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motes. 22 republicans voted against it and all of the democrats. just before the vote, speaker boehner blamed president obama at the talks aimed at a bipartisan deal. >> i stuck my neck out a mile and i put revenues on the table. in order to try to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are. but a lot of people in this town can never say yes. a lot of people can never say yes. this house has acted and it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the aisle, put something on the table. tell us where you are. >> here is the thing. the conservatives resul...

Let your member of congress know. if you believe we can solve this problem through compromise, send that message. >> the white house communications director dan pfeiffer tweeted that the servers on capitol hill crashed after the president made that plea for people to get in touch with their congressional representatives. after the president's speech, house speaker john boehner spoke for roughly five minutes and he came out against president obama's proposals. >> president obama came to congress in january and requested business as usual. he had another routine increase in the national debt, bu...

veterans group there at pennsylvania avenue being briefed on what could happen to their ranks if the debt ceiling is not raised. also cnn is learning some states making contingency plans. california specifically taking out a temporary $5 billion loan just to help pay its bills in case congress fails to act and turmoil in the credit market makes it difficult to borrow money after august 2nd. take a walk with me. i want to look at what exactly is proposed here. we have two different plans, two different bills on the table. one from democratic leader, senate majority leader harry reid, ...

the president will lay out his case within a minute or so. two minutes after the president finishes what is expected to be about a 15-minute speech to the nation, two minutes after that, we will hear a separate speech from the house speaker, john boehner. he is up on capitol hill. he will make his case, why the president right now is wrong. why the republicans are right. both of them presumably will say the stakes for the united states are enormous right now and the country must do everything possible. everything possible to avoid default. they've been negotiating publicly and privat...

two minutes after the president features -- finishes what's expected to be about a 15-minute speech to the nation, two minutes after that, we'll hear a separate speech from the house speaker boehner. he's up on capitol hill. he'll make his case why the president right now is wrong. why the republicans are right. both of them presumably will say the stakes for the united states are enormous right now and the country must do everything possible. everything possible to avoid default. they've been negotiating publicly and privately now for weeks and weeks and weeks. and unfortunately, fo...