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trillion in cuts over ten years, raises the debt ceiling about about the same amount, sets up a bipartisan committee to find other ways to trim another trillion and change from the deficit. think of it as a deficit posse. it calls for both chamber of commerce eventually to pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. they don't actually have to pass it, they just have to vote on it. and the president and house speaker admit that the plan is not perfect, but hey, there's a deadline tomorrow. here's what the president said, then you'll hear from a freshman republican who, by t...

the process, for that, i want you to take a look here. i will not try and walk you through it. it's a mess. the bottom line is 917 billion dml spending cuts with a special committee in charge of finding $1.5 trillion cuts by the end of the year, and the debt limit rises by $900 billion now, and $1.5 later. already, there is one potential wrinkle here. the nonpartisan budget congressional office says the plan would cut spending only by 1.5 trillion, not 2.4 trillion. we are following all the claims and repercussions as only cnn can. by colleagues join me, and if you don't believe this...

quite bizarre. people like breivik are trying to resurrect the idea of a modern day crusade, a real clash of civilizations against what they see as islamic invasion of europe. in fact, muslims make up only 3% of europe's population and that's likely to rise to between 5 and 8% by 2025 and level out at that point. but that doesn't change the reality of the anger, hatred and the violence. ironically, in breivik's nostalgic view of the medieval world, it resembles nothing so much as al qaeda, another terrorist organization fundamentally opposed to the modern world. we still don't know i...

Welcome to the show, i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, breaking news once again, which is moments away from a house vote on speaker boehner's debt plan. the vote he failed to do last night because tea party republicans reviews to get in line. after that embarrassment, boehner revote wroet his bill to make it even more extreme adding, listen to this, a balanced budget amendment that would cripple social security and medicare. it's shocking new evidence that the tea party extremists now control the gop. and they would rather drive the economy off the cliff than than compromise. let's go to nbc's ...

here is the current u.s. debt ceiling. it 14i$14.3 trillion. we hit it in may. if they don't comeup with a dee. they have a scheduled meeting in about five hours. listen to how far republicans, other republicans and democrats are. this is from "anderson cooper 360" late last night. first majority whip steny hoyer. >> even within their own party, it is deeply divided party, divided against their leadership, angry at their leadership, and a party that has divided itself, has difficulty working with the president and with us and that's unfortunate and the country is the poorer for it. >...