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good evening everyone. breaking news, president obama's primetime call for a deal to end the debt crisis and house speaker john boehner's response. the speech is coming with two competing proposals on the table. one from senate democrats and the other from house republicans, neither of which is looking very likely to pass. meantime, seven days until the government runs out of money and rating agencies are threatening to downgrade the nation's credit even if a deal is reached. even if a deal is reached they may downgrade the credit. it's triple-a, that's nearly as good as cash or gold...

he cited statistics appealing to bipartisanship and invoked the words of ronald reagan and also acknowledged how sharply divided washington is while trying to channel a bipartisan frustration among americans for what goes on in washington. take a look. >> i realize that a lot of the new members of congress and i don't see eye to eye on many issues. but we were each elected by some of the same americans for some of the same reasons. yes, many want government to start living within its means, and many are fed up with a system in which the debt seems stacked against middle class america...

koulson quit the job in january, and was arrested last month. now, the prime minister is now in the mood to apologize. >> what the public expect is not pedestriany political point scoring, but -- [ jeering ] what they want is to solve the issue out once and for all, and it's in that spirit i commend this comment to the house. >> just yesterday rupert murdoch, his son james, and top british executive for news corp, rebekah brooks, were in front of the committee. of course, there's the prime minister, david cameron facing the single biggest crisis in his 15 months as prime minister. we...

hacking scandal. david cameron minutes away from a show down. two major proposals in the trillion dollar showdown over the nations debt. the first is called a possible break through. the second plan is under attack by democrats. all this next on "american morning". thanks for being with us, it's wednesday, july 20th, this "american morning". i'm kiran chetry. >> i'm ali velshi. do we have a lot going on today. british prime minister david cameron is about to get grilled by parliament. the newscorp phone hacking hearing begins in 30 minutes. cameron is expected to face tough quest...

Throf e dpeab naon noth oerlolha president bush supported, but one that is necessary to keep the alliance, nato, or an international coalition functioning smoothly. and the truth is, if it's a nato operation, nato-led, that means it's american led, because nato's commander is an american. and so i think you're seeing a lot of these subtleties being made by white house officials for political point scoring, and i think we'd be a lot better off if we just laid out what the objectives are, and they're quite reasonable, in the near-term, to prevent a slaughter, to enforce a no-fly zone. in the lon...