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immigration. we'll show you the old clip making new headlines. wolf blitzer is off. i'm joe johns. you're in "the situation room." we begin with breaking news. american students caught up in the bloody cairo protest are finally on their way out of a nightmare experience in egypt. let's go straight to cnn's senior international correspondent, ben wedeman in cairo. earlier today we heard the three american students would be released on saturday. now we're hearing it's already happened. why? >> what we understand is that yesterday the prosecutors ordered their release but it took for ...

scenes says the bodies of women and children are inside. they say armed thugs and syrian tanks are randomly shooting and wrecking property. at least ten people were killed on thursday as security forces attempted to crush protests. >> two "news of the world" executives are disputing rue put murdock's testimony. they say murdoch misled the committee last week when he said he was not i ware that the hacking went beyond an e-mail. the steamy heat that's been roasting the midwest, u.s., is now heading to the east coast. some 60 temperature records were shattered on saturday. they blame...

Produce just a paltry $155 billion in real deficit reduction over ten years, total. that's over the whole ten years. despite proposing the most severe budget cuts in u.s. history, two-thirds of which would come from programs for people of low or moderate incomes. ryan's plan in fact ignores the most important elements for long-term fiscal health. taxes, defense and health care costs. today taxes is a percentage of our gdp is at a 60-year low. the defense budget has almost ç doubled in just the last decade. that's in real dollars. a plan that was serious will long-term deficit recushion would...

Billion in real deficit reduction over ten years, total. that's over the whole ten years. despite proposing the most severe budget cuts in u.s. history, two-thirds of which would come from programs for people of low or moderate incomes. ryan's plan in fact ignores the most important elements for long-term fiscal health. taxes, defense and health care costs. today taxes is a percentage of our gdp is at a 60-year low. the defense budget has almost doubled in just the last decade. that's in real dollars. a plan that was serious will long-term deficit recushion would dramatically cut defense spend...

And has been called by some the cat food commission by progressive critics. a reference to what americans will be forced to eat if entitlements are slashed. but perhaps the president will not endorse the commission at all and will instead draw a bold contrast to the republican plan by calling for raising taxes on wealthy americans and requiring them to pay more into social security. white house officials tell "washington post" ezra klein will,will all, quote, make more sense tomorrow so we'll have to wait and see. but speaker john boehner isn't waiting, warning president obama that raising tax...