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on this year's summer games. and no men allowed. saudi arabia's ambitious new plan to separate the sexes, a first of its kind city exclusively for women by women and of women. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning and thanks for joining us, everyone, i'm deborah feyerick in for carol ko costello. the wisconsin congressman hits the campaign trail on his n. he is set to visit the iowa state fair today. meanwhile, mitt romney will continue on his bus tour. the gop candidate is in florida making two campaign stops today, the first in st. augustine, romney's first event will soon ...

and this is what politicians fight about. this is the recovery here. you had a weak spot last summer, a weak spot this summer and now a job market that's doing just a little bit better. so what are the politicians saying about it? here's the spin. the white house focuses on this. 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. the economy has now added private sector jobs for 29 straight months for a total of 4 miion jobs during that period. and what about governor romney? they tend to focus on this. we've now gone 42 months with the unemployment rate above 8%. both of them are righ...

So that is kind of under control, you still have down grades. it's going to be a problem but a longer term problem. >> the other good news here is that sarkozy and merkel feel pressure at home -- >> and asarkozy is in his own re-election. >> correct. so the break up of the euro would be bad for them as well. so there's hopes that the euro sticks together. >> breaking up? even like way worse than our favorite band breaking up. >> the thing to pay attention to is not the s&p 500 down grade, the thing to watch is greece, and greece is, we thought they had a deal to get the bond going and that dea...

american people and don't raise tax on them right now. now is not the time to slam on the brakes. now is the time to step on the gas. now is the time to keep growing the economy, to keep creating jobs, to keep giving working americans the boost that they need. >> our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin with more on the president's bush. you don't add an event unless you see moment dlul. >> reporter: they want to beat that drum every day. they see this as a win for the president. the pay roll tax cut issue. on the merits and the politics. on the specifics, the president's a...

Coming from to call americans lazy. and number lyrics it's going happen tomorrow morning, wednesday morning, we cross the $15 trillion mark as our total outstanding national debt. $15 trillion. >> and china is threatening another down grade, stewart. why? because the president can't speak up to them because they carry too much of our debt. >> if we don't get something through the super committee. >> not going to happen. >> if we don't cut the deficit, we get downgraded by moody's. it won't happen. >> the president did say -- >> well, that's going to be another huge negative. i'm divorcing chin...