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he's conquered tv on his first season of "the voice." >> christina takes things to a whole new level, right? you can level with me. >> i can't on national television. >> but tonight his biggest challenge yet. i'm getting him to do something you've never, i mean never seen him do before. >> this is so dumb. i don't know why i can do it. >> that is incredible. >> the amazingly multitalented adam levine. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. we begin tonight with america's debt crisis. it's not just republicans versus democrats. it's now house republicans battling among themse...

spending cuts in ten years. reid would hike the debt by $2.7 trillion now and mandate an equal amount of cuts. but the congressional budget office says the boehner plan would trim spending by $850 billion, and the reid plan by $2.2 trillion. boehner went back to the board and postponed the vote that was supposed to happen today. reid's plan can't pass the house, and not only is boehner's plan doomed in the senate, a great many house republicans don't like it either. so what happens now? well, time marches on. a never-before-seen default on u.s. debt and obligations could be just six ...

and travelers squashed by major airlines. >> but first, to the desperate race against the clock to secure what president obama is calling america's national credit card. the country could face unprecedented default if congress is unable to agree on a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling. failure to do so could downgrade america's debt rating and could be extremely damaging for global economy purposes. let's get all the angles. we've just learned the president will be addressing the nation later to. kate baldwin is up on capitol hill. first to you. what's the very latest, the think...

officials say nothing suggests an attack is imminent. they only say recent incidents reinforce the terror threat. and hope for a grand debt fix was dimmed just a bit in washington. some democrats and republicans are picking apart the latest plan with the same old complaints. liberals say it cuts social security and medicare. conservatives say it raises taxes. republicans have refused to raise the nation's debt limit without deep spending cuts and no tax increases. the deadline now is just 12 days away. somalia's president is asking the world for immediate help to feed his country...

Standard & poor's, one of the leading debt rating firms in the country, said while they were still viewing american debt as aaa rated, the outlook was negative. it had turned to negative, which means basically there's a one in three chance that over the next couple of years that debt rating might drop from the bluest of blue chip levels, aaa, to something less than that. that is worrisome, because it would mean that you and i, the taxpayers, would have to pay more to borrow. and when we're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend in this country, that can be a very costly item. now, the goo...