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we'll be live when it hams. yesterday speaker boehner told the troops to "get their asses in line". apparently not enough republicans have, and now his credibility is on the line. most of the opposition coming from tea party supporters, raw, open, direct rebellion. >> we want to make sure we never get here again. i want to support something that makes sure we never get here again. >> the deal that is on the table makes the hole deeper. and so don't -- you shouldn't expect people who believe that we should balance the budget to vote for a deal that makes the hole deeper. >> i can't su...

hands. >> keep in mind, this is not a situation where the two parties are miles apart. we're in rough agreement about how much spending can be cut responsibly as a first step towards reducing our deficit. we agree on a process where the next step is a debate in the coming months on tax reform and entitlement reform, and i am willing and ready to have that debate. if we need to put in place an enforcement mechanism to hold us accountable for making the reforms, i will support that too if it's done in a smart and balanced way. so there are plenty of ways out of this mess. but we are al...

we are going to ask some of the smartest people in washington to explain what is going on tonight. john king, jessica yellin. first, i want to go straight to is that they're trying to win over some of the undecides of some of the no votes amongst the conservatives in their party. what they were discussing at one point was trying to tweak the bill in order to win over conservatives who are unhappy that the bill didn't go far enough, piers. and what they were talking about doing is making the second debt ceiling vote that is part of this bill, making that increase contingent upon congr...

>> tonight the white house the right and the left and the clock. countdown to crisis. >> we are simply four days away from one of the worst financial catastrophes that could face this country. >> this is "piers morgan tonight". good evening, we start with break news. it's been an extraordinary couple of hours on capitol hill. speaker john boehner's debt plan remains stalled in the house without sufficient support from his own caucus to get the bill passed. he couldn't even put it to a vote tonight. meanwhile, this country moves closer and closer to an almost unthinkable national de...

marketsite. "american morning" starts right now. >> no vote on the debt plan again. i'm christine romans. as the u.s. economy lurches closer to a financial crisis, the political crisis continues. house speaker john boehner calls off a vote, unable to convince hardline conservatives in his party to sign on to his plan. >> i'm kiran chetry. more than 90% of texas is now in extreme drought. the state could sure use a lot of rain and now tropical storm don is expected to make landfall along the southern coast today. >> and it's happened again, a muslim-american soldier in police custody ...