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news to the people here live with us, "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> hey everybody. >> hi everybody. >> should we point out the fact he's not wearing a belt now. >> clayton: no. >> forgot. >> we'll do that later. the latest on the debt ceiling debate. we are in dangerous territory regarding the debt ceiling. more in just a few minutes. >> also new details what happened in norway, we're starting to get creepy details this morning about this guy behind this attack and as juliet was saying a few moments ago, saying on a number of online rantings, interesting information, but c...

but if the two sides are even further dug in, even further apart so to speak, why is the president still pushing for something big? >> reporter: well, there's the overt politics of it. he seems to be nominally winning. the republicans in public polls are doing less well and are getting more blame than the president, in part because he's going for something big. but there's also just the simple fact that they have to figure out a way to get votes in the house of representatives to raise the debt ceiling. and they can't get those votes with a simple effort to do it and to raise the deb...

self-imposed deadline for a deal and still there is no deal. some on capitol hill, some of even the president's allies are saying this is now in their view time to cut bait and stop going for this big deficit reductions package they've been talking about and just find the easiest path forward to get the debt ceiling raised and worry about deficit reductions at another time. >> you know, it seemed like there was some enthusiasm and some progress yesterday. but if the two sides are even further dug in, even further apart so to speak, why is the president still pushing for something big...

keep the government from defaulting. early this afternoon bulletins went out via the "new york times" and the "wall street journal" that president obama and house speaker john boehner were close to an agreement on debt reduction on a deal there, but the white house is shooting those stories down. listen up. >> the breaking news report that you all probably received is incorrect. there is no deal. we are not close to a deal. the fact is that there is no progress to report, but we continue to work on getting the most significant deficit reduction package possible. >> you can see that i...

coburn who is live for me. sir, good to have you on the program. let me just begin with this. we mentioned these meetings at the white house. my question is, is the fact that there's a democrats only meeting happening now at the white house, does that, sir, signal to you that we have entered a new phase in these talks, these debt reduction talks that the president is now starting the process of essentially selling your gang of six proposal to his people, that the process of the arm twisting and the lining of support is under way? >> oh, i don't know that you can assume that. it may b...