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If they want to allow him to leave, it is a face saving device but if they decide for whatever reason and there have been indications of the split between the security side of the chinese government and the diplomatic side, if the security side, the hard-liners prevail, maybe they will not let him out. >>trace: but it is a delicate diplomatic dance right now, isnt it? you have things going on in north korea, iran and syria and it makes this diplomatic schedule a little bit tenuous. >>chris: that...

costly conference in las vegas. were learning about numerous lavish trips by an agency thats supposed to keep federal cost down. we want to welcome our viewers. youre in the situation room. two of the highest members of president obamas war team. secretary of state hillary clinton and leon panetta traveled. i went and they joined me for an exclusive joint interview. we talked about some of the biggest global challenges as well as politics right here in the u.s. >> madam secretary, mr...

supermarket. lots of injuries, but amazingly, no one killed. >> im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> lets begin with breaking news just coming into the situation room right now out of afghanistan. word of a military crash. lets go straight to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. i know there are casualties. what are you hearing? >> wolf, a u.s. official tells us a u.s. army black hawk helicopter h...

Or something. >> those are all great points. lets not forget the interconnectedness of the banks. our banks have said we dont have much exposure to greece and the german and french banks. everything is interconnected and if we see pain there, we could see pain here. theres direct u.s. involvement whatever they say. america is the single biggest stakeholder in the imf. we kick in the biggest chunk. the imf is the part of any bailout or debt deal so the american taxpayer on the back end is indeed ...

issue many people thought would settle. im wolf blitzer. youre in the "the situation room." president obama is going around congress for his latest plan. he is out west focusing in on the ongoing housing crisis that continues to drag down the u.s. economy. he wants it make it easier for a homeowners who are under water to refinance and he is unveiling his plan in one of hardest hit housing markets in the country. we are talking about las vegas nevada. jessica is joining us now with d...

first responders in rafts. in vermont, youre looking at i-report photos with the ground washed out from under the tracks. floods wiped out almost three roads and bridges in vermont alone, isolating 13 communities. as of this morning, relief workers on four wheel drive vehicles made their way into four of them. from north carolina to maine nearly 1.8 million homes and businesses are still waiting for the power to come back. and thats down from more than $6 million on sunday. 43 deaths...

ill ask about red hot democrats. stay here and hear how it plays out. im wolf blitzer here in "the situation room." weve been expecting the house to vote on raising the debt limit. but it has not happened yet. the debt deadline is looming larger than ever. the deal would raise the debt limit $900 billion in the short term and green light spending cuts of roughly the same amount over ten years. offset dollar for dollar by more spending cuts. theres a lot of huge ifs involved in making...

Tomorrow, negotiations will formally be relaunched in a ceremony at the state department. these are the first direct talks in nearly two years. >> dan, americans tend to tune in and out of this story. where are we right now in the peace talk, such as it is? >> i often feel like watching this peace process is like watching a soap opera. you can check in and out and miss huge periods and nothing really changes. i think the big challenge is not the israeli/palestinian conflict but the interconflict...

Troopers. >> i dont know that i would buy that. yeah, i mean, our money goes to the security side to the pakistani army and the economic assistance goes to various elements of society and to pakistani government directly. again, first remember what pakistan has done over the course of the last 18 months. remember the casualties they have sustained in taking on the extremists in their country albeit focusing on those who are most threatening the existence of pakistan as citizens know it, and reco...

Is a key element to the stability there and the reduction in violence, but i wonder how iraqis feel about the plan for us to draw down. do you know? >> reporter: today, there are 77,500 american troops on the ground in iraq, with plans to draw down to 50,000 by august 31st, and there is some anxiety, quite frankly. we have heard from some iraqi officials during the vice presidents visit, you know, dont leave us when we need you the most. the vice president is saying that so far, in this uncertai...