MSNBC First Look July 12, 2011
a degree of clarity to the seemingly stalled steps to keep the country out of default. ruling out any talk of a stop-gap plan. nbc's kristen dahlgren joins us from washington with more. kristen, good morning. >> good morning, lynn. another day, another meeting, another deadlock on a deal of trying to raise the debt ceiling. they'll try again, meeting again today, but with three weeks to go until the august 2nd deadline, it doesn't seem that they're moving closer. still far apart on the issue of spending cuts and taxes. in a news conference yesterday, the president said he would be wi...