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good morning. great to see you this morning. thursday, july 28. this is "american morning." advice teen out. we know yesterday a little stuffy. >> she sounded. >> it she is getting better hopefully at home today. a lot going on. >> imagine what our lead story is now? it's the debt. the republicans are scrambling to line up house votes to stave off a potential first ever default of u.s. debt. the deadline, you know, this, august 2 now less than five days away. the house is expected to vote on speaker bane are's plan sometime today and it comes after the house speaker laid into the rep...

lot of individual reasons for individual candidates who decided not to run. but i have to tell you, you look at those figures and you say, whoa, the president is in for a rough reelection ride. should he get it simply because if that many people think the economy is poor, that certainly is not going to help him at the voting booth. but here's the rub. they don't actually blame president obama for the economy. 55% of americans blame george bush. just 30% blame president obama. so he is running counter to conventional wisdom in that people still blame president bush and i think, by ext...

That type of funding considers that they did not know osama bin laden was hiding less than a quarter of a mile from their version of west point. seasoned lawmakers have urged caution. listen to claire mccaskill on the issue of pakistani funding. >> we've got to be very careful about being too absolute about condemning pakistan at this point. we need the roots to our troops to pakistan. we need their airspace for our predator program that's been very effective in wiping out terrorists. so i think we've got to use this as a leverage point. >> i spoke to al rogers, the chairman of the house appro...

Services knee was about money to fight terrorists was going to beef up the boarder with india, and for them, it's all about india and only during the past few years have they turned a corner because so many of their own citizens have been killed by terrorists. we have to be careful being too absolute and leaving pakistan, we need their routes and airspace very effective wiping out terrorists. we have to use this as leverage point in the relationship and not begin spouting off we need to cut off pakistan. if we cut off pakistan, we may have problems getting supplies to our troops in afghanistan...

It is afternoon on your side. >> great to talk to you today. raising the debt ceiling is a matter of debate. what do you mean by clean extension of the debt sealing. >> don't play depames. we cannot aforward to have america default. we never did it before . the issue of debt ceiling comes up periodically. it shouldn't be a leverage point. the risk of defaulting and miss of reaching the deadline is a disaster for the integritty of the united states government. >> some are arguing that not arguing the debt ceiling will not lead to a federal default but have to stop more borrowing and force the g...