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Pass his, his tax break, for the payroll tax and that they shouldn't, they shouldn't leave for vacation until they did that yet he is going off for 17 days for golf in the sun. i just think it is time to have a president whose idea of being hands on does not mean getting a better grip on the golf club. bill: for his part, the president and white house unveiled the countdown clock to ramp up the pressure. are you fan of these. >> it is a clever move. it is a visual. bill: 26 days. >> the problem the president will have is at some point he will be asked is there anything in the federal budget yo...

a week after irene hit the east coast, the central gulf coast is getting ready for storm with flooding rains. louisiana governor bobby jindal already declared a state of emergency. oil companies are pulling workers off the rigs in the gulf. some places including new orleans could get as much as 20 inches of rain. texas could really use some of that rain from the tropical system. it doesn't look promising. 14 big wildfires are burning in that state. just one of them west of dallas. firefighters are finally making some progress. they've got about the fire half contained or so. >> we ca...

the process, for that, i want you to take a look here. i will not try and walk you through it. it's a mess. the bottom line is 917 billion dml spending cuts with a special committee in charge of finding $1.5 trillion cuts by the end of the year, and the debt limit rises by $900 billion now, and $1.5 later. already, there is one potential wrinkle here. the nonpartisan budget congressional office says the plan would cut spending only by 1.5 trillion, not 2.4 trillion. we are following all the claims and repercussions as only cnn can. by colleagues join me, and if you don't believe this...

In prison. the budget battle raises on the hill. we're expecting more from the president this week but right now the blue print in the paul ryan's path to prosperity. the key to getting the nation back on a sound, fiscal track. >> there's four things we're trying to do with this budget. get the economy growing and get people back to work. save our military programs for this generation and our future generations. we want to give our children a debt-free nation. that's what the country wants. let's say good morning to luke russert. luke, he's putting the plan in a pretty positive light there. ...

The public number is $75 billion. that does not include a lot of the military programs that are so important. yeah, the point that is very surprising to me was that in hundreds of interviews with former and also current officials, many of them expressed frustration that they didn't know how -- how large everything had become. they didn't know how many people worked in it. they didn't know just how many contractors were even under the employee of the u.s. government. >> despite the enormous growth since 9/11, the enormous amount of people involved, the great sums of money involved, they couldn'...