bai, a couple years back, you wrote a cover story for him on "the new york times magazine," "the anti-obama?" and he would answer no. yet the issue of obamas values, are they in sync with ...

Republicans are so opposed to getting rid of these tax breaks for the oil companies and the first quarter, the five -- of this year, the five biggest oil companies made billions of dollars in profits and dont need the tax subsidy and the fact of the matter is the tax subsidy doesnt lhelp keep prics down or do anything to increase production and lets take the money and use it for something else, so, in the long run, we are not dependent on middle east oil. >> kelly: we heard many of them talking ...