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About 25% of the cost of their healthcare. medicare 75%. representative ryan's plan would about flip that. over time, the individual would have to pay 68% of the costs. i mean that is a shredding of the social safety net. i just think that is extreme. >> and even though senator conrad is a democrat he has now joined the ranks of lawmakers who to have point have mostly been republican who said there is no way they will vote for a debt limit increase until there is o plan on the table to reduce the debt. shannon? >> peter thank you very much. and now to talk about that, we have got some house de...

This was in the course of a mass, beatification mass. the pope benedict pronounced the words that john paul was now blessed, and they actually unveiled his portrait there. on the basilica. of course, the pope had been 27 years on the throne of st. peter. a huge crowd from poland, and really from all over, especially europe, but from all over the world. that is sort of a reflection of so many trips the pope took. so many times when the pope crisscrossed the globe, he took more than 100 international trips in the course of his papacy. many of the people who saw him there in the own homeland comi...

Two-week recess and it's crunch time when it comes to the national debt, which topped $14.2 trillion. americans are split over whether or not to raise the debt ceiling. 43% are in favor with no restrictions, just vote it up or down. 42% are against it no, matter what. peter doocy has more. >> just because the lawmakers went away, discuss not mean that the clock stopped ticking down toward the united states reaching the debt ceiling. every day we got closer to it and now both sides acknowledge something has to give. this morning, chris van hollen says he thinks a balanced approach should do the...

Until a later date. william is going to go back to work tomorrow. those are the top stories now. back to you. >> shannon: peter, you are usually up at that hour anyway getting ready to come to work. did you sneak a peek at all at the wedding? >> i did. i wake up at 4:00 every morning and i rarely see a wedding on the way to work. >> d.c. in the middle of the night, stranger things have happened. >> i've heard. >> shannon: thank you. >> yeah. so, i am making this decision because i am here to try to protect the citizens of cairo. i have care about them and i don't want them in harm's way. i w...

Two week recess and it is crunch time when it comes to the national debt. both sides in washington bracing for an intense battle. peter do soo has more. >> how much weight can the social safety net hold? paul ryan doesn't think it can take too much more and he has become the face of entitlement reform in america. we are about to reach the debt limit. ryan has a plan that he thinks is going to put the country on a better course and he says that we need to act quickly or else. >> first of all, spending increases in this budget, spending on the safety net increases but it increases at a more sust...