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murdoch's protege rebekah brooks to show up tomorrow to answer questions. despite her arrest over the weekend, her spokesman says she will be there. she's denying she knew her reporters hacked phones for scoops while she was the newspaper's editor. rupert murdoch, chairman of news corp, and his son james are expected to testify alongside brooks tomorrow. they will appear before parliament's media committee. a heatwave hitting the middle of u.s. extremely high humidity makes it feel as hot as 117 degrees in some places. that heat is creeping east. >> brutal. i probably lost 10 pound...

Allow anything on the table that reduces subsidies to big oil companies or increases taxes for big oil companies, they refuse to vote for an extension of the debt limit if we're going to ask oil companies to pay for their fair share. >> congressman larsen, i want to talk quickly about those negotiations on the debt, the debt limit, the whole deficit plan. are you comfortable with the fact that the white house has taken the lead on this? that they're going to cut this deal? that it's probably going to include more cuts that your caucus isn't going to be happy with, how are you balancing this, s...

Is on the right course. we have got to make big change. we cannot continue on the unsustainable path we are on, and i think there's no doubt about it, except the president's budget that he submitted to us months ago came nowhere close to doing what needs to be done to change the unsustainable path we're on. so this is where we are. the house republicans have produced a budget that puts us on a sustainable path. now the ball's in the senate's court. and they've not moved forward at all. >> can you support a plan -- >> -- but, who knows. >> -- between the gang of six, what we saw out of the debt...

Can be attached to a plan to cut the deficit but says she won't let the country's bar rowing authority lapse. senate budget committee chairman kent conrad says the deficit and dealt ceiling plan don't have to be attached but they have to be close together. >> i will not support any long-term extension of the debt without a plan or a proposal or a process in place to deal with the debt. >> reporter: the white house has strongly warned against tying legislation that might be voted down to the debt ceiling, which officials say must be raised to keep the country from default. >> our reaction is it...

The deficit plan proposed by paul ryan or the one advanced by president obama is the right path for the country. two-thirds of americans are concerned that the republican plan for reducing the deficit would cut too deeply into medicare and social security. everybody wants the deficits cut. nobody wants to cut entitlements. but it's a topic that won't go away. house speaker john boehner said in an interview with politico yesterday that there might not be any deal on raising the debt ceiling unless americans reform medicare and medicaid. things could get very ugly very quickly when congress come...