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it's got to be stopped and i know better than most. and that's it, the south carolina republican forum hosted by senator jim demint. we want to welcome our viewers. i wolf blitzer in "the situation room." donna brazill is with us. let's get immediate reaction to what we heard from the five republican candidates over the past two hours. donna, let me start with you. you're a good democrat. you heard from the five republicans. they're pretty much on most of the issues on the same page. a page being very different than the page that the president of the united states is on. >> south c...

good morning. great to see you this morning. thursday, july 28. this is "american morning." advice teen out. we know yesterday a little stuffy. >> she sounded. >> it she is getting better hopefully at home today. a lot going on. >> imagine what our lead story is now? it's the debt. the republicans are scrambling to line up house votes to stave off a potential first ever default of u.s. debt. the deadline, you know, this, august 2 now less than five days away. the house is expected to vote on speaker bane are's plan sometime today and it comes after the house speaker laid into the rep...

>> reporter: those teenagers know they can make a couple hundred bucks by carrying a backpack full of dope from juarez into el paso. an american teenager was busted while trying to smuggle this load of marijuana. the young man driving the truck was recruited by a mexican drug cartel. they will say you are a juvenile. you are not going to go to jail. 476 juveniles have been caught with drugs at a port of entry in el paso cut. 233 of them were u.s. citizens. school districts are inviting authorities into their classrooms to warn students about the risks of helping the cartels. students as young ...

Are luring them in with fast cash, promising they're going to get off if they get caught but what the sales pitch doesn't mention is what the cartels will do if the teen smugglers botch the job. kris gutierrez is in el paso with this extraordinary story. kris. >> reporter: jen yark the bottom line is american teenagers know they can make a couple hundred bucks by carrying a bagful of dope from war eds on the other side of the river into el paso here. they think it's easy money but authorities say it's extremely dangerous. >> an american teenager was busted while trying to smuggle this load of ...

Varney & co. it's a teeny bit of good news. >> reporter: i hate to sound harsh, but this is not the summer of recovery, this is a summer slide into recession. these numbers on unemployment may offer some mild relief, a mild form of saying maybe it's not quite so bad, but 476 -- 473,000 people unemployed in one week that is enormous. it's nowhere near to break down the 8 million jobs that we've lost, period. megyn: i thought we were looking at a nine-month high just a week ago or so in terms of the number of people that were filing for unemployment. given that there is a slight drop isn't that ...