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Weakens mitt romney, you know, just in political terms, that s not a bad thing. do you agree with that? i do not believe that the catholic church or anybody else will accept this waiting game, we ll tell you next august. i ll pay you on tuesday for a hamburger today. joe biden is not going to be believed on this because he s been overruled on this thing. he s shown he couldn t win on this argument. nobody s going to believe it when he comes on, a good guy and says we ll try to work it out. yeah, right, work it out before the election, buddy. in fact, i don t think they can work it out. this is one of the issues where the president made his decision to go with the women s group, really strong democrats, let the iffy democrats go to the side, we ll take our chances with our political base, with our fundraisers, the people that show up on fundraisers, extremely activists, we re not going to worry about these iffy, moderate conservative catholics. i think they made their call. this i ....
welcome, everybody. it is friday, july 15th. i m soledad o brien. you are watching snoonk kiran is off, christine is off, welcome soledad. good to see you. thank you. we have a lot to do today. let s get right to it. serious new pressure on rupert murdock and his global media empire. the justice department says it s now investigating the claims that one of its tabloids tried to hack 9/11 victims phones. a report in another british tabloid, the mirror quoting a source who says news of the world, the newspaper which folded under the pressure of the hacking scandal, hired an investigator to try to tap the phones. now lawmakers, law enforcement, and 9/11 families are all demanding the truth. susan candiotti following the latest for us on this and breaking, one casualty of the news international, rebekah brooks has resigned. the question is, does this mean that the walls are crumbling at news corp. it s too early to say, bulls this is a crack in the wall. she was ....
hammered with angry questions. egyptians take security into their own hands. even some children are armed with illegal guns. the revolution giving way to a wild west mentality. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the united states is another day closer to a possible default on its debts. 19 days before the deadline there s no sign that political leaders are any closer to preventen an unprecedented and frightening train wreck. right now members of congress are in the fifth straight day of talks aimed at raising the debt limit. the frustrations and tempers have been laid bare. let s go to our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin. she s over there with the latest. what do what do we expect from the negotiations? as you know, it s been 24 hours of extremely high tension with each side accusing the other of political posturing. now they re back to see if they can sal van these negotiations or if they have to move on to plan b, or maybe plan c. t ....
rupert murdoch under fire in britain and in the united states. two separate u.s. agencies calling for investigations into rupert murdoch. have you heard this story? an 8-year-old boy kidnapped, murdered, then mutilated. now new york place are scouring a stream of surveillance video for answers. more on that. first, i want to begin with this. let s just plunge right into the debt negotiations at this hour. daily talks at the white house resume in one hour, and by all accounts, they are becoming more tense, more heated, more testy, the closer we get to the deadline. you know the date by now, august 2nd. august 2nd, a potential default of the u.s. treasury if congress will not approve more borrowing. joining me now from the u.s. capitol building is congressman paul brown, republican of georgia. congressman brown, nice to see you. good to have you on. it s nice to be with you. i don t believe the august 2nd deadline frankly, and we don t default even if we pass the au ....
For a hamburger today. you re asking for control of congress today on the promise, promissory note that you will come up with actual program cuts. now, i keep throwing out you know the biggest cause of the deficit. you re more well read on this than i am. social security, medicare, medicaid. you put all the federal receipts and taxes and they could be gone right there, exhausted in those three programs. we got defense systems you could name. but nobody wants to name what they want to cut by name. do they? isn t that fair to say on both parties? well, it may be fair towards some members of congress, but, again, i hasten to add republicans, and it is astonishing to me the democrat majority did not even try to pass a budget this year but last year republicans adopted a budget that had $3 trillion in spending cuts in it, and that would be cuts in discretionary spending and it also would be cuts through reforms of entitlements. i think, you know, it s all going on the table. i understan ....