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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 deck seems stacked against middle class americans in favor of the wealthiest few. but do you know what people are fed up with most of all? they're fed up with a town where compromise has become a dirty word. they work all day long, many of them scraping by, just to put food on the table. and when these americans come home at night, bone tired and turn on the news, all they see is the same partisan...

>> i'm christine romans. house speaker john boehner says no way to the president's plan. he has another solution and it's simply says, spend less. >> i'm ali velshi. congressional websites crash. what president obama said that had a number of websites going off-line. details coming up on this "american morning." thanks for being with us. tuesday, july 26th. welcome to "american morning." we all stayed up later than usual last night to get a chance to hear from the president about this debt ceiling showdown as well as from the house speaker. >> and still divided this morning. they a...

the president will lay out his case within a minute or so. two minutes after the president finishes what is expected to be about a 15-minute speech to the nation, two minutes after that, we will hear a separate speech from the house speaker, john boehner. he is up on capitol hill. he will make his case, why the president right now is wrong. why the republicans are right. both of them presumably will say the stakes for the united states are enormous right now and the country must do everything possible. everything possible to avoid default. they've been negotiating publicly and privat...

downgrade the nation's credit even if a deal is reached. even if a deal is reached. it's a aaa, nearly as good as cash or gold and has been almost from the begin. losing that status would raise interest rates for all of us, make mortgages cost more, stifle the economy, possibly trigger a run on the dollar. tonight, president obama restated his desire for a deal that includes tax increases on wealthier americans as well as spending cuts. he cited statistics appealing to bipartisanship and invoked the words of ronald reagan and also acknowledged how sharply divided washington is while ...

the country will not have enough money to pay all of its bills. tough decision also have to be made. the stakes right now are enormous. the president will lay out his case within a minute or so. two minutes after the president features -- finishes what's expected to be about a 15-minute speech to the nation, two minutes after that, we'll hear a separate speech from the house speakeren. >> boehner. he's up on capitol hill. he'll make his case why the president right now is wrong. why the republicans are right. both of them presumably will say the stakes for the united states are enorm...