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rupert murdoch under fire in britain and in the united states. two separate u.s. agencies calling for investigations into rupert murdoch. have you heard this story? an 8-year-old boy kidnapped, murdered, then mutilated. now new york place are scouring a stream of surveillance video for answers. more on that. first, i want to begin with this. let's just plunge right into the debt negotiations at this hour. daily talks at the white house resume in one hour, and by all accounts, they are becoming more tense, more heated, more testy, the closer we get to the deadline. you know the da...

Left for congress to act ahead of the august 2 deadline, it's not clear for senate and democrats to get close to a deal. after meeting with them, the senate leader called it productive and attacked the other side. >> i hope my republican colleagues would put this ahead of politics and join to us create jobs and set aside the desire to please the tea party and defeat president obama. >> reporter: white house officials would not say when mr. obama would hold the next round of talks but the president signaled his views over the weekend. >> i'm committed to working with members of both parties to ...

campaign. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." but, first, breaking news this hour. congressman anthony weiner flatly denying that he posted a lewd photo on his twitter account but tells me he can't say for sure if the image of a man's underwear is him or not. weiner sat down with me a short while ago up on capitol hill in his office as part of his attempt to move beyond the controversy and his testy exchange with reporters yesterday. here's part one of the interview. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> did you send that picture to that college student in wa...

>> that was george soros fund manager. >> if you get rid of our spending for two wars that have been unpaid for and tax breaks for the wealthy americans. >> chris: youngsters u want us to pull out o of iraq and afghanistan. >> because you would draw u your responsibilities down, owrp obligations down. >> that is not going to happen by august 2. even president obama is against that. >> i think the responsible thing is that you raise the debt limit and then work on the plan that gets us out of iraq, out of afghanistan. >> chris: i can see congressman west shaking his head. he will say no whey an...

>> the most important thing that we have to understand i think donna will agree with me until we show that we are willing to be fiscally responsible up here why should we continue to tax americans and continue to take away their most precious resource if we are not going to do the right things up here. >> one of the central issues sending the debt so high is the cost of medicare. today, senate minority leader mip mcconnell says he supports the plan to turn it into a voucher in the future where people get subsidies to buy health insurance instead of the government paying the bills. >> if this c...